George Larby (1870-1937)

George Wilson (1870-1937) also known as George Larby, was an English lock-keeper.

Early Life
George Larby was born in 1870 in Eton, Buckinghamshire. His mother, unmarried at the time, was Esther Larby (1837-1901). When Esther later married William Wilson (1834-1876), George took his father's name. Growing up he had four siblings: an older brother, Frederick, who he later worked for as an assistant lock-keeper, and three sisters, one older and two younger. The young family's life changed when William Wilson died aged only forty-four in Kingston, Surrey in 1876. George was six and the youngest child, Fanny, was just one year old. Esther worked hard to put her children through school, and took a job taking in laundry. Her eldest son, Frederick, completed school shortly after his father died and became a lock-keeper. When George finished school years later, he was apprenticed to his brother. The two were still working together as lock-keepers at the River Thames in the 1901 census. George, however, was an assistant.

Marriage and Children
George Wilson worked as a lock-keeper for the River Thames at Sunbury-on-Thames, and lived there all his adult life. He married there, in 1901 to Ada Louisa Annett. They had the following children:
 * George Frederick Wilson (born 1902)
 * Irene May Wilson (born 1905)
 * Eric Reginald Wilson (born 1909)
 * Kenneth C Wilson (born 1916)