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Saturday 29th August 2020 - Number 7073

 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 23
    
Further Afield Part 3

The highlights of the Naples visit were the late evening view over the lights over the city, from a highpoint on the northern edge with Vesuvius in the background. The ascent of Vesuvius itself and seeing the excavated city of Herculaneum. 

The volcano was pretty well behaved at that time and having gone up by the funicular rail car we were able to descend into the enormous crater where a constant roman candle of lava blobs was building a new central cone. Intrepid Italian entrepreneurs were busy pushing coins into the little blobs before they cooled and selling the resulting souvenirs to tourists.


In contrast to the lively volcano, Herculaneum was many centuries’ dead. With its heavy shroud of volcanic ash shovelled and swept away its slab paved streets peopled with a few groups of tourists were not for me evocative of the crowds of shoving and successful citizens who thronged its streets until the Reaper came with his volcano. 

For the same reason, it was not depressing either, it was another museum with fine examples of a Roman town complete with arts and crafts collected on the spot.

Why do I not remember the long journey back, it was just unmemorable or were there too many little bottles with our packed lunches so that we dozed on the wooden seats. Perhaps we just got tired, almost unthinkable in ones teenage years.

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NORWAY 
The Journey to Norway was different. We went on an old troopship and it was boys only, a big party hundreds-strong from many schools, no hotel this time we slept in hammocks slung above the tables where we ate by day. It was hot and we had the occasional chance to sleep on deck instead of in the hammocks. The hard deck was just as impossible as the sagging hammocks. At least we learnt that a bed is a luxury.

Bergen was the first port of call. The ship tied up along the long quay where the town faces out over the water and which seemed to us to be the town centre. The funicular railway took us up to the viewpoint above the town from which the town and its harbour and the fiord running out towards the sea are laid out like a green map with blue water and red roofs with toy boats at rest in the harbour. 

We also went into the mountains by way of the railway which climbs its way over to Oslo. The railway the like of which we had never seen before, as it clambered through the steep ascent with the aid of a central rack rail and crawled through tunnels and across rock faces to take us up and out onto the high land. There we walked and saw the ski runs and the big wooden structure of the ski jump all stranded in the grass with not a flake of snow in the hot sunshine.

Despite the rocky terrain, rich grass seemed to be the predominant colour of the countryside as we sailed along the coast and into Sogne Fiord where our ship was dwarfed to a toy again between the towering mountains on either side. Here and there tiny fields of hay were patched into the forest on the mountain waterside. 

High prowed boats rowed with long oars used the water as a highway from farm to farm and field to field. At the end of the fiord we went ashore in the ships boats and walked up the valley beside the bubbling bouldered river to the foot of the glacier which feeds it. A mountain of rather grubby ice in the blazing hot sunshine turning into sparkling clear water with which we quenched our thirst on the walk back.

The furthest north we went was Trondheim, a little stone town on a hilly site beside the water. No doubt used to visitors, despite the infancy of tourism, the peace did not seem disturbed by the invasion of a few hundred English schoolboys. They had done their share of invading Britain a few centuries ago and were themselves to be invaded by less welcome visitors only two or three years later.

On the ship our amusements were simple, I seem to remember the old English sports day pastime of jousting astride a slippery pole over a canvas pool of water and we had a few homegrown concerts and sing-along’s to disturb the quiet of evening at sea. Not that the North Sea was quiet all the time, there were moments when we lost all interest in food and spent time admiring the view over the rail. It was certainly different from all our other trips,


The End 



Continued tomorrow

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Extracted from our Database today

Saturday 29th August 2020

We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940 

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)


FAMILY EVENTS



1649 - Birth: Marke  LAWS-32918, Stepney Middlesex England

1708 - Burial: Burton LAWS-40068, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England

1819 - Marriage: James Garner LAWS-11478 and Mary Ann FIDDLEMAN-                    11477, Norwich Norfolk England

1826 - Burial: Ann LAWES-28971, Figheldean Wiltshire England
1833 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-23714 and Ann SCOTT-23715, Newcastle upon              Tyne Northumberland England

1839 - Marriage: Robert Arnold LAMB-10484 (Master Mariner)  and Harriett                 LAWS-10483, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1849 - Marriage: George Calvin LAWS-10596 and Francois Livingston                              BARNES-10597, Saint Francois, Missouri, United States
1849 - Birth: Frederic LAWES-12483, (Ag Lab) Brampton Norfolk England
1851 - Birth: Walter Ezra BUNN-3370, Horsford Norfolk England
1853 - Baptism: John CHARTERS-21370,  (Joiner Apprentice) Torpenhow                        Cumberland England

1863 - Death: William Henry LAWS-13591, Columbus, Bartholomew County,                   Indiana United States
1863 - Birth: Lucinda LAWS-29555, Carroll County Tennessee United States
1869 - Christen: Mary Magdalene Robinson LAWS-4163, Newcastle upon Tyne               Northumberland England
1869 - Birth: Rosa LAWES-2508, (Domestic Help) Putney Surrey England
1871 - Birth: John James BEZZANT-19458, Bristol Gloucestershire England

1875 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-13641, Lewis Fork North Carolina United States
1876 - Birth: Blanche LAWS-7090, (Underclothing Cutter)  Leytonstone Essex                 England one of my paternal grandfathers' sisters
1882 - Birth: Tom LAWS-42819, (Farmer)
1882 - Birth: William Alfred LAWS-4118, (Engineer's Turner, Toolmaker &
           Newsagent))  Wolverhampton Staffordshire England
1885 - Birth & Death: Dora Elizabeth LAWS-37318, Johnson, Kane County Utah             United States
1885 - Death: Mary Ellen LAWS-37317, Johnson, Kane County Utah
           United States

1888 - Birth: Edith Jane SHANKS-24876, Rockhampton Queensland Australia
1891 - Marriage: Robert LAWS-3490 (Coal Miner)  and Mary Ellen HALLIDAY-
           8451, Bedlington Northumberland England
1893 - Residence: Edward Ernest LAWS-40761,  (Restaurant Proprieter)                            Birmingham Warwickshire England to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
           United States
1893 - Birth: Benjamin Charles LAWS-8056,  (ARMY Acting Sgt 7228) Ardsley                West Yorkshire England
1893 - Burial: Jane KETTLE-733, (Widow - Laundress) West Molesey Surrey                  England
1895 - Birth: Alfred E LAWS-41501, (Farmer)
1895 - Birth: Harold LAWS-25534, (Post Office Engineer & Linesman)
           Widnes Lancashire England
1895 - Birth: Ernest Alfred LAWS-3379, (Motor Cleaner)  Horsford Norfolk                     England
1899 - Marriage: William Andrews Hume SHARP-42163 (Commercial Clerk)                  and Louisa LAWS-3067, Little Ilford Essex England
1899 - Birth: Constance Marion LAWES-17327, Croydon Surrey England
1899 - Residence: Louisa LAWS-3067, Forest Gate Essex England
1899 - Residence: AlfredLAWS-3063, (House Owner & Agent)  Forest Gate
           Essex England
1900 - Birth: Lucille L LAWS-20094, 
1901 - Burial: Elizabeth Ann (less than 1 yr old) , Stockton-On-Tees Durham England
1901 - Birth: Albert LAWES-27566 (RN J62997) Gen Labourer) LAWES-23945, Southampton Hamps hire England
1904 - Birth: Walter Fred LAWS-34962,  (Manager Motor & Radio)
1906 - Birth: Elsie Maria LAWES-38133, Reading Berkshire England
1909 - Birth: John William LAWS-43082, (Horseman on Farm)
1909 - Birth: Lillian May LAWS-34946,
1911 - Birth: Ruth Elizabeth SCHOW-17678, Flandreau South Dakota 
           United States
1914 - Marriage: Frank B WHEELER-39029 and H Louise LAWS-39030, 
           Bexar Texas United States
1914 - Birth: Dorothy E LAWES-47319, (Machinist Milliner)
1916 - Death: Sarah Sophia GOODALL-8429, Brisbane, Queensland Australia
1918 - Death: Francis Edwin LAWES-195, (Reverend)  West Ealing Middlesex                  England
1920 - Residence: Hannah Ellen Edith LAWS-14965, (Servant)  Canning Town                 Essex England
1920 - Marriage: Alfred HACKETT-49826 and Hannah Ellen Edith LAWS-                     14965,(Servant)  Canning Town Essex England
1924 - Residence: Alfred James CLEMENTS-45801, (Gentleman Retired)
            East Molesey Surrey England
1925 - Marriage: Hugh Stanley LAWS-23910 (Salesman)  (RN F52205)  and
           May ROWCROFT-44222, Montreal Quebec Canada
1925 - Marriage: William K LAWS-32496 (Fitters Mate  Steel Plate)  and Louisa             Ruth (Civilian War Dead)  Yiewsley, Hillingdon, Middlesx England
1925 - Marriage: Reginald Charles T LAWS-12644(Australian Army & Sawmill               Manager)  and Nolah Evelyn Pearl LOGAN-14243, Taree New South                    Wales Australia
1926 - Death: Leonard Matthew LAWS-17224, (Clerk) Hampstead Middlesex                   England
1928 - Residence: Henrietta Lisette Amelia Verity LAWS-44683, Bournemouth                  Hampshire England
1928 - Emigration: Henrietta Lisette Amelia Variety LAWS-44683, South Africa
1931 - Death: Jason L LAWS-19267, Raleigh West Virginia
1936 - Marriage: Samuel Gray NIVEN-20820 and Elizabeth LAWS-20819,
1944 - Miscellaneous: Charles (Surveyor (Rtd) LAWS-4463, 
1948 - Death: Joseph Smith LAWS-18957, Kern CA United States
1961 - Death: Lawrence LAWS-28754, Nambucca Heads New South Wales                        Australia
1980 - Burial: Ronald D LAWS- (MSgt US Air Force) 16418, Augusta Michigan               United States
1981 - Death: Ivy Winifred (Bookeeper LAWS-24347, Taunton Somersetshire                   England
1998 - Death: James Maxwell LAWS-36154, Tamborine Queensland Australia
2003 - Death: Lovancy LAWS-12034, Gastonia North Carolina United States
2005 - Birth: Lilly Ann LAWS-20716, 

2006 - Death: Derek Ernest LAWS-25418, 



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

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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