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Lothair Cecil Woodhurst was born in Kent in 1888 to parents John Cottington Woodhurst and his wife Blanche Jean Coleman. The GRO reference is [Birth Index: Thanet 2a 895, 1888 (Dec)].
The 1891 Census finds him at age 2 living with his parents at 22, Bartholomew Street in Charlton near Dover. The record gives his birthplace as Margate, Kent.
The 1901 Census finds him at age 12 living at The Tower, Tower Hill in Dover in the household of his uncle Charles Benjamin Ellis who had married Blanche Jean's sister Alice Ann Rodd Coleman. Also present, besides Charles' two young daughters May and Grace, were Blanche Jean's widowed mother Annie - born in Lifton, Devon around 1835 - and Lothair Cecil's brother Rolfe (or Relfe) Gordon. Blanche Jean, however, was not there, and her whereabouts at this time are unknown.
By 1911 Lothair was in London, where he married Caroline Moore. Their marriage certificate [Marriage Index: W. Ham 4a 49, 1911 (Dec)] states that they married at East Ham's Parish Church of St. Bartholomew on October 23rd 1911. He is described as a bachelor aged 24 and occupied as a laundryman, and she as a spinster aged 27. They were both residing at 27, Oakfield Road. His father, mis-named as John "Collingwood" Woodhurst, is described as a musician (deceased) and hers as a lamp maker (deceased) named William Moore. The witnesses were George Ernest Edelston Luizey and Emily Luizey, whose connections are unknown.
No UK references to him, his wife, his brother or his mother have been found after the birth in 1913 of his daughter Louie. His wife and daughter are known to have emigrated in 1926 to Australia, arriving at Hobson's Bay on April 29th of that year [NSW Immigration Records: Barcode No. 11552599]. Lothair, and possibly other family members, probably accompanied them, but the transcription of the immigration records is not yet sufficiently complete to confirm this.
Lothair appears to have preferred the alias "John" during his years in Australia. He died at Auburn, west of Sydney, as "John Cecil Woodhurst" in 1956 [Online NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages: Reference 8475/1956]. The latter source gives his parents' forenames as "Colin" and "Olive" which are probably mistranscriptions of handwritten entries "John" and "Blanche". He was cremated at nearby Rookwood Cemetery in Lidcombe, the largest cemetery in NSW, and his ashes interred at its Memorial Wall. His commemorative plaque there, at location JXJ, reads "John Cecil Woodhurst passed away 30th March 1956 aged 68 years."
Caroline died at Parramatta, near to Auburn, in 1961 [Online NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages: Reference 5647/1961]. Her parents' forenames are given as William and Emma.
This daughter's first forename was registered as Louie, not as Louise or Louisa. Her second forename may have been Olive or Oliver (her grandmother's maiden name). In 1932 she married Thomas Travers in the Granville District of New South Wales, Australia [Online NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages: Reference 842/1932]. Her forename was spelt as Louie in this record too.