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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Henry Lawes
1595-1662
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A suburban childhood of the Twenties
As seen from the Nineteen Nineties
By John Robert Laws FICA 1921-2008
Part 9
INNOVATIONS
Besides cars, the other result of the internal combustion engine was the increasing number of aircraft in the sky. With development forced ahead of WWI they had now become a practicable though expensive form of transport. Small air shows with two or three small aeroplanes would tour the summer holiday resorts seeking oSCHOOLut a suitable field to set up their circus. They would offer a quick circuit of the town at five bob a go and give a little show of aerobatics. With a small charge for admission to the field they struggles on for a few years before going broke or in a very few cases managed to get an airline or charter business going.
As well as these little efforts, the RAF put up an annual show at Hendon which was very impressive at the time though very small beer by today’s standards. In my late schooldays I went there on my bike and found a hillside field overlooking the aerodrome where one could see it all for free. The highlight of the show was a low wing monoplane, probably a prototype Hurricane which came through a shallow dive at over three hundred miles an hour. There were still ten years to wait for the first jet engines.
Another lusty industry of my early years was the cinema. The silent screen with its overworked pianist trying to provide theme music was just beginning to give way to the ‘talkies’. Charlie Chaplin carried on without a word eating his boots in ‘The Gold rush’ but the soundtrack was with us and although it all continued to be black and white the musical was on its way and the cinema was moving into its few decades of boom years. One of the more treasured toys of my under ten years was a movie projector and its few cans of film. It had no motor and had to be cranked by hand, like the early movie cameras, but it was well made and worked well. The was no eight millimetre then and it used the full size 35mm so the films were short and ran perhaps five or ten minutes. I knew them all off by heart before long but this did not detract from the fascination of something that actually worked.
Although the early thirties were just crawling out of depression there were more large houses being built than cheap semis. The extension to the Piccadilly Line of the Underground railway to Enfield West now called Oakwood, and then to Cockfosters which influenced our move to Southgate was an important event. Free tickets to try it out were given out to all households in the catchment area. A building project which interested me more was however the new ice rink at Harringay was. It was after we had moved to Southgate when I was able to get there, but Harry and I became regulars. Being already able to roller skate made it much easier to get going on ice though not without a few tumbles. At one of our first visits we were offered free admission to the evening ice hockey if we would take part in a farcical match with brooms and a football in the interval of the ice hockey. We accepted of course and I seem to remember it brought the house down. Next Monday a school I found that I had been observed was asked why I had been acting the clown.
Innovations in materials were less noticeable than other major changes but nonetheless on the way with enormous potential. Plywood soon replaced solid panels in all but the most expensive furniture. A brief reign of a few decades before chipboard came, bring back the use of veneering which had existed a couple of hundred years earlier. In our old fashioned furniture the wood was solid and in our kitchen the knives were sharp, made before the new stainless steel became de rigour for cutlery. They had to be cleaned of course and the knife cleaner, a wooden machine with rotary brushes turned with a cast iron handle stood in the kitchen with its tin of abrasive powder nearby. There was no plastic except celluloid which was highly inflammable and used for little except toys, and ebonite which was used for a while in electrical goods. Even the plug tops for our new electric points were ceramic. Cooking pots and saucepans were iron, vitreous enamel or copper, aluminium on the way for a few years later and stainless steel way in the future. Plastic bags were a blessing yet to come. This means that few groceries were pre-packed, the grocer weighed out your biscuits from a large tin into a paper bag and the broken ones were sold off cheap.
The school was less than a quarter of a mile away. Between parallel side roads of late-nineteenth-century houses, an oblong block held the separate buildings of the infant school, the Elementary school and the Grammar school. It was a gently sloping site with the New River flowing south along the upper western boundary bringing drinking water to London from Hertford.
The infants’ school was between the other two and shared an asphalt playground with the girls of the Elementary school. The boys of the elementary school had their playground facing the other road, firmly separated from the girls by a high brick wall on either side of which were built the children’s loos.
The Grammar school was on the downhill side of the block, separated from the rest by a foot passage which ran parallel to the High Street through all the side roads. The iron railings around the school were set in strong brick piers and gated in the same style, a line of Plane trees were well established and were as un-climbable and as sturdy as the railings themselves.
The buildings were no-nonsense and built to last. Plenty of glazed brick and most lower walls of dark colour. Classrooms were built to hold about thirty and the desks and seat all-in-one in pairs.
The first day at school sticks in the memory. It was the first real contact with kids in the mass and the first contact with any authority other than parental. At that time there were no nursery schools or crèches as mothers, nor indeed, didn’t married women in general, go out to work. I started school a month or two after I was five with the worst of the winter out of the way. Mother took me and the Headmistress saw us, having established her identity she passed me over to the class teacher to absorb into the mass. The teacher kept me with her during the morning assembly then brought me into the class, found me a desk, it cannot have been very traumatic as the rest has faded away.
Our lessons as infants were the three R’s punctuated with drawing and games. The alphabet and tables were chanted in unison. We wrote and made our drawings in chalk on pint-sized blackboards which slotted into the front of the desks. Some kids were bright and some kids were dim but everyone learnt; there were no options on offer. Before long we graduated to pen and ink writing in exercise books with inky fingers, scratchy pens and inkblots. Ink was still king and ballpoint easy scribble still twenty years ahead.
School dinners were also twenty years in the future. All kids walked home for their dinners and back for the afternoon school. School milk started however in my first year or two at school. The little third of a pint bottles turned up in the morning break and there was much bubbling noise as the last drop was sucked up through the straws.
On the other side of the road from school was the Primitive Methodist church where I went, reluctantly and intermittently, to Sunday school. Mum and Dad did not go to church but Sunday school was the one thing in those days so I went for a while though they did not insist when I opted out. All that sticks in my mind is a Harvest Festival where I had been inveigled into reading a poem about a windmill. It was the only time I saw my mother in a church until I got married.
When we moved into the junior section of the Elementary School, the horizons of our lessons broadened to include history geography & some science. There was now an objective in front of us, the entrance exam for the Grammar schools which were themselves the first step towards better-paid jobs further ahead. Classes were now divided by ability into A, B and C and school reports began to arrive, largely designed I suspect simply to prod all and sundry to greater effort. I believe the teaching must have been good though it was a bit double-edged for me. The first year in Grammar school had nearly all been done before and the need to work faded.
At the elementary school, there was no sports field but we managed to have a Sports Day at a ground near Muswell Hill. How everyone got there remains a mystery but the sun shone, there were sack races, egg and spoon races and mums races and a good time was had by all. Running was never a favourite pastime for me it was only done when unavoidable. Swimming was another matter however and we were lucky in that there was a swimming pool in the basement of the grammar school next door. Here we were permitted a Saturday morning class for a dozen or so and I achieved the great heights of a certificate to say I could swim fifty yards.
.
A suburban childhood of the Twenties
As seen from the Nineteen Nineties
By John Robert Laws FICA 1921-2008
Part 9
INNOVATIONS
Besides cars, the other result of the internal combustion engine was the increasing number of aircraft in the sky. With development forced ahead of WWI they had now become a practicable though expensive form of transport. Small air shows with two or three small aeroplanes would tour the summer holiday resorts seeking oSCHOOLut a suitable field to set up their circus. They would offer a quick circuit of the town at five bob a go and give a little show of aerobatics. With a small charge for admission to the field they struggles on for a few years before going broke or in a very few cases managed to get an airline or charter business going.
As well as these little efforts, the RAF put up an annual show at Hendon which was very impressive at the time though very small beer by today’s standards. In my late schooldays I went there on my bike and found a hillside field overlooking the aerodrome where one could see it all for free. The highlight of the show was a low wing monoplane, probably a prototype Hurricane which came through a shallow dive at over three hundred miles an hour. There were still ten years to wait for the first jet engines.
Another lusty industry of my early years was the cinema. The silent screen with its overworked pianist trying to provide theme music was just beginning to give way to the ‘talkies’. Charlie Chaplin carried on without a word eating his boots in ‘The Gold rush’ but the soundtrack was with us and although it all continued to be black and white the musical was on its way and the cinema was moving into its few decades of boom years. One of the more treasured toys of my under ten years was a movie projector and its few cans of film. It had no motor and had to be cranked by hand, like the early movie cameras, but it was well made and worked well. The was no eight millimetre then and it used the full size 35mm so the films were short and ran perhaps five or ten minutes. I knew them all off by heart before long but this did not detract from the fascination of something that actually worked.
Although the early thirties were just crawling out of depression there were more large houses being built than cheap semis. The extension to the Piccadilly Line of the Underground railway to Enfield West now called Oakwood, and then to Cockfosters which influenced our move to Southgate was an important event. Free tickets to try it out were given out to all households in the catchment area. A building project which interested me more was however the new ice rink at Harringay was. It was after we had moved to Southgate when I was able to get there, but Harry and I became regulars. Being already able to roller skate made it much easier to get going on ice though not without a few tumbles. At one of our first visits we were offered free admission to the evening ice hockey if we would take part in a farcical match with brooms and a football in the interval of the ice hockey. We accepted of course and I seem to remember it brought the house down. Next Monday a school I found that I had been observed was asked why I had been acting the clown.
Innovations in materials were less noticeable than other major changes but nonetheless on the way with enormous potential. Plywood soon replaced solid panels in all but the most expensive furniture. A brief reign of a few decades before chipboard came, bring back the use of veneering which had existed a couple of hundred years earlier. In our old fashioned furniture the wood was solid and in our kitchen the knives were sharp, made before the new stainless steel became de rigour for cutlery. They had to be cleaned of course and the knife cleaner, a wooden machine with rotary brushes turned with a cast iron handle stood in the kitchen with its tin of abrasive powder nearby. There was no plastic except celluloid which was highly inflammable and used for little except toys, and ebonite which was used for a while in electrical goods. Even the plug tops for our new electric points were ceramic. Cooking pots and saucepans were iron, vitreous enamel or copper, aluminium on the way for a few years later and stainless steel way in the future. Plastic bags were a blessing yet to come. This means that few groceries were pre-packed, the grocer weighed out your biscuits from a large tin into a paper bag and the broken ones were sold off cheap.
The school was less than a quarter of a mile away. Between parallel side roads of late-nineteenth-century houses, an oblong block held the separate buildings of the infant school, the Elementary school and the Grammar school. It was a gently sloping site with the New River flowing south along the upper western boundary bringing drinking water to London from Hertford.
The infants’ school was between the other two and shared an asphalt playground with the girls of the Elementary school. The boys of the elementary school had their playground facing the other road, firmly separated from the girls by a high brick wall on either side of which were built the children’s loos.
The Grammar school was on the downhill side of the block, separated from the rest by a foot passage which ran parallel to the High Street through all the side roads. The iron railings around the school were set in strong brick piers and gated in the same style, a line of Plane trees were well established and were as un-climbable and as sturdy as the railings themselves.
The buildings were no-nonsense and built to last. Plenty of glazed brick and most lower walls of dark colour. Classrooms were built to hold about thirty and the desks and seat all-in-one in pairs.
The first day at school sticks in the memory. It was the first real contact with kids in the mass and the first contact with any authority other than parental. At that time there were no nursery schools or crèches as mothers, nor indeed, didn’t married women in general, go out to work. I started school a month or two after I was five with the worst of the winter out of the way. Mother took me and the Headmistress saw us, having established her identity she passed me over to the class teacher to absorb into the mass. The teacher kept me with her during the morning assembly then brought me into the class, found me a desk, it cannot have been very traumatic as the rest has faded away.
Our lessons as infants were the three R’s punctuated with drawing and games. The alphabet and tables were chanted in unison. We wrote and made our drawings in chalk on pint-sized blackboards which slotted into the front of the desks. Some kids were bright and some kids were dim but everyone learnt; there were no options on offer. Before long we graduated to pen and ink writing in exercise books with inky fingers, scratchy pens and inkblots. Ink was still king and ballpoint easy scribble still twenty years ahead.
School dinners were also twenty years in the future. All kids walked home for their dinners and back for the afternoon school. School milk started however in my first year or two at school. The little third of a pint bottles turned up in the morning break and there was much bubbling noise as the last drop was sucked up through the straws.
On the other side of the road from school was the Primitive Methodist church where I went, reluctantly and intermittently, to Sunday school. Mum and Dad did not go to church but Sunday school was the one thing in those days so I went for a while though they did not insist when I opted out. All that sticks in my mind is a Harvest Festival where I had been inveigled into reading a poem about a windmill. It was the only time I saw my mother in a church until I got married.
When we moved into the junior section of the Elementary School, the horizons of our lessons broadened to include history geography & some science. There was now an objective in front of us, the entrance exam for the Grammar schools which were themselves the first step towards better-paid jobs further ahead. Classes were now divided by ability into A, B and C and school reports began to arrive, largely designed I suspect simply to prod all and sundry to greater effort. I believe the teaching must have been good though it was a bit double-edged for me. The first year in Grammar school had nearly all been done before and the need to work faded.
At the elementary school, there was no sports field but we managed to have a Sports Day at a ground near Muswell Hill. How everyone got there remains a mystery but the sun shone, there were sack races, egg and spoon races and mums races and a good time was had by all. Running was never a favourite pastime for me it was only done when unavoidable. Swimming was another matter however and we were lucky in that there was a swimming pool in the basement of the grammar school next door. Here we were permitted a Saturday morning class for a dozen or so and I achieved the great heights of a certificate to say I could swim fifty yards.
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Extracted from our Database today
Extracted from our Database today
Monday17th August 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1658 - Marriage: Cuthbert CALLOW-1378 and Ann LAWES-1379,
Norwich Norfolk England
1746 - Baptism: Martha LAWS-38515, Stepney Middlesex England
1747 - Burial: Anne LAWS-30482, Rotherhithe Surrey England
1786 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-23598, Feltwell Norfolk England
1790 - Marriage: James LAWS-10659 and Ann BONE-10660, Beetley Norfolk England
1799 - Marriage: Thomas LAWS-10926 and Jane RIGGS-21982, Orange County North Carolina United States
1803 - Death: Hanna LAWES-20741, Homington Wiltshire England
1811 - Birth: Susan LAWES-927, Fincham Norfolk England
1816 - Death: Ann SILVERS-3334, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1823 - Birth: James Loudon GORDON-33806, (Town Clerk) Brechin Angus Scotland
1834 - Baptism: Emily Jane LAWS-13959, (Dressmaker) Stepney Middlesex England
1834 - Christen: Samuel LAWES-2566, Clapham Surrey England
1838 - Baptism: John LAWS-13961, Stepney Middlesex England
1851 - Baptism: James William LAWS-32795, (Boot Maker) Bungay Suffolk England
1851 - Baptism: Elizabeth A LAWS-25848, (Servant) Bungay Suffolk England
1851 - Birth: William Henry LAWS-14841, (House Builder/Decorator)
Chelsea Middlesex England
1851 - Baptism: Martha Ann LAWS-14793, (Silk Winder) Bungay Suffolk England
1853 - Death: William Ryott LAWS-33719, (Farmer & Agent 226 Acres 6 men) Dunoon Argyllshire Scotland
1853 - Birth: Thomas Henry ROWELL-17055, (Tin Plate Worker) Brighton Sussex England
1854 - Christen: William Charles FAUX-8502, (Jobbing Gardener)
1855 - Birth: Sarah Jane BARNES-6351, Corby Lincolnshire England
1862 - Birth: Eleanor Maud LAWES-249,
1865 - Birth: Richard LAWS-8548, (Coal Miner retired) Durham Durham England
1874 - Birth: Charles James LAWS-4663, (Cutter Ladies Tailoring) Peckham Surrey England
1875 - Birth: Francis Timothy LAWS-3464, (Builders Cost Clerk)
1876 - Death: Mary Treen LAWS-3106,
1878 - Birth: Ira Eugene LAWS-12367, Catlett, Fauquier County, Virginia
United States
1880 - Birth: Violet HEALE-243,
1886 - Birth: Alvin Leonard LAWS-41777,
1887 - Birth: George William LAWS-28220, (Army Private 7488)
Tottenham Middlesex England
1889 - Birth: Annie Maud LAWS-29599,(Elementary Schoolteacher)
Rishton Lancashire England
1890 - Birth: Lily LAWS-17228, Tottenham Middlesex England
1891 - Birth: Eliza Mary Eleanor LAWS-3629, Millers Waterhole, Ferndale, Grafton, New South Wales Australia
1892 - Birth: Alice Isabella LAWS-3630, Grafton New South Wales Australia
1893 - Birth: Joseph W LAWS-43458, (Coal Miner) Leadgate Durham England
1893 - Birth: Elsie Ada LAWS-33456, (Training For Domestic Service) Hornington Wiltshire England
1894 - Miscellaneous: Mary CRANE-14614,
1894 - Miscellaneous: William King LAWS-5990, (Army Pensioner)
1896 - Birth: Edith Sarah LAWS-RANDALL-47842, Walthamstow Essex England
1896 - Birth: Edith Louise LAWS-3416, Smallburgh Norfolk England
1897 - Death: Arthur James (Infant 15 mths) LAWS-16812, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1901 - Birth: William Jesse LAWES-21756, (RN Petty Officer P/J 94221) Britford Wiltshire England
1904 - Death: Charles Lewis ROPER-29782, Chanut Kansas United States
1904 - Birth: Florence May LAWES-27965, Bishops Waltham Hampshire England
1907 - Birth: Alfie Agnes JOHNSON-11003, Austin Travis County Texas
United States
1908 - Death: Marshall S P LAWS-39588, Boston Massachusetts United States
1912 - Marriage: Robert Henry LAWS-7032 (Company Secretary)
and
Daisy Ethel Violet HARDING-7038, Plymouth Devonshire England
(My Paternal grandparents)
1913 - Death: John Grossmith LAWS-29763,(Bookeeper) Rainy River District Ontario Canada
1914 - Birth: Dorothy Lorina H THROWER-32327, Mutford Suffolk England
1915 - Birth: Kathleen LAWS-34837,
1915 - Birth: Kathleen THORNTON-34273,
1916 - Residence: Eva Mary LAWS-15608,(Ladies Maid) YWCA New York City New York United States
1916 - Residence: George Henry L AWS-4471, (Carpenter/Builder Retired)
Kenley Surrey England
1921 - Baptism: Emma Kathleen LAWES-23984, (Shoe Machinist)
Norwich Norfolk England
1931 - Death: William John LAWS-7841, (Meat Salesman) West Dulwich Surrey England
1938 - Burial: Susannah Sarah MATTHEWS-49865, (Laundress) Shoreditch Middlesex England
1938 - Death: William Frederick LAWS-34054, Beccles Suffolk England
1946 - Death: Emily Louisa LAWS-2895, (Spinster & Retired Governess & Companion) Colwyn Bay Denbigh Wales
1962 - Burial: Harriett Jane LAWS-23074, Saint Helens Lancashire England
1964 - Death: Alfred LAWS-35117,
1967 - Birth: Carolyn LAWS-51403, Ottawa Ontario Canada
1971 - Death: Kenneth LAWS-26032, (Royal Marines Mne 42 Cdo RM 15760) Plymouth Devonshire England
1974 - Death: Sarah HUNTER-21861, Wallasey Cheshire England
1977 - Death: Delmas LAWS-19345, Jefferson County Kentucky United States
1980 - Death: Thomas Carlyle LAWS-18200, Austin Travis County Texas United States
1982 - Death: William Ryott LAWS-38028,(Wholesale Fruit & Veg Merchant) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1989 - Death: Harold Clifford LAWS-24584, (Foreman General Electrical Co) Auburn New York United States
1990 - Death: William Homer LAWS-50920,
1999 - Burial: Myrtle Eileen LAWS-11767, Fawkner Victoria Australia
2000 - Burial: Herman M (PVT US Army) LAWS-16348, Ownings Mills MD United States
2003 - Burial: George Henry (retired carpenter and farmer) LAWS-11853, Haywood County North Carolina United States
2006 - Burial: Grace Lilian CAIN-28741, Ealing Middlesex England
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
Monday17th August 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1658 - Marriage: Cuthbert CALLOW-1378 and Ann LAWES-1379,
Norwich Norfolk England
1746 - Baptism: Martha LAWS-38515, Stepney Middlesex England
1747 - Burial: Anne LAWS-30482, Rotherhithe Surrey England
1786 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-23598, Feltwell Norfolk England
1790 - Marriage: James LAWS-10659 and Ann BONE-10660, Beetley Norfolk England
1799 - Marriage: Thomas LAWS-10926 and Jane RIGGS-21982, Orange County North Carolina United States
1803 - Death: Hanna LAWES-20741, Homington Wiltshire England
1811 - Birth: Susan LAWES-927, Fincham Norfolk England
1816 - Death: Ann SILVERS-3334, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1823 - Birth: James Loudon GORDON-33806, (Town Clerk) Brechin Angus Scotland
1834 - Baptism: Emily Jane LAWS-13959, (Dressmaker) Stepney Middlesex England
1834 - Christen: Samuel LAWES-2566, Clapham Surrey England
1838 - Baptism: John LAWS-13961, Stepney Middlesex England
1851 - Baptism: James William LAWS-32795, (Boot Maker) Bungay Suffolk England
1851 - Baptism: Elizabeth A LAWS-25848, (Servant) Bungay Suffolk England
1851 - Birth: William Henry LAWS-14841, (House Builder/Decorator)
Chelsea Middlesex England
1851 - Baptism: Martha Ann LAWS-14793, (Silk Winder) Bungay Suffolk England
1853 - Death: William Ryott LAWS-33719, (Farmer & Agent 226 Acres 6 men) Dunoon Argyllshire Scotland
1853 - Birth: Thomas Henry ROWELL-17055, (Tin Plate Worker) Brighton Sussex England
1854 - Christen: William Charles FAUX-8502, (Jobbing Gardener)
1855 - Birth: Sarah Jane BARNES-6351, Corby Lincolnshire England
1862 - Birth: Eleanor Maud LAWES-249,
1865 - Birth: Richard LAWS-8548, (Coal Miner retired) Durham Durham England
1874 - Birth: Charles James LAWS-4663, (Cutter Ladies Tailoring) Peckham Surrey England
1875 - Birth: Francis Timothy LAWS-3464, (Builders Cost Clerk)
1876 - Death: Mary Treen LAWS-3106,
1878 - Birth: Ira Eugene LAWS-12367, Catlett, Fauquier County, Virginia
United States
1880 - Birth: Violet HEALE-243,
1886 - Birth: Alvin Leonard LAWS-41777,
1887 - Birth: George William LAWS-28220, (Army Private 7488)
Tottenham Middlesex England
1889 - Birth: Annie Maud LAWS-29599,(Elementary Schoolteacher)
Rishton Lancashire England
1890 - Birth: Lily LAWS-17228, Tottenham Middlesex England
1891 - Birth: Eliza Mary Eleanor LAWS-3629, Millers Waterhole, Ferndale, Grafton, New South Wales Australia
1892 - Birth: Alice Isabella LAWS-3630, Grafton New South Wales Australia
1893 - Birth: Joseph W LAWS-43458, (Coal Miner) Leadgate Durham England
1893 - Birth: Elsie Ada LAWS-33456, (Training For Domestic Service) Hornington Wiltshire England
1894 - Miscellaneous: Mary CRANE-14614,
1894 - Miscellaneous: William King LAWS-5990, (Army Pensioner)
1896 - Birth: Edith Sarah LAWS-RANDALL-47842, Walthamstow Essex England
1896 - Birth: Edith Louise LAWS-3416, Smallburgh Norfolk England
1897 - Death: Arthur James (Infant 15 mths) LAWS-16812, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1901 - Birth: William Jesse LAWES-21756, (RN Petty Officer P/J 94221) Britford Wiltshire England
1904 - Death: Charles Lewis ROPER-29782, Chanut Kansas United States
1904 - Birth: Florence May LAWES-27965, Bishops Waltham Hampshire England
1907 - Birth: Alfie Agnes JOHNSON-11003, Austin Travis County Texas
United States
1908 - Death: Marshall S P LAWS-39588, Boston Massachusetts United States
1912 - Marriage: Robert Henry LAWS-7032 (Company Secretary)
and
Daisy Ethel Violet HARDING-7038, Plymouth Devonshire England
(My Paternal grandparents)
1913 - Death: John Grossmith LAWS-29763,(Bookeeper) Rainy River District Ontario Canada
1914 - Birth: Dorothy Lorina H THROWER-32327, Mutford Suffolk England
1915 - Birth: Kathleen LAWS-34837,
1915 - Birth: Kathleen THORNTON-34273,
1916 - Residence: Eva Mary LAWS-15608,(Ladies Maid) YWCA New York City New York United States
1916 - Residence: George Henry L AWS-4471, (Carpenter/Builder Retired)
Kenley Surrey England
1921 - Baptism: Emma Kathleen LAWES-23984, (Shoe Machinist)
Norwich Norfolk England
1931 - Death: William John LAWS-7841, (Meat Salesman) West Dulwich Surrey England
1938 - Burial: Susannah Sarah MATTHEWS-49865, (Laundress) Shoreditch Middlesex England
1938 - Death: William Frederick LAWS-34054, Beccles Suffolk England
1946 - Death: Emily Louisa LAWS-2895, (Spinster & Retired Governess & Companion) Colwyn Bay Denbigh Wales
1962 - Burial: Harriett Jane LAWS-23074, Saint Helens Lancashire England
1964 - Death: Alfred LAWS-35117,
1967 - Birth: Carolyn LAWS-51403, Ottawa Ontario Canada
1971 - Death: Kenneth LAWS-26032, (Royal Marines Mne 42 Cdo RM 15760) Plymouth Devonshire England
1974 - Death: Sarah HUNTER-21861, Wallasey Cheshire England
1977 - Death: Delmas LAWS-19345, Jefferson County Kentucky United States
1980 - Death: Thomas Carlyle LAWS-18200, Austin Travis County Texas United States
1982 - Death: William Ryott LAWS-38028,(Wholesale Fruit & Veg Merchant) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1989 - Death: Harold Clifford LAWS-24584, (Foreman General Electrical Co) Auburn New York United States
1990 - Death: William Homer LAWS-50920,
1999 - Burial: Myrtle Eileen LAWS-11767, Fawkner Victoria Australia
2000 - Burial: Herman M (PVT US Army) LAWS-16348, Ownings Mills MD United States
2003 - Burial: George Henry (retired carpenter and farmer) LAWS-11853, Haywood County North Carolina United States
2006 - Burial: Grace Lilian CAIN-28741, Ealing Middlesex England
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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
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We have excluded records of living people to protect their privacy (GDPR 2018)
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We only show births before 1920, and marriages before 1940.
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If you are seeking to find folk after these years you should contact the registrar.
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We reach out to all regardless of race, colour, creed, or orientation.
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Remember
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You can e-mail us with your questions,
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