Reference to index of records of letters, papers and photographs of Lawrence John Hayns

Abstract

Lawrence John Hayns (1094 -1970) was born in the U.K. and served in the army during the Great. war. He married Mary Margaret Crane in 1921 in Leicester. A book of his notes on wool, cotton and principles of weaving and knitting suggests that he might have been apprenticed there to a textile or hosiery business. However in the 1920 he migrated to Tasmania as an orchardist. He also worked as a stockman to a George Town butcher, as a ploughman, at Kellsall and Kemp’ s Factory, Invermay, and finally was a lighthouse keeper. In 1951 he was head keeper of Swan Island light house. His son Maxwell Ernest (1924-1948), attended Launceston Grammar School, joined the RAAFin world War II and was killed in a car accident in 1948.