Thursday 22nd October 2020 - Number 7120

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

Wednesday 22nd October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1733 - Death: Robert LAWS-9201, (Esquire) 

           Sherborne Saint John, Hampshire England

1802 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-12163,  (Farmer of Horsley NBL)               Ryton Durham England

1848 - Baptism: Emma LAWS-12914, (Silk Weaver) Norwich                   Norfolk England

1854 - Birth: Henry John Loudon LAWS-33787, Barrasford                   Northumberland England

1856 - Birth: Annie Eliza HERBERT-17348, Whitby North                       Yorkshire England

1869 - Birth: Sarah FIRKINS-23489, (Domestic Service)                           Walworth Surrey England

1870 - Birth: John LAWS-44470, (Groom Retired)  

1870 - Birth: John LAWS-3967, (Boiler Attendant)  Hove Sussex             England

1874 - Christen: Treen Hunt LAWES-3105, (Cab Driver &                       Furniture Dealer)  Margate Kent England

1877 - Birth: Clara LAWS-39338, Jersey City Heights 

            New Jersey United States

1877 - Birth: Clifford Edlow LAWS-39331, Jersey City Heights                New Jersey United States

1880 - Birth: Albert BRANT-44962, (Gun Smith) Birmingham                 Warwickshire England

1881 - Birth: Charles William LAWS-15834, 

           Belsay Northumberland England

1884 - Birth: George William LAWS-24273, (Mustard Makers                 Manager)  Mansfield Nottinghamshire England

1887 - Birth: William Carl HECKEROTH-51620, Erie                             Pennsylvania United States

1888 - Marriage: George LAWS-34523 and Ellen BOORE-                       34524, 

1890 - Birth: Casper H LAWS-44380, (Grocer) Delaware 

            United States

1897 - Birth: Dorothy E (Student)  LAWS-39100, 

            San Francisco California United States

1897 - Birth: Joanna FINNAN-14394, Balmain 

            New South Wales Australia

1898 - Marriage: William WEBBER-13873 (Parish Clerk &                     Drilling Machine Operative)  and Frances JENNINGS-

            6531, Wakefield West Yorkshire England

1898 - Birth: Mary Isabelle Bird Clegg CHARTERS-13888,

           Wortley West Yorkshire England

1900 - Birth: Frederick Roberts LAWS-5355, 

           (Teacher at Arnold School Blackpool LAN)  

            Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1901 - Birth: Fanny Madeline LAWES-24103, 

           (Bankers Shorthand Typist)  Paddington Middlesex                       England

1903 - Birth: Trevor Charles LAWES-39270, 

           (Civil Service Prison Officer) Cardiff Glamorgan Wales

1904 - Birth: Arthur Alfred BRANT-12964, 

            Edmonton Middlesex England

1905 - Birth: Arthur Richard John  LAWS-46609,

           (Inspector PO Eng Dept Telecommunications) 

           Dover Kent England

1907 - Birth: Emma A LAWS-45184, 

1909 - Burial: Marion LAWS-49250, Manchester Lancashire                   England

1910 - Marriage: Frank Edward LAWS-36745 and Bessie                         HASTINGS-51573, Marion, Marion Kansas United States

1910 - Birth: Dewey LAWS-36066, 

1910 - Birth: Ira PELKONEN-2637, Hanna, Carbon Wyoming               United States

1911 - Birth: Merritt Tennyson LAWS-51506, 

           (Laws Roofing Company inc) Harrington, Delaware                       United States

1911 - Birth: Norman Dakin LAWS-34890, 

1913 - Birth: Ivy Mary LAWES-27663, (Domestic Servant) 

1913 - Birth: Freda Agnes LAWS-17676, Rogue River, 

           Oregon United States

1914 - Will  Dated: Alfred Ernest LAWS-15206, (Grocer & Pork              Butcher & Drapers Assistant) 

1915 - Marriage: Joseph Richard LAWS-22052 and Elsie Minerva BROWN-22053, Belvidere Illinois United States

1917 - Residence: Rosina Violet LAWS-49851, Southwark Surrey England

1917 - Education: Rosina Violet LAWS-49851, Southwark                        Surrey England

1917 - Birth: Henry David LAWS-37520, 

1918 - Death: Charlotte Emma FURNEAUX-17414, Parkstone               Dorset England

1919 - Marriage: Lionel Edward LAWS-11242 and Lorna Bessie             HOLMES-11250, Allora Queensland Australia

1919 - Birth: Charles PEAD-17955, 

1922 - Death: John William LAWS-8579, (Driver)  

            Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1923 - Death: Emily Annie LAWS-4165, (Draper) 

           Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1932 -  Elizabeth Flora LOFTS-36499, 

1932 - Death: Elizabeth Flora LOFTS-36499, Edmonton                           Middlesex & Burial: New Southgate Middlesex England

1938 - Marriage: Jim Henry Jessie RODGERS-32551 and                       Sophia Irene LAWS-32550, 

1941 - Enlistment: Charles Buford LAWS-16286,(T5 US Army)  

1945 - Burial: John Henry LAWS-22178, Mobile Alabama                       United States (Magnolia Cemetery)

1946 - Death: Elizabeth PRILL-12043, Rock Falls Illinois 

            United States LAWS-5639, 

1949 - Death: Francis William LAWS-5639 (Company Director               Freeman) Hackney Middlesex ResidencLower Clapton                 Middlesex England: 

1958 - Death: David Nelson LAWS-28204 (Painter & Decorator)             Folkestone Kent England

1962 - Death: Harry LAWS-3726, (Railway Ganger L N E R)                   Anlaby East Yorkshire England

1964 - Death: Christopher Ernest LAWES-31842, (Head                           Postman) Salisbury, Wiltshire England

1964 - Death: Percival George LAWES-31841, (Carpenter)                      Salisbury, Wiltshire England

1976 - Death: Clarice LAWES-14197, Parramatta West 

          New South Wales Australia 

1982 - Burial: Harry Edward  LAWS-16339,  Saint Louis                        Missouri United States(PFC US Army)

1991 - Death: Camille Kaylynn LAWS-36746, Whitefish, Flathead Montana United States

2003 - Death: David Alan (Nurse) LAWS-12328, Wichita Kansas United States

2005 - Burial: Kimberlee Dyann LAWS-20809, Taylorsville North Carolina United States

2006 - Death: Charles Wesley LAWS-51534, La Grange, Oldham, Kentucky United States

2007 - Marriage: Steven LAWS-26509 and Christina JENNINGS-26510, Kesgrave SFK England

2008 - Birth: Ariona Maree LAWS-28960, Warwick, Queensland Australia

2010 - Death: Marlene LAWS-48368, Murray, Salt Lake Utah United States

2011 - Marriage: Daniel WILSON-41168 and Demelza LAWS-41167, Brandiston Norfolk England

2013 - Burial: Donald Franklin LAWS-38911, Morovian Falls North Carolina United States

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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 17

HOLIDAYS 2

There was time to wander while parents were busy, mother shopping and father at work, and every corner of that little town stays clear in my mind. The crumbling cliffs were ideal for climbing and sliding down the dusty gullies if a piece of wood or tin could be found to sit on. Not so good for my white shorts which would acquire ochre-coloured seat. Resulting in the admonition “You be careful now”. 

These cliffs were gradually being eroded by the North Sea and from time to time a part of a garden or even a house would go sliding down. The sea defences were made stronger by extension of the hefty concrete promenade towards the south which is still holding up well. A walk along the beach beyond its end soon brought one to the more exclusive resort of Frinton, with its wide green lawns along the cliff tops which was usually visited once or twice during a holiday.

                                             Walton on the Naze Essex

The northern part of Walton was lower without cliffs. The end of the High Street came along to the Front and the road and sea wall went on past a sometimes marshy patch of land beyond which the road went into a scattered little residential area and then dying out. Here the cliffs had risen again at the golf course where an old Martello Tower stands at the highest point. This provided a pleasant evening stroll which my father and I often took as far as the Naze. Felixstowe could be seen across the water as the land on our side ran back to the muddy tidal backwaters behind the coast.

These backwaters ran right up behind the town and about twenty-five acres of them were cut off from the tides with a dyke and made into a large lake with boats. This was a main attraction of the town to my father and virtually every morning that was fit, he and I would have a sailing dinghy out and sail the seven seas. His father had been a Sea Captain and I am told that only his mother’s insistence had prevented my father going to sea as a young man. As I grew older I was allowed a dinghy to myself and although I was never to become an addict I can understand how others do so. Being regulars and known to the boatman. We were allowed to sail on days when the wind was too strong to risk his dinghies in the hands of strangers and these were the days when it became quite fun.

Walton Mere

                                

The attraction of boats also ruled one of our regular outings during the holiday. We always went at least once to Brightlingsea, a slightly scruffy town famous only for boatyards and shrimp teas. It has always been an ocean racing centre but was not particularly prosperous in those days, there were wonderful boats on offer, at giveaway prices. We didn’t buy one. 

We just walked in the sun and looked, ate our shrimp tea and perhaps an ice cream, then trundled back to Walton. 

At Dedham however, another regular outing we could get a rowing boat on the Stour and glide through Constable’s countryside between the pollarded willows in the soft June sunshine. This was I fear, my father’s holiday, again just he and I went boating but then we were off in the car to Flatford for a strawberry tea amongst the wasps beside the bridge. It is all still there but somehow the rural peace is not the same since everyone spouted wheels.

All the countryside was more rural as a much smaller number of townsfolk invaded it every weekend. All the corn was cut with a binder of course and stood up in stooks in the field. Until it was cut East Anglia was a mass of red poppies, more beloved by the holidaymaker than the farmer. Farming had been depressed for some years and old cottages were being condemned as unfit for human habitation. It is sad to think it is only the war which brought back a sort of prosperity or at least a brief understanding of the need to grow our own food which now seems to be fading away again.

The thought of the corn takes me back to another little holiday I spent in the countryside. In truth, mum and dad wanted a holiday on their own and Lottie took Mary and me for a week to her parents’ cottage in Bocking which really was rural. The water came from a long-handled pump outside the back door and the loo was by the wash house in the garden. 

It was late summer but any need for light was met by oil lamps and candles. Little did I know that these were the normal facilities for most of rural England and that for many places they would stay unchanged for another thirty years. 

It was harvest time and the horse-drawn binder went round and round the field throwing out sheaves and driving the ever-present rabbits into the centre until they made a run for it and someone got rabbit pie for dinner. 

Wages were meagre. Food was important, there was rhubarb under the apple tree and more cabbages than roses in the garden. There were plums in the garden too and home-made wine in the kitchen cupboard set into the wall alongside the black kitchen range.

There were no pavements through the village. There was after all virtually no traffic A few yards along the road on the other side from the cottage a path led down to the lazy river with its carpet of water lilies raising their bright yellow flowers above the dark green leaves, A few cows grazed the meadow beside the river avoiding the buttercups and leaving their squelchy traps for the unwary walker behind them. I didn’t wonder then, what it was like there in the wintertime.

Another little holiday that was different turned up when my Uncle Albert and Aunt Louise were home on leave and was going to spend a little while in a cottage in Cornwall. Their son Frank was a little younger than me, and I was invited to come along so that we could spend some time together. 

It was the only long train journey I had taken as a small boy, about ten years old I think, although the steam trains were always rushing past the bottom of our garden at home, I was unimpressed by the train journey. Once it had chugged out of Paddington the countryside rushed by, very different from travelling in the car. Leaving our smoke and smuts behind us we dashed on through green fields until we came to the red soil of Devon,  with its sheep smeared with the colour, then into the less lush Cornwall. 

The cottage was at Crantock on the North coast but not the bleak and barren part. It was tiny and ancient, just a few stone and thatch cottages and a church, but the memory of it is of the peace of the village and the emptiness of the beach where we were able to swipe a golf ball along without fear of hitting someone. My uncle was reputed to be keen on photography and certainly had an enormous quarter-plate camera which no doubt was capable of taking excellent photographs he must have needed a pantechnicon to carry it around. He was the up-market brother, whereas my dad was the up-to-date brother and had a little folding roll film camera just for holiday snaps.         

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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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2008 Olympics Cyclist

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1974 -2017

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