WELCOME TO THE
LAWS FAMILY REGISTER
WELCOME TO THE
LAWS FAMILY REGISTER
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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 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 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.
Henry Lawes
1595-1662
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A Child of the Twenties
A suburban childhood of the Twenties
seen from the Nineteen Nineties
by
John Robert Laws FICA 1921-2008
SPORT
Chapter 12
The large playing field had room for several football and hockey pitches or for cricket in summer as well as grass tennis courts. Sport was encouraged and every Saturday morning there were a big turnout of teams to compete with other schools.
I was no good at football and played in the fifth eleven which regularly lost by astronomical scores. Cricket was a little better and I reached the second eleven without any great success.
The one sport that interested me was swimming. Having learnt to swim at elementary school, I continued to enjoy it and as the years went by more and more public pools opened up. The first one I used was the old indoor pool at Wood Green.
I do not know when this one was opened but my mum & dad had used it before my time. I first used it before I could swim properly and I was so small that the water in the shallow end came up to my chin. Being an indoor pool it was heated. The only other indoor heated pool I came across was somewhere in Tottenham, where I went and swam in an inter-school gala, the details of which escape me.
The first of the ‘new’ open-air pools was the Hornsey pool situated between Crouch end and ‘Ally Pally’. It was fine in the summer sunshine and Harry and I used it a few times before we moved away from Wightman Road. After that, we cycled out at weekends to the new pool at Enfield which was more spacious, after swimming we cycled back more slowly with protesting muscles.
Having moved to Southgate, most of my swimming was done in the open-air pool at Barrowell Green. This was an old pool and a little cramped but I spent many happy hours there (instead of doing my homework). The pool was supposed to get a bit of heat from the dust destructor furnace next door but this must have been minimal as the temperature in the early part of the season was often 60-61F,
All our school swimming was at this pool and we could get cheap tickets at school (one old penny) for use out of school hours. Unless it was raining, when you could have the pool almost to yourself, there was always a crowd of school friends there, sunning, swimming, fooling and flirting.
It was a sign of the changing times in the thirties that while this old pool had no car park, just a cramped bicycle area, the new pool at Enfield had a large car park. The latest pool completed in my schooldays was at New Southgate in Durnsford Road. This was the only one I knew with full height high diving boards. This kept the pool noticeably colder than the others and it did not become popular except in very hot weather
Henry Lawes
1595-1662
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A Child of the Twenties
A suburban childhood of the Twenties
seen from the Nineteen Nineties
by
John Robert Laws FICA 1921-2008
SPORT
Chapter 12
The large playing field had room for several football and hockey pitches or for cricket in summer as well as grass tennis courts. Sport was encouraged and every Saturday morning there were a big turnout of teams to compete with other schools.
I was no good at football and played in the fifth eleven which regularly lost by astronomical scores. Cricket was a little better and I reached the second eleven without any great success.
The one sport that interested me was swimming. Having learnt to swim at elementary school, I continued to enjoy it and as the years went by more and more public pools opened up. The first one I used was the old indoor pool at Wood Green.
I do not know when this one was opened but my mum & dad had used it before my time. I first used it before I could swim properly and I was so small that the water in the shallow end came up to my chin. Being an indoor pool it was heated. The only other indoor heated pool I came across was somewhere in Tottenham, where I went and swam in an inter-school gala, the details of which escape me.
The first of the ‘new’ open-air pools was the Hornsey pool situated between Crouch end and ‘Ally Pally’. It was fine in the summer sunshine and Harry and I used it a few times before we moved away from Wightman Road. After that, we cycled out at weekends to the new pool at Enfield which was more spacious, after swimming we cycled back more slowly with protesting muscles.
Having moved to Southgate, most of my swimming was done in the open-air pool at Barrowell Green. This was an old pool and a little cramped but I spent many happy hours there (instead of doing my homework). The pool was supposed to get a bit of heat from the dust destructor furnace next door but this must have been minimal as the temperature in the early part of the season was often 60-61F,
All our school swimming was at this pool and we could get cheap tickets at school (one old penny) for use out of school hours. Unless it was raining, when you could have the pool almost to yourself, there was always a crowd of school friends there, sunning, swimming, fooling and flirting.
It was a sign of the changing times in the thirties that while this old pool had no car park, just a cramped bicycle area, the new pool at Enfield had a large car park. The latest pool completed in my schooldays was at New Southgate in Durnsford Road. This was the only one I knew with full height high diving boards. This kept the pool noticeably colder than the others and it did not become popular except in very hot weather
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Extracted from our Database today
Extracted from our Database today
Friday 21st August 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1768 - Marriage: William LAWS-42038 (Widower) and Mary WILKINSON- 42039, (Widow) Newington Surrey England
1809 - Marriage: William Ryott LAWS-33719 (Farmer & Agent 226 Acres &
employing 6 men) and Sarah JOHNSON-33749, Ovingham Northumberland England
1813 - Marriage: William GRAY-11514 and Mary Ann LAWS-11515, Norwich
Norfolk England
1814 - Birth: John Thomas LAWES-12572, (Shepherd) Bower Chalke
Wiltshire England
1831 - Baptism: Thomas CLEGG-25282, Manchester Lancashire England
(My wife's 2nd Great Grand Uncle)
1831 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-6908, (Coal Miner) Byker Northumberland England Baptism Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1835 - Death: Charlotte STILL-30254,
1836 - Marriage: William WRIGHT-22522 and Priscilla LAWS-22518,
1842 - Birth: M L LAWS-23025, (Reverend )Accomac County Virginia
United States
1845 - Birth: Elizabeth LAWES-1203, Cambridge Cambridgeshire England
1846 - Birth: Martha Amelia GOLDSMITH-18989, Brighton Sussex England
1849 - Birth: Henry LAWS-25932, Saint George Hanover Square Middlesex England
1851 - Marriage: Charles William LAWS-31352 (Merchants Clerk/Ship Agent) and Caroline Elizabeth Kett PUNCHER-31353, Stepney Middlesex England
1856 - Marriage: Robert LAWS-13627 (Cabinet Maker) and Isabella CORMACK-45407, Old Machar, Aberdeen Aberdeenshire England
1861 - Occupation: Thomas Francis Cresswell LAWS-26602, (Ships Steerage Steward)
1879 - Birth: Josephine Martin LAWS-50577,
1879 - Birth: Thomas M LAWES-43961, (Public Works Labourer)
1882 - Marriage: William Lynn LAWS-6252 (Greengrocer) and Lydia STERNES
-36352, Leyton Essex England
1884 - Marriage: Marion M LAWS-49545 and Sara Alice HARRISON-49546, Dearborn County Indiana United States
1887 - Death: Edward William LAWS-9949, (1st Mate Master Mariner) Whitechapel Middlesex England
1892 - Birth: Amelia Elizabeth LAWS-47781,
1897 - Burial: Ada Kathleen LAWS-49265, (Infant 5 mths old) Folkestone Kent England
1897 - Birth: Harold LAWS-42896, (Fitter-Motor Engineer)
1897 - Birth: John Joseph LAWS-14363, Woollahra New South Wales Australia
1906 - Birth: Lillian Jean BROWN-17032, Renfrew, Northern District
Ontario Canada
1907 - Birth: Harold A LAWES-46842, (Brass Moulder)
1908 - Birth: Kathleen Edith SEXTON-19921, Shepherds Bush Middlesex England
1910 - Birth: Jane POW-13397, Durham Durham England
1911 - Marriage: Walter Henry LAWS-37941 and Lillian BARLOW-37942, Wentworth Ontario Canada
1912 - Birth: Ernest William LAWES-25308, (Bakers Car Roundsman)
Broome Norfolk England
1913 - Birth: Dorothy DODDS-47292, (Domestic Servant)
1913 - Death: Edward Bowen LAWES-789, (Solicitor) Bromley Middlesex England
1914 - Death: Enid LAWES-49691, Keighley West Yorkshire England
1916 - Birth: Norma Mary RYAN-20691, Colac Victoria Australia
1916 - Death: Robert William Laws CHAMBERS-16899, (Draftsman) Pozieres, France
1917 - Birth: Hazel TRIVETTE-50258,
11922 - Burial: Arthur LAWS-14960, Aff Puddle Dorset England
1927 - Birth: Helen Joy MILLER-28361, Thackerville Oklahoma United States
1928 - Birth: Ethel Margaret LAWS-46377,
1928 - Death: William LAWES-2338, Borden Kent England
1929 - Departure: Claude Douglas LAWES-40523, (Machine Parts Salesman) to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1931 - Birth: Elmore Bennett LAWS-16312, (T Sgt US Air Force)
1933 - Death: Ann Knaggs BARNARD-5138, York County Hospital
North Yorkshire England
1935 - Death: Mary Elizabeth LAWS-20049,
1936 - Birth: James Robinson LAWS-49318, Northumberland South, England
1937 - Death: Isabella Christie LAWS-44088, (Professional Actress) Trefula House, Saint Day, Cornwall England (disputed year with 1947)
1942 - Marriage: Ralph Henry WINDOFFER-51228 (Tinner) and Lena Irene LAWS-51227, Quincy, Illinois, United States
1942 - Residence: Oscar Lee LAWS-38782, (Fireman) Morganton
North Carolina United States
1942 - Residence: Oree BAKER-38781, Valdese, Burke, North Carolina,
United States
1942 - Enlistment: Lee LAWS-38780, (US Army Air Force Corporal)
Columbus Mississippi United States
1945 - Miscellaneous: Julia GRIMANI-13962, (Dressmaker on own account)
(My paternal first cousin twice removed)
1947 - Death: Isabella Christie LAWS-44088, (Professional Actress) St. Day, Redruth, Cornwall England (disputed year with 1937)
1959 - Death: Mary Jane BELL-28409, Northumberland South, England
1978 - Death: Victor Emmanuel LAWES-24045, Jeparit Victoria Australia
1980 - Death: Hildegarde ELLERO-LAWS-34687,
1985 - Death: Barbara Eleanor LAWS-51566, San Mateo California United States
1996 - Probate: Harold Burnett LAWS-35865, (Horseman on Farm)
Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1996 - Probate: Alfred George Charles LAWS-33043, (Radio Coms Engineer) Bristol Gloucestershire England
2003 - Burial: Nancy Cecelia VAN DUREN-11860, Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery Wisconsin United States
2017 - Death: Christy Lynn LAWS-44838, Ravanna Los Angeles California United States
MORE TOMORROW
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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
Friday 21st August 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1768 - Marriage: William LAWS-42038 (Widower) and Mary WILKINSON- 42039, (Widow) Newington Surrey England
1809 - Marriage: William Ryott LAWS-33719 (Farmer & Agent 226 Acres &
employing 6 men) and Sarah JOHNSON-33749, Ovingham Northumberland England
1813 - Marriage: William GRAY-11514 and Mary Ann LAWS-11515, Norwich
Norfolk England
1814 - Birth: John Thomas LAWES-12572, (Shepherd) Bower Chalke
Wiltshire England
1831 - Baptism: Thomas CLEGG-25282, Manchester Lancashire England
(My wife's 2nd Great Grand Uncle)
1831 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-6908, (Coal Miner) Byker Northumberland England Baptism Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1835 - Death: Charlotte STILL-30254,
1836 - Marriage: William WRIGHT-22522 and Priscilla LAWS-22518,
1842 - Birth: M L LAWS-23025, (Reverend )Accomac County Virginia
United States
1845 - Birth: Elizabeth LAWES-1203, Cambridge Cambridgeshire England
1846 - Birth: Martha Amelia GOLDSMITH-18989, Brighton Sussex England
1849 - Birth: Henry LAWS-25932, Saint George Hanover Square Middlesex England
1851 - Marriage: Charles William LAWS-31352 (Merchants Clerk/Ship Agent) and Caroline Elizabeth Kett PUNCHER-31353, Stepney Middlesex England
1856 - Marriage: Robert LAWS-13627 (Cabinet Maker) and Isabella CORMACK-45407, Old Machar, Aberdeen Aberdeenshire England
1861 - Occupation: Thomas Francis Cresswell LAWS-26602, (Ships Steerage Steward)
1879 - Birth: Josephine Martin LAWS-50577,
1879 - Birth: Thomas M LAWES-43961, (Public Works Labourer)
1882 - Marriage: William Lynn LAWS-6252 (Greengrocer) and Lydia STERNES
-36352, Leyton Essex England
1884 - Marriage: Marion M LAWS-49545 and Sara Alice HARRISON-49546, Dearborn County Indiana United States
1887 - Death: Edward William LAWS-9949, (1st Mate Master Mariner) Whitechapel Middlesex England
1892 - Birth: Amelia Elizabeth LAWS-47781,
1897 - Burial: Ada Kathleen LAWS-49265, (Infant 5 mths old) Folkestone Kent England
1897 - Birth: Harold LAWS-42896, (Fitter-Motor Engineer)
1897 - Birth: John Joseph LAWS-14363, Woollahra New South Wales Australia
1906 - Birth: Lillian Jean BROWN-17032, Renfrew, Northern District
Ontario Canada
1907 - Birth: Harold A LAWES-46842, (Brass Moulder)
1908 - Birth: Kathleen Edith SEXTON-19921, Shepherds Bush Middlesex England
1910 - Birth: Jane POW-13397, Durham Durham England
1911 - Marriage: Walter Henry LAWS-37941 and Lillian BARLOW-37942, Wentworth Ontario Canada
1912 - Birth: Ernest William LAWES-25308, (Bakers Car Roundsman)
Broome Norfolk England
1913 - Birth: Dorothy DODDS-47292, (Domestic Servant)
1913 - Death: Edward Bowen LAWES-789, (Solicitor) Bromley Middlesex England
1914 - Death: Enid LAWES-49691, Keighley West Yorkshire England
1916 - Birth: Norma Mary RYAN-20691, Colac Victoria Australia
1916 - Death: Robert William Laws CHAMBERS-16899, (Draftsman) Pozieres, France
1917 - Birth: Hazel TRIVETTE-50258,
11922 - Burial: Arthur LAWS-14960, Aff Puddle Dorset England
1927 - Birth: Helen Joy MILLER-28361, Thackerville Oklahoma United States
1928 - Birth: Ethel Margaret LAWS-46377,
1928 - Death: William LAWES-2338, Borden Kent England
1929 - Departure: Claude Douglas LAWES-40523, (Machine Parts Salesman) to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1931 - Birth: Elmore Bennett LAWS-16312, (T Sgt US Air Force)
1933 - Death: Ann Knaggs BARNARD-5138, York County Hospital
North Yorkshire England
1935 - Death: Mary Elizabeth LAWS-20049,
1936 - Birth: James Robinson LAWS-49318, Northumberland South, England
1937 - Death: Isabella Christie LAWS-44088, (Professional Actress) Trefula House, Saint Day, Cornwall England (disputed year with 1947)
1942 - Marriage: Ralph Henry WINDOFFER-51228 (Tinner) and Lena Irene LAWS-51227, Quincy, Illinois, United States
1942 - Residence: Oscar Lee LAWS-38782, (Fireman) Morganton
North Carolina United States
1942 - Residence: Oree BAKER-38781, Valdese, Burke, North Carolina,
United States
1942 - Enlistment: Lee LAWS-38780, (US Army Air Force Corporal)
Columbus Mississippi United States
1945 - Miscellaneous: Julia GRIMANI-13962, (Dressmaker on own account)
(My paternal first cousin twice removed)
1947 - Death: Isabella Christie LAWS-44088, (Professional Actress) St. Day, Redruth, Cornwall England (disputed year with 1937)
1959 - Death: Mary Jane BELL-28409, Northumberland South, England
1978 - Death: Victor Emmanuel LAWES-24045, Jeparit Victoria Australia
1980 - Death: Hildegarde ELLERO-LAWS-34687,
1985 - Death: Barbara Eleanor LAWS-51566, San Mateo California United States
1996 - Probate: Harold Burnett LAWS-35865, (Horseman on Farm)
Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1996 - Probate: Alfred George Charles LAWS-33043, (Radio Coms Engineer) Bristol Gloucestershire England
2003 - Burial: Nancy Cecelia VAN DUREN-11860, Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery Wisconsin United States
2017 - Death: Christy Lynn LAWS-44838, Ravanna Los Angeles California United States
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Dear Ancestor,-
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone
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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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
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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton'
my paternal Great Grandfather
Barque 'Woolhampton'
This is Robert Henry's Wife
Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller
My paternal Great Grandmother
1846-1924
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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton'
my paternal Great Grandfather
Barque 'Woolhampton'
This is Robert Henry's Wife
Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller
My paternal Great Grandmother
1846-1924
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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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PLEASE NOTE
PLEASE NOTE
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.
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If you are seeking to find folk after these years you should contact the registrar.
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With grateful thanks to Simon Knott
for his permission to reproduce his photographs on this site
see
http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk
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.
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
You can e-mail us with your questions,
lawsfhs@gmail.com
Remember
We are all one family
You can e-mail us with your questions,
lawsfhs@gmail.com
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