Arthur Lane 1a 2 3a 4a

Birth Name Arthur Lane
Gender male
Age at Death about 25 years

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth between April 1903 and June 1903 Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England Vol 6b Page 652 1a 2
Census 1911 37, Wolverhampton Road, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England   1a
Cause Of Death     Attacked by shark 3a
Death about April 1928 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia   3a 4a

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Henry Lane27 February 186519 January 1949
Mother Edith Caroline Chamberlain10 January 187115 June 1948
         Arthur Lane between April 1903 and June 1903 about April 1928
    Brother     Henry Chamberlain Lane between April 1904 and June 1904
    Sister     Lucy Margaret Lane 25 September 1905
    Brother     Paul Roger Kingsley Lane 2 July 1907
    Brother     Walter Richard Lane between July 1908 and September 1908
    Sister     Elizabeth Mary Katharyn Lane between April 1910 and June 1910

Families

Family of Arthur Lane and Lucy Donaldson
Unmarried Partner Lucy Donaldson ( * about 1908 + ... )

Source References

  1. 1911 United Kingdom Census
  2. General Register Office: England & Wales Birth Index
  3. Aberdeen Press and Journal
      • Date: 5 April 1928
      • Page: Page 7
      • Citation:

        GIRL FRIGHTENS SHARK.

        Man Friend Dies After Rescue.

        Sydney, Wednesday.

        Wonderful heroism was displayed by a twenty-year-old girl, Miss Lucy Donaldson, in beating away a shark which had attacked her man friend.

        Miss Donaldson and her friend, Mr Arthur Lane, a prominent business man, were swimming off the beach at New castle, seventy-five miles north of Sydney. Mr Lane was about fifty yards away from her when she saw the shark attack him four times.

        Miss Donaldson swam at once to Mr Lane's assistance, and by vigorous splashing and beating the water frightened the shark away. Mr Lane was shockingly mutilated, but she succeeded in towing him to the beach, where he died. - British United Press.

  4. Roger Poole: The Church on Wednesfield Green
      • Page: Page 28
      • Citation:

        An Australian Tragedy

        Henry Lane was a prosperous trap-maker with a small factory in Wednesfield. He sent his son Arthur, a nephew of the Parkhouses, to manage a factory in Australia. Early in 1928, while sea-bathing with some friends, Arthur was attacked by a shark, which took his leg in its jaws. Bravely Arthur's girlfriend fought it off three times; finally, however, the boy lost his leg and died in her arms on the beach. He was 25 years of age.

        When the Wednesfield Group of Toc H was advanced to the status of a Branch in 1928, it was granted custody of a Lamp, and this was presented in Arthur Lane's memory. Also in his memory, a credence table was presented to St Thomas's in 1929, the same year in which our present altar was given by the Parkhouses in memory of their parents. The original main altar was moved to the Lady Chapel and is one of the oldest objects we possess. It was used in the first church of 1750.