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 16
Holidays
Holidays at that time meant the seaside, and the seaside meant the East Coast, Sunshine, East winds sand and icy grey sea.
June was the preferred month until school became important enough to interfere. My mother packed vast quantities of clothing in a big cabin trunk, which must have gone on ahead; it certainly didn’t come in the car with us. It took a good three hours to cover seventy-odd miles to the coast.
The bypass was an almost unknown word and certainly wasn’t applicable to even the Essex county town of Colchester the first time of two that we went that way. One was built in the next couple of years but now some sixty-odd years later has been virtually absorbed into the town to be replaced by the (now hardly adequate) A12.
We went to Clacton on the first holiday I remember and the sand and the seafront were the attractions. The next year it was Little Holland (Now Holland on Sea) where there was more sand and no seafront and I spent the whole holiday on the beach. After that, it was always Walton on the Naze.
Here we would have some rooms or latterly a house and we would stay for a month, though my father had only a fortnight of holiday and was only with us at weekends the rest of the time. We used to have a beach hut near the pier and would swim in the icy North Sea in blazing sunshine. It must have been here that I learnt to swim, taught by my mother, tuition later reinforced and widened by lessons at school.
There was a stone-built breakwater in front of the beach huts and with the run of the tide along the coast, there was deep water on one side and sand at the water’s edge on the other. Facing the deep side was a platform diving board and a springboard where one could display a considerable lack of skill combined with great enjoyment.
The deepwater was only there at the high tide of course and so the tides controlled the way the day was spent. In the youngest bucket and spade days, low water was in demand but once I could swim strongly it had to be high tide. Not far from the diving boards, rafts were anchored to give a point to swim to and even sit on, The young cannot sit still however and so it was climb out and dive back in again and swim back to base to start again.
It was never crowded at Walton. Holidaymakers were squeezed off most of the beaches at high tide but there were soon big stretches of smooth virgin sand again and on one of these, a beach artist would claim a large pitch well overlooked from the promenade. He would draw his pictures on the hard damp sand and set his hat to catch the pennies thrown from the prom. Perhaps he doubled as a pavement artist in the winter.
The un-crowded beaches were ideal for flying kites and even permitted the continuous swinging of a tethered tennis ball hung on long elastic between a pair of poles. On one holiday I remember a less space-consuming toy was rampant, the yoyo, and these spinning discs on strings were in every hand rising and falling, spinning and circling to show off the skill of the owner.
South of the pier was the sunniest part of the cliffs and here and there, were tiers of beach huts rising behind the prom from which one could watch the world go by or change for a swim. The beach hut was not only for swimming from but also for sitting in the sun sheltered from the east coast wind, very rarely for sheltering from the rain, and for making tea and eating snacks and ice cream.
I was much better at eating than the sitting but would sometimes stay and watch the sailing barges gliding serenely along the coast, their big red sails filled with the east wind. It was not so funny for them when it really blew hard. Distress flares would go up with a noisy boom and the lifeboat went out from its anchorage by the end of the pier. Even in the summer of holiday time, this was not all that unusual.
As well as sailing barges there were paddle steamers which called at the end of the pier. These came from Tower Bridge by way of Southend-on-Sea and then sailed away into the far distance north to unknown Yarmouth perhaps. These were best watched from the end of the pier itself where the bump could be felt as ropes were thrown and contact made with the big paddle wheels churning in reverse. On the pier too there was entertainment. The man who rode a bike off the high diving board was always worth watching, but the children’s concerts were pretty corny, even for kids.
Continued tomorrow
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 16
Holidays
Holidays at that time meant the seaside, and the seaside meant the East Coast, Sunshine, East winds sand and icy grey sea.
June was the preferred month until school became important enough to interfere. My mother packed vast quantities of clothing in a big cabin trunk, which must have gone on ahead; it certainly didn’t come in the car with us. It took a good three hours to cover seventy-odd miles to the coast.
Here we would have some rooms or latterly a house and we would stay for a month, though my father had only a fortnight of holiday and was only with us at weekends the rest of the time. We used to have a beach hut near the pier and would swim in the icy North Sea in blazing sunshine. It must have been here that I learnt to swim, taught by my mother, tuition later reinforced and widened by lessons at school.
There was a stone-built breakwater in front of the beach huts and with the run of the tide along the coast, there was deep water on one side and sand at the water’s edge on the other. Facing the deep side was a platform diving board and a springboard where one could display a considerable lack of skill combined with great enjoyment.
Holidays
Holidays at that time meant the seaside, and the seaside meant the East Coast, Sunshine, East winds sand and icy grey sea.
June was the preferred month until school became important enough to interfere. My mother packed vast quantities of clothing in a big cabin trunk, which must have gone on ahead; it certainly didn’t come in the car with us. It took a good three hours to cover seventy-odd miles to the coast.
The bypass was an almost unknown word and certainly wasn’t applicable to even the Essex county town of Colchester the first time of two that we went that way. One was built in the next couple of years but now some sixty-odd years later has been virtually absorbed into the town to be replaced by the (now hardly adequate) A12.
We went to Clacton on the first holiday I remember and the sand and the seafront were the attractions. The next year it was Little Holland (Now Holland on Sea) where there was more sand and no seafront and I spent the whole holiday on the beach. After that, it was always Walton on the Naze.
Here we would have some rooms or latterly a house and we would stay for a month, though my father had only a fortnight of holiday and was only with us at weekends the rest of the time. We used to have a beach hut near the pier and would swim in the icy North Sea in blazing sunshine. It must have been here that I learnt to swim, taught by my mother, tuition later reinforced and widened by lessons at school.
There was a stone-built breakwater in front of the beach huts and with the run of the tide along the coast, there was deep water on one side and sand at the water’s edge on the other. Facing the deep side was a platform diving board and a springboard where one could display a considerable lack of skill combined with great enjoyment.
The deepwater was only there at the high tide of course and so the tides controlled the way the day was spent. In the youngest bucket and spade days, low water was in demand but once I could swim strongly it had to be high tide. Not far from the diving boards, rafts were anchored to give a point to swim to and even sit on, The young cannot sit still however and so it was climb out and dive back in again and swim back to base to start again.
It was never crowded at Walton. Holidaymakers were squeezed off most of the beaches at high tide but there were soon big stretches of smooth virgin sand again and on one of these, a beach artist would claim a large pitch well overlooked from the promenade. He would draw his pictures on the hard damp sand and set his hat to catch the pennies thrown from the prom. Perhaps he doubled as a pavement artist in the winter.
The un-crowded beaches were ideal for flying kites and even permitted the continuous swinging of a tethered tennis ball hung on long elastic between a pair of poles. On one holiday I remember a less space-consuming toy was rampant, the yoyo, and these spinning discs on strings were in every hand rising and falling, spinning and circling to show off the skill of the owner.
South of the pier was the sunniest part of the cliffs and here and there, were tiers of beach huts rising behind the prom from which one could watch the world go by or change for a swim. The beach hut was not only for swimming from but also for sitting in the sun sheltered from the east coast wind, very rarely for sheltering from the rain, and for making tea and eating snacks and ice cream.
I was much better at eating than the sitting but would sometimes stay and watch the sailing barges gliding serenely along the coast, their big red sails filled with the east wind. It was not so funny for them when it really blew hard. Distress flares would go up with a noisy boom and the lifeboat went out from its anchorage by the end of the pier. Even in the summer of holiday time, this was not all that unusual.
As well as sailing barges there were paddle steamers which called at the end of the pier. These came from Tower Bridge by way of Southend-on-Sea and then sailed away into the far distance north to unknown Yarmouth perhaps. These were best watched from the end of the pier itself where the bump could be felt as ropes were thrown and contact made with the big paddle wheels churning in reverse. On the pier too there was entertainment. The man who rode a bike off the high diving board was always worth watching, but the children’s concerts were pretty corny, even for kids.
Continued tomorrow
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Extracted from our Database today
Extracted from our Database today
Tuesday 25th August 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1688 - Death: Henry MORGAN-2682, Jamaica
1805 - Death: Edward Henry HANOVER-22103, Piccadilly, London
1809 - Death: Fanny RILEY-883, Hampton Wick Middlesex England
1810 - Marriage: Charles LAWS-4950 and Ann FLOWERS-4951, Norwich Norfolk England
1811 - Baptism: Sarah LAWS-27572,
1819 - Baptism: Henry LAWS-3852, Dover Kent England
1822 - Christen: Ann LAWES-1686, Folkestone Kent England
1841 - Birth: Jane CLEGG-25284, Dukiinfield Cheshire England
1845 - Baptism: William Mead LAWS-13291, (Master Builder & Carpenter) Ditchingham Norfolk England
1867 - Marriage: William Thomas LAWS-17162 (Warehouseman) and Eliza Agnes GARDNER-8209, Southwark Surrey England
1869 - Birth: Ellen CUTHILL-17092, Houghton le Spring Durham England
1870 - Marriage: Walter Pennington CREYKE-16441 and Caroline LAWES-223, Harpenden Hertfordshire England
1870 - Birth: Bernard Courtney LAWS-4461 (Naval Architect) Portsmouth Hampshire England
1875 - Birth: Ethel Treen LAWS-3103, Margate Kent England
1877 - Marriage: Walter Ernest WOOLNOUGH-27350 and Caroline Anne Newitt LAWS-27349, North Aylesford Kent England
1882 - Death: Honor or Anna or Hannah ANDREWS-6998, (Farm Servant) Surrey Hills New South Wales Australia
1885 - Death: James M SPRINGER-32582, Carroll County, Tennessee
United States
1887 - Birth: Bertie LAWES-39257, (Ag Lab)
1888 - Birth: Stanley Richard LAWES-2330, Basingstoke Hampshire England
1890 - Birth: Anna Rosalind LAWS-19084,
1891 - Birth: Kate MILLER-701, West Cowes, Isle of Wight England
1894 - Marriage: John Kendal SADLER-13636 (Artist) and Louise Gabrielle Caroline Eugenie DE BOISSIERE-46260, Clapton Common Middlesex
1896 - Birth: William J LADD-47046, (Crate maker)
1901 - Marriage: Harry Freeman BUTTERWORTH-37913 and Eleanor Mary LAWS-37912, (Drapers Assistant) Godstone Surrey England
1902 - Education: Victor Lorraine LAWS-29451, (Lorry Driver) Hackney Middlesex England
1905 - Birth: Elwood Paul LAWS-51551, Oklahoma Oklahoma, United States
1908 - Birth: Kathleen Mary LAWS-50829,
1909 - Residence: Charles Edward LAWS-22360 (Lithograph Artist)
London Road, East Finchley Middlesex England
1910 - Birth: Winifred Florence NEWMAN-47071, (WaItress)
1910 - Baptism: Barbara May Muriel LAWES-22442,
1911 - Burial: Elizabeth Ann CAUDWELL-38438, Waltham Forest Essex England
1914 - Death: James William (LAWES-4772, General Foreman in Iron Works) Norwich Norfolk England
1915 - Marriage: Robert Ed LAWS-36913 and Clara WILKIN-36915, Lambton County Ontario Canada
1918 - Death: W LAWES-21746, (ARMY Rifleman 50133)
1919 - Military Service: Albert Henry Cecil LAWES-34102, (Business Manager)
1923 - Birth: Joseph Edward D LAWS-35035,
1925 - Death: John LAWS-8383, Norwich Norfolk England
1927 - Marriage: Horace Kenneth (Labourer) LAWS-14231 and Emily Lena HENSON-14378, Leichhard1927 t, New South Wales Australia
1947 - Residence: William LAWS-3966, (Hove Corporation Foreman Retired) Hove Sussex England
1962 - Residence: George Thomas Young GARRETT-51708, (Army Private RASC) Ealing Middlesex England
1963 - Death: Lucy Rosanna LAWS-28722, ACT New South Wales Australia
1968 - Death: Queen Esther LAWS-25511, Houston, Harris County Texas
United States
1972 - Death: Haskel Warren LAWS-35257, Johnson City, Washington County Tennessee United States
1977 - Burial: Hubert LAWS-16351, (Cpl US Marine Corps) Houston,
Harris County Texas United States
1978 - Death: Cyrus MORGAN-11875,
1979 - Death: Jane Willis RUSSELL-32078, Napier New Zealand
1981 - Burial: Herbert William LAWS-25177 (Bricklayer retired)
Christchurch New Zealand
1982 - Death: Catherine V LAWS-16244,
1983 - Death: Danny LAWS-40650, Bruceton Tennessee United States
1987 - Divorce: Joseph James LAWS-42074 and Geneva Carolyn BURNETTE- 42075, Virginia United States
1991 - Death: Zela Agnes PACKARD-24597, Spitalfields Middlesex England
1993 - Death: David Charles Allan LAWES-14198,
2000 - Death: John Walter LAWS-45614,(Bar Steward) Ipswich Suffolk England
2003 - Death: Violet Aurine LAWS-11916, (Southern Beauty Supply.) Greenville South Carolina United States
2004 - Death: Shelby Jean LAWS-40706,
2005 - Death: Gerald Francis LAWS-43947, Gering, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska United States
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
Tuesday 25th August 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1688 - Death: Henry MORGAN-2682, Jamaica
1805 - Death: Edward Henry HANOVER-22103, Piccadilly, London
1809 - Death: Fanny RILEY-883, Hampton Wick Middlesex England
1810 - Marriage: Charles LAWS-4950 and Ann FLOWERS-4951, Norwich Norfolk England
1811 - Baptism: Sarah LAWS-27572,
1819 - Baptism: Henry LAWS-3852, Dover Kent England
1822 - Christen: Ann LAWES-1686, Folkestone Kent England
1841 - Birth: Jane CLEGG-25284, Dukiinfield Cheshire England
1845 - Baptism: William Mead LAWS-13291, (Master Builder & Carpenter) Ditchingham Norfolk England
1867 - Marriage: William Thomas LAWS-17162 (Warehouseman) and Eliza Agnes GARDNER-8209, Southwark Surrey England
1869 - Birth: Ellen CUTHILL-17092, Houghton le Spring Durham England
1870 - Marriage: Walter Pennington CREYKE-16441 and Caroline LAWES-223, Harpenden Hertfordshire England
1870 - Birth: Bernard Courtney LAWS-4461 (Naval Architect) Portsmouth Hampshire England
1875 - Birth: Ethel Treen LAWS-3103, Margate Kent England
1877 - Marriage: Walter Ernest WOOLNOUGH-27350 and Caroline Anne Newitt LAWS-27349, North Aylesford Kent England
1882 - Death: Honor or Anna or Hannah ANDREWS-6998, (Farm Servant) Surrey Hills New South Wales Australia
1885 - Death: James M SPRINGER-32582, Carroll County, Tennessee
United States
1887 - Birth: Bertie LAWES-39257, (Ag Lab)
1888 - Birth: Stanley Richard LAWES-2330, Basingstoke Hampshire England
1890 - Birth: Anna Rosalind LAWS-19084,
1891 - Birth: Kate MILLER-701, West Cowes, Isle of Wight England
1894 - Marriage: John Kendal SADLER-13636 (Artist) and Louise Gabrielle Caroline Eugenie DE BOISSIERE-46260, Clapton Common Middlesex
1896 - Birth: William J LADD-47046, (Crate maker)
1901 - Marriage: Harry Freeman BUTTERWORTH-37913 and Eleanor Mary LAWS-37912, (Drapers Assistant) Godstone Surrey England
1902 - Education: Victor Lorraine LAWS-29451, (Lorry Driver) Hackney Middlesex England
1905 - Birth: Elwood Paul LAWS-51551, Oklahoma Oklahoma, United States
1908 - Birth: Kathleen Mary LAWS-50829,
1909 - Residence: Charles Edward LAWS-22360 (Lithograph Artist)
London Road, East Finchley Middlesex England
1910 - Birth: Winifred Florence NEWMAN-47071, (WaItress)
1910 - Baptism: Barbara May Muriel LAWES-22442,
1911 - Burial: Elizabeth Ann CAUDWELL-38438, Waltham Forest Essex England
1914 - Death: James William (LAWES-4772, General Foreman in Iron Works) Norwich Norfolk England
1915 - Marriage: Robert Ed LAWS-36913 and Clara WILKIN-36915, Lambton County Ontario Canada
1918 - Death: W LAWES-21746, (ARMY Rifleman 50133)
1919 - Military Service: Albert Henry Cecil LAWES-34102, (Business Manager)
1923 - Birth: Joseph Edward D LAWS-35035,
1925 - Death: John LAWS-8383, Norwich Norfolk England
1927 - Marriage: Horace Kenneth (Labourer) LAWS-14231 and Emily Lena HENSON-14378, Leichhard1927 t, New South Wales Australia
1947 - Residence: William LAWS-3966, (Hove Corporation Foreman Retired) Hove Sussex England
1962 - Residence: George Thomas Young GARRETT-51708, (Army Private RASC) Ealing Middlesex England
1963 - Death: Lucy Rosanna LAWS-28722, ACT New South Wales Australia
1968 - Death: Queen Esther LAWS-25511, Houston, Harris County Texas
United States
1972 - Death: Haskel Warren LAWS-35257, Johnson City, Washington County Tennessee United States
1977 - Burial: Hubert LAWS-16351, (Cpl US Marine Corps) Houston,
Harris County Texas United States
1978 - Death: Cyrus MORGAN-11875,
1979 - Death: Jane Willis RUSSELL-32078, Napier New Zealand
1981 - Burial: Herbert William LAWS-25177 (Bricklayer retired)
Christchurch New Zealand
1982 - Death: Catherine V LAWS-16244,
1983 - Death: Danny LAWS-40650, Bruceton Tennessee United States
1987 - Divorce: Joseph James LAWS-42074 and Geneva Carolyn BURNETTE- 42075, Virginia United States
1991 - Death: Zela Agnes PACKARD-24597, Spitalfields Middlesex England
1993 - Death: David Charles Allan LAWES-14198,
2000 - Death: John Walter LAWS-45614,(Bar Steward) Ipswich Suffolk England
2003 - Death: Violet Aurine LAWS-11916, (Southern Beauty Supply.) Greenville South Carolina United States
2004 - Death: Shelby Jean LAWS-40706,
2005 - Death: Gerald Francis LAWS-43947, Gering, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska United States
1805 - Death: Edward Henry HANOVER-22103, Piccadilly, London
1809 - Death: Fanny RILEY-883, Hampton Wick Middlesex England
1810 - Marriage: Charles LAWS-4950 and Ann FLOWERS-4951, Norwich Norfolk England
1811 - Baptism: Sarah LAWS-27572,
1819 - Baptism: Henry LAWS-3852, Dover Kent England
1822 - Christen: Ann LAWES-1686, Folkestone Kent England
1841 - Birth: Jane CLEGG-25284, Dukiinfield Cheshire England
1845 - Baptism: William Mead LAWS-13291, (Master Builder & Carpenter) Ditchingham Norfolk England
1867 - Marriage: William Thomas LAWS-17162 (Warehouseman) and Eliza Agnes GARDNER-8209, Southwark Surrey England
1869 - Birth: Ellen CUTHILL-17092, Houghton le Spring Durham England
1870 - Marriage: Walter Pennington CREYKE-16441 and Caroline LAWES-223, Harpenden Hertfordshire England
1870 - Birth: Bernard Courtney LAWS-4461 (Naval Architect) Portsmouth Hampshire England
1875 - Birth: Ethel Treen LAWS-3103, Margate Kent England
1877 - Marriage: Walter Ernest WOOLNOUGH-27350 and Caroline Anne Newitt LAWS-27349, North Aylesford Kent England
1882 - Death: Honor or Anna or Hannah ANDREWS-6998, (Farm Servant) Surrey Hills New South Wales Australia
1885 - Death: James M SPRINGER-32582, Carroll County, Tennessee
United States
1887 - Birth: Bertie LAWES-39257, (Ag Lab)
1888 - Birth: Stanley Richard LAWES-2330, Basingstoke Hampshire England
1890 - Birth: Anna Rosalind LAWS-19084,
1891 - Birth: Kate MILLER-701, West Cowes, Isle of Wight England
1894 - Marriage: John Kendal SADLER-13636 (Artist) and Louise Gabrielle Caroline Eugenie DE BOISSIERE-46260, Clapton Common Middlesex
1896 - Birth: William J LADD-47046, (Crate maker)
1901 - Marriage: Harry Freeman BUTTERWORTH-37913 and Eleanor Mary LAWS-37912, (Drapers Assistant) Godstone Surrey England
1902 - Education: Victor Lorraine LAWS-29451, (Lorry Driver) Hackney Middlesex England
1905 - Birth: Elwood Paul LAWS-51551, Oklahoma Oklahoma, United States
1908 - Birth: Kathleen Mary LAWS-50829,
1909 - Residence: Charles Edward LAWS-22360 (Lithograph Artist)
London Road, East Finchley Middlesex England
1910 - Birth: Winifred Florence NEWMAN-47071, (WaItress)
1910 - Baptism: Barbara May Muriel LAWES-22442,
1911 - Burial: Elizabeth Ann CAUDWELL-38438, Waltham Forest Essex England
1914 - Death: James William (LAWES-4772, General Foreman in Iron Works) Norwich Norfolk England
1915 - Marriage: Robert Ed LAWS-36913 and Clara WILKIN-36915, Lambton County Ontario Canada
1918 - Death: W LAWES-21746, (ARMY Rifleman 50133)
1919 - Military Service: Albert Henry Cecil LAWES-34102, (Business Manager)
1923 - Birth: Joseph Edward D LAWS-35035,
1925 - Death: John LAWS-8383, Norwich Norfolk England
1927 - Marriage: Horace Kenneth (Labourer) LAWS-14231 and Emily Lena HENSON-14378, Leichhard1927 t, New South Wales Australia
1947 - Residence: William LAWS-3966, (Hove Corporation Foreman Retired) Hove Sussex England
1962 - Residence: George Thomas Young GARRETT-51708, (Army Private RASC) Ealing Middlesex England
1963 - Death: Lucy Rosanna LAWS-28722, ACT New South Wales Australia
1968 - Death: Queen Esther LAWS-25511, Houston, Harris County Texas
United States
1972 - Death: Haskel Warren LAWS-35257, Johnson City, Washington County Tennessee United States
1977 - Burial: Hubert LAWS-16351, (Cpl US Marine Corps) Houston,
Harris County Texas United States
1978 - Death: Cyrus MORGAN-11875,
1979 - Death: Jane Willis RUSSELL-32078, Napier New Zealand
1981 - Burial: Herbert William LAWS-25177 (Bricklayer retired)
Christchurch New Zealand
1982 - Death: Catherine V LAWS-16244,
1983 - Death: Danny LAWS-40650, Bruceton Tennessee United States
1987 - Divorce: Joseph James LAWS-42074 and Geneva Carolyn BURNETTE- 42075, Virginia United States
1991 - Death: Zela Agnes PACKARD-24597, Spitalfields Middlesex England
1993 - Death: David Charles Allan LAWES-14198,
2000 - Death: John Walter LAWS-45614,(Bar Steward) Ipswich Suffolk England
2003 - Death: Violet Aurine LAWS-11916, (Southern Beauty Supply.) Greenville South Carolina United States
2004 - Death: Shelby Jean LAWS-40706,
2005 - Death: Gerald Francis LAWS-43947, Gering, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska United States
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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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