Obits of William Lambert Laye DWYER  (Killed Himself- My understanding is that he had a terrible motorcycle accident as a young cop, and that this somehow later effected his vision. Afraid of being blind, he shot himself. (Perhaps the close head injury effected later thinking is also a question. -Pat P.Not included here is a letter. written confidentially, to his grieving son Duncan, from Dora Dwyer BLACK, poignantly describing what a wonderful person he was.  

Below -Various Accounts of heroics by William Lambert Laye DWYER

Below: ALLEGED 'FIRST TRAFFIC TICKET' issued by William Lambert Laye DWYER

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BIO Teach college in USA.  BA  Philosophy, MA English Drama and Literature EMU.  b 1950, before Al Gore invented Internet. Beginning to peddle my finished book to publishers Who Murdered Nurse Florence Nightingale Shore?  -An investigation into the unsolved murder of English army nurse, Miss Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter and relative of Miss Florence Nightingale.   Battled some renal cell carcinoma - loss one kidney 2004  and 1/3 lh lung 2007. Had hip replacement thrown in for fun. Have good prognosis from docs- no chemo.  Next project may look at another person on my tree- early feminist/ adventurer/explorer/writer Patricia Elizabeth Ramsay Laye.

LAYE FAMILY UK	Connected by Marriages or Reference
EMILY LAYE   Dau of Major Francis Fenwick Laye, grand daughter of Lt. General Francis Laye	DIXON BROWN   Northumberland UK ,  Margaret Brown married Lt. General Francis Laye 1803.
AIREY of Northumberland  Lt. General Francis Laye married Mary Airey 1803    Also GILPIN, GOODEN, MULCASTER, BEDFORD (BEDFORDE), BARKUS, LAYE	GILLMAN of  Portsmouth  LT COL BERTIE CUNYNGHAME DWYER married Beryl Maud Gillman c 1907.
BARNES, BUTLER, CHAPMAN  ANDERSON  NICHOLSON  Northumberland  From Laye/Airey/Barnes Line	GUY BURGESS    Spy for KGB  LT COL BERTIE CUNYNGHAME's sister-in-law, -Evelyn Gillman.,was the mother of this double agent.
CLAVERINGS and FENWICKS   Northumberland,  From Laye/Airey/Barnes Line	The Life, Betrayal,  and Death of Nurse Florence Nightingale Shore   My book project
GREY Northumberland  Laye/Airey/Barnes/Clavering/	CASHER      Family of Beryl Maud Gillman - A Casher did the research, and I am merely posting it for him.
GILPIN Northumberland  Northumberland,  From Laye/Airey/Barnes Line	FLORENCE  NIGHTINGALE:  SMITHS Her maternal side: For studying the Shores or Nightingale Studies
BEDFORDE  BEDFORD   Durham, UK From Laye/Airey Line	FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: THE SHORE FAMILY  Norton Hall, Sheffield of Norton Hall.
General Thomas Peard Dwyer  Detailed Career	FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE LINKS  For Nightingale Studies
Lt. General Francis Laye     Major General Joseph Henry Laye I    Major General Joseph Henry Laye II    Detailed Careers	PRINCE Essex, Ontario   Tied to ways: GG Grandmother Emily Laye married John Prince, grandson of Col John Prince, and her dau, Mary Anne Dwyer married the Hon. Albert Prince, M.P- the son of Col. Prince. (Yes, that's right).
DWYER	HON COLONEL JOHN PRINCE, M.P.  A character. Reputed to be illegitimate son of an actress and William IV, notorious for killing American prisoner's of war in the Battle of Windsor. Detroiters put a price on his head. Popular in Windsor.
LT COL BERTIE CUNYNGHAME DWYER   Bertie won Grand National in 1887. "Bertie Dwyer, an English boy of 14  . . . did the fastest time of the race, the only rider to break the two minute barrier with 1 minute 58.6 seconds . . . [A] truly remarkable effort for any rider let alone a 14 year old" (23 The Cresta Run 1885-1985).	LINKS GENEALOGICAL / MILITARY  Reference Only.
INSPECTOR WM BLENNERHASSETT DWYER   Detroit Police Inspector  Very incomplete
KENNY  County Kerry, Ireland  Also, DWYER, TENT (BROWNE), COURTHROPE, HOARE	DEAN PITT  Connected in two way. General J.H. Laye senior married Emelia Dean-Pitt, and Ensign George Sinclair Laye married Amy Selina Nugent, dau of Charlotte Marcia Dean-Pitt.
BUTTERFIELD / SIMPSON AND DUCKETT    LANCASHIRE and BOND	E. P. Ramsay-Laye author/feminist pen name: Isobel Massary  4 books, articles, such as "Women and Careers" in Englishwoman Review, 9, (Apr 1878) p 96  -Arguing desirability of married women having careers.
Blennerhassett Kerry   From Dwyer/Hoare  Also  CONWAY, LYNNE, CRUMPE, O'CONNOR, HOARE, DWYER	LAYE Surname Study UK    For Genealogical Reference for all Layes
O'CONNOR Tralee Ireland  From Dwyer/Hoare  Also DWYER, BLENNERHASSETT, HOARE, DENNY, MAYNARD, BARRY, ROPER, FORREST, EDGECRUMBE, ETC
KEENAN Detroit/ Ontario  Sarah Keenan married my gg grandfather, St. Hugh Simpson Gerald Toulmin Dwyer in Detroit in 1895.	LETTERS OF MARY AIREY LAYE  Letters written by Lt. General Francis Laye's widow, pestering Lord Somerset, later Ragland, for an Ensignacy for her son. Letters to others, like Lord Hill and the Marchioness Winchester.
TOULMIN   London and LANCASHIRE, Mary Anne Toulmin Married to General Thomas Peard Dwyer 11 Apr 1839, Old Church, Saint Pancras, London    Includes: BECKETT, SIMPSON, DWYER, HARRISON, TALBOTT,	DWYER CUNYNGHAME Photo Album
WALSH -Meath Ireland    Married to Laye Family Anne Maria Teresa WALSH married Emily Laye's father, Major Francis Fenwick Laye 28 Oct 1835 in Newbridge, Colpe Church County Meath, Ireland	CUNYNGHAME Connection is on English branch of family. Captain Robert Hoare Dwyer married  Caroline Georgina Thurlow CUNYNGHAME
HOARE   Kerry  Cork   Connected by Robert Dwyer, father of General Thomas Peard Dwyer marrying Mary Hoare, 1744 Tralee, Kerry.   Also KENNY, DWYER, BLENNERHASSETT, BURNELL, GILPIN, NOTT, WOODCOCK, KELLEY	RAMSAY Scot. Eng India   Connection is Major Francis Fenwick Laye married Elizabeth P Ramsay
OGLE Northumberland    Laye/Airey/Barnes/Clavering/Grey	ASCENSION ISLAND Mini & partial hist of the RM commandants by Comm (General) T.P. Dwyer
PATERNAL ----  PASKIEWICZ   Plymouth PA/Vilna and Starynki, Russia (Старынкі ).	DWYER Surname Study Detroit For Genealogical Reference for all Dwyers
PATERNAL ----  GRIZDIS   and many other spelling  Plymouth PA/Vilna
PATERNAL---   MIKOLAYESKI  Plymouth PA/Russia/Poland	PATERNAL ----  ZENKO   Plymouth PA/Vilna, Olita
PATERNAL--   SINKIEWICZ or SINKCAVAGE Plymouth PA/Lithuania	PATERNAL ---  RUZANTIS   Plymouth PA/Suwalki