Lawrence Investigations in the early 1800s!
So far, with DNA on Ancestry, I haven't come across anyone who seems to match on my distant LAWRENCE line ie especially that links back further than James LAWRENCE born c1807 in Buntingford, Hertfordshire and his wife, Susan WRIGHT, born c1810 in Silver Hill, Hertfordshire. For both of them, the places of birth are as per the 1851 Census but thay might not be right! Susan doesn't appear with her family any more after that; in fact, I believe she ended up in Friern Barnet Lunatic Asylum but that is for another post! With James, on the 1861 Census, he gives his place of birth as Silver Hill, N.K. (which I assume means unknown?) and then he dies in 1864, so there are no more census entries to help me out! However, with James, the ages given on the Census and at his death all stay consistent with him being born c1807. The problem with the general area that James might come from is that it's close to the Essex border, so it's possible he was baptised in either Hertfordshire