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John Lawrence

b. 1844/5 d. 1923 or later

Gardener and missionary. Married Clara Martin in Worcester in 1869. Assistant to the missionary Thomas Bridges in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. Lived in Ushuaia, 1895. Started the Estancia Remolino outside Ushuaia on the Beagle Channel in 1899. Conducted baptisms at the Anglican mission in Ushuaia until at least 1923.

Sources

Argentina, National Census, 1895: Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, Ushuaia 9 (Familysearch.org, accessed 24 February 2020)

England, select marriages, 1538–1973 (Ancestry.com, accessed 24 February 2020)

Estancia Moat, the last frontier, estanciamoat.com/eng/history.html (accessed 25 February 2020)

Hazlewood 2000, pp. 326, 347

South American Missionary Society baptism register (The British presence in Southern Patagonia, Patbrit.org/bil/sams/ushbaps.htm, accessed 25 February 2020)

Bibliography

Hazlewood, Nick. 2000. Savage. The life and times of Jemmy Button. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

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