Lazenby, Albert (1852-1920)

Family

Albert was born in 1852 at Great Driffield, Yorkshire, to parents John, a commercial traveller (1877), and Margaret.

Census returns identify the following occupations for Albert.

1871 shopman to a miller
1881 Unitarian minister
1891 Unitarian minister in Glasgow, Scotland
1900 minister in Chicago, Illinois
1910 Unitarian minister at Essex Massachusetts

The family emigrated to USA in 1899.

He married Elizabeth Annie Tottie (1853-1937) on 25 July 1877 at Strangeways Unitarian Chapel, New Bridge Street, Cheetham, Manchester. Census returns identify four children.

Beatrice (1878-1973) – married Joseph Herbert Smethursts, cotton yarn merchant (1911), in 1902
Paul Helme 1880-1966) – a civil engineer (1930); died in British Colombia, Canada
John Richard (b1884) – an attorney (1930)
Margaret (Betty) (b1893)

Albert died in February 1920 at Cambridge, Massachusetts.