Thursday 13th August 2020 - Number 7057

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 suburban childhood of the Twenties 

Seen from the Nineteen Nineties

By John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 8.

One faint memory of Green Lanes is of the buses with their cabs shrouded in wire netting to protect the volunteer drivers during the National Strike of 1926. What a good job there were no television cameras to encourage the attackers.

As well as the main shopping area in Green Lanes there were a few little shops around the railway station. The sweet shop was to me the most important and in those impecunious days, many sweet shops kept a halfpenny and farthing box with a selection of sweets at those prices for kids with pocket money. It is a sign of changing times that as I type this computer throws out the word Farthing as not being in the dictionary.

The dress of the period is familiar from photographs but the black and white of these photos do not tell us how much to colours changed. These monochrome photos are perhaps appropriate to the rather drab colours of everyday wear. Grey, black and white was definitely favourites except for special occasions. Green was thought unlucky by some though my mother had a brilliant green evening dress for one special occasion. Red tended to be associated with the immoral so one was left with brown and blue and usually dark at that. Even holiday wear was much less colourful, white flannels and a navy blue blazer being about the height of seaside fashion for Pater families. The ladies did much better with flower-patterned fabrics. For better or for worse the mini skirt hadn't been invented and bikini was still the name of an unknown Pacific island.

Among the street people with a distinctive dress the policeman stood out. A big man in his navy blue tunic and trousers, a leather belt around his middle with a bull’s-eye torch at the rear and his outfit completed with a proper Bobbies helmet on his head and big black boots on his feet for pavement pounding. Just occasionally his whistle might be heard shrilling as he chased some malefactor down the road. More often he was seen but not heard as he came by on foot or on his bike with his rain cape neatly folded over the handlebars.

Our family doctor lived just across the way in a sizable corner house. I saw him from time to time when I had various childhood ailments but his likeness escapes me. My mother always thought me thin and needing fattening up but rather doubting when the doctor included pork in his dietary recommendations. Anyway, I ate like a horse the only dislike I can remember was the kidney in steak and kidney pudding. The doctor had installed a machine for 'sun-ray treatment' and my mother took me over to him several times for a dose of the beneficial light. It was some sort of ultraviolet light emission which would frighten a quack silly today.

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Extracted from our Database today

Tuesday 11th August 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

FAMILY EVENTS

1663 - Marriage: Robert ALLEN-1340 and Abigail LAWES-                 1341, Norwich Norfolk England

1670 - Death: Thomas MORGAN-10835, 
1686 - Baptism: Mary LAWES-25403, North Bradley Wiltshire              England
1749 - Christen: Betty LAWES-318, Martin Wiltshire England
1798 - Marriage: John DEWING-38874 and Mary LAWS-                     38875, Guestwick Norfolk England
1803 - Birth: Hosea LAWS-39762, Westminster, Worcester                     County Massachusetts United States
1826 - Baptism: Richard Willoughby LAWS-28686, 
           (C J Navy East India Company Retired)  
           Calcutta Bengal India
1833 - Birth: Francis Edwin LAWES-195, (Reverend)                              Aldermaston Berkshire England
1834 - Burial: Jane LAWS-28917, Washbrook Suffolk England
1842 - Birth: Agnes Isabella LAWS-3833, Portsmouth                             Hampshire England

1844 - Baptism: Joseph CLARKE-25976, (Colliery                                  Storekeeper)  Lamesley Durham England
1846 - Birth: William Robert EGGLETON-28942, 
            South Creake Norfolk England
1851 - Birth: Michael Grahame LAWS-4616, (Horologist) 
            St Pancras Middlesex England
1853 - Birth: George CROSS-16150, Ely Cambridgeshire                       England
1854 - Immigration: John Israel HARLEY-30147, 
           Moreton Bay, Queensland Australia
1854 - Immigration: Sarah LAWS-30146, Moreton Bay,                         Queensland Australia
1856 - Marriage: William James LAWS-20666 (Slater) and                    Mary GUNTON-20667, Norwich Norfolk England
1863 - Birth: Samuel LAWES-2491, (Gardener Domestic)                     Watton Norfolk England
1865 - Baptism: Ruth LAWS-3488, (Spinster)  Bedlington                       Northumberland England
1868 - Marriage: John EHRET-19255 and Elizabeth LAWS-                 19256, Gilmer County, West Virginia United States
1870 - Birth: Elizabeth POLK/WILLIAMS-28148, 
1870 - Birth: Elizabeth Jane WAKE-8496, Sunderland Durham
           England

1870 - Birth: Elizabeth Jane WAKE-8496, Sunderland Durham England
1874 - Birth: William C LAWES-43821, (Gardener) 
1876 - Birth: Alex LAWES-43882, (Packing Case Maker) 
1876 - Birth: Thomas Andrew LAWS-2843, (Motorman of                     Electric Tram)  West Hartlepool Durham England

1877 - Marriage: Joseph W LAWS-24928 and Sarah Margaret             TIPTON-24935, Mitchell County North Carolina 
            United States
1879 - Emigration: Anna LAWS-50980, Hamburg Germany
1879 - Emigration: Johann LAWS-50979, Hamburg Germany
1879 - Emigration: Augustus LAWS-50978, (Machinist)                         Hamburg Germany
1879 - Emigration: Adalbert LAWS-50977, Hamburg Germany
1879 - Emigration: Joseph LAWS-50976, Hamburg Germany
1879 - Emigration: Anton LAWS-50974, (Farmer) Hamburg                 Germany
1883 - Birth: Nancy Olive Legge NORBURY-32459, 
1889 - Birth: William CHILTON-2634, Rock Springs,                             Sweetwater Wyoming United States
1894 - Marriage: Robert Carmichael LAWS-4797 (Coalminer) 
           and Sophia CORBETT-28087, Morpeth                                         Northumberland England
1898 - Marriage: Edward Ernest GREEN-38262 and Emily                   Ward LAWS-4752, Great Clacton with Little Holland 
           Essex England
1899 - Baptism: Ernest A LAWS-15222, (Builders Labourer)                  Hilborough Norfolk England
1900 - Birth: Harold J LAWS-42920, (Brickworks Labourer)  
1901 - Birth: Alice Annie COOK-20324, Hammersmith                         Middlesex England
1905 - Birth: Doris M BENFORD-51096, (Typist)  
1906 - Birth: William Frederick HERMAN-51613, 
1906 - Birth: William LAWS-12660, (Australian Army - Acting              Corporal NX41939 )  Leichhardt, New South Wales                      Australia
1907 - Marriage: William HALL-28859 and Hannah LAWS-                  5758, 
1907 - Birth: Ivy Ada LAWES-34970, (Ledger Clerk in 
           Motor Trade) 
1909 - Birth: Walter LAWS-35392, (Works Policeman) Derby               Derbyshire England
1910 - Birth: Robert LAWS-41578, (Coal Fitter Underground)  
1913 - Residence: Charles Edward LAWS-22360, (Lithograph               Artist)  Coshocton Ohio United States
1914 - Birth: James Reginald LAWS-38880, Elizabethton,                     Carter, Tennessee, United States
1914 - Birth: Robert Messiter LAWES-40344, (Gardener)  
1914 - Enlistment: James Warren LAWS-28233, (Army Private
           1891) 
1915 - Death: William LAWS-3545, (Ag Lab)  Gallipoli Turkey
1917 - Birth: James Augustus LAWS-47835, Lawrenceburg                   Tennessee United States
1918 - Birth: Kenneth E LAWS-46250, (Engineer Steel Turner)              Llanelli Carmarthenshire Wales
1918 - Birth: Edwin Vincent LAWS-44836, Lakewood 
           New Jersey United States
1920 - Birth: Henry (LAWS-42844, Brass Moulder)  
1920 - Birth: John O LAWS-39665, (University Student) 
1927 - Death: George W LAWS-50073, Broken Arrow, Tulsa                  Oklahoma United States
1928 - Death: Marie Amelia Rose FONTAINE-218, 
           Piccadilly, London
1931 - Death: Ellen ADAMS-28851, Melbourne, Victoria                       Australia
1941 - Death: Matilda DOUGLAS-19409, Ogden, Webber                     County, Utah United States
1944 - Death: Alice Beatrice MANNING-38038, (Sick Nurse)                 Weston Super Mare Somerset England

1946 - Death: Charles Bernard ANGELL-23791, (Teacher)                   Easington, Durham, England
1947 - Birth: Keith LAWS-21290, Collingwood, Victoria 
           Australia
1949 - Death: Harriet ELLIS-33540, Poole Dorset England
1949 - Residence: Harriet ELLIS-33540, Wareham Dorset                     England

1952 - Death: Herbert Joseph William LAWES-39239,                           Southampton Hampshire England
1952 - Death: Caster LAWS-19334, Bell County, Kentucky,                   United States
1962 - Death: Esther M LAWS-38756, Orofino, Clearwater,                   Idaho, United States
1963 - Burial: Edward Martin LAWS-16310, Baltimore                         Maryland United States
1968 - Death: John Shields LAWS-16368, 
           (Lt Col US Air Force)  Sacramento California 
           United States
1974 - Death: Annie Lavinia LAWS-20326, Hammersmith                     Middlesex England
1979 - Death: Geoffrey (Lt Col) LAWS-10702, Kings Langley               Hertfordshire burial at Sarrat Hertfordshire England
1979 - Death: Reginald Edward LAWS-3814, (Apprentice                     Carpenter) Horndean Hampshire England
1987 - Death: Edgar Thomas LAWS-41353, (Builders Lab)                   Bexley Kent England
1994 - Death: John George LAWS-39608, Jackson, 
           Teton County, Wyoming, United States
1999 - Death: Ruby Janet DOTSON-44215,(Hospital Maid)                    Morganton North Carolina United States
2001 - Death: David Hadley LAWS-13722, Manassas Park                     City, Virginia United States
2002 - Death: Robert E LAWS-27080, 
2003 - Death: Nancy Cecelia VAN DUREN-11860, Beloit, 
           Rock County, Wisconsin United States
2012 - Death: Ruby Maine LAWS-16484, (Mill Worker)                         Concord, North Carolina United States
2014 - Death: Lester Leonard NORWOOD-11021, 
2015 - Death: Aaron Craig LAWS-36404, Gillingham Kent                   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

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

R I P

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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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