GOLDEN WEDDING

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 16

GOLDEN WEDDING

FAMILY PARTY AND DANCE

A very; hapfcy time was spent recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Lawrence, Aurora Road, Johnsonville, wlien they had a family gathering to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence were married on March 27, 1888, by the Rev. William Leaf, at the Parish. Church of St.. Mark's,, Kensington, London, South-east. Mrs. Lawrence was the elder daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.-John Simkins, of Dorking, Surrey, while Mr. Lawrence, who was born within the sound of Bow Bells, and •is therefore a Freeman of the City of London, was the only son of the late Mr. and Mrs. U. A. Lawrence, Canonbury, London. There are two sons and three daughters—Messrs. H. J. and G. A. Lawrence and Mesdames Mexted, Stockdale, and r Miss , Lawrence—and ten grandchildren.

On the evening prior to the familygathering a dance was held at the Masonic Hall, Johnsonville, where old

friends and new made merry • until midnight. ' N Those present included Mesdames Bethune, .Morgan, Barrett, Steele,^ Boyes, Ho rare, Jupp, Lawrence, and Garcell,- Mr. and Mrs. J.. G. Grey, Mr.' and Mrs..Wilson, Mr., and Mrs. Ffitch,.1 Mr. and Mrs.. Pritchard, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. Gnerson,1 Mr. and-Mrs. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs.' Fox. Mr. and Mrs.- Steele, Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, Mr., and Mrs. Tilyard, Mr. and Mrs. • Absolum, ■ Mr. and Mrs. Jepson, Mr. and Mrs. Pattle, Mr. and Mrs. Izatt, Mr. and Mrs. Easton, Mr. and Mrs Mills,, Mr. and Mrs. Le Grys, Mr. and Mrs. Willetts, Mr. and Mrs.' I King/Mr. and Mrs. Turner, Mr. and I Mrs. J. W.'Mexted, Mr. and Mrs. 1 Stockdale, Mr. and Mrs. R. Mexted, Mr. and Mrs. 'Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs, Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Hollands, Dr. and' Mrs. Wright, the Misses Adams, Bonfield, Hennessy, Chalker, Bramley, Hancox, Turner (2), and Messrs. Lawrence (2)", Bould, Hancox, Mexted (3), Jacob, Steele, and Bramley.