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Monday 26th October 2020 - Number 7124

 LAWS FAMILY REGISTER  


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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Extracted from our Database today

Monday 26th October 2020

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Family Events

1742 - Birth: Ann LAWS-13548, Lakenheath Suffolk England
1770 - Marriage: James LAWS-5547 and Mary SMITH-5548,                 West Walton Norfolk England
1776 - Birth: Martha MEREDITH-50888, Surrey England
1794 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWS-2789, (Laundress)  
           Downham Market Norfolk England
1800 - Baptism: Isaac LAWS-20892, Chester le Street 
           Durham England
1804 - Marriage: Samuel CORY-13279 and Margaret WIG or                 WEG)-13280, Stratton Strawless Norfolk England

1806 - Birth: John LAWES-25161, Downton Wiltshire England
1806 - Baptism: John LAWS-3877, (Weaver)  Shoreditch                         Middlesex England
1813 - Marriage: Stephen LAWES-2022 (Dealer)  and Mary                     LAWES-2023, (Spinster, a cousin?)  Andover Hampshire               England


1819 - Marriage: John COPING-11198 (Farm Labourer)  and                 Martha LAWS-11197, Beetley Norfolk England
1823 - Baptism: William LAWS-6741, (Ag Lab & Vermin                          Destroyer) Litcham Norfolk England

1834 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWS-4333, Norwich Norfolk                         England
1843 - Birth: Ellen GRANT-14150, South Shields Durham                       England
1851 - Birth: George LAWES-23959, (RN 82623) Fordingbridge              Hampshire England
1856 - Baptism: John Smith ROWELL-38451, Brighton Sussex               England
1862 - Birth: John J LAWS-43175, (Retired Grocer)  
1864 - Burial: John Fairchild LAWS-34244, Lambeth Surrey                   England

1864 - Birth: Alice HONSBERGER-20296, Ontario Canada
1872 - Marriage: William LAWES-11171 and Elizabeth                              WARNES-11170, Brandiston Norfolk England
1873 - Birth: Walter J HAMMOND-24610, Detroit, Wayne                      County Michigan United States
1873 - Baptism: Bessie Maria Alice LAWS-4150, (Scholar) 
           East Stoke Dorset England

1876 - Birth: John H LAWS-27223, 
1882 - Death: Joseph Christopher LAWS-4453, (Engineer Elect.              CAM / Telegraph / Widower) Brighton Sussex England
1883 - Birth: Frederick Charles (Valet Private Service)                              SOUTHWOLD-44693, New Cross Surrey England
1887 - Death: Charlotte Jane MURRELL-11186, Leyton Essex                England
1890 - Birth: John L LAWS-16366, (PFC US Army) Illinois                     United States
1891 - Birth: Annie PARKER-21424, Ipswich Suffolk England

1894 - Birth: Alice Thompson LAWS-3788, 
1896 - Marriage: Ernest John Woodford LAWES-693 
          (Railway Signalman)  and Lucy Anne LAW-45812, Fovant             Wiltshire England
1899 - Birth: Ruth LAWS-51527, San Francisco California                        United States
1901 - Marriage: Herbert LAWS-43507 (Registrar & Clerk)  & 
           Emily Mary Blanche POOLE-43508, Streatham Surrey                 England
1902 - Birth: Sarah Eleanor HARVEY-32051, Willington Quay                Northumberland England
1903 - Burial: William DAKER-20974, (Coal Miner)  Stanley                    cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England
1905 - Emigration: Ainger LAWS-17310, (Ag Lab) from                            Liverpool - Quebec
1906 - Birth: Minnie Elizabeth LAWS-44536, Surrey South East,               Surrey England
1906 - Birth: Minnie E NICHOLS-32246, 
1908 - Birth: Lionel James LAWS-33999, Forest Gate Essex                     England
1910 - Birth: Doris Eva BRYANT-45577, (Insurance Clerk -
            Lloyds)  Childs Hill Middlesex England
1914 - Death: Alfred William LAWS-21760, (ARMY Private                     6901) France & Flanders
1914 - Residence: Matthew LAWS-5994, (Dock Labourer                          Stevedore Crane Driver)  Plaistow Essex England
1918 - Death: A LAWES-50225,  (82117 Private Royal Fusiliers) 
1920 - Birth: Phyllis Hannah LAWS-12643, (Australian Army)                Townsville Queensland Australia
1920 - Birth: Dorethea Hedwig SCHNEKENBURGER-10520,                  Germany
1927 - Burial: Catherine LAWS-27553, Stockton-On-Tees                         Durham England
1934 - Death: Albert Edward LAWS-14961, (Gardener) 
1940 - Residence: Merritt Tennyson LAWS-51506, (Laws                          Roofing Company inc)  Honolulu, Hawaii United States
1942 - Death: William James LAWES-26433, (Milk  Carrier)                    Hastings Sussex England
1947 - Death: Henry Arthur LAWES-24028, Liverpool, New                    South Wales Australia
1957 - Residence: Bernard Alfred LAWS-3080, (Builder &                        Contractor) Folkestone Kent England


1960 - Residence: Harry Gilbert LAWES-40833, (Coal                              Merchant)  Basingstoke Hampshire England
1960 - Death: Florence LAWS-5450, (Ladies Maid)  Croydon                     Surrey but resided at South Norwood Surrey England

1962 - Burial: Benjamin Citone LAWS-16677, Mountain View,                Riverton, Fremont Wyoming United States

1962 - Burial: Ernest F  LAWES-16247,  (Lt Col US Air Force)               Arlington Virginia United States

1965 - Death: Deloria LAWS-19346, Bell County, Kentucky,                     United States

1965 - Death: Wilfred Ralph LAWES-12516,  (Plumber & Gas                  Steam Fitter) Eastleigh Hampshire LAWES-12516, 
1977 - Death: Anthony HOOPER-10757, 
1978 - Death: Irene LAWS-40678, 
1981 - Death: Annie Mae LAWS-36229, Los Angeles, California              United States
1983 - Death: Eura Mae WILES-32544, Carroll County                            Tennessee United States
1987 - Death: Florence May LAWS-36621, Thorney                                    Cambridgeshire England
1992 - Death: Jane LAWS-14234, New South Wales Australia
1994 - Death: John William  LAWS-12283, (Australian Army)                 New South Wales Australia
2003 - Death: Mabel Victoria KEMP-27579, Hawkenbury Kent               England
2006 - Death: Robert J LAWS-44063,  (US Army Veteran,                       worked for Sheet Metal Union) Coventry Connecticut                   United States
2006 - Death: David Thomas LAWS-25748,  (Taxi Driver)                         Leicester Leicestershire England




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A Child of the Twenties

A suburban childhood of the Twenties as seen from the Nineteen Nineties
by John Robert Laws 1921-2008                                                 
Part 22
Further Afield 2

The school journeys abroad were more of a revelation than the camps. Package holidays had not yet been dreamed up and although the wealthy might holiday in the South of France or, you could ‘Join the Army and see the world’, the general urge to travel was only just beginning. 

I recall a book called  ‘France on ten pounds’ but only a few had the inclination, the time and the ten pounds,t o follow its inviting advice. Trips by school parties must have whetted the appetite of many in the latter part of the years between the wars.

We went to Paris in 1937, the year of the big Paris Exhibition. It was immediately evident that our French was not their French, understanding some of the written signs seemed to be our limit. As well as the historic buildings of the city which are compulsory viewing for all visitors we were able to visit the exhibition, grandiosely laid out with a long vista of lakes and fountains down a slope towards the Eiffel Tower. The contents of the impressive pavilions seemed insignificant compared to the buildings particularly the Soviet building surmounted by enormous figures of a man and a woman holding aloft a hammer and a sickle.  

What we really enjoyed, however, was the roller coaster ride which must have made tame all previous efforts in this direction. This and the ascent of the Eiffel Tower, which laid out a map of Paris below us were the highlights of the day of sunshine and unnoticed footslogging.

Of the conventional sights of Paris, the stained glass impressed me most and then the white mass of Sacre’ Coeur on its hill looking down on the city, where the ever-present taxis hurtled around corners blaring on their horns. The traffic must have been light or they could not have done it.   

Our few days of cultural duty in Paris done, we had a day or two at Wimereau on the channel coast, lazing, swimming and sitting on the beach. The beach was vast and flat with a good stiff breeze for the sand yachts which trundled along and across at a fair pace. A new sight for me then and one which I have never seen since. 

Even now there seems to be an air of the past, over the French channel coast resorts, even those destroyed in the war and have been since rebuilt, it would have been impossible to have imagined one to be on the English side of the channel.  


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In 1938 the school trip was to Italy, this was much more adventurous even apart from the political troubles which led to the war a year later.  We left Southgate tube station in the late afternoon to get the train from London and crossed the channel overnight to get to another train to trundle across France and through the fantastic alpine scenery to Milan in Northern Italy. 

Milan was just hot. We duly admired the thousand or so little spires of the enormous cathedral but saw very little or the ornate interior because we were shooed out on account of our short sleeves, 

Florence and Verona were different, they still are, despite the ravages of the motor car, and even as teenagers, I think we appreciated their beauty and agelessness despite our considerable interest in ice cream and fizzy bottled orangeade which we had discovered. You see little in a couple of days but these visits like the Italian ice cream awakened a  taste for more.

No loitering, however, on to Venice which was busy being itself, more quietly than it does now. We duly traversed the Grand Canal by Vaporetto, under the Rialto Bridge and on to St Marks Square and the pigeons. It was memorable and it all matched the guide books so we went on to the Lido for a swim in the Med. This was a real revelation. 

The water was WARM not like the sea we knew at home. You could stay in without getting cold. The discovery of the journey.

More trains, wooden seats, all tracks lead to Rome, a quick glimpse really, a full week spent wandering around Rome in later life only scratched the surface.

More trains, more wooden seats down south to Napoli. This was before the motor car engulfed Italy and I have photos to prove it showing the Naples seafront with nothing more than a couple of policemen and a tricycle ice cream vender. 

We did not see the slums of Naples, but we did visit a home , hutted camp that is, for orphans who were at least fed and clothed while they learned to shout for 'Il Duce’. 

We were treated to a glass of sweet wine and a speech in Italian pledging friendship from a uniformed gent who presumably ran the place. Back at the hotel that evening we ate at tables set in the open air under a lemon tree from which I had to pick a small souvenir

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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
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