Saturday 25th November 2017 - Number 2963

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Dear Ancestor,-

Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone

The names and dates are chiselled out on polished marble stone

It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mourn

You did not know that I exist, you died and I was born

Yet each of us are cells of you, in flesh, in blood, in bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own

Dear Ancestor, 

The place you filled one hundred years ago

Spreads out amongst the ones you left who would have loved you so,

I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot, and come to visit you. 

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SURNAMES IN MY TREE INCLUDE LAWS & LAWES, HARDING ELL ROWELL FULLER LOTHERINGTON BRANT MOONEY 

AT THE

LAWS FAMILY REGISTER 

WE ARE HAPPY TO WORK ON YOUR  LAWS TREE 

(MAYBE WE ALREADY HAVE)

   EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE

BUT PLEASE NOTE

We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy -therefore we are not showing births after 1920 or marriages after 1940 these are only available on request

If you are interested in anyone listed here, email us with the name, date and reference number, and we will happily do a look up, you might even get a whole tree! 

We will be happy to publish within this blog Your stories of your LAWS research and also members of the LAWS and LAWES family you are searching for. 

We will be happy to help with you with your LAWS/LAWES research, and in certain instances we may be willing to undertake private research on your behalf.

The content provided on this site is not guaranteed to be error free - It is always advised that you consult original records.

 Contact me via email at registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk 

Family Events from our database for today 25th November

Family Event

BIRTHS baptisms etc

1661 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWES-10552, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1821 - Baptism: Eliz LAWS-11981, Westbury Wiltshire England (Independent)
1838 - Birth: Rachel LAWS-14880, Littleport Cambridgeshire England

1842 - Birth: William LAWES (RN 42102 Stoker/Market Gardener) -684, Whitchurch                           Hampshire England
1866 - Birth: Albert LAWES (Carriage Lifter Retired & Widower) -45127, 
1875 - Birth: Theodore Herbert LAWS-19351, IL UNITED STATES
1881 - Birth: Elizabeth Adelaide LAWS-19361, IL UNITED STATES
1902 - Birth: Amy Louise LAWES-2785, Bedford, Hillsborough NH UNITED STATES
1905 - Birth: Hilda LAWS-24660, Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire England

1914 - Birth: Raymond Harry LAWS  (Coachbuilder) -11451, Hempstead Norfolk England
1918 - Birth: Jeffrey Livingston LAWES  RAAF) -12974, Gawler Sth Aust AUSTRALIA
1919 - Birth: Norman Percival George LAWS (RAAF) -12935, Carlton, VIC AUSTRALIA

MARRIAGES

1695 - Marriage: Henry JOHNSON-10558 and Elizabeth LAWES-10559, Newcastle upon Tyne              Northumberland England

1841 - Marriage: George (Master Mariner) RUGGLES-12353 and Amelia LAWS-12352,                        Ipswich Suffolk England

1842 - Marriage: Charles BELOE-5058 and Elizabeth LAWS-5059, Costessey Norfolk England

1881 - Marriage: Alfred SAVAGE (Innkeeper/Farmer) -31699 and Eliza LAWS-31698, 
           Stow Bardolph Norfolk England
1896 - Marriage: Bernard 'Frederick' Treen LAWES (Cab Proprieter) -3165 and Elizabeth                 'Edith' LUCKETT-3166, Margate Kent England

1899 - Marriage: Osborne Thomas LAWES-10184 and Hannah BLYTH-24498, Norwich 
           Norfolk England

1940 - Marriage: James Parley LAWS-13834 and Marian Francis SATTERWHITE-29096,                  Blanding UT UNITED STATES

DEATHS burials etc

1829 - Death: Ann LAWES-29674, NSW AUSTRALIA

1849 - Death: Mary Ann LAWS (Free Emigree / Svn) -8006, Homebush, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

1884 - Death: Mary Elizabeth LAWS-13821, Carroll Co TN UNITED STATES
1889 - Death: Sarah Ann LAWS-17401, 
1898 - Burial: William LAWS-16512, Arlington VA UNITED STATES

1949 - Cremation: William Henry LAWS (Solicitors Managing Clerk) -7853, Woking Surrey                 England
1984 - Death: Boodet LAWS (SGT US Air Force) -16655, 

1993 - Death: Anthony Michael LAWS (Australian Army) -12885, Adelaide SA AUSTRALIA

MISC

1841 - Residence: Ellen LAWES-12384, Ipswich Suffolk England
1950 - Residence: Robert Dennis HOWLAND (Checker) -45342, Ashford Kent England

1950 - Residence: Amy Elizabeth LAWS (Laundry Packer) -45341, Folkestone Kent England

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OTHER BIRTHS

1716 - Baptism: Henry JOY-29949, Alvediston Wiltshire England
1743 - Birth: Edward  Henry HANOVER-22605, Leicester House, London
1892 - Birth: Harold SANTHOUSE-22643, Woodhouse, West Yorkshire England, ENG

OTHER MARRIAGES

OTHER DEATHS & Burial

1871 - Death: Dorethea Anne ROCHFORT- (Honourable) 9292, Pimlico Middlesex England

1896 - Death: John Calvin RUSSELL-23031, Perryville, Boyle Co, KY UNITED STATES
1897 - Burial: Horace JENNINGS (Age 1 month) -25832, Outwood West Yorkshire England
1927 - Death: John FRANCIS-20278, 

1983 - Death: Irene Adele ANDERSON-14707, Westmead NSW AUSTRALIA

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A CHILD OF THE 1920's

AS SEEN FROM THE 1990's

by

John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 5.

There seemed to be a wider range of people then than there are now. There was no question or concept of equality. To me Mum was all important but to everyone Dad was 'The Boss’ and this nickname was used all the time between mother and her helper Lottie the maid. Lottie was a sort of auntie to me, having been part of the family longer than I had. This help was much needed by my mother not only on account of the housework but because catastrophe had struck my parents when my sister Mary had suffered brain damage as a complication of meningitis. This happened at about the age of  three after which there was no further mental progress although she grew up physically but dumb.

Standards of living then were much lower then but in this respect we were fortunate, though everyone worked hard. It is my belief that most people were as happy then as now except where poverty and illness coincided. It is the pressures of daily life that makes for unhappiness and these were just different. In many ways it is the small comforts and conveniences that we would miss if we had to step back in time.

We did not have swarms of relations; the Victorian habit of enormous families had gone just in time. There were two maiden aunts, my father’s sisters, who lived together in the bottom part of a house off West Green Road. They worked in garment manufacture and their smallish rooms were crammed with too large furniture inherited from my grandparents of the true Victorian era who I never knew. Some of it would be museum pieces now. There was a bed with a half tester rail over it and time to time they would occasionally come to tea on Sunday or to Christmas lunch. I remember a Christmas present of a little purse with two half-crowns in it, the old age pension was then just four of these coins, and although they were still working at that time, this was soon to be their weekly income.

My mother had just one sister, Alice who lived in Manchester, where her husband Jack was a lecturer in zoology. I only met him once, he had a nasty limp as a result of FRC service in WWI and he did not make old bones. Mother went and visited Alice after he had died and took me with her in her little car to help find the way 172 miles according to the AA route which we followed. Alice had a nice house in a pleasant suburb but before long she returned to her roots in Devon and spent the rest of her years in Kingswear.

There was also my uncle Joe, really a cousin of my father though I think he had been brought up as a brother and was part of a trio of sailing enthusiasts with my dad and his younger brother Albert. The three of them used to go sailing in Devon and Cornwall and my father and Albert managed to acquire wives in the process. No doubt this put an end to the sailing but my father still liked to row and after he bought his first car in 1925 he would take me over to the river Lea on a Sunday morning and row from the boathouse at one lock up to the next lock and back. Being Sunday, the horse-drawn barges, were all at rest and the locks inactive. It was already partly industrial along the river, the canal really, but the marshes were open and flat, crossed by the long new concrete bridge of Lea Bridge Road which led on towards Epping Forest.  

Albert and his Cornish wife Louise were in Harbin, in the wilds of Manchuria so we saw them very rarely, I only remember two occasions. A slow boat to China really was slow before the airlines and the Trans Siberian railway not a journey for the hurried or the timid though they went that way at least once.

Joe and his wife May lived in a 1920's new semi in Palmers Green and were the relations we saw most. He was a keen gardener, which my father certainly wasn't but they were pretty good friends and Joe and May had Christmas lunch with us some years. To a child, Christmas was important of course and the old time way of feasting in the greatest abundance that funds permitted was still strong. There were no supermarkets and no domestic refrigerators of course but 'nouvelle cuisine ‘hadn’t been heard of either. I do not think that there was as much obesity then as now, the ignorant did not have the means for it and most of the prosperous were working too hard to get fat. Beer, was however proportionately cheaper and a few more men could be seen carrying the mark of it in their big bellies or red noses.

Until school age there was not a lot of contact with adults outside the family. One saw the neighbours in their gardens from time to time, but it wern't till, a little later that a family came next door with whom we became friendly. The Kemble’s had five offspring, five daughters for starters the youngest in her late teens, and a son harry a bit older than myself with whom I became quite friendly. For some years we were regular cycling companions.

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Lord, help me dig into the past

and sift the sands of time

That I might find the roots that made

This family tree of mine

Lord, help me trace the ancient roads,

On which my father's trod

And led them through so many lands

To find our present sod.

Lord, help me find an ancient book

Or dusty manuscript,

That's safely hidden now away
In some forgotten crypt

Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts

My soul, when I can't find

The missing link between some name

That ends the same as mine

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