Monday 21st May 2018 - Number 3141

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Dear Ancestor,-

Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone

The names and dates are chiseled 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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LAWS FAMILY TREE

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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE

PLEASE NOTE

We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy -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 list members of the LAWS and LAWES family you are searching for.

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

Family Events from our database, for today 21st May

BIRTHS

1809 - Birth: Harry LAWES-147, (Wood & Coal Merchant) Basingstoke Hampshire England

1822 - Baptism: William Henry Brookman LAWES-13789, Andover Hampshire England

1848 - Baptism: Elizabeth Miller LAWS-7075, (Servant) Mulbarton Norfolk England

1854 - Birth: Richard B LAWS-36105, Danville Kentucky United States

1869 - Birth: Frederick LAWS-45015, (Upholsterer)

1871 - Baptism: Kate LAWES-28572,

1893 - Baptism: George Ernest LAWS-17654, (Bootmaker & Sales) Battersea Surrey England

1896 - Birth: Helen-Marie LAWS-17083,

1904 - Birth: George LAWS-45064, (Coal Putter)

1906 - Birth: Angus Lesley AUSTIN-11017, Coventry Warwickshire England

1907 - Birth: Vita May LAWS-34224, (Robes & Modes) Silfield Norfolk England

1909 - Birth: William Scott LAWS-36155,

1912 - Birth: Basil H LAWS-42694, (Painter & Decorators Assistant)

1913 - Birth: Irene H HOLT-LAWS-44252, (Typist)

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MARRIAGES

1717 - Marriage: George JOBLIN-10626 and Anne LAWS-10627, Heddon on the Wall Northumberland England

1772 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-5466 and Susan WIFFAM-5467, Feltwell Norfolk England

1783 - Marriage: Valentine LAWS-7040 and Susanna STEVENS-7041, Norwich Norfolk England

1810 - Marriage: Robert LAWES-2483 and Catherine KEYS(KEAYS) -2096, St.George Hanover Square Middlesex England

1811 - Marriage: John GROVES-47312 and Elizabeth LAWS-47313, Chelmsford, Essex, England

1859 - Marriage: William LAWS-6976 (Grocer / Innkeeper / Coal Merchant) and Mary Ann MUNDAY-6977, Woolwich Kent England

1867 - Marriage: Charles LAWS-4758 (Engine & Crane Driver) and Elizabeth WISEMAN-4759,

(Dress Maker) Dagenham Essex England

1877 - Marriage: Robert John LYONS-30350 and Mary Agnes LAWS-30349, St Mary Tothill Fields,

St GHS Middlesex England

1909 - Marriage: Robert W WHINHAM-29071 and Ethel FIELDS-29070, Hull East Yorkshire England

1927 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-10972 (Male Nurse in Asylum) and Ethel May PATTERSON-10973, Bishopwearmouth Durham England

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DEATHS

1729 - Death: William LAWS-35881, Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland United States

1819 - Burial: Susan LAWS-31677, Fincham Norfolk England

1842 - Death: Thomas LAWS-16587, Littleport Cambridgeshire England

1876 - Death: Thomas LAWES-1145, (Cabinet Maker / Snr) Old Street, Finsbury Middlesex England

1895 - Death: Bertha LAWS-20565,

1912 - Death: James LAWS-17085,

1916 - Death: Charlie H LAWS-19765, Whitley County Kentucky United States

1927 - Death: Charles LAWES-1274, (Farmer) Hoxne Suffolk England

1934 - Death: William James LAWS-26555, (Costermonger Flowers) Southwark Surrey England

1938 - Death: Amy Florence LAWS-43136, Manchester Lancashire England

1959 - Death: John Frederick LAWES-14517, (Labourer) (Mayor of Bath?) RAF St Athan Glamorgan but resided at Taffs Well Glamorgan Wales

1960 - Death: Gordon Lindsay LAWES-38341,

1997 - Death: Pearl H LAWS-17418, Sidney, Shelby County Ohio United States

1998 - Death: Victor LAWS-29331, (Errand Lad Grocery Store) Wycombe Buckinghamshire England

2003 - Death: Jessie Betty LAWES-28166, (widow)

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MISC & OTHER INFORMATION

1877 - Residence: Mary Agnes LAWS-30349, St GHS Middlesex England

1903 - Residence: Harry LAWS-22909, Hartford Connecticut United States

1903 - Residence: Elizabeth Ellen LAWS-22908, Hartford Connecticut United States

1903 - Residence: George LAWS-22907, Hartford Connecticut United States

1903 - Residence: James A LAWS-22906, Hartford Connecticut United States

1926 - Arrival: Sydney Benjamin LAWES-24472, (Royal Navy J49192) New York New York United States

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OTHER BIRTHS

1879 - Birth: Mary M MUMFORD-46553,

1882 - Birth: Dorcas MOORE-34443, Castle Acre Norfolk England

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OTHER MARRIAGES

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OTHER DEATHS

1883 - Death: Samantha HOPPER-13869, Mercer, Mercer Missouri United States

2003 - Burial: Winifred SNYDER-12215, Mt. Home Cemetery, Otsego Michigan united States

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-----------'HMS Trincomalee '---------------

History
Trincomalee in her current location in Hartlepool
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Trincomalee
Operator:	Royal Navy
Ordered:	30 October 1812
Builder:	Wadia Group
Cost:	£23,000
Laid down:	25 April 1816
Launched:	12 October 1817
Out of service:	1986
Renamed:	Foudroyant: 1903 Trincomalee: 1992
Status:	Museum ship, Hartlepool, England
General characteristics
Class and type:	Leda-class frigate
Tons burthen:	1065.63 bm
Length:	150 ft 4.5 in (45.834 m) (gundeck) 125 ft 7.25 in (38.2842 m) (keel)
Beam:	39 ft 11.25 in (12.1730 m)
Depth of hold:	12 ft 9 in (3.89 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	315 officers and men
Armament:	38-guns: (classed as 46 as carronades were counted in armament from 1817) Gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders Quarterdeck: 14 × 32-pounder carronades Forecastle: 2 × 9 pounders 2 × 32-pdr carronades

HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship in Hartlepool, England.

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History[edit]

1812–1847[edit]

Trincomalee is one of two surviving British frigates of her era—her near-sister HMS Unicorn (of the modified Leda class) is now a museum ship in Dundee. After being ordered on 30 October 1812, Trincomalee was built in Bombay, India by the Wadia family^[1] of shipwrights in teak, due to oak shortages in Britain as a result of shipbuilding drives for the Napoleonic Wars. The ship was named Trincomalee after the 1782 Battle of Trincomalee off the Ceylon (Sri Lanka) port of that name.

With a construction cost of £23,000, Trincomalee was launched on 12 October 1817. Captain Philip Henry sailed her to Portsmouth Dockyard where she arrived on 30 April 1819, with a journey costing £6,600.^[2] During the maiden voyage the ship arrived at Saint Helena on 24 January 1819 where she stayed for 6 days, leaving with an additional passenger, a surgeon who had attended Napoleon at Longwood House on the island, Mr John Stokoe.^[3]

After being fitted out at a further cost of £2,400, Trincomalee was placed in reserve until 1845, when she was re-armed with fewer guns giving greater firepower, had her stern reshaped and was reclassified as a sixth-rate spar-decked corvette.^[4]

1847–1857[edit]

Trincomalee departed from Portsmouth in 1847 and remained in service for ten years, serving on the North American and West Indies station. During her time, she was to help quell riots in Haiti and stop a threatened invasion of Cuba, and serve on anti-slavery patrol. In 1849, she was despatched to Newfoundland and Labrador before being recalled to Britain in 1850. In 1852 she sailed to join the Pacific Squadron on the west coast of America.^[5]

TS Foudroyant[edit]

Trincomalee finished her Royal Navy service as a training ship, but was placed in reserve again in 1895 and sold for scrap two years later on 19 May 1897. She was then purchased by entrepreneur George Wheatley Cobb, restored, and renamed Foudroyant in honour of HMS Foudroyant, his earlier ship that had been wrecked in 1897.^[6]

She was used in conjunction with HMS Implacable as an accommodation ship, a training ship, and a holiday ship based in Falmouth then Portsmouth. She remained in service until 1986, after which she was again restored and renamed back to Trincomalee in 1992.^[7]

Later years[edit]

HMS Trincomalee, stern quarter.

Now listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, following her recent restoration Trincomalee has become the centerpiece of the National Museum of the Royal Navy based in Hartlepool.

Trincomalee holds the distinction of being the oldest British warship still afloat^[8] as HMS Victory, although 52 years her senior, is in dry dock.

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,

Thats'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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Annabel Laws

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