This Page Last Updated on Friday October 23, 2009
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This Page Last Updated on Friday October 23, 2009
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THE LAUGHTON ERAS For future reference, as the history of the family surfaces, we have set aside a directory on the web site for each era. You will note that the "link button" on the left side of the page points to the next person in line, for example, starting with Gilbert 1771. The Van Wyck link is for those that want to know about the origin of this name in the Laughton clan of John Hugh Laughton 1859. For those interested in the origins of the Laughton's in Orkney Scotland, I suggest you read Archie Laughton's 1960 letter shown here under Orkney Roots. You can also follow the list to the Laughton era that you are interested in, however for this list we have activated a link only for the male that led to the next generation leading to our immediate families. Note that there are no surviving families from the John Hugh Laughton era other than through George Van Wyck Laughton. Please follow this page down to find your place in the Laughton Family Tree. If you do not find it, please let us know so the site can be updated. The information that was initially on this site related only to the family of John Hugh Laughton 1859 as that is the line leading to my family (Richard Laughton 1952) as the creator of the web site. As more and more members of the Laughton Clan have come forward with new information, the site has been expanding, so this has truly become a "Laughton Family Tree". The information now found here on the Laughton Family Tree has primarily originated from each of these descendants:
As noted elsewhere on this site, none of this work would be possible without the effort of my Uncle Paul MacDonell Laughton of Ottawa, Ontario CANADA. Uncle Paul started all of this work many years ago, well before the computer age, collecting a great deal of the information from Parish Offices and paper records in the United Kingdom. In February 2009, Paul's son David (my 1st Cousin) brought Paul's records to Milton for me to use to update this web site. That process is now underway, sometime with "new clarity" and sometimes with "more confusion". Unknown to me prior to this time was the past correspondence between Paul, Norman, Lindy and John Ivan. The circle is closing! I will do my best to post these new documents and images in the short term.
The following path shows the family tree, linked to their own page as the information becomes available. The individual pages for the clan were stopped after the children of George Van Wyck Laughton, as the principle reason of this web site was to establish our roots and no additional information was received from George's grandchildren. I leave it to a future generations to revive and continue these postings, if they so desire. Parts of the family clan highlighted green do not have additional information at this time. Known multiple births (twins and triplets) are marked in blue. Members of the Laughton family that have served in the British, Canadian and American armed forces in the Great War (WWI 1914-1919) are marked with their Name in Bold and Service Number. Many of their service records have now been summarized and they are shown in detail on the Soldiers' Blog Site, where detailed information of a military nature is stored. We are learning more about the service of the Laughton Clan in the Second World War (WWII 1939-1946) and so we have marked those members (men and women) as WWI and/or WWII Service. Please let me know if you have additional information on any of the Laughton Clan who served in WWI or WWII, particularly if it is not noted here. As new members of the Laughton Clan come forward and identify themselves (i.e. Norm Laughton, Lindy Laughton, John Ivan Laughton) we are adding additional pages to the site and paths to the family tree. The project is thus growing past the original concept of doing only the direct line to the family of George Laughton 1897. Not all of the detail is shown on the web site or the charts at this time. If you are a "Visiting Laughton" please do not hesitate to contact us for additional information. We are also going back into the system to add the names of the spouses of the members listed.
Update versions of the Schematic of the Family Tree are provided in the genealogy section of the web site. Where information is available, the schematic versions show the siblings under the female lines that did not retain the LAUGHTON family name (i.e. Foubister, Sinclair, Wooldrage) Please submit any additional information, comments or corrections to Richard Van Wyck Laughton. |
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