Saturday 24th October 2020 - Number 7122

 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

Saturday 24th October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1741 - Burial: Hannah LAWS-4856, Richmond on Thames                       Surrey England

1797 - Marriage: James LAWS-3288 and Mary CARR-3289,                   East Dereham Norfolk England

1799 - Birth: Robert LAWS-3281, (Butcher & Publican)  

          East Dereham Norfolk England

1815 - Birth: John LAWS-8424, (Mining Engineer & Agent)                     Prudhoe Northumberland England

1824 - Birth: Mary Ann MOONEY-50877, Marylebone                             Middlesex England

           (My 2nd Great Grand Aunt)

1843 - Baptism: Margaret HEWSON-25977, Tanfield Durham                  England

1851 - Marriage: Benjamin LAWS-6230 (Labourer)  

            and Mary HART-13483, 

1862 - Marriage: Henry HOLAX-20879 and 

           Mary LAWS-20878, 

1862 - Death: George LAWS-31399 (Mineral-Water                                   Manufacturer) West Winch Norfolk England

1866 - Birth: Charlotte May LAWS-39347, Jersey City Heights               New Jersey United States

1869 - Birth: Kate Jane SHARPE-39405, Fulham Middlesex                   England

1869 - Death: Susy LAWS-7307 (Widow), Walesden Lancashire               England

1870 - Occupation: Margaret LAWS-16798, (Stewardess on                     Steamship)  

1872 - Birth: Harry LAWES-46752,  (Character Comedian) 

1877 - Birth: Frederic William WERSEBE-39339, 

           New York City, New York United States

1877 - Birth: Harry Augustus LAWES-34542, Camberwell                       Surrey England

1879 - Birth: Harry James LAWS-7372, (Architect)  Stamford                 Hill, Hackney Middlesex England

1881 - Marriage: Richard MAYNARD-17433 and Jane LAWS-               8240, (Servant) Hackney Middlesex England

1884 - Birth: Sylvia LAWS-16938, 

1886 - Birth: William LAWES-46897, (Moulders Labourer in                 Engine Works) 

1886 - Birth: Ernest (HGV Driver)  

1888 - Marriage: LAWS-46579, Adam PREHLER-24606 and                   Viola LAWS-24605, Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana                United States

1890 - Birth: Fanny V LAWES-43831, (Daily Domestic Servant)  

1890 - Birth: Ellen Elizabeth LAWS-31180, 

1892 - Birth: Nellie WARE-20408, Isle of Wight Hampshire                      England

1893 - Death: Alexander LAWS-46308, (Newspaper Editor)                LAWS-4135, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1894 - Birth: Sophia Virgie CRIDER-32540, Carroll County                   Tennessee United States

1894 - Birth: Edith LAWS-23790, Haswell Durham England

1895 - Birth: William George Lockey (Steel Worker) 

1896 - Birth: Charles LAWS-38007, (Machine Shop Inspector                 Motor & Fire Engineers) LAWES-47391, 

1898 - Birth: Bertram John Southgate LAWS-13037, 

           (Boilerman in Plasterboard Works) Bexley Kent England

1900 - Birth: Walter Henry Marsden LAWS-15819, 

           Rogue River, Oregon United States

1906 - Marriage: Edward LANE-32271 (Maltster) and Georgina              (Servant) LAWS-15167,  Highgate Middlesex England

1908 -  Birth: Elsie M YORK-41164, 

1909 - Birth: Mary Jane ROBERTS-32807, (Nurse Probationer)             South Shields Durham England

1911 - Birth: Annie MIDDLEMAS-32888, Whitby 

            North Yorkshire England

1913 - Death: James Ernest (Cement Worker) LAWS-33096, Dartford Kent England

1914 - Birth: Herbert Miles (Fishworker) LAWS-46505, 

1914 - Birth: Alice Gray SIMMONS-35260, 

1915 - Marriage: Harold John LAWS-23875 (Metal Electron                   Foundry Mould & RN K27313 & ARMY 68170) and                    Maud Rose BROWN-32262, Bermondsey Surrey England

1915 - Baptism: Margaret Agnes LAWES-47924, Broome                         Norfolk England

1917 - Burial: N LAWS-21818, (ARMY Private 19063)  

           West-Vlaanderen BELGIUM

1918 - Burial: Charlotte Emma FURNEAUX-17414, 

           Longfleet Dorset England

1918 - Death: Elizabeth Fuller LAWS-7262,(drapers Assistant)               Burwood, New South Wales Australia

1930 - Marriage: Tracy Porterfield STOREY-22493 and 

            Laura  Maud LAWS-22491, Ballinger, Runnels County                  Texas United States

1931 - Marriage: Harry George SAUNDERS-51757 

           (Railway Guard) and Helen Winifred LAWES-51754,                     Kensington & Chelsea Middlesex England

1942 - Arrival: George LAWS-50847, (AB Seaman, Survivor of              the 'Harborough')  New York City, New York United States

1948 - Death: Mary Matilda WHITE-4338, Ilford Essex but 

            Resided: Goodmayes Essex

1950 - Death: Charles John LAWES-20726 (Church Cleaner) ,               Salisbury, Wiltshire England

          

1962 - Death: Ernest F  (Lt Col US Air Force) LAWES-16247, 

1967 - Death: Joseph DEPLEDGE-27030, (French Polisher) 

1974 - Death: Mabel N LAWS-49549, Greendale, Dearborn                     County Indiana United States

1979 - Burial: Arthur F (Carton Maker) TRUDGETT-34755,                   Talbot Dorset England

1988 - Death: Zola M CUNNINGHAM-45181, New Jersey                      United States

1989 - Burial: Elsie LAWS-27563, Billingham Durham England

1989 - Burial: Gilbert James (RNVR MB.B.Chr.FRC(Path))                   Andover Hampshire England

1993 - Death: Norman Harry LAWES-51874, Toronto, Ontario,             Canada

1993 - Death: Norman H LAWS-27039, (90th Fid. Bty. G4109)  

2003 - Cremation: Sydney Thomas LAWS-25782 Great Grimsby

            Lincolnshire England

2003   Cremation: David Alan (Nurse) LAWS-12328, Winfield                Kansas United States

2014 - Burial: Joseph Francis  (PFC Tech 4 US Army WWII) ,                 San Diego California the United States

2014 - Death: Joseph Francis (PFC Tech 4 US Army WWII)                   LAWS-16373, 

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 19 

Further Afield

We spent all the family holidays on that little bit of east coast and going further afield did not arise until I could go off on my bike alone or with a friend. I had already been to scout camps, all on a shoestring. About the same time school journeys were started, only in the holidays of course not in term time, unlike today.  The camps were for boys only. I doubt whether our devoted school staff thought they could cope with the tribulations of a mixed camp. The journeys to foreign parts however were co-ed without any problems.

I recall one school camp at St.Audries Bay, near Watchet in of course wonderful summer weather. Our site was in a field between the coast road and low cliffs above the beach. 

We must have gone to Somerset by coach, an uneventful journey of which I remember nothing except that our kit was moved by horse and cart from the road down a narrow track to the field beside the farm where a line of bell tents had already been erected for us. We had the luxury of palliasses which we filled with straw from the tumbledown buildings near the farmhouse and the cooking was done by the school caretaker with a small amount of help from us on a rota basis. A few cows were kept by the farmer and we were able to see the milk he supplied to us hand milked into the pail.

Behind and above our camp on the other side of the road, rose the warm late summer colours of the Quantock Hills, an almost impenetrable terrain of bracken and bilberries guaranteed to stain one's fingers and lips and scratch one's knees to ribbons. We had time to wander on our own and there were organised trips when we visited Dunster and walked to the top of Dunkery Beacon. 

The timeless stone cottages and ancient butter market of Dunster were already an attraction to visitors but as boys, we were too keen on looking forward to really appreciate the glimpse back into the past that such places are able to give us later in life. 

Exmoor’s wide vistas and stony ground thatched with heather and berries were pure joy, the purples and crimsons of the foliage stretching out through the sunshine to a distant hazy horizon and the world at one's feet.

In our free time, we wandered into the little town of Watchet lying somnolent in the sunshine, seemingly untouched by tourism. There was a corner shop selling sweets and buns, and Cydrax to refuel the inner man for a walk into the hills.  

Watchet was minding its own business around its tiny harbour where cargoes seemed to be black coal in and white china clay out. There must have been a few holidaymakers about however because one day we went by paddle steamer along the coast to Lynmouth where we disembarked in small boats and had a day to explore and wade up the river to Watersmeet. This was decades before the catastrophic flood destroyed the town which had previously stood secure for centuries. 

Nearly everyone who holidayed around Somerset visited Lynmouth but the numbers were small and it was not crowded.

Back at St Audrie's Bay, the beach is stony with grey rocks and flat stones ideal for skimming the waves. The most interesting find was that it abounded in fossils of spiral creatures up to a foot across, ammonites I believe, which had been preserved when their nice grey slimy mud was pressed into the rock a few million years back.

Another boys-only school trip took us youth hostelling to the hostel at Millersdale in Derbyshire. There were about fifteen in the group with two of three school stall including ‘Sammy’ Stewart one of the most popular masters. He taught geography and seemed to be a member of nearly all the journeys. 

We walked the hills and dales and went by train to Edale where the station name board said ‘HOPE for Castleton’ though we never saw Castleton as we walked away from Hope over the hills. 

A visit to the Blue John Mine where blue fluorspar is mined showed us something new in this glowing rock and in an underground trip by boat through a low tunnel which led us to a cave where there is a hefty waterfall from above which went down below us into the depths of that the guide told us was a bottomless pit. At least it never filled up with water.

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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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