Lawrence
ARDRON (1920 – 1997)
Father: George
Henry Ardron I (1884 – 1954)
Mother: Sarah Ann Hepworth (1887 – 1956)
Tree extract starting with common ancestor to me:
My 4th cousin 2 times removed was born on 14
September 1920. (1939 Register +
GRO ref Ecclesall B. 9c 856 Dec 1920 - Hepworth)
1921 in July unemployment reaches a post-war high of 2.5
million
1922 The Irish Free State is established
1927 on 1 January the British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC) is created
1928 Equal Franchise Act - All women are given the same
voting rights as men (all over the age of 21)
1928 on 30 September Alexander Fleming
discovers penicillin
1929 on 24 October the Wall Street Crash sparks the Great
Depression
1931 Financial crisis and run on the pound (Britain
abandons the gold standard)
1935 in July the first Penguin paperbacks go on sale,
costing just 6 pence, bringing literature to the masses
1936 Death of King George V, succeeded by King Edward
VIII
1936 Abdication of King Edward VIII in order
to marry Wallace Simpson, succeeded by King George VI
On the 1939 Register Laurence was living with
his parents at 4 Palgrave Crescent, Sheffield, Yorkshire:
a) George H Ardron, married, 1 March 1884, hand file
cutter
b) Sarah A Ardron, married, 14 January 1887, unpaid domestic duties
c) Laurence Ardron, single, 14 September 1920, shell machinist
(PRO ref RG101/3530E/017/2 Letter
Code: KIKM)
1939-45
World War II
Laurence married Irene Buckley in 1942. (GRO ref Sheffield 9c 1094 Sep
1942 – Buckley)
1944 Butler Education Act - framework for new free
comprehensive secondary education for all
1947 on 1 January Britain's coal industry is nationalised
1948 National Health Service established
1948 on 29 July the Olympic Games open at Wembley Stadium
in London
1952 Death of King George VI, succeeded by Queen
Elizabeth II
1954 Rationing resulting from ends
1955 on 22 September commercial television starts with
the first ITV broadcast
1956 on 17 October Britain switches on its first nuclear
power station at Calder Hall
1959 M1 Motorway punched through the Midlands from
Watford to Birmingham
1963 The Profumo Affair
1965 on 8 November the death penalty is
abolished
1966 on 30 July England win the football World Cup
1967 Abortion and homosexuality are legalised
1969 on 2 March Concorde, the world's first supersonic
airliner, makes its maiden flight
1971 on 15 February decimalised currency replaces
'pounds, shillings and pence'
1973 on 1 January Britain joins the European Economic
Community
1978 Wide spread strikes result in the so called “Winter
of Discontent”
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's
first female Prime Minister
1984 on 12 March the 12-month 'Miners' Strike' over pit
closures begins
1989 Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web
1992 on 6 May the Channel Tunnel opens, linking London
and Paris by rail
He died in 1997. (GRO ref Sheffield Jun 1997
district no. 0481A register no. A62A entry no. 051 – [born] 14Se1920)
Irene BUCKLEY
(-)
LAURENCE AND IRENE HAD THE
FOLLOWING CHILDREN:
1) Valerie Irene Ardron (1943
-)
She was born in 1943. (GRO
ref Sheffield 9c 546 Jun 1943 – Buckley)
Valerie married Christopher A. Sewell in 1962. (GRO ref Sheffield 2d 144 Jun
1962 – Sewell)
Christopher A.
SEWELL (-)
2) Lorraine
Diane Ardron (1945 -)
She was born in 1945. (GRO
ref Sheffield 9c 727 Sep 1945 – Buckley)
Lorraine married Frederick Maurice Marsden on 4
July 1964 at St John the Baptist Church, Owlerton, after banns. She was aged
18, a comptometer operator, and living at 67 Park View Road, Sheffield. Her
father was Lawrence Ardron, a steel turner. Witnesses were Dennis Gordon
Parkinson and Valerie Irene Sewell [Lorraine’s sister]. (GRO ref Sheffield 2d 191 Sep 1964 – Marsden + Sheffield Indexers –
marriage registers – pg no 218, reg no 436)
Frederick
Maurice MARSDEN (-)
Notes:
No probate for Lawrence Ardron (1997)