WELCOME TO TH E LAWS FAMILY REGISTER Henry Lawes 1595-1662 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 min e. ============================================================= A suburban childhood of the Twenties Seen from the Nineteen Nineties By John Robert Laws 1921-2008 Part 1 IN THE BEGINNING The war had been over three years, the Kaiser's War that is. It was late afternoon on Christmas Eve and the sun had gone down for the day, the gaslight on and the fires lit, but