Birth: July-September 1873 Reading, Berkshire, UK
Father: George Herbert Lanman c1843-1890
Mother: Harriet (Harriett) Luff 1840-1922
Marriage: July-September 1914 Wimbourne, Dorset, UK
Wife: Mary (Maria) Cowell c1880-1951
Death: 4 February 1951 138 Queens Park Road, Brighton, East Sussex, UK
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Birth of George Lanman in FreeBMD in July-September 1873 in Reading (2c 341).
In the 1881 census as Geo Lanman aged 7, born in Reading, and living with his parents (Geo and Harriet), brother (Harold), sister (Julianna) and a domestic servant (Alice Bye aged 16 and born in Reading) at 6 Zinzan St, St Mary, Reading.
His father died in 1890.
In the 1891 census as George Lanman, aged 17, born in Reading, employed as a gorcer's apprentice, and living with his widowed mother (Harriett), brother (Harnold), sister (Jutianna) and a domestic servant (Mary Kate Lanman aged 19, born in Theale, Berkshire, and unmarried) at 140 Oxford Road, St Mary, Reading. (Note the index combines this household with the previous one).
In the 1901 census as George Lanman, aged 27, born in Reading, employed as a grocer shopkeeper on his own account, unmarried, head of the household, and living with his brother (Harold), widowed mother (Harriett), and sister (Julianna) at 3 Carlise Buildings, Seamoor Road, West Cliff, Bournemouth, Hampshire.
In the 1911 census as George Lanman aged 37, born in Reading, Berkshire, single, of private means, and living with his widowed mother in eight rooms at 5 Prince of Wales Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire.
Marriage of George Lanman and Mary Cowell in FreeBMD in July-September 1914 in Wimbourne (5a 598).
Death of George Lanman in FreeBMD in January-March 1951 in Brighton (5h 142).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for George Lanman died on 4 February 1951 in Brighton, probate 12 April 1951 in Lewes. "Lanman George of 138 Queens Park-road Brighton died 4 February 1951 Administration (with will) Lewes 12 April to William Jose Cowell chartered engineer and Gordon Roy Webb solicitor. Effects £5581 19s. 5d." His wife died on the 11 February and left effects of £6095 5s. 4d to the same.
William Jose Cowell was born on 8 January 1907 in Christchurch, Hampshire and died in March 1999 aged 92 in Cardiganshire South (12B 8171 62). In the 1911 census he was living at 231 Holdenhurst Road, St Valesie, Bournemouth, Hampshire with his parents Jose and Louisa Cowell and grandmother Louisa Sudford. His father was born in Uruguay, S America but British by parentage and was a retired chemists assistant - William Jose was their only child in 1911. Jose Cowell is in the 1901 census boarding with two other single chemist's assistants at 15 Commercial Road, Bournemouth.
Rob Homewood has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for George Lanman born in July 1873 in Reading, Berkshire, parents George Lanman and Harriett Luff. There is also an entry for George Lanman born in 1874 in Reading, parents William Newman and Lydia Kirby.
George Lanman was my half second cousin once removed.
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