Brief Life History of Arthur
When Arthur Laycock was born on 4 June 1902, in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Abraham Laycock, was 30 and his mother, Hannah Windle, was 27. He lived in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States for about 25 years. He died in January 1979, in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 76.
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- Arthur Laycock in household of Abraham Laycock, "Rhode Island State Census, 1925"
- Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915 - Ancestry.com (Arthur Laycock)
- Arthur Laycock, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924"
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World Events (8)
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1907 · Larchmont sinks
On February 11, 1907, a passenger ship gets rammed by a coal carrier just southwest of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. It takes only 10 minutes for the Larchmont to sink. Only 19 of those on board survive. The next day bodies of those that had been on the ship continue to wash up onto the shore.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire): habitational name from Laycock in WestYorkshire or possibly from Lacock in Wiltshire. Both are recorded inDomesday Book as Lacoc and seem to be named with a diminutiveof Old English lacu ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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