Herry's Archives

Parents Patrick Lawford 1914-2002 Annette Lawford 1911-1998 Family History The Family Trees of the Lawford's and the Pugh's  Lawford Family History The Drapers' Livery Company Pugh Evans Family History Pugh Evans Family History - the Lovesgrove Line Sir Griffith Humphrey Pugh Evans 1840 - 1902 The Powell Edwards Line Lawford Ancestors Edward Lawford 1787 - 1864 Edward Acland Lawford and his Descendants HF Lawford 1851 - 1925 General Sir Sydney Lawford 1865 - 1953 Peter Lawford 1923 - 1984 Maternal Grandparents Sir Arundel Arundel 1843 - 1922 Col AJ Pugh 1871 - 1923 Marian 'Nina' Lady Herbert 1874 - 1967 Paternal Grandparents John Lawford 1811 - 1875 Capt VA Lawford 1871 - 1959 Pugh Cousins Brig-General Lewis Pugh Evans 1887 - 1962 Maj-General Lewis Pugh 1907 - 1981  The Last Action of the Calcutta Light Horse 1943 Ruth Stevens Howard 1910-2010 Capt Humphrey Drummond of Megginch 1922 - 2009 Dr Griffith Pugh 1909 - 1994 Dr Griffith P...

 In July 2022 the family gathered from Sydney, New York and Hamburg in Hampshire and in France arriving on 1st and leaving on 25th July. It was a marvellous time, punctuated only by some illness (Marika and Astra), and repeated cancellations of our flights with Thomas, who kindly took on group booking duties, making over 280 phone calls to BA alone. Indeed, a claim of EUR was made to BA for all our extra travel costs including car hire. The main events, the Reunion in Stockbridge and the holiday in Cap Benat passed off beautifully. 50 people attended the Reunion at the Greyhound and it was a joy to see so many old friends and their children (and in some cases, grandchildren) meeting up again, 13 years after the last such gathering in 2008 . Many photos were taken as well as the group photo below,  The full list of those attending is here . Herry addressing the crowd The 14th July Gathering We arrived at Villa Portofino, Cap Benat, on 16th July from various directions and hav...

  John Spreadbury  John Spreadbury was born in Droxford on 13th July 1931.  His mother was called Annie and his stepfather was William Spreadbury, a local farmer who happens to be buried in Meonstoke. His mother died when he was young and is buried in Bolney churchyard. John was schooled at Stoneham in Eastleigh. He had no siblings.  John’s early experience of work was riding cart horses to the farriers for shoeing, but when he left school at 15, as was usual in those days, he got his first job with Austen Moulden at Preshaw. He then moved to Western Farms at Petersfield and it was from there that he won his first ploughing match, at Rogate, aged 17. And it was there he saw my father’s advertisement for a tractor driver at Stocks just as we moved in in 1950. Rita says that when he mentioned the wage he expected, my father replied, ‘That’s a man’s wage and you’re a boy’, but he was persuaded to move not by the wage, but by the fact that my father offered him a new...