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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton'
my paternal Great Grandfather
&
This is Robert Henry's Wife
Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller
My paternal Great Grandmother
1846-1924
R I P
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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton'
my paternal Great Grandfather
&
This is Robert Henry's Wife
Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller
My paternal Great Grandmother
1846-1924
R I P
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Introducing
our new
Facebook Group
LAWS FAMILY HISTORY WORLDWIDE and DNA
so
IF YOU ARE RESEARCHING LAWES OR LAWS
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BETTER STILL
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Henry Lawes
1595-1662
Henry Lawes
1595-1662
We have excluded records of living people to protect their privacy (GDPR 2018)
We only show births before 1920 and marriages before 1940.
We have excluded records of living people to protect their privacy (GDPR 2018)
We only show births before 1920 and marriages before 1940.
We only show births before 1920 and marriages before 1940.
If you are seeking to find folk after these years you should contact the registrar.
1606 - Death: unbaptized LAWS-33730,
1722 - Marriage: John DAY-1833 and Elizabeth LAWES-1834, Wymondham Norfolk England
1799 - Marriage: Matthew LAWS-39944 and Providence NOBBS-39945, Norwich Norfolk England
1802 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-48439, Saint Ives Huntingdonshire England
1803 - Birth: Leah LAWES-581, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England
1840 - Death: John LAWS-13792, Brownsville, Licking County, Ohio United States
1847 - Burial: Thomas LAWES-50205, Bristol Gloucestershire England
1850 - Baptism: Sarah Jane FRENCH-4088, (Mariners Wife) Stepney Middlesex England
(My Great Grand Aunt)
1854 - Birth: John D LAWS-42630, (Power Station Engineer now Cellulose Sprayer)
1855 - Marriage: James LAWES-591 (Ag Lab) and Ellen ENSELL-592, Headley Hampshire England
1855 - Death: Rebecca BROWN-3350, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1864 - Birth: Sarah Mahala LAWS-19158,
1871 - Birth: William John LAWS-34747,
1872 - Death: Calvin A LAWS-7800,
1873 - Birth: Mary Elizabeth PURDUE-32928, Tennessee United States
1874 - Birth: Gordon LAWS-46028, (Journalist Sub)
1876 - Marriage: Shadrack JACKSON-30504 (Coal Miner) and Anna Hill LAWS-30505,
Friern Barnet Middlesex England
1877 - Death: John H LAWS-27223,
1878 - Birth: Isabella Mary DREW-3652, Grafton New South Wales Australia
1880 - Birth: Walter Ernest LAWES-3107, (Cab Driver) Margate Kent England
1882 - Birth: John Edward LAWS-9366, (Bricklayer) Folkestone Kent England
1885 - Marriage: Edward George LAWES-48591 (Carpenter) and Mary GLENCOCK-48593, Parkstone Dorset England
1892 - Birth: William H LAWES-46095, (Production Control Supervisor)
1895 - Birth: Doris LAWS-40204,
1895 - Birth: Madelaine Grace MathewsWITHERS-16940, (Examiner - Postal Censor) Shrewsbury Shropshire England
1896 - Christen: John Charles LAWS-4478, Southwark Surrey England
1898 - Birth: Oregan C LAWS-16271, (PVT US Army)
1901 - Marriage: William SEAGO-21476 (Cooper) and Maud Ethel LAWS-8294,
Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1901 - Birth: Eley L LAWS-40144, Sunnidale. Simcoe Ontario Canada
1901 - Birth: Dorothy LAWS-17218, (Clerk L.G.O) Haswell Durham England
1907 - Birth: Frederick LAWS-22154, (Plasterer) Sheffield West Yorkshire England
1907 - Birth: Hilda Irene LAWS-16130, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1909 - Birth: John Edgar LAWS-12627, (QX5922 Private in Australian Army)
Warwick, Queensland Australia
1911 - Birth: Emily M MOUSLEY-40210,
1911 - Death: Jessie May LAWS-20321, Fulham Middlesex England
1912 - Marriage: Wilfred AUSTEN-49437 and Elfrida Jean LAWS-37965, (Leger Clerk) Beckenham Kent England
1914 - Death: Ellen Maria LAWS-14985, (Servant) Hounslow Middlesex England
1915 - Birth: Alice K A LAWS-47877, (House Maid)
1918 - Birth: Elizabeth Jane TOLLEY-48573, (Jam Factory Worker) Paddington Middlesex England
1918 - Birth: Violette Milicent Rogerson THOMAS-27922, Kensington Middlesex England
1918 - Burial: Elizabeth Ann LAWS-24386, (Widow) Columbia Missouri United States
1922 - Death: Lucy WELLS-7079, (Barmaid) Edmonton Middlesex England
(My Great grandmother)
1923 - Marriage: William Russell MOONEY-7080 (Post Office Pensioner)
and May Ann BRANT-7083 (Supervisor), Edmonton Middlesex England
Lucy's son & my maternal Grandparents)
1936 - Death: Henrietta STEWART-29759,
1938 - Death: Frederick John LAWES-10059 (Commercial Traveller) Reading Berkshire England
1941 - Immigration: Ethel Annie Louise MYER-8356, Buffalo New York United States
(My paternal Great Aunt)
1944 - Death: John Edward LAWS-9366, (Bricklayer) Folkestone Kent England
1945 - Burial: Rose Evelyn FREEMAN-29364, Christchurch New Zealand
1950 - Burial: Irene Alice LAWS-20341, Ealing Middlesex England
1958 - Death: John Dennis LAWS-42381, (Electrical Engineer) Westcliff on Sea Essex England
1960 - Residence: Archibald Sidney LAWES-871 (Ag Lab) Winchester Hampshire England
1964 - Death: Thomas Henry TULLETT-48787, Sidcup Kent England
1966 - Death: Harriett Lucy LAWS-5409, (Cook) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1974 - Death: Charlie FRAZIER-40714, Bell County, Kentucky, United States
1988 - Burial: John Edwin LAWES-35743, Loxton Waikerie, South Australia
1989 - Death: Lawrence Douglas LAWS-39792, Strood Kent England
1989 - Death: Rose JUDD-14358,
1989 - Death: Rosie LAWS-14251, Victoria Australia
1991 - Death: Margaret Ellen LAWS-33380, Leicestershire England
1991 - Death: Hubert LAWS-16350, (PFC US Army)
1993 - Burial: Francis Henry LAWS-27564, (Railway Platelayer) Billingham Durham England
1994 - Death: Kenneth Gordon DAVIS-28157,
2011 - Death: Lucille FRESQUEZ-41760, Murrieta, California United States
2011 - Death: Richard Albert LAWS-27807, Darwin Northern Territory Australia
If you are seeking to find folk after these years you should contact the registrar.
1606 - Death: unbaptized LAWS-33730,
1722 - Marriage: John DAY-1833 and Elizabeth LAWES-1834, Wymondham Norfolk England
1799 - Marriage: Matthew LAWS-39944 and Providence NOBBS-39945, Norwich Norfolk England
1802 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-48439, Saint Ives Huntingdonshire England
1803 - Birth: Leah LAWES-581, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England
1840 - Death: John LAWS-13792, Brownsville, Licking County, Ohio United States
1847 - Burial: Thomas LAWES-50205, Bristol Gloucestershire England
1850 - Baptism: Sarah Jane FRENCH-4088, (Mariners Wife) Stepney Middlesex England
(My Great Grand Aunt)
(My Great Grand Aunt)
1854 - Birth: John D LAWS-42630, (Power Station Engineer now Cellulose Sprayer)
1855 - Marriage: James LAWES-591 (Ag Lab) and Ellen ENSELL-592, Headley Hampshire England
1855 - Death: Rebecca BROWN-3350, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1864 - Birth: Sarah Mahala LAWS-19158,
1871 - Birth: William John LAWS-34747,
1872 - Death: Calvin A LAWS-7800,
1873 - Birth: Mary Elizabeth PURDUE-32928, Tennessee United States
1874 - Birth: Gordon LAWS-46028, (Journalist Sub)
1876 - Marriage: Shadrack JACKSON-30504 (Coal Miner) and Anna Hill LAWS-30505,
Friern Barnet Middlesex England
Friern Barnet Middlesex England
1877 - Death: John H LAWS-27223,
1878 - Birth: Isabella Mary DREW-3652, Grafton New South Wales Australia
1880 - Birth: Walter Ernest LAWES-3107, (Cab Driver) Margate Kent England
1882 - Birth: John Edward LAWS-9366, (Bricklayer) Folkestone Kent England
1885 - Marriage: Edward George LAWES-48591 (Carpenter) and Mary GLENCOCK-48593, Parkstone Dorset England
1892 - Birth: William H LAWES-46095, (Production Control Supervisor)
1895 - Birth: Doris LAWS-40204,
1895 - Birth: Madelaine Grace MathewsWITHERS-16940, (Examiner - Postal Censor) Shrewsbury Shropshire England
1896 - Christen: John Charles LAWS-4478, Southwark Surrey England
1898 - Birth: Oregan C LAWS-16271, (PVT US Army)
1901 - Marriage: William SEAGO-21476 (Cooper) and Maud Ethel LAWS-8294,
Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1901 - Birth: Eley L LAWS-40144, Sunnidale. Simcoe Ontario Canada
1901 - Birth: Dorothy LAWS-17218, (Clerk L.G.O) Haswell Durham England
1907 - Birth: Frederick LAWS-22154, (Plasterer) Sheffield West Yorkshire England
1907 - Birth: Hilda Irene LAWS-16130, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1909 - Birth: John Edgar LAWS-12627, (QX5922 Private in Australian Army)
Warwick, Queensland Australia
Warwick, Queensland Australia
1911 - Birth: Emily M MOUSLEY-40210,
1911 - Death: Jessie May LAWS-20321, Fulham Middlesex England
1912 - Marriage: Wilfred AUSTEN-49437 and Elfrida Jean LAWS-37965, (Leger Clerk) Beckenham Kent England
1914 - Death: Ellen Maria LAWS-14985, (Servant) Hounslow Middlesex England
1915 - Birth: Alice K A LAWS-47877, (House Maid)
1918 - Birth: Elizabeth Jane TOLLEY-48573, (Jam Factory Worker) Paddington Middlesex England
1918 - Birth: Violette Milicent Rogerson THOMAS-27922, Kensington Middlesex England
1918 - Burial: Elizabeth Ann LAWS-24386, (Widow) Columbia Missouri United States
1922 - Death: Lucy WELLS-7079, (Barmaid) Edmonton Middlesex England
(My Great grandmother)
(My Great grandmother)
1923 - Marriage: William Russell MOONEY-7080 (Post Office Pensioner)
and May Ann BRANT-7083 (Supervisor), Edmonton Middlesex England
Lucy's son & my maternal Grandparents)
and May Ann BRANT-7083 (Supervisor), Edmonton Middlesex England
Lucy's son & my maternal Grandparents)
1936 - Death: Henrietta STEWART-29759,
1938 - Death: Frederick John LAWES-10059 (Commercial Traveller) Reading Berkshire England
1941 - Immigration: Ethel Annie Louise MYER-8356, Buffalo New York United States
(My paternal Great Aunt)
(My paternal Great Aunt)
1944 - Death: John Edward LAWS-9366, (Bricklayer) Folkestone Kent England
1945 - Burial: Rose Evelyn FREEMAN-29364, Christchurch New Zealand
1950 - Burial: Irene Alice LAWS-20341, Ealing Middlesex England
1958 - Death: John Dennis LAWS-42381, (Electrical Engineer) Westcliff on Sea Essex England
1960 - Residence: Archibald Sidney LAWES-871 (Ag Lab) Winchester Hampshire England
1964 - Death: Thomas Henry TULLETT-48787, Sidcup Kent England
1966 - Death: Harriett Lucy LAWS-5409, (Cook) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1974 - Death: Charlie FRAZIER-40714, Bell County, Kentucky, United States
1988 - Burial: John Edwin LAWES-35743, Loxton Waikerie, South Australia
1989 - Death: Lawrence Douglas LAWS-39792, Strood Kent England
1989 - Death: Rose JUDD-14358,
1989 - Death: Rosie LAWS-14251, Victoria Australia
1991 - Death: Margaret Ellen LAWS-33380, Leicestershire England
1991 - Death: Hubert LAWS-16350, (PFC US Army)
1993 - Burial: Francis Henry LAWS-27564, (Railway Platelayer) Billingham Durham England
1994 - Death: Kenneth Gordon DAVIS-28157,
2011 - Death: Lucille FRESQUEZ-41760, Murrieta, California United States
2011 - Death: Richard Albert LAWS-27807, Darwin Northern Territory Australia
2011 - Death: Lucille FRESQUEZ-41760, Murrieta, California United States
2011 - Death: Richard Albert LAWS-27807, Darwin Northern Territory Australia
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 our fathers trod, which 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, that missing link between
some name, that ends the same as mine.
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A CHILD OF THE 1920s,
AS SEEN FROM THE 1990s
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008
part 16 Holidays 2
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A CHILD OF THE 1920s,
AS SEEN FROM THE 1990s
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008
part 16 Holidays 2
There was time to wander while parents were busy, mother shopping and father at work, and every corner of that little town stays clear in my mind. The crumbling cliffs were ideal for climbing and sliding down the dusty gullies if a piece of wood or tin could be found to sit on. Not so good for my white shorts which would acquire an ochre-coloured seat. Resulting in the admonition “You be careful now”. These cliffs were gradually being eroded by the North Sea and from time to time a part of a garden or even a house would go sliding down. The sea defences were made stronger by extension of the hefty concrete promenade towards the south which is still holding up well. A walk along the beach beyond its end soon brought one to the more exclusive resort of Frinton, with its wide green lawns along the cliff tops which was usually visited once or twice during a holiday.
Walton on the Naze Essex
The northern part of Walton was lower without cliffs. The end of the High Street came along to the Front and the road and sea wall went on past a sometimes marshy patch of land beyond which the road went into a scattered little residential area and then dying out. Here the cliffs had risen again at the golf course where an old brick tower stands at the highest point. This provided a pleasant evening stroll which my father and I often took as far as the Naze. Felixstowe could be seen across the water as the land on our side ran back to the muddy tidal backwaters behind the coast.
These backwaters ran right up behind the town and about twenty-five acres of them were cut off from the tides with a dyke and made into a large lake with boats. This was a main attraction of the town to my father and virtually every morning that was fit, he and I would have a sailing dinghy out and sail the seven seas. His father had been a Sea Captain and I am told that only his mother’s insistence had prevented my father going to sea as a young man. As I grew older I was allowed a dinghy to myself and although I was never to become an addict I can understand how others do so. Being regulars and known to the boatman. We were allowed to sail on days when the wind was too strong to risk his dinghies in the hands of strangers and these were the days when it became quite fun.
Walton Mere
The attraction of boats also ruled one of our regular outings during the holiday. We always went at least once to Brightlingsea, a slightly scruffy town famous only for boatyards and shrimp teas. It has always been an ocean racing centre but was not particularly prosperous in those days, there were wonderful boats on offer, at giveaway prices. Needless to say, we didn’t buy one.
We just walked in the sun and looked, ate our shrimp tea and perhaps an ice cream, then trundled back to Walton. At Dedham however, another regular outing we could get a rowing boat on the Stour and glide through Constable’s countryside between the pollarded willows in the soft June sunshine. This was I fear, my father’s holiday, again just he and I went boating but then we were off in the car to Flatford for a strawberry tea amongst the wasps beside the bridge. It is all still there but somehow the rural peace is not the same since everyone sprouted wheels.
All the countryside was more rural as a much smaller number of townsfolk invaded it every weekend. All the corn was cut with a binder of course and stood up in stooks in the field. Until it was cut East Anglia was a mass of red poppies, more beloved by the holidaymaker than the farmer. Farming had been depressed for some years and old cottages were being condemned as unfit for human habitation. It is sad to think it is only the war which brought back a sort of prosperity or at least a brief understanding of the need to grow our own food which now seems to be fading away again.
The thought of the corn takes me back to another little holiday I spent in the countryside. In truth, Mum and Dad wanted a holiday on their own and Lottie took Mary and me for a week to her parents’ cottage in Bocking in Essex, which really was rural. The water came from a long-handled pump outside the back door and the loo was by the wash house in the garden.
It was late summer but any need for light was met by oil lamps and candles. Little did I know that these were the normal facilities for most of rural England and that for many places they would stay unchanged for another thirty years.
It was harvest time and the horse-drawn binder went round and round the field throwing out sheaves and driving the ever-present rabbits into the centre until they made a run for it and someone got rabbit pie for dinner.
Wages were meagre. Food was important, there was rhubarb under the apple tree and more cabbages than roses in the garden. There were plums in the garden too and home-made wine in the kitchen cupboard set into the wall alongside the black kitchen range.
There were no pavements through the village. There was after all virtually no traffic A few yards along the road on the other side from the cottage a path led down to the lazy river with its carpet of water lilies raising their bright yellow flowers above the dark green leaves, A few cows grazed the meadow beside the river avoiding the buttercups and leaving their squelchy traps for the unwary walker behind them.
I didn’t wonder then, what it was like there in the wintertime.
Another little holiday that was different turned up when my Uncle Albert and Aunt Louise were home on leave and was going to spend a little while in a cottage in Cornwall. Their son Frank was a little younger than me, and I was invited to come along so that we could spend some time together.
It was the only long train journey I had taken as a small boy, about ten years old I think, although the steam trains were always rushing past the bottom of our garden at home, I was unimpressed by the train journey.
Once it had chugged out of Paddington the countryside rushed by, very different from travelling in the car. Leaving our smoke and smuts behind us we dashed on through green fields until we came to the red soil of Devon, with its sheep smeared with the colour, then into the less lush Cornwall.
The cottage was on the North coast but not the bleak and barren part. It was tiny and ancient village of Crantock, just a few stone and thatch cottages and a church, but the memory of it is of the peace of the village and the emptiness of the beach where we were able to swipe at a golf ball without fear of hitting someone.
My uncle was reputed to be keen on photography and certainly had an enormous quarter-plate camera which no doubt was capable of taking excellent photographs must have needed a pantechnicon to carry it around.
He was the up-market brother, whereas my dad was the up-to-date brother and had a little folding roll film camera just for holiday snaps.
18 More tomorrow
There was time to wander while parents were busy, mother shopping and father at work, and every corner of that little town stays clear in my mind. The crumbling cliffs were ideal for climbing and sliding down the dusty gullies if a piece of wood or tin could be found to sit on. Not so good for my white shorts which would acquire an ochre-coloured seat. Resulting in the admonition “You be careful now”. These cliffs were gradually being eroded by the North Sea and from time to time a part of a garden or even a house would go sliding down. The sea defences were made stronger by extension of the hefty concrete promenade towards the south which is still holding up well. A walk along the beach beyond its end soon brought one to the more exclusive resort of Frinton, with its wide green lawns along the cliff tops which was usually visited once or twice during a holiday.
Walton on the Naze Essex
The northern part of Walton was lower without cliffs. The end of the High Street came along to the Front and the road and sea wall went on past a sometimes marshy patch of land beyond which the road went into a scattered little residential area and then dying out. Here the cliffs had risen again at the golf course where an old brick tower stands at the highest point. This provided a pleasant evening stroll which my father and I often took as far as the Naze. Felixstowe could be seen across the water as the land on our side ran back to the muddy tidal backwaters behind the coast.
These backwaters ran right up behind the town and about twenty-five acres of them were cut off from the tides with a dyke and made into a large lake with boats. This was a main attraction of the town to my father and virtually every morning that was fit, he and I would have a sailing dinghy out and sail the seven seas. His father had been a Sea Captain and I am told that only his mother’s insistence had prevented my father going to sea as a young man. As I grew older I was allowed a dinghy to myself and although I was never to become an addict I can understand how others do so. Being regulars and known to the boatman. We were allowed to sail on days when the wind was too strong to risk his dinghies in the hands of strangers and these were the days when it became quite fun.
Walton Mere
The attraction of boats also ruled one of our regular outings during the holiday. We always went at least once to Brightlingsea, a slightly scruffy town famous only for boatyards and shrimp teas. It has always been an ocean racing centre but was not particularly prosperous in those days, there were wonderful boats on offer, at giveaway prices. Needless to say, we didn’t buy one.
We just walked in the sun and looked, ate our shrimp tea and perhaps an ice cream, then trundled back to Walton. At Dedham however, another regular outing we could get a rowing boat on the Stour and glide through Constable’s countryside between the pollarded willows in the soft June sunshine. This was I fear, my father’s holiday, again just he and I went boating but then we were off in the car to Flatford for a strawberry tea amongst the wasps beside the bridge. It is all still there but somehow the rural peace is not the same since everyone sprouted wheels.
All the countryside was more rural as a much smaller number of townsfolk invaded it every weekend. All the corn was cut with a binder of course and stood up in stooks in the field. Until it was cut East Anglia was a mass of red poppies, more beloved by the holidaymaker than the farmer. Farming had been depressed for some years and old cottages were being condemned as unfit for human habitation. It is sad to think it is only the war which brought back a sort of prosperity or at least a brief understanding of the need to grow our own food which now seems to be fading away again.
The thought of the corn takes me back to another little holiday I spent in the countryside. In truth, Mum and Dad wanted a holiday on their own and Lottie took Mary and me for a week to her parents’ cottage in Bocking in Essex, which really was rural. The water came from a long-handled pump outside the back door and the loo was by the wash house in the garden.
It was late summer but any need for light was met by oil lamps and candles. Little did I know that these were the normal facilities for most of rural England and that for many places they would stay unchanged for another thirty years.
It was harvest time and the horse-drawn binder went round and round the field throwing out sheaves and driving the ever-present rabbits into the centre until they made a run for it and someone got rabbit pie for dinner.
Wages were meagre. Food was important, there was rhubarb under the apple tree and more cabbages than roses in the garden. There were plums in the garden too and home-made wine in the kitchen cupboard set into the wall alongside the black kitchen range.
There were no pavements through the village. There was after all virtually no traffic A few yards along the road on the other side from the cottage a path led down to the lazy river with its carpet of water lilies raising their bright yellow flowers above the dark green leaves, A few cows grazed the meadow beside the river avoiding the buttercups and leaving their squelchy traps for the unwary walker behind them.
I didn’t wonder then, what it was like there in the wintertime.
Another little holiday that was different turned up when my Uncle Albert and Aunt Louise were home on leave and was going to spend a little while in a cottage in Cornwall. Their son Frank was a little younger than me, and I was invited to come along so that we could spend some time together.
It was the only long train journey I had taken as a small boy, about ten years old I think, although the steam trains were always rushing past the bottom of our garden at home, I was unimpressed by the train journey.
Once it had chugged out of Paddington the countryside rushed by, very different from travelling in the car. Leaving our smoke and smuts behind us we dashed on through green fields until we came to the red soil of Devon, with its sheep smeared with the colour, then into the less lush Cornwall.
The cottage was on the North coast but not the bleak and barren part. It was tiny and ancient village of Crantock, just a few stone and thatch cottages and a church, but the memory of it is of the peace of the village and the emptiness of the beach where we were able to swipe at a golf ball without fear of hitting someone.
My uncle was reputed to be keen on photography and certainly had an enormous quarter-plate camera which no doubt was capable of taking excellent photographs must have needed a pantechnicon to carry it around.
He was the up-market brother, whereas my dad was the up-to-date brother and had a little folding roll film camera just for holiday snaps.
18 More tomorrow
Extracted from our database today 17th February
1722 - Marriage: John DAY-1833 and Elizabeth LAWES-1834, Wymondham Norfolk England
1799 - Marriage: Matthew LAWS-39944 and Providence NOBBS-39945,
Norwich Norfolk England
1802 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-48439, Saint Ives Huntingdonshire England
(note the chapel halfway across)
1803 - Birth: Leah LAWES-581, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England
1840 - Death: John LAWS-13792, Brownsville, Licking County, Ohio
United States
1847 - Burial: Thomas LAWES-50205, Bristol Gloucestershire England
1850 - Baptism: Sarah Jane FRENCH-4088, Stepney Middlesex England
(Later to marry Edward William Laws my Great Grand Uncle.)
1854 - Birth: John D LAWS-42630, (Power Station Engineer then a
Cellulose Sprayer)
1855 - Marriage: James LAWES-591 (Ag Lab) and Ellen ENSELL-592,
Headley Hampshire England
1855 - Death: Rebecca BROWN-3350, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1864 - Birth: Sarah Mahala LAWS-19158,
1871 - Birth: William John LAWS-34747,
1872 - Death: Calvin A LAWS-7800,
1873 - Birth: Mary Elizabeth PURDUE-32928, Tennessee United States
1874 - Birth: Gordon LAWS-46028, (Journalist Sub)
1876 - Marriage: Shadrack JACKSON-30504 (Coal Miner) and
Anna Hill LAWS-30505, Friern Barnet Middlesex England
1877 - Death: John H LAWS-27223,
1878 - Birth: Isabella Mary LAWES-3107,-3652, Grafton New South Wales Australia
1880 - Birth: Walter Ernest LAWS (Cab Driver) Margate Kent England
1882 - Birth: John Edward (Bricklayer) Folkestone Kent England
1885 - Marriage: Edward George LAWES-48591(Carpenter) and Mary GLENCOCK-48593, Parkstone Dorset England
1892 - Birth: William H LAWES-46095, (Production Control Supervisor)
1895 - Birth: Doris LAWS-40204,
1895 - Birth: Madelaine Grace Mathews WITHERS-16940, (Examiner - Postal Censor) Shrewsbury Shropshire England
1896 - Christen: John Charles LAWS-4478, Southwark Surrey England
1898 - Birth: Oregan C LAWS-16271, (PVT US Army)
1901 - Marriage: William SEAGO-21476 (Cooper) and Maud Ethel LAWS- 8294, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1901 - Birth: Eley L LAWS-40144, Sunnidale. Simcoe Ontario Canada
1901 - Birth: Dorothy (Clerk L.G.O) LAWS-17218, Haswell Durham England
1907 - Birth: Frederick (Plasterer) LAWS-22154, Sheffield West Yorkshire England
1907 - Birth: Hilda Irene LAWS-16130, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1909 - Birth: John Edgar (QX5922 Private in Australian Army) LAWS-12627, Warwick, Queensland Australia
1909 - Birth: John Edgar (QX5922 Private in Australian Army) LAWS-12627, Cowra New South Wales Australia
1911 - Birth: Emily M MOUSLEY-40210,
1911 - Death: Jessie May LAWS-20321, Fulham Middlesex England
1912 - Marriage: Wilfred AUSTEN-49437 and Elfrida Jean (Leger Clerk) LAWS-37965, Beckenham Kent England
1914 - Death: Ellen Maria (Servant) LAWS-14985, Hounslow Middlesex England
1915 - Birth: Alice K A (House Maid) LAWS-47877,
1917 - Burial: Sarah ???-9851, Lutterworth Leicestershire England
1918 - Birth: Elizabeth Jane (Jam Factory Worker) TOLLEY-48573, Paddington Middlesex England
1918 - Birth: Elizabeth Jane LAWS-37247,
1918 - Birth: Violette Milicent Rogerson THOMAS-27922, Kensington Middlesex England
1918 - Burial: Elizabeth Ann (Widow) LAWS-24386, Columbia MO United States
1922 - Birth: Fred (Apprentice Overlooker Winder Reeling) LAWS-42898,
1922 - Death: Lucy (Barmaid) WELLS-7079, Edmonton Middlesex England
1922 - Birth: Eva LAWS-3916,
1923 - Marriage: William Russell (Post Office Pensioner) MOONEY-7080 and May Ann (Supervisor) BRANT-7083, Edmonton Middlesex England
1925 - Birth: Margaret Mary Catherine LAWS-36277, Dandenong Victoria Australia
1925 - Birth: Jeanie Elizabeth HAMILTON-35200, Janesville, Rock County Wisconsin United States
1933 - Birth: Peter Arthur LAWS-35250,
1933 - Birth: Betty Doreen LAWS-21941, Southall Middlesex England
1936 - Death: Henrietta STEWART-29759,
1938 - Death: Frederick John (Commercial Traveller) LAWES-10059, Reading Berkshire England
1938 - Residence: Frederick John (Commercial Traveller) LAWES-10059, Reading Berkshire England
1940 - Birth: Danny LAWS-40650,
1941 - Immigration: Ethel Annie Louise MYER-8356, Buffalo New York United States
1942 - Birth: Bud H LAWS-39893, Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
1944 - Death: John Edward (Bricklayer) LAWS-9366, Folkestone Kent England
1945 - Burial: Rose Evelyn FREEMAN-29364, Christchurch New Zealand
1950 - Burial: Irene Alice LAWS-20341, Ealing Middlesex England
1954 - Birth: Billy Craig LAWS-16501, Statesville, Iredell County North Carolina United States
1954 - Birth: Billy Craig LAWS-16501, Statesville, Iredell County North Carolina United States
1958 - Death: John Dennis (Electrical Engineer) LAWS-42381, Westcliff on Sea Essex England
1960 - Residence: Archibald Sidney (Ag Lab) LAWES-871, Winchester Hampshire England
1961 - Miscellaneous: Arthur B HIGTON-46575,
1961 - Miscellaneous: Edna LAWS-46574,
1962 - Birth: Susan (Cashier) FOSTER-24141, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1962 - Birth: Mari Bess Sue LAWS-18420, Texas United States
1964 - Death: Thomas Henry TULLETT-48787, Sidcup Kent England
1966 - Death: Harriett Lucy (Cook) LAWS-5409, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1973 - Birth: Jennifer LAWS-45532, Blufield West Virginia United States
1974 - Death: Charlie FRAZIER-40714, Bell County, Kentucky, United States
1987 - Birth: Bryce Elliott LAWS-18750, Fort Worth Texas United States
1988 - Burial: John Edwin LAWES-35743, Loxton Wailkerie, South Australia
1989 - Death: Lawrence Douglas LAWS-39792, Strood Kent England
1989 - Death: Rose JUDD-14358,
1989 - Death: Rosie LAWS-14251, Victoria Australia
1991 - Death: Margaret Ellen LAWS-33380, Leicestershire England
1991 - Death: Hubert (PFC US Army) LAWS-16350,
1993 - Burial: Francis Henry (Railway Platelayer) LAWS-27564, Billingham Durham England
1994 - Death: Kenneth Gordon DAVIS-28157,
2007 - Birth: Shannon Judith LAWS-29138, Bath Somerset England
2011 - Death: Lucille FRESQUEZ-41760, Murrieta, CA United States
2011 - Death: Richard Albert LAWS-27807, Darwin Northern Territory Australia
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Extracted from our database today 17th February
1722 - Marriage: John DAY-1833 and Elizabeth LAWES-1834, Wymondham Norfolk England
1799 - Marriage: Matthew LAWS-39944 and Providence NOBBS-39945,
Norwich Norfolk England
1802 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-48439, Saint Ives Huntingdonshire England
(note the chapel halfway across)
1803 - Birth: Leah LAWES-581, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England
1840 - Death: John LAWS-13792, Brownsville, Licking County, Ohio
United States
1847 - Burial: Thomas LAWES-50205, Bristol Gloucestershire England
1850 - Baptism: Sarah Jane FRENCH-4088, Stepney Middlesex England
(Later to marry Edward William Laws my Great Grand Uncle.)
1854 - Birth: John D LAWS-42630, (Power Station Engineer then a
Cellulose Sprayer)
1855 - Marriage: James LAWES-591 (Ag Lab) and Ellen ENSELL-592,
Headley Hampshire England
1855 - Death: Rebecca BROWN-3350, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1864 - Birth: Sarah Mahala LAWS-19158,
1871 - Birth: William John LAWS-34747,
1872 - Death: Calvin A LAWS-7800,
1873 - Birth: Mary Elizabeth PURDUE-32928, Tennessee United States
1874 - Birth: Gordon LAWS-46028, (Journalist Sub)
1876 - Marriage: Shadrack JACKSON-30504 (Coal Miner) and
Anna Hill LAWS-30505, Friern Barnet Middlesex England
1877 - Death: John H LAWS-27223,
1878 - Birth: Isabella Mary LAWES-3107,-3652, Grafton New South Wales Australia
1880 - Birth: Walter Ernest LAWS (Cab Driver) Margate Kent England
1882 - Birth: John Edward (Bricklayer) Folkestone Kent England
1885 - Marriage: Edward George LAWES-48591(Carpenter) and Mary GLENCOCK-48593, Parkstone Dorset England
1892 - Birth: William H LAWES-46095, (Production Control Supervisor)
1895 - Birth: Doris LAWS-40204,
1895 - Birth: Madelaine Grace Mathews WITHERS-16940, (Examiner - Postal Censor) Shrewsbury Shropshire England
1896 - Christen: John Charles LAWS-4478, Southwark Surrey England
1898 - Birth: Oregan C LAWS-16271, (PVT US Army)
1901 - Marriage: William SEAGO-21476 (Cooper) and Maud Ethel LAWS- 8294, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1901 - Birth: Eley L LAWS-40144, Sunnidale. Simcoe Ontario Canada
1901 - Birth: Dorothy (Clerk L.G.O) LAWS-17218, Haswell Durham England
1907 - Birth: Frederick (Plasterer) LAWS-22154, Sheffield West Yorkshire England
1907 - Birth: Hilda Irene LAWS-16130, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1909 - Birth: John Edgar (QX5922 Private in Australian Army) LAWS-12627, Warwick, Queensland Australia
1909 - Birth: John Edgar (QX5922 Private in Australian Army) LAWS-12627, Cowra New South Wales Australia
1911 - Birth: Emily M MOUSLEY-40210,
1911 - Death: Jessie May LAWS-20321, Fulham Middlesex England
1912 - Marriage: Wilfred AUSTEN-49437 and Elfrida Jean (Leger Clerk) LAWS-37965, Beckenham Kent England
1914 - Death: Ellen Maria (Servant) LAWS-14985, Hounslow Middlesex England
1915 - Birth: Alice K A (House Maid) LAWS-47877,
1917 - Burial: Sarah ???-9851, Lutterworth Leicestershire England
1918 - Birth: Elizabeth Jane (Jam Factory Worker) TOLLEY-48573, Paddington Middlesex England
1918 - Birth: Elizabeth Jane LAWS-37247,
1918 - Birth: Violette Milicent Rogerson THOMAS-27922, Kensington Middlesex England
1918 - Burial: Elizabeth Ann (Widow) LAWS-24386, Columbia MO United States
1922 - Birth: Fred (Apprentice Overlooker Winder Reeling) LAWS-42898,
1922 - Death: Lucy (Barmaid) WELLS-7079, Edmonton Middlesex England
1922 - Birth: Eva LAWS-3916,
1923 - Marriage: William Russell (Post Office Pensioner) MOONEY-7080 and May Ann (Supervisor) BRANT-7083, Edmonton Middlesex England
1925 - Birth: Margaret Mary Catherine LAWS-36277, Dandenong Victoria Australia
1925 - Birth: Jeanie Elizabeth HAMILTON-35200, Janesville, Rock County Wisconsin United States
1933 - Birth: Peter Arthur LAWS-35250,
1933 - Birth: Betty Doreen LAWS-21941, Southall Middlesex England
1936 - Death: Henrietta STEWART-29759,
1938 - Death: Frederick John (Commercial Traveller) LAWES-10059, Reading Berkshire England
1938 - Residence: Frederick John (Commercial Traveller) LAWES-10059, Reading Berkshire England
1940 - Birth: Danny LAWS-40650,
1941 - Immigration: Ethel Annie Louise MYER-8356, Buffalo New York United States
1942 - Birth: Bud H LAWS-39893, Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
1944 - Death: John Edward (Bricklayer) LAWS-9366, Folkestone Kent England
1945 - Burial: Rose Evelyn FREEMAN-29364, Christchurch New Zealand
1950 - Burial: Irene Alice LAWS-20341, Ealing Middlesex England
1954 - Birth: Billy Craig LAWS-16501, Statesville, Iredell County North Carolina United States
1954 - Birth: Billy Craig LAWS-16501, Statesville, Iredell County North Carolina United States
1958 - Death: John Dennis (Electrical Engineer) LAWS-42381, Westcliff on Sea Essex England
1960 - Residence: Archibald Sidney (Ag Lab) LAWES-871, Winchester Hampshire England
1961 - Miscellaneous: Arthur B HIGTON-46575,
1961 - Miscellaneous: Edna LAWS-46574,
1962 - Birth: Susan (Cashier) FOSTER-24141, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1962 - Birth: Mari Bess Sue LAWS-18420, Texas United States
1964 - Death: Thomas Henry TULLETT-48787, Sidcup Kent England
1966 - Death: Harriett Lucy (Cook) LAWS-5409, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1973 - Birth: Jennifer LAWS-45532, Blufield West Virginia United States
1974 - Death: Charlie FRAZIER-40714, Bell County, Kentucky, United States
1987 - Birth: Bryce Elliott LAWS-18750, Fort Worth Texas United States
1988 - Burial: John Edwin LAWES-35743, Loxton Wailkerie, South Australia
1989 - Death: Lawrence Douglas LAWS-39792, Strood Kent England
1989 - Death: Rose JUDD-14358,
1989 - Death: Rosie LAWS-14251, Victoria Australia
1991 - Death: Margaret Ellen LAWS-33380, Leicestershire England
1991 - Death: Hubert (PFC US Army) LAWS-16350,
1993 - Burial: Francis Henry (Railway Platelayer) LAWS-27564, Billingham Durham England
1994 - Death: Kenneth Gordon DAVIS-28157,
2007 - Birth: Shannon Judith LAWS-29138, Bath Somerset England
2011 - Death: Lucille FRESQUEZ-41760, Murrieta, CA United States
2011 - Death: Richard Albert LAWS-27807, Darwin Northern Territory Australia
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Sharon Nicola LAWS
2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc
1974-2017
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Sharon Nicola LAWS
2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc
1974-2017
R I P
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It is always advised that you consult original records.
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www.cheesee-peasee.com
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"This organization recognizes:-
The United Nations' International Decade for People of
African Descent 2015-2024
We reach out to all regardless of race, colour, creed, or orientation.
Remember - We are all one family
Remember - We are all one family
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