Marie Agnes Lau
Posted on Ancestry.com by Richard L. Bolt
Note that her name is recorded as Mae Rita Lau
and the document was created in 1952 when Marie was 34.
Marie was born in Brooklyn on July 31, 1917. A few days before her first birthday, while her father Albert H. Lau was still away in the Navy, her mother Mae (May) brought the baby to the home of Albert's parents on July 25, 1918 and abandoned her there. Albert's mother Annie refused to accept responsibility for the infant and turned it over to a city nurse at the Kings County Hospital. Albert's sister Anna brought charges against Mae who was arrested and charged with abandonment. Although she plead "not guilty", nothing more was recorded about the incident.
