{"id":2858,"date":"2025-03-15T18:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=2858"},"modified":"2025-03-16T11:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:58:48","slug":"charles-duncan-laurenson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/laurenson\/charles-duncan-laurenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Duncan Laurenson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Charles was the second to youngest child born to Fleming and Elizabeth, and he was born at Bressay in the Shetlands on the 19 February 1852. I am going to speculate, that Charles’ first names were a contraction of the Chief Magistrate of the time on Shetland – Charles G. Duncan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He trained as an account and worked his entire life in finance. Later in life he was a bank officer and bank agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 10 November 1887 at Portsoy, Banffshire, he married Martha Margaret Nicholson Hunter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 1911 he and Martha had moved from the Shetlands to Greenock West, which is part of Greater Glasgow city. From there, the couple moved to Edinburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As far as I have been able to determine, there were no children to the union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charles passed away at home on the 29 Aug 1933 at 25a St Ninians Terrace, Edinburgh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Martha Laurenson passed away at Craigie Nursing Home in Dundee, Forfar, Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charles was the second to youngest child born to Fleming and Elizabeth, and he was born at Bressay in the Shetlands on the 19 February 1852. I am going to speculate, that Charles’ first names were a contraction of the Chief Magistrate of the time on Shetland – Charles G. Duncan. He trained as an … <\/p>\n

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