Jane Lawrence?

Question

When Andrew Jackson was president he had an attempted assassin named Richard Lawrence. I can find some mediocre information on him now, but I researched him a year or two ago and found things on his sister, Jane (?). I am unable to find anything on her now and would greatly appreciate if someone could lead me to any information about his sister, whether her name was Jane or not. Thank you!

Answer 1

Hey Mandy,

There are 281 entries for Jane Lawrence in the Family Search site by LDS. This is where Genealogy meets History, your question that is. there are 183 entries for Richard.

ichard Lawrence (1800? – June 13, 1861) was the first known person to attempt to assassinate an American President.

Lawrence was born in England in 1800 (or perhaps 1801). By the time he was an adult he was clearly mentally ill. Lawrence worked as a painter and there is speculation that exposure to the chemicals in his paints may have contributed to his derangements. By the 1830s he was unemployed and had succumbed to the delusion that he was King Richard III of England. Lawrence was also convinced that the American government owed him a large sum of money but that President Andrew Jackson was keeping him from receiving it, which prevented Lawrence from taking his rightful place as King of England.

So it is likely that Jane would be born near 1800 and also in England.