Saturday 17th October 2020 - Number 7115

  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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We could put your LAWS/LAWES story here 

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Extracted from our Database today

Saturday 17th October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1695 - Marriage: George LAWS-4404 and Lettice FELLS-4405,             Clerkenwell Middlesex England

1716 - Marriage: Richard JOHNSON-1874 and Frances                           LAWES-1875, Norwich Norfolk England

1744 - Baptism: Jessie LAWES-829, (Ag Lab) Coombe Bissett                 Wiltshire England

1773 - Birth: Edward LAWS-23591, Feltwell Norfolk England

1775 - Burial: Alexander LAWS-34695, Dagenham Essex                          England

1788 - Baptism: Mary BOWERS-13478, Elsworth                                      Cambridgeshire England

1802 - Christen: Henry LAWS-6917, Folkestone Kent England

1809 - Baptism: Frederick LAWS-20596, Lavenham Suffolk                     England

1813 - Christen: Hannah LAWS-5976, Bexley Kent England

1824 - Marriage: Matthew LAWS-7146 and Mary ROBSON-                   28604, Monkwearmouth Durham England

1836 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-6206 (Carpenter) and Mary 

           Ann RICE-4512, Heigham Norfolk England

1841 - Baptism: Jane Elizabeth INGRAM-3837, (Housemaid)                 Clapham Surrey England

1846 - Marriage: Spencer Nesbit LAWS-22453 and Siotha                       WESTERMAN-22454, Lincoln Tennessee United States

1846 - Birth: Jane Ann WINTER-3908, Ellingham                                     Northumberland England

1849 - Baptism: Henrietta LAWS-13928, Stepney Middlesex                     England (My Great Grandfathers sister)

1849 - Baptism: Angelina LAWS-7053, (Milliner)  Stepney                       Middlesex England (My Great Grandfathers sister)

1862 - Burial: Rhoda J LAWS-26670, Stoke by Guildford Surrey             England

1864 - Birth: Lucy WELLS-7079,(Barmaid)  Shoreditch                           Middlesex England (My maternal Great Grandmother)

1866 - Birth: Annie E LAWS-20288, 

1871 - Death: Thomas Thurlow LAWS-31397, (Master Mariner                18708) Roath Glamorgan Wales

1871 - Birth: Michael LAWS-7119, (Gardeners Labourer)                        Littleport Cambridgeshire England

1872 - Death: James LAWES-2122, (General Dealer) 

            Upper Holloway Middlesex England

1880 - Baptism: William Walker LAWS-4277, (Ag Lab ) 

           Feltwell Norfolk England

1882 - Birth: Jesse Martin LAWS-11362, (Farmer) McLeanboro, 

           Hamilton County Illinois United States

1886 - Baptism: Alice LAWS-28461, Bedlington Northumberland

           England

1887 - Birth: George Frederick LAWES -47419, (General                          Labourer) 

1888 - Birth: Mabel Maud STIFF-27010, Cwmbran Glamorgan             Wales

1889 - Birth: Lily Maude NORTON-33656, Hevingham Norfolk             England

1898 - Birth: Chalmer E LAWS-16285, (PFC US Army)  

1901 - Birth: Samuel NEWTON-28534, West Bromwich                           Staffordshire England

1903 - Birth: Frank Goodall LAWS-11247, Cowra, 

            New South Wales Australia

1906 - Birth: Lavinia Isabella LAWS-19953, Lidcombe 

           New South Wales Australia

1906 - Birth: Lily JENNINGS-19242, (Textile Scourer & Dryer)             Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

1906 - Birth: Dorothy Edith RICE-5836, 

1910 - Marriage: Clarence J LAWS-51201 (US Milla Foreman)               and Ada MCCUTCHEON-51202, Chicago Illinois 

           United States

1911 - Birth: Elizabeth THOMAS-42195, Chatham Kent                         England

1914 - Birth: James H LAWES-46984, (Woollen Dye Blender) 

1915 - Birth: James Harry LAWS-35318, (Motor Garage                         Engineer) 

1915 - Death: Alfred LAWES-2665, (Soldier & former                               Policeman) Brighton Sussex England

1916 - Military: John William Oughton LAWS-21802 

            (Army Sapper WR/202714/207480, Royal Engineers)

1917 - Marriage: William H PAYNE-3632 (Farmer/Caretaker)               and Eliza Mary Eleanor LAWS-3629, Grafton, 

           New South Wales Australia

1917 - Enlistment: Alfred Ernest LAWS-34066, (Retired Coach               Body Builder - RAF Service Number: 101343)  

1918 - Birth: Margaret Pauline HAYES-20096, Fayette County                Illinois United States

1920 - Birth: Jean Mavis LAWS-47264, (Bank Clerk) 

1925 - Marriage: Reginald William LAWES-2271 (Farmer)  

            and Kate May DACOMBE-38647, Holt Dorset England

1925 - Death: James LAWES-2308, Royal Portsmouth Hospital,             Portsmouth Hampshire England

1937 - Death: Jane HARTLEY-27983, (Cotton Weaver)                              Southwark Surrey England

1939 - Death: Ernest Charles LAWES-31290, (Warehouseman)               Dorking Surrey England but resided in Tottenham                         Middlesex England

1940 - Death: Sarah Ann JENNISON-40585, Montreal Quebec               Canada

1942 - Death: Larkin Lester LAWS-18892, San Mateo California

           United States

1944 - Death: Lewis TEALE-13896, (Railway Locomotive                          Driver) Airedale, Castleford West Yorkshire England 

            (My wife's maternal Great Grandfather)

1948 - Death: Mary Callie DALTON-51900, Edmonson County,               Kentucky United States

1948 - Death: John William LAWES-38070, Kingston Upon Hull             East Yorkshire England

1948 - Death: Callie LAWS-19332, Edmonson County, 

           Kentucky United States

1951 - Residence: Julia Catherine Marian STRONG-44655,                     Marks Tey, Essex England

1956 - Death: Annie May ALLEN-38287, Greenwich Kent                       England but resided at New Eltham England

1959 - Death: Albert Edward LAWES-39295, Basingstoke                       Hampshire England

1964 - Burial: Edward LAWS-25173, (Boot Repairer retired)                    Christchurch New Zealand

1970 - Death: Carl Hobson LAWS-10881, (Army Private)                         Fresno, California United States

1973 - Death: Joseph William LAWS-19398, (Labourer in Sugar             Factory)  Malad, Oneida, Idaho United States

1979 - Death: Arthur F TRUDGETT-34755, (Carton Maker)                   Bournemouth Hampshire England

1989 - Death: Gilbert James LAWS-17365, (MB.B.Chr.FRC(Path)RNVR)  Winchester Hampshire England

2003 - Death: Sydney Thomas LAWS-25782, Great Grimsby                   Lincolnshire England

MORE TOMORROW

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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 12

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

 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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