This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/DAw.2ACIB/2255.1 Message Board Post: Jean I read this with some interest. There is, in some Lawrence lists, a Frederick L, b. at about the right time, but I have never been able to find a birth certificate for him. He would have been a great-uncle of mine. There are two suggestive hints in your posting. First, he was a musician. So was his brother Clement, my gf and his father (sometimes, when he wasn't a travelling theatrical or a photographer). Second, he had a son called Edwin. This is a common surname in our branch of the Lawrences, ever since an Edwin saved a brother's life in a 19th century fireworks accident.