Geoffrey Gordon Lawrance 1919-2011

Inspector H.M. Customs and Excise in 1962

Gillian- we need his life, job, hobbies, etc from yoi , what i call a pen portrait plus real photos

1919. Geoffrey G Lawrance was born to James Lawrance & Constance P Killick on 20/12/1919. Registered Wandsworth Mar 1920

1921C. Geoffrey Gordon Lawrance was living with both parents & brother James in Wandsworth- not purchased CHILDHOOD ??

~1938. He met his future wife when he became a low level clerk in Customs & Excise

1939. Geoffrey G Lawrance married Margaret S Salkeld Hendon Sep 1939 - before the 1939 Register was taken as his wife, Margaret S Lawrance is living with his parents in that register

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Cannot find him in the 1939 Register. Had he already enlisted by Sep 1939?? Details of his war and what he did , where thay lived, . post war

1942. Gillian M Lawrance was born to Geoffrey & Margaret Hendon Jun 1942

Royal Artillery Captain.- any more details??

 

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Geoffrey in Sicily 1944

After the war h entered Customs & Excise at the lowest clerical level and worked his way up through the executive into administrative civil service grades. He ginished as Collector, London Central

1950 Katharine B Lawrance was born to Geoffrey & Margaret Hampstead Dec 1950. Katharine married Timothy S Elliott Wycombe Dec 1973 and they had two children: Charles William Elliott 1980 & Mary Elizabeth Elliott1983. Katharine died 2008

 

By 1965 Geoff Lawrance was the Assistant Collector of Taxes for the Norwich region

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Geoff with granddaughter Violet

2011. Geoffrey Gordon Lawrance , 91, died Bromley 8/5/2011.

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