Thursday 15th October 2020 - Number 7113

 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

Thursday 15th October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1690 - Marriage: John HARENDEN-4504 and Mary LAWSE-                  4503, High Halden Kent England

1793 - Birth: William Frederick CLEGG-21394, (Watchmaker)                Manchester Lancashire England

1795 - Marriage: Issac BOAR-19737 and Susannah LAWS-                     19736, Lopham Norfolk England

1818 - Birth: Stephen Andrew LAWS-31489, (Master Mariner)                Chatham Kent England

1821 - Baptism: Arthur LAWS-35679, Ipswich Suffolk England

1826 - Death: Edward LAWS-5361, Feltwell Norfolk England

1832 - Marriage: Crispen POWLEY-24396 and Mary LAWS-                 24397, Hilgay Norfolk England

1837 - Baptism: Charles Theodore LAWS-44288, Great Amwell,             Haileybury Hertfordshire England

1838 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-5201 (Farmer 230 acres                           employing 10 men )  and Mary Ann WILSON-5208                       (Farmer 400 acres 10 men 4 boys), Saint Osyth Essex                      England

1848 - Birth: William WAITE-49603, (Ag Lab)  Overton                           Wiltshire England

1848 - Birth: Frederic Falkenbert Theodorsen LAWS-49356,                    (Physician)  Bergen Norway

1852 - Marriage: Crispen FOWLEY-34229 and Mary LAWS-                  34228, Hilgay Norfolk England

1854 - Marriage: Charles Lewis ROPER-29782 and Margaret                  Elizabeth LAWS-29781, Greenville, Bond County 

             Illinois United States

1858 - Marriage: John James LAWS-6451 (Labourer)  and                        Rhoda MICKLEBOROUGH-6452, Litcham Norfolk                      England

1859 - Marriage: William PICKETT-21870 and Honor LAWES-              13052, (Ag Lab) Hilgay Norfolk England

1860 - Marriage: Charles JOHNSON-7921 and Hannah Maria                LAWS-7191, Alverstoke Hampshire England

1861 - Marriage: William LAWS-9198 (Ag Lab) and Mary                        BURGESS-19016, Macquarie Plaines New South Wales                 Australia

1863 - Marriage: William LAWS-27943 (Builders Labourer &                  Excavator)  and Elizabeth Wilson GREASLEY-28614, 

1864 - Death: Jane HODGSON-26208, Egton North Yorkshire                  England

1864 - Birth: Maria Rose CARPENTER-20725, 

            Wilton Wiltshire England

1866 - Marriage: William LAWS-2927 (Cathedral Timekeeper)                and Ann ROBERTS-6559, Chatteris Cambridgeshire                    England

1870 - Birth: Henry G LAWES-47617, (Ag Lab) 

1874 - Burial: Joshua RUMBLE-13213, Bowral, New South                      Wales Australia

1876 - Birth: Gertrude Francis LAWS-4664, Peckham Surrey                   England

1878 - Death: John LAWS-7166, (Manager of Cement Works)                 Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1879 - Marriage: Samuel James LAWS-24373 (Farmer) and                     Mary Elizabeth HARNER-35474, Callaway County                       Missouri United States

1883 - Burial: Emma Elizabeth LAWS-3364, (Kitchen-maid)                   Horstead Norfolk England

1884 - Birth: John A LAWS-22670, (Public Works Contractor/                Labourer) Skipsea East Yorkshire England

1884 - Burial: George LAWS-7254, (Master Mariner 3088 /                      pauper) Poole Dorset England

1886 - Birth: Charles Frederick LAWES-25309, (Disabled War               Pensioner) 

1888 - Birth: Theda Viola Josephine ANDERSON-51513, 

            Buffalo Erie New York United States

1889 - Birth: Mark William LAWS-24949, 

            Green Mountain North Carolina United States

1893 - Birth: Constance Caroline LAWS-15017, (Corn Chandler              Shop Assistant)  Leytonstone Essex England

1894 - Birth: Amy Margaret LAWS-30042, Croydon Surrey                     England

1896 - Birth: Sidney LAWS-23913, (Radio & TV & Electrical                  Engineer & RN F5468) East Ham Essex England

1898 - Burial: Lucy Jane DAVIS-30025, Springhill Cemetery

1898 - Death: William Samuel LAWS-14506, (Bookseller's                        Shopman) Kensington Middlesex England

1899 - Birth: Benjamin James LAWS-15488, (Railway Goods                   Guard)  Easton on the Hill Northamptonshire England

1900 - Marriage: William Henry ARMOUR-13299 and Anna G               Mead LAWS-13295, Bungay Suffolk England

1906 - Death: Peter Maitland LAWS-31470, (Photographer)                     Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1907 - Birth: Emily MARTIN-46121, (Matrons Maid) 

1909 - Residence: Arthur LAWS-49532, (Potato Salesman)                        Barnsbury Middlesex England

1909 - Residence: Alice Flight TURNER-49531, 

            Fencott Oxfordshire England

1910 - Marriage: Ernest Stephen PHYTHIAN-36809 

            (Gunner RFA) and Emily LAWS-36808, Plumstead Kent              England

1910 - Birth: Ellen DAVIES-48157, Louisville, Jefferson,                            Kentucky, United States

1914 - Birth: John LAWS-46008, (Shipyard Joiner)  

1914 - Death: William Henry HORNEY-45788, (Glazier/ !st Class Stoker RN) HMS Hawke

1914 - Residence: Rose LAWS-32714, Peckham Surrey England

1914 - Death: John LAWS-5073, (Army  L/ 10176 Private)                        France

1916 - Death: John Allen LAWS-20007, Genea, Miller, Arizona               United States

1920 - Discharged: William Russell MOONEY-7080, 

            (Post Office Pensioner)  

1921 - Marriage: Charles Benjamin BARRY-48585 (Labourer)                and Alice Maud LAWS-35645, (Tin Tester & Examiner)                Bermondsey Surrey England

1923 - Divorce: William Louis Conrad NAVIER-42227 and 

            Alice Marie LAWS-11653, Kingston Upon Hull 

             East Yorkshire England

1927 - Marriage: James Ellis LAWS-33089 (Grocer) and Amy                 Doris HOLMES-44233, Sydney New South Wales                           Australia

1933 - Death: William M LAWS-22513, Mount Vernon, 

            Franklin County, Texas United States

1933 - Death: Robert GrahamLAWS-16844, (Acting Resident                  Railroad Engineer - Southern Pacific)  Glendale, 

             Los Angeles County, California United States

1936 - Marriage: Julian Asa LAWS-17578 and Marie BLACK-                17579, Salt Lake City Utah United States

1940 - Residence: Cecil Stanard LAWS-51412, (Dentist) 

            Blaine Detroit Michigan United States

1944 - Residence: Cuthbert LAWS-38049, (Pneumatic Driller)                  Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1951 - Probate: Annie  LAWES-43965,  (Widow)

1954 - Death: Charles WILSON-3259, 

1963 - Death: Garnett LAWS-16331, (Cpl US Army)  

1964 - Death: Edward LAWS-25173, (Boot Repairer retired)  

1968 - Death: Maud C LAWS-29866, Palmersville, Weakley                     County, Tennessee United States

1970 - Death: Eva Irene LAWS-19097, (deaf) 

1974 - Death: Ethel Bertha LAWES-44541, Banstead Surrey                   England

1975 - Death: Harvey Earl LAWS-18153, Jacksonville, 

            Cherokee County Texas, United States

1976 - Burial: Scott L LAWS-16427, (PFC US ARMY)                              Williamette National Cemetery, Portland OR

1983 - Death: Norah Irene LAWS-37506, Norwich Norfolk                       England but burial Hoxne Suffolk England

1997 - Probate: Wilfred Henry Bernard LAWS-35837, 

           (Accounts Clerk)  Ipswich Suffolk England

1999 - Death: Florence Pearl LAWS-47846, 

2001 - Death: Michael Stuart Eldon LAWS-6612, Bracebridge                 Ontario Canada

2003 - Burial: Robert M LAWS-12439, Galena Maryland 

           United States

2014 - Cremation: Noreen TURNER-46437, (Retired Cashier)                 Newcastle Under Lyme Staffordshire 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 10

Part 10 Education

SCHOOL

The school was less than a quarter of a mile away. Between parallel side roads of late-nineteenth-century houses, an oblong block held the separate buildings of the infant school, the Elementary school and the Grammar school. It was a gently sloping site with the New River flowing south along the upper western boundary bringing drinking water to London from Hertford. 

The infants’ school was between the other two and shared an asphalt playground with the girls of the Elementary school. The boys of the elementary school had their playground facing the other road, firmly separated from the girls by a high brick wall on either side of which were built the children’s loos. 

The Grammar school was on the downhill side of the block, separated from the rest by a foot passage which ran parallel to the High Street through all the side roads. The iron railings around the school were set in strong brick piers and gated in the same style, a line of Plane trees were well established and were as un-climbable and as sturdy as the railings themselves.

The buildings were no-nonsense and built to last. Plenty of glazed brick and most lower walls of dark colour. Classrooms were built to hold about thirty and the desks and seat all-in-one in pairs. The first day at school sticks in my memory. It was the first real contact with kids in the mass and the first contact with any authority other than parental. 

At that time there were no nursery schools or crèches as mothers, nor indeed,  most married women didn’t in general, go out to work. I started school a month or two after I was five with the worst of the winter out of the way. Mother took me and the Headmistress saw us, having established her identity she passed me over to the class teacher to absorb into the mass. The teacher kept me with her during the morning assembly then brought me into the class, found me a desk, it cannot have been very traumatic as the rest has faded away.

Our lessons as infants were the three R’s punctuated with drawing and games. The alphabet and tables were chanted in unison. We wrote and made our drawings in chalk on pint-sized blackboards which slotted into the front of the desks. Some kids were bright and some kids were dim but everyone learned; there were no options on offer. Before long we graduated to pen and ink writing in exercise books with inky fingers, scratchy pens and inkblots. 

Ink was still king and ballpoint easy scribble still twenty years ahead.

School dinners were also twenty years in the future. All kids walked home for their dinners and back for the afternoon school. School milk started however in my first year or two at school. The little third of a pint bottle turned up in the morning break and there was much bubbling noise as the last drop was sucked up through the straws.

On the other side of the road from school was the Primitive Methodist church where I went, reluctantly and intermittently, to Sunday school. Mum and Dad did not go to church but Sunday school was the thing in those days so I went for a while though they did not insist when I opted out. All that sticks in my mind is a Harvest Festival where I had been inveigled into reading a poem about a windmill. It was the only time I saw my mother in church until I got married.

When we moved into the junior section of the Elementary School, the horizons of our lessons broadened to include history geography & some science. There was now an objective in front of us, the entrance exam for the Grammar schools which were themselves the first step towards better-paid jobs further ahead. Classes were now divided by ability into A, B and C and school reports began to arrive, largely designed I suspect simply to prod all and sundry to greater effort. I believe the teaching must have been good though it was a bit double-edged for me. 

The first year in Grammar school had nearly all been done before and the need to work faded. At the elementary school, there was no sports field but we managed to have a Sports Day at a ground near Muswell Hill. How everyone got there remains a mystery but the sun shone, there were sack races, egg and spoon races and mums races and a good time was had by all. Running was never a favourite pastime for me it was only done when unavoidable. Swimming was another matter however and we were lucky in that there was a swimming pool in the basement of the grammar school next door. Here we were permitted a Saturday morning class for a dozen or so and I achieved the great heights of a certificate to say I could swim fifty yards. 

Generally in the elementary school we did all our lessons in the same room but we did have a purpose-built room for woodwork. This was well equipped with benches and hand tools and we got a useful grounding in using them. For me, it was one of the most enjoyable lessons.

The other children at the elementary school were a very normal mix and a reasonable standard of behaviour was enforced anyway. In the playground, our play was, of course, rowdy but there was little real fighting, there was more interest in playing ‘flickhams’ with cigarette cards. These were in good supply as most men smoked and every packet of fags had a card in it. Later the interest changed to collecting the sets of cards and swapping them to make up sets which are now almost antiques.

Most of my classmates were friendly but although we visited each other’s houses to play, few friendships were long term, because of the need to change schools and move house. Just before I had to take the grammar school entrance exam we moved house from Harringay to Winchmore Hill so I had to take the exam in the new area.

Until my time at elementary school ran out a few months after we had moved, mother ferried me to and fro daily in her little car to carry on in the same school till the term was finished and the exam done.

The move to grammar school was a move to another world. After all, we were in the thirties and 1929 and all that was slipping back behind us. The move to Southgate was a move into another world and meant that none of my friends moved on with me to the same school. 

It was, of course, an elitist world and the grammar schools were reckoned next in line after the ‘Public’ schools, though there was no guarantee that the boy who left the elementary school at the age of fourteen would not become a millionaire quicker than any of them. He would not become as a bank clerk or a civil servant however he was saved from being a fighter pilot in the forties.

Within the schools, competition and achievement were what mattered and although the arts and manual skills were not ignored any more than games, there was never a thought that these had in any way the importance of the academic subjects.

The grammar school was based on a large house, or small mansion set in substantial grounds converted to playing fields. A purpose-built extension doubled the number of rooms and included proper lab facilities. This also provided a large assembly hall with a good stage as well as a separate gymnasium and woodwork and domestic science rooms. The ‘old building’ as it was known would have been a wonderful home in its day. It dated from the early nineteenth century and sat in a high position looking out over the lower land of the Lea valley, a sea of houses by the thirties but green and pleasant land in earlier days.

It was basically a two-storey house but with a complete basement half sunk in the ground below it and an attic storey half in the roof above. The grand front door led into a circular foyer before giving access to the central hallway where the circular theme continued with a grand staircase to the first floor.  This did not go on up to the servants quarters above, which were served by a small spiral stone stairway which went from the basement to the attics. 

There were perhaps ten rooms large enough to serve as main classrooms with a number of others used as a library, staff rooms, studies etc. The basement still contained a kitchen and its main area was used as a dining room for the twenty or thirty pupils who lived some miles away and were allowed the privilege of school dinners. This part of the basement also served as a music room if the main hall or stage were unavailable. 

A separate building near the main gate which had probably served as a stable block had been made into two physics labs with an art room above. There was no sign of the stables or coach house; their site may have been covered by the ample bike sheds, the school bus not having been invented. 

Alongside the bike sheds was a dovecot up on saddle stones, no longer the home of doves, it was probably used as a store by the two groundsmen who kept the playing field as immaculate as the gardens, which no doubt kept by a team of gardeners before them. There was a walled large kitchen garden which had one wall removed and then had been desecrated with asphalt to provide a playground and tennis courts. Around its walls, the beautifully trained espalier apple and pear trees had survived to bloom in the spring without the hope of ripening fruit in the autumn.

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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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