John Peter Laurence

BIRTH & BAPTISM
24 October 1854, Auchterarder: John Peter is born, son of Peter Laurance, merchant, and Anne Taylor. Christened 19 November 1854. See documents

CENSUS
1861 census, Auchterarder Township, Temperance Hotel: Peter Lawrence, head, 52 yrs, born Trinity Gask parish, bookseller at Temperance Hotel; Ann, wife, 43 yrs; John Peter Laurence, son, scholar, 6 yrs, born Auchterarder; Margaret Smith Laurence, daughter, scholar, 5 yrs, born Auchterarder.

1871 census, St Andrew's & St Leonard's: John P Laurence, 16 yrs. [Looks as if John Peter has begun training in hotel management]. His sister Margaret will join him at St Andrews and marry Thomas Forgan there.

1881 census, St Mary's Parish, Forfarshire (Angus): John P Laurence, 26 yrs, born Perthshire.

MARRIAGE
6 June 1881, Dundee: At 6 Havelock Place Dundee, John P Lawrence, music seller, bachelor, 26 yrs, of 5 South ? Street, Dundee, married Eliza A Stenhouse, telegraphist, spinster, 24 yrs, of 6 Havelock Place Dundee, after banns according to the forms of the Wesleyan Methodists. His parents Peter Lawrence, hotel keeper, deceased, and Ann Taylor; her parents, William Stenhouse, excise officer, deceased, and Elizabeth Aikenhead. Jessie Bayne Mills was there as a witness, with an obscure Stenhouse. See docs.

1885: John Peter is living in Dundee in 1885 when his uncle, John Laurance dies. John Peter is one of his executors, and legatees. See John's will in documents. It might be this legacy that allows John Peter to move from selling music in Dundee to hotel keeper at the Imperial Hotel in St Andrew's.

November 1887: John Peter Lawrence, hotel keeper, is an unsuccessful candidate at Municipal elections.

1888, Larbert, Stirlingshire. John Peter dies on 1st October, at Larbert (railway) Station, of tuberculosis, pleurisy and pericarditis (inflamation of the heart area). Seems sudden and unexpected. John Peter Lawrence, hotel keeper, married to Elizabeth Aikenhead Stenhouse, 33 yrs. Usual residence, Imperial Hotel, St Andrews. Father Peter Lawrence, hotel keeper, deceased. Mother, Ann Lawrence born Taylor. Informant: Peter Malcolm, his cousin, farmer at Kincardine, Auchterarder. See documents

[I have found Peter Malcolm but not the relationship that makes him John Peter's cousin. Peter Malcolm was a farmer at Kincardine, Blackford on the potato farm he inherited from his parents, Peter and Elizabeth malcolm, both born at Madderty. Peter never married and his mother and sister kept house for him. He died in 1906 aged 83yrs and is buried at Auchterarder.
In Loving Memory Of Peter Malcolm late Farmer at Kincardine Mains, ex-Magistrate of the burgh of Auchterarder d. there 9.10.1906 aged 83y]

Fifeshire Advertiser 5 October 1888

DEATHS On the 1st inst., in the train, at Larbert Station, John P Lawrence, of the Imperial Hotel, St Andrews.

DITTO: ST ANDREWS DEATH OF A HOTEL KEEPER IN A RAILWAY TRAIN Mr J P Lawrence, of the Imperial Hotel, at St Andrews, died on Monday while travelling from Dalmally, where he had been staying for a fortnight for the benefit of his health. Owing to his illness an invalid carriage was provided, and every attention paid to him, but he died about the time the train reached Larbert. Prior to going to St Andrews some 3 or 4 years ago, Mr Lawrence was in the shop of Messrs Methven & Simpson, Dundee, and he was an active mission worker in connection with the Wesleyan Church, Ward Road, of which he was a trustee. He was very greatly esteemed in Dundee, and much sympathy is felt for his widow by his acquaintances.

In loving memory of John P. Lawrence, Imperial Hotel who fell asleep 1.10.1888 aged 33y and his wife Eliza Aikenhead Stenhouse fell asleep 31.1.1920 aged 64y Because I live they shall live also Peter Lawrence d. 3.12.1878 aged 70y. Also Anne Taylor relict of the above who passed from us 20.3.1905. Also Margaret Taylor d. 21.5.1896 aged 74.

Cemetery St Andrews Eastern Cemetery