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Saturday 22nd August 2020 - Number 7066

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, 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 13

Holidays Boats and more Wandering

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. 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 reaper-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 reaper-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, but 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.

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. 

Another little holiday that was different turned up when my Uncle Albert and Aunt Louise were home on leave and were 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. 




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FAMILY EVENTS


1890 - Birth: Violet LAWS-15141, Rougham Norfolk England
1891 - Birth: Bolitha James LAWS -10727(Lawyer/Judge)Washington, District of             Columbia United States
1892 - Death: Joseph FITCHES-29741, Icklingham Suffolk England
1894 - Marriage: Ezra HAMPSHIRE-40166 (Miner)  and Jane BRAMHAM-                   17062, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England
1898 - Birth: Hilda Winifred  LAWS-15019, (Cook Housekeeper)
           Leytonstone Essex England
1901 - Birth: Albert George LAWES-31937, (RN SS125228/ J65861)
           Droxford Hampshire England
1902 - Death: Eleanor LAWS-23059, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland                     England

1904 - Birth: Lizzie LAWS-50828, 
1905 - Birth: Joseph LAWS-41333, (Telecommunications Line Engineer)
1906 - Burial: John Cooper LAWS-6698, (Lodging House Keeper)
           Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1910 - Birth: Mary Emily SANDERS-46341, (Audit Clerk) 
1910 - Birth: Barbara May Muriel LAWES-22442, Quebec Canada
1913 - Birth: Robert Hartley LAWES-51794, 
1914 - Birth: Edward Robert LAWS-31042, East Ham Essex England
1915 - Baptism: Beulah Mildred LAWS-47891, (Domestic)  Heston Middlesex                   England
1916 - Death: G H LAWS-21784, (ARMY Private  G/17755) 
1917 - Birth: Willis L LAWS-42471, (Garage Hand & Driver) 
1917 - Birth: William Henry LAWS-20850, Townsville Queensland Australia
1918 - Birth: Edgar H LAWS-41294,  (Tractor Driver Ag Lab)
1918 - Death: George LAWS-11738, (Army Private 29033) 
1918 - Residence: Robert LAWS-8065, Outwell Cambridgeshire England

1919 - Birth: Ernest W LAWES-46969, (Railway Wagon Builder)
1925 - Marriage: Robert Henry BELDEN-41785 and Iva Florence WARNER-                   41787, Fort Frances, Rainy River Ontario Canada
1933 - Marriage: Thomas William LAWS-2615 and Ira PELKONEN-2637,                       Manila Utah United States
1934 - Marriage: David Neville LAWS-16027 (Apprentice Ships 3rd Engineer)                 and Effie Elizabeth PAYZANT-16028, Liverpool, Queens County,
           Nova Scotia Canada
1934 - Death: Daniel LAWES-1517, (Ag Lab) Burbage Wiltshire England
1935 - Death: William Henry (Plumber & Decorator) LAWS-7868,
           Chelsea Middlesex England

1939 - Probate: Frederick George LAWES-36443, (Biscuit Factory Labourer)
1941 - Death: Mary Ann (Schoolmistress) Nottingham, Nottinghamshire England
1948 - Death: Victor Edward (Engineers Pattern Maker) LAWS-29585,
           Ipswich Suffolk England

1951 - Burial: Isabella LAWS-27558, Stockton-On-Tees Durham England
1952 - Death: Edith Louisa HARVEY-3374, Horsford Norfolk England
1957 - Death: Katherine Margaret LINDSAY-49573, Waverley New South Wales             Australia
1959 - Death: John C LAWS-26489, (Railway checker) 
1960 - Death: Cecelia May LAWES-17324, Portsmouth Hampshire England

1965 - Death: Doris May COOK-39088, Wimbledon Surrey but resided at
            Great Bookham, Surrey England
1965 - Residence: Ernest William Thomas LAWES-39087, (Mechanical Engineer
           Inspector in Charge Aero Engines) Great Bookham, Surrey England
1968 - Death: Margaret Althea LAWS-35477, Callaway County, Missouri 
           United States
1972 - Death: Anna Rosalind LAWS-19084,
1980 - Burial: Thomas Bollin LAWS-42187, (TSgt USAF) Riverside California                 United States
1981 - Death: Vivian May PACK-35305,
1982 - Death: Walter George LAWES-15808, 
1982 - Death: William Cornelius LAWS-7247, (Assitant Engineer
           The Gas Light & Coke Co) Herne Bay Kent England
1987 - Death: Fred LAWS-45626, Burstwick East Yorkshire England
1989 - Death: Christine Ann LAWS-12260, Airds, New South Wales Australia
1994 - Death: Gladys LAWS-3746, Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire England

2001 - Death: Reva Frances LAWS-44876,
2002 - Death: Willard LAWS-10441, (Carpenter) West Sacromento
           California United States
2003 - Burial: Johnnie Seldon LAWS-16369, (PVT US Army)  Riverside National              Cemetery  California United States
2006 - Cremation: Donald LAWS-25761, Chelmsford Essex England
2007 - Death: David Thomas LAWS-40672, Saint Louis Missouri United States
2010 - Death: Ronald Ernest LAWS-45356, Ashford Kent England
2010 - Death: Marion Cruikshank LAWS-40354, Banchory Kincardine Scotland
2010 - Death: Francis Rogers LAWS-40353, Banchory Kincardine Scotland
2015 - Burial: Douglas Lloyd LAWS-33924, (RCAF) Olivet Wesleyan Cemetery

2018 - Death: Sally Patricia LAWS-49181, Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire                 England
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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

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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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
R I P







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