My great grandparents – Edward (Ted) Lyng lived at home at 36 Hanover St and Laura Merry around the corner in Filleul St.  They married in 1899, at the ages of 31 and 29 respectfully, and shifted to 6 Swan St to live with Laura’s dad, John Nicklin Merry who had built the house the year earlier, and it is there that the Lyng family live for the next 50 years.  Swan Street runs between George St and Great King St and was renamed Titan St from about 1950.

Edward and Laura Lyng commence their family – Harold Edward (1900), Isabella Mary Eliza (1901), Charles Henry (1902), Laura Kate (1905) and Elizabeth Lilian (1908).  Harold lived there until he married Margaret Annie (Peg) Burk in 1931 (grandma and grandad).

In March 1915 Edward Lyng was charged with using threatening behaviour in public and fined £2.

On a more positive note he possibly demonstrated the family’s Labour roots in his unionist role negotiating a collective agreement for biscuit and confectionery workers.

Edward died 6 March 1937, and Laura 12 years later on 30 March 1949, and are buried at the Andersons Bay Cemetery.