A harbour labourer and the child of Zechariah Lawrence (a labourer) and Ann Cooper, William Lawrence, the great-great-grandfather of Nigel Horne, was born in Word in Worth, Sandwich, Kent, England c. 1827, baptised in Woodnesborough, Kent, England on Aug 5, 1827 and was orphaned in 1833 by the death of both parents in that year her.
He married Johanna Edwards (with whom he had 11 children: George, John, Annie, Elizabeth, Daniel, James, Hannah, Jane and Emily, along with 2 surviving children) in St Lawrence, Thanet, Kent, England on Nov 22, 18517. During his life, he was living in Preston, Kent, England in 1841; on Chapel Lane, St Lawrence in Thanet on Apr 7, 18619; at Rear of Southwood Lodge, St Lawrence in Thanet on Apr 2, 187110; and at 3 Providence Cottage, St Lawrence in Thanet on Apr 5, 18914.He died on Jun 11, 1898 at 1 Pear Tree Cottages, St Lawrence in Thanet5,6 (morbis Cordis) and was buried there on Jun 15, 18988.
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