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Sunday 23rd August 2020 - Number 7067

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 14



SPORT

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 was 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

Sunday 23rd August 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)


FAMILY EVENTS


1779 - Birth: Rebecca LAWS/JUDGE-42372,
1784 - Marriage: William BALLS-1861 and Ellen LAWES-1862, Holme Hale                   Norfolk England
1824 - Marriage: James Walter LAWS-21947 (Carter) and Elizabeth LITTLE-                 21948, Newington Surrey England
1840 - Death: William LAWS-2866, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1845 - Marriage: Thomas Cook RICHARDSON-34011 and Amelia LAWS-4010, 
           Bow Middlesex England
1846 - Baptism: Annabella LAWS-10379, Heddon-on-the-Wall Northumberland               England
1848 - Birth: Joseph Burnett Eldon Francis LAWS-18146, (Farmer) Tynemouth               Northumberland England

1856 - Birth: Agnes Jessie STIRLING-26909, Bothwell Lanarkshire Scotland
States
1864 - Birth: Richard George Hamilton LAWES-28016, Holbeck West Yorkshire             England
1871 - Burial: Algernon Blofield LAWES-26662, 
1875 - Birth: Ada Louisa BENNETT-31748, Cardiff Glamorgan Wales
1876 - Birth: William H PAYNE-3632, (Farmer/Caretaker)
           Ellerston New South Wales Australia
1879 - Emigration: Anton LAWS-50981, Hamburg Germany
1879 - Birth: Annie Catherine ZIMMERMAN-20300, United States
1879 - Birth: Edith FULLER-10552, (Teacher)  Leytonstone Essex England
1881 - Birth: John LAWS-33219, (Coal Miner/Stoneman)  Morpeth                                   Northumberland England
1884 - Death: Thomas V LAWES-1322,
1885 - Birth: George William Henry LAWS-14928, (RN 343558 Crewman later                 Dock Labourer) Camberwell Surrey England
1886 - Death: James LAWS-3263, (Hotel Contractor & Pig-Keeper)
           Acton Middlesex England
1888 - Birth: Flora Ann GREEN-28878, 
1889 - Birth: Albert Reginald Howell LAWES-2733, (General Labourer)                           Shaftesbury Dorset England

1891 - Birth: Ruth Harlan MALONE-50072, Missouri United States
1892 - Marriage: John Robinson MIDDLETON-41977 (Blacksmith)  and                           Caroline LAWES-1910,(Dressmaker) Maidenhead Berkshire England
1892 - Birth: Ethel May LAWS-14948, (Nursery Maid) Shillingstone Dorset                       England
1894 - Birth: Constance Adelaide LAWS-21053, Litcham Norfolk England

1899 - Marriage: Charles Issac LAWS-27224 and Martha Jane TIBBS-39799,                   Wayne County Illinois United States
1899 - Birth: Walter Leslie LAWES-24041, (Baker)  Waverley New South Wales               Australia
1899 - Death: Edmund Thomas LAWS-5067, (Hotel Chef) Broseley Shropshire                 England
1900 - Birth: Owen Charles ONES-14009, (Royal Navy 1917-19)  Chingford                     Essex England
1901 - Birth: William A  LAWS-42737,(Gem Grinder / optical Glass worker)
1902 - Birth: Olive A LAWES-48684, (Housekeeper) 
1902 - Death: Charles LAWS-4666, (Engine & Crane Driver)  Barking Essex                     England
1905 - Birth: Astrid Geraldine DELBON-13237, Omaha Nebraska United States
1907 - Birth: Constance Eaves LAWS-35417,(Municipal Typist/Clerk)/Spinster)               Derby Derbyshire England
1908 - Birth: Alice Louise LAWES-37083,
1909 - Death: Walter Saul LAWS-7761, (Cabinet Maker) Peacock Street,
           Norwich Norfolk England
1911 - Residence: Martha SA NCTURY-4548, Wood Green Middlesex England
1912 - Marriage: Edmund Powell GALBRAITH-13496 and Wilma Hills LAWS-               13495, 
1913 - Birth: Frederick LAWES-47524, (Ag Lab)
1913 - Birth: William George F LAWES-34884, (Carpenter & Case maker) 
1914 - Death: Stephen LAWES-21740, (ARMY Private L/8222)
1915 - Enlistment: Herbert Henry LAWS-4919, (ARMY Private 1444)                               Potchefstroom South Africa
1916 - Death: Susan LAWS-28549, West Ham Essex England
1918 - Death: Richard William LAWS-11243, (Australian Army - Private 4829)               killed in Action
1946 - Death: Frank Burgess LAWES-800, (Ironmonger, Radio & Cycle Dealer)               Northampton Northamptonshire England
1950 - Burial: Lavinia CHEESEBOROUGH-2612, Rock Springs, Swetwater.,                   Wyoming United States
1957 - Estate Value £: Alfred George PASKINS-45728, 
1957 - Residence: Helen LAWS-45725, Sholing, Southampton Hampshire England
1980 - Death: Ronald D LAWS-16418, (MSgt US Air Force) 
1981 - Death: Herbert William LAWS-25177, (Bricklayer retired)  New Zealand
1983 - Death: Amy Louise LAWES-2730, Manchester, Hillsborough 
           New Hampshire  United States
1988 - Death: Thomas William  LAWS-46552, (Foreman Plumber) Guisborough               North Yorkshire England
2003 - Death: Robert Eland LAWS-12650, (Australian Army)  Wavell Heights                 New South Wales Australia
2011 - Cremation: Donald LAWS-8508, Tunbridge Wells, Kent England
2017 - Death: Jennifer Brendon LAWS-40564, Hoekwil South Africa




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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