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
Chapter 15
WANDERERS
There was little opportunity to wander until going to school opened up new horizons. Once the short walk to school was permitted unaccompanied and a few friends were known the range of life extended. The familiar places were visited first, the lake in Finsbury Park with its ducks, swans and boats was known already, but now more time was spent with the slides and swings than feeding the ducks.
It cannot always have been summer though because the lake froze and the ducks sat back on their tails as they landed. Once or twice there were even skaters on the ice, skating serenely around the island that normally gave the ducks refuge from human intruders. These short periods of snow and ice and frozen lead pipes which burst are all that early memory holds of winter. Toys and books must have pushed the cold and wet into the background. Even pea soup fogs belong to later childhood.
It seems not long till I found there were other open spaces besides Finsbury Park. Another half mile towards London was Clissold Park. Its sole claim to fame was having a smaller boating pond with canoes which children could take out on those rare occasions when enough pocket money had been saved.
The opposite direction was more rewarding. Ally Pally (Alexandra Palace, ed) stands on its hill looking out over London through the haze of a coal-burning suburbia. Surrounded by its few acres of green it still had its four chateauesque corners intact before Satan unleashed the telly TV against humanity.
We could wander its empty halls and eat our sandwiches beside the pond while the sun shone. Not far from there were the woods, Queens Wood, and Highgate Woods, shady but not thicketed, a small wanderer’s delight. Apart from the occasional dog taking itself for a walk, the animals were only squirrels. The fox had not discovered the joys of urban life and the smaller rodents were not obvious.
The acquisition of roller skates which extended the range of wandering on foot from three or four miles distance, to twice that range. I was able to go off for the day with one or two other roller skating fanatics and supply of sandwiches and lemonade and could get to such fascinating places as the River Lea and Epping Forrest. Watching the lock gates working as barges were pulled through by enormous horses on the towpath filled idle summer hours in those times when the days and the weeks were longer.
What we called the River Lea was the canal, of course, the remains of the river we called the Old Lea but except in times of flood, it was a rather trifling stream. The canal carried the fuel for the power station at Enfield and also a lot of timber for the various timber yards along its banks. This was all brought from the then very active docks in London and the canal ran north as far as Hertford and Bishops Stortford in territory I could not explore until I got a bike.
The numerous miles covered on our roller skates on the abrasive stone paving wore their steel wheels smaller and smaller till at last the ball bearings escaped and hard saved pennies had to be spent in Lays Street market where anything could be bought including skate wheels.
I already knew the forest from visits with my father, sometimes with the rest of the family. He knew the area well and no doubt also wandered there as a boy having lived at Tottenham. It sometimes seems that, despite memories, one was less observant as a small child. Despite natural curiosity, there is a much smaller base of knowledge with which to compare things. Trees are mostly just trees and only very noticeable birds stand out from the mass, there were squawking Jays flashing away in the trees and newts and tadpoles in the ponds. There were snakes and deer there too but I never saw any deer and only once an adder. The squirrels seemed to have had it to themselves, even the rabbits that overran the countryside kept to the edge of the woodland. For wandering boys, the wandering was an end, a joy in itself.
Later wandering became more organised. This started with Scout camps. First came, the Cubs one Whitsun, no further afield than Hatfield Park, then others including Gilwell, the Scout Mecca of which the most memorable item was the rather primitive swimming pool where we were allowed to swim naked, and joy rarely available to a town dweller. We travelled to these camps in the back of a lorry and scarcely noticed the discomfort as it was different and cheap. Everything had to be cheap. The sun did not always shine and when we went to Downe in Kent our lorry got us there after dark in a pelting rainstorm in which we set up our tents on a site we could not see. After that I think I slept soundly, perhaps the ground was softer for the rain. That camp our swimming was in the River Test, it was icy, small boys must be quite mad. Swimming seems to have been the main attraction of these camps. At Hayling Island, then little built up, we swam in a sandy inlet where the temperature of the English Channel was moderated by the warm sand as the tide came in.
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
Chapter 15
WANDERERS
There was little opportunity to wander until going to school opened up new horizons. Once the short walk to school was permitted unaccompanied and a few friends were known the range of life extended. The familiar places were visited first, the lake in Finsbury Park with its ducks, swans and boats was known already, but now more time was spent with the slides and swings than feeding the ducks.
It cannot always have been summer though because the lake froze and the ducks sat back on their tails as they landed. Once or twice there were even skaters on the ice, skating serenely around the island that normally gave the ducks refuge from human intruders. These short periods of snow and ice and frozen lead pipes which burst are all that early memory holds of winter. Toys and books must have pushed the cold and wet into the background. Even pea soup fogs belong to later childhood.
It seems not long till I found there were other open spaces besides Finsbury Park. Another half mile towards London was Clissold Park. Its sole claim to fame was having a smaller boating pond with canoes which children could take out on those rare occasions when enough pocket money had been saved.
The opposite direction was more rewarding. Ally Pally (Alexandra Palace, ed) stands on its hill looking out over London through the haze of a coal-burning suburbia. Surrounded by its few acres of green it still had its four chateauesque corners intact before Satan unleashed the telly TV against humanity.
We could wander its empty halls and eat our sandwiches beside the pond while the sun shone. Not far from there were the woods, Queens Wood, and Highgate Woods, shady but not thicketed, a small wanderer’s delight. Apart from the occasional dog taking itself for a walk, the animals were only squirrels. The fox had not discovered the joys of urban life and the smaller rodents were not obvious.
The acquisition of roller skates which extended the range of wandering on foot from three or four miles distance, to twice that range. I was able to go off for the day with one or two other roller skating fanatics and supply of sandwiches and lemonade and could get to such fascinating places as the River Lea and Epping Forrest. Watching the lock gates working as barges were pulled through by enormous horses on the towpath filled idle summer hours in those times when the days and the weeks were longer.
What we called the River Lea was the canal, of course, the remains of the river we called the Old Lea but except in times of flood, it was a rather trifling stream. The canal carried the fuel for the power station at Enfield and also a lot of timber for the various timber yards along its banks. This was all brought from the then very active docks in London and the canal ran north as far as Hertford and Bishops Stortford in territory I could not explore until I got a bike.
The numerous miles covered on our roller skates on the abrasive stone paving wore their steel wheels smaller and smaller till at last the ball bearings escaped and hard saved pennies had to be spent in Lays Street market where anything could be bought including skate wheels.
I already knew the forest from visits with my father, sometimes with the rest of the family. He knew the area well and no doubt also wandered there as a boy having lived at Tottenham. It sometimes seems that, despite memories, one was less observant as a small child. Despite natural curiosity, there is a much smaller base of knowledge with which to compare things. Trees are mostly just trees and only very noticeable birds stand out from the mass, there were squawking Jays flashing away in the trees and newts and tadpoles in the ponds. There were snakes and deer there too but I never saw any deer and only once an adder. The squirrels seemed to have had it to themselves, even the rabbits that overran the countryside kept to the edge of the woodland. For wandering boys, the wandering was an end, a joy in itself.
Later wandering became more organised. This started with Scout camps. First came, the Cubs one Whitsun, no further afield than Hatfield Park, then others including Gilwell, the Scout Mecca of which the most memorable item was the rather primitive swimming pool where we were allowed to swim naked, and joy rarely available to a town dweller. We travelled to these camps in the back of a lorry and scarcely noticed the discomfort as it was different and cheap. Everything had to be cheap. The sun did not always shine and when we went to Downe in Kent our lorry got us there after dark in a pelting rainstorm in which we set up our tents on a site we could not see. After that I think I slept soundly, perhaps the ground was softer for the rain. That camp our swimming was in the River Test, it was icy, small boys must be quite mad. Swimming seems to have been the main attraction of these camps. At Hayling Island, then little built up, we swam in a sandy inlet where the temperature of the English Channel was moderated by the warm sand as the tide came in.
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Extracted from our Database today
Extracted from our Database today
Monday 24th August 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1734 - Burial: Richard LAWS-7380, Saint James Clerkenwell Middlesex England
1797 - Marriage: William LAWS-30500 and Mary Ann (former Widow) PALMER-30501, Deptford Kent England
1806 - Birth: Patience WAITE-9300, Overton Wiltshire England
1807 - Birth: Jane LAWS-7186, (Spinster) Cambois Northumberland England
1819 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-5060 and Sarah CHURCH-5061, Whitchurch Hampshire England
1828 - Marriage: Thomas TYLER-41958 (Master Bootmaker) and Phoebe White LAWS-41959, Rochester Kent England
1828 - Baptism: Ellen Mary LAWS-23749, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1828 - Baptism: Elijah John LAWS-3830, (Labourer) Portsmouth Hampshire England
1845 - Baptism: Edward Shearing LAWS-7667, (Butler) East Dereham Norfolk England
1859 - Burial: James LAWES-3560, (Ag Lab) Canford Magna Dorset England
1861 - Death: Mary LAWES-19696,
1862 - Marriage: Benjamin LAWS-4349 (Moulder in Foundry) and Eleanor BACON-4350, Bungay Suffolk England
1865 - Death: Thomas (Bricklayer-Coachman-Groom & Twin) LAWS-2897, Dorchester Dorset England
1869 - Birth: Harriett LAWES-46983, (Domestic Service)
1878 - Birth: James LAWS-42326, (Park Ranger) Jordans Castle Nottinghamshire England
1882 - Birth: Bertha Mae FRY-29843, Maine United States
1882 - Baptism: Amy Wilkinson LAWS-14925, (Teacher of Physical Culture) Melcombe Regis Dorset England
1885 - Birth: Albert James LAWS-7033, (Tobacco Agent) Wood Green Middlesex England
(My paternal Grand Uncle)
1886 - Death: Thomas CHARTERS-13914, (Draper)
(My wife's maternal 2nd Great Grand Uncle)
1892 - Birth: Marjorie LAWS-45910,(Insurance Clerk)
1894 - Residence: John Kendal SADLER-13636 (Artist) 25 Clapham Common
1894 - Residence: Louise Gabrielle Caroline Eugenie DE BOISSIERE-46260, Broadstairs Kent England
1894 - Birth: Maye Strickler ROTHGEB-45050, Page, Virginia United States
1895 - Birth: Charlotte Maud WINZAR-39798, Saint Pancras Middlesex England
1899 - Birth: Edward Arthur LAWS-48297, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England
1899 - Birth: Arthur Lionel LAWS-42080, Saint Kitts
1901 - Birth: Maud POYNTER-3391,
1902 - Birth: Rosie May LAWS-33491, Derby Derbyshire England
1905 - Birth: Edith M LAWES-45973,
1906 - Birth: Edith LAWES-27987, Ealing Middlesex England
1907 - Birth: Percy Maitland LAWS-31607, (Book-keeper) Northumberland England or Gateshead Durham England
1907 - Birth: Bernard Oswald LAWS-3196, (Farmer) Shepparton Victoria Australia
1908 - Birth: Dorothy LINSDELL-31608, Whitley Bay Northumberland England
1912 - Birth: Percy Edward DEAL-29036,
1914 - Birth: Elsie C SMITH-43590,
1914 - Birth: Herbert Frederick Kitchener LAWS-33251, Greenwich Kent England
1916 - Birth: Henry Partridge LAWS-17925, (Coal Miner) Seaham Durham England
1918 - Burial: William George SPENDIFF-37875, (Cellarman) Meaulte FRANCE
1919 - Birth: Alan LAWS-43492, (Apprentice Colliery Electrician)
1924 - Residence: Bolitha James LAWS-10727, (Lawyer / Judge) Washington, District of Columbia United States
1928 - Marriage: Sydney George Edward LAWS-14386 (Australian Army) and
Norah Daphne QUIGLEY-14244, Leichhardt, New South Wales Australia
1928 - Death: Ronald LAWS-20340, Kensington Middlesex England
1929 - Arrival: Dulcie Isabel LAWS-36876, Montreal Quebec Canada
1929 - Death: Adeline Annie BETTIS-20116, Piper, Wyandotte County Kansas
1936 - Death: Donald R LAWS-19348, Harlan County Kentucky United States
1938 - Death: Owen Henry Charles LAWES-40379, Cambridge Cambridgeshire
but resided at Witcham Cambridgeshire England
1940 - Death: Percy Frederick LAWS-8404, (Builder & Decorator)
Chatham Kent England
1944 - Military: Maurice Edward Seymour LAWS-16837,
1957 - Death: James Holland LAWS-25513, Bryan Texas United States
1972 - Death: Elsie Myrtle LAWS-3195 (Nurse) Shepparton Victoria Australia
1977 - Death: Mary Ann Frances STEEL-20868, Dagenham Essex England
1989 - Death: Henry Michael HIGGINS-28377, Belmont New South Wales Australia
1998 - Death: Raymond Edward LAWS-38229,
2004 - Death: Lloyd Clinton LAWS-16456, Hospice House in Topeka Kansas
(YN3 U.S. Navy / Korea)
2013 - Death: George Peter LAWS-50185,
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
Monday 24th August 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1734 - Burial: Richard LAWS-7380, Saint James Clerkenwell Middlesex England
1797 - Marriage: William LAWS-30500 and Mary Ann (former Widow) PALMER-30501, Deptford Kent England
1806 - Birth: Patience WAITE-9300, Overton Wiltshire England
1807 - Birth: Jane LAWS-7186, (Spinster) Cambois Northumberland England
1819 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-5060 and Sarah CHURCH-5061, Whitchurch Hampshire England
1828 - Marriage: Thomas TYLER-41958 (Master Bootmaker) and Phoebe White LAWS-41959, Rochester Kent England
1828 - Baptism: Ellen Mary LAWS-23749, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1828 - Baptism: Elijah John LAWS-3830, (Labourer) Portsmouth Hampshire England
1845 - Baptism: Edward Shearing LAWS-7667, (Butler) East Dereham Norfolk England
1859 - Burial: James LAWES-3560, (Ag Lab) Canford Magna Dorset England
1861 - Death: Mary LAWES-19696,
1862 - Marriage: Benjamin LAWS-4349 (Moulder in Foundry) and Eleanor BACON-4350, Bungay Suffolk England
1865 - Death: Thomas (Bricklayer-Coachman-Groom & Twin) LAWS-2897, Dorchester Dorset England
1869 - Birth: Harriett LAWES-46983, (Domestic Service)
1878 - Birth: James LAWS-42326, (Park Ranger) Jordans Castle Nottinghamshire England
1882 - Birth: Bertha Mae FRY-29843, Maine United States
1882 - Baptism: Amy Wilkinson LAWS-14925, (Teacher of Physical Culture) Melcombe Regis Dorset England
1885 - Birth: Albert James LAWS-7033, (Tobacco Agent) Wood Green Middlesex England
(My paternal Grand Uncle)
1886 - Death: Thomas CHARTERS-13914, (Draper)
(My wife's maternal 2nd Great Grand Uncle)
1892 - Birth: Marjorie LAWS-45910,(Insurance Clerk)
1894 - Residence: John Kendal SADLER-13636 (Artist) 25 Clapham Common
1894 - Residence: Louise Gabrielle Caroline Eugenie DE BOISSIERE-46260, Broadstairs Kent England
1894 - Birth: Maye Strickler ROTHGEB-45050, Page, Virginia United States
1895 - Birth: Charlotte Maud WINZAR-39798, Saint Pancras Middlesex England
1899 - Birth: Edward Arthur LAWS-48297, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England
1899 - Birth: Arthur Lionel LAWS-42080, Saint Kitts
1901 - Birth: Maud POYNTER-3391,
1902 - Birth: Rosie May LAWS-33491, Derby Derbyshire England
1905 - Birth: Edith M LAWES-45973,
1906 - Birth: Edith LAWES-27987, Ealing Middlesex England
1907 - Birth: Percy Maitland LAWS-31607, (Book-keeper) Northumberland England or Gateshead Durham England
1907 - Birth: Bernard Oswald LAWS-3196, (Farmer) Shepparton Victoria Australia
1908 - Birth: Dorothy LINSDELL-31608, Whitley Bay Northumberland England
1912 - Birth: Percy Edward DEAL-29036,
1914 - Birth: Elsie C SMITH-43590,
1914 - Birth: Herbert Frederick Kitchener LAWS-33251, Greenwich Kent England
1916 - Birth: Henry Partridge LAWS-17925, (Coal Miner) Seaham Durham England
1918 - Burial: William George SPENDIFF-37875, (Cellarman) Meaulte FRANCE
1919 - Birth: Alan LAWS-43492, (Apprentice Colliery Electrician)
1924 - Residence: Bolitha James LAWS-10727, (Lawyer / Judge) Washington, District of Columbia United States
1928 - Marriage: Sydney George Edward LAWS-14386 (Australian Army) and
Norah Daphne QUIGLEY-14244, Leichhardt, New South Wales Australia
1928 - Death: Ronald LAWS-20340, Kensington Middlesex England
1929 - Arrival: Dulcie Isabel LAWS-36876, Montreal Quebec Canada
1929 - Death: Adeline Annie BETTIS-20116, Piper, Wyandotte County Kansas
1936 - Death: Donald R LAWS-19348, Harlan County Kentucky United States
1938 - Death: Owen Henry Charles LAWES-40379, Cambridge Cambridgeshire
but resided at Witcham Cambridgeshire England
1940 - Death: Percy Frederick LAWS-8404, (Builder & Decorator)
Chatham Kent England
1944 - Military: Maurice Edward Seymour LAWS-16837,
1957 - Death: James Holland LAWS-25513, Bryan Texas United States
1972 - Death: Elsie Myrtle LAWS-3195 (Nurse) Shepparton Victoria Australia
1977 - Death: Mary Ann Frances STEEL-20868, Dagenham Essex England
1989 - Death: Henry Michael HIGGINS-28377, Belmont New South Wales Australia
1998 - Death: Raymond Edward LAWS-38229,
2004 - Death: Lloyd Clinton LAWS-16456, Hospice House in Topeka Kansas
(YN3 U.S. Navy / Korea)
2013 - Death: George Peter LAWS-50185,
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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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