Tuesday 20th October 2020 - Number 7118

  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

Tuesday 20th October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1605 - Christen: Elizabeth LAWES-1145, Salisbury, Wiltshire                 England

1720 - Marriage: James LAWES-4529 and Elizabeth GIBBONS-             4535, 

1720 - Christen: John LAWS-5425, Richmond on Thames                       SurreyEngland

1799 - Burial: Martha JARY-1161, Costessey Norfolk England

1799 - Burial: John LAWES-1160, Costessey Norfolk England

1800 - Marriage: Charles Morley ROBINSON-16567 and 

           Ann LAWES-16568, Norwich Norfolk England

1821 - Marriage: Richard LAWS-22463 (Ag Lab)  and 

           Frances RIGDEN-26878, Alkham Kent England

1832 - Birth: Allan Louis HAYES-12137, 

1840 - Marriage: William LAWS-19413 and Sarah PHENIX-                   19415, Holbeach Lincolnshire England

1854 - Birth: Adolphus Brock LAWS-34176, Stepney Middlesex             England

1860 - Military: Cuthbert John LAWS-18147, (Articled Clerk)               (Lt 1st Corp Northumberland Artillery Volunteers)

1861 - Baptism: Mary Ann Louisa MILLS-21451, Ash Surrey                 England

1863 - Death: George LAWS-4945, (Wine & Spirit Dealer)  

           Kings Lynn Norfolk England

1870 - Birth: Joseph Leonard  LAWES-2362, (Confectionery                   Traveller)  Trowbridge Wiltshire England

1872 - Baptism: Sarah J LAWS-3491, Bedlington                                       Northumberland England

1875 - Birth: Edith LAWS-33771, Prudhoe Northumberland                   England

1876 - Birth: Effie O LAWS-6578, 

1879 - Birth: Richard LAWS-43642,  (Grocer) 

1883 - Marriage: Arthur LAWS-5489 (Cartman on Farm)  and               Susan MALT-32822, (widowed by 1911) Hockwold cum                 Wilton, Norfolk, England

1883 - Birth: James Leonard LAWS-36717, 

1883 - Death: John LAWS-8424, (Mining Engineer & Agent)                   Blyth Northumberland England

1886 - Birth: Arthur W LAWS-41561, 

1886 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-41404, (Colliery Waggon Wright)  

1887 - Birth: AlbertLAWS-3133, (Farmer)  Kialla Victoria                        Australia

1897 - Marriage: William E LAWS-20299 (Farmer)  and Annie                Catherine ZIMMERMAN-20300, Haldimand Ontario                  Canada

1898 - Birth: Grace MILLER-51769, Williamsport, Lycoming,               Pennsylvania United States

1899 - Birth: John LAWS-28250, (ARMY Private 20429) 

           Ayr Ayrshire Scotland

1899 - Birth: John Smith LAWS-23877, (RN J77443)  

            Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Scotland

1900 - Marriage: William LAWS-3966 (Hove Corporation                        Foreman Retired)  and Maria HASSENKAMP-11808,                    Hove Sussex England

1900 - Birth: Christopher Horace Redvers LAWES-15795,                        (Dairy Farmer (Own Account) Pig Breeder & 

            Poultry Farm)  Romsey Extra, Crampmoor 

            Hampshire England

1901 - Birth: Leslie James LAWS-37155, Stepney Middlesex                    England

1904 - Death: Robert James LAWS-16841, (Railroad Official)                 Soda Springs, nr train wreck at Yuba Pass, California                   United States

1906 - Death: Winnifred L PINE-50245, Lincoln, Lancaster,                     Nebraska, United States

1908 - Death: Harry LAWS-4556, (Stableman)  

            Lowestoft Suffolk England

1910 - Birth: Albert Edward LAWES-35452, (Cowman)                           Hartismere Suffolk England

1911 - Birth: Thomas G LAWS-37022, (Master Optician) 

1911 - Birth: George A LAWS-28466, Newcastle upon Tyne                     Northumberland England

1912 - Birth: John Albert G BOWHAY-32650, 

1912 - Birth: Rose MOORE-23465, Kingston Upon Hull 

            East Yorkshire England

1914 - Birth: Leslie A BUNDY-48713, (Gravel Digger)  

1916 - Birth: Cynthia LLEWELLYN-31753, 

           Neath Glamorganshire Wales

1917 - Birth: Frederick George LAWES-37511, (Fishmongers                 Shop Assistant) 

1918 - Military Service: Clarence E LAWES-51768, Hoboken

1919 - Birth: Emory L LAWS-16313, (PFC US Army)  

1926 - Divorce: Frederick Charles LAWES-51799 and Ada                       Harriet GROSSMITH-51800, New Hampshire                               United  States

1928 - Death: Lucretia HILL-40341, Fulham Middlesex England

1932 - Death: John Henry LAWS-6663, (Ship Rivetter)  

           West Hartlepool Durham England

1936 - Death: Arthur LAWS-49532, (Potato Salesman)                             Edmonton Middlesex inc England

1936 - Death: Frederick Alexander LAWS-34000, Purley Surrey             England

1937 - Death: William LAWES-34108, Winchester Hampshire                  England

1945 - Death: John Henry LAWS-22178, Mobile Alabama 

           United States

1948 - Death: Eva Leonora MANNING-38074, Wallsend                           Northumberland England

1949 - Death: Frederick Charles LAWES-27982, (Box Maker)                 Kington Langley Wiltshire England

1958 - Death: John (Manager of Nurseries) LAWS-4728,                           Watford Hertfordshire England

1978 - Death: Benjamin James LAWS-34019, 

1982 - Death: Harry Edward LAWS-16339, (PFC US Army) 

2006 - Death: Ivan Victor LAWS-25754, North Yorkshire                         England

2008 - Death: Austin McOlvin LAWS-41564, (Chemist)                             Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

2010 - Death: Reginald Frederick John LAWES-45352,                             Downham Market Norfolk 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 15

WANDERERS

There was little opportunity to wander until going to school opened up new horizons. Once the short walk to school was permitted unaccompanied and a few friends were known the range of life extended. The familiar places were visited first, the lake in Finsbury Park with its ducks, swans and boats was known already, but now more time was spent with the slides and swings than feeding the ducks. 

It cannot always have been summer though because the lake froze and the ducks sat back on their tails as they landed. Once or twice there were even skaters on the ice skating serenely round the island that normally gave the ducks refuge from human intruders. These short periods of snow and ice and frozen lead pipes which burst are all that early memory holds of winter. Toys and books must have pushed the cold and wet into the background. Even pea soup fogs belong to later childhood.

It seems not long till we found there were other open spaces besides Finsbury Park. Another half mile towards London was Clissold Park. Its sole claim to fame was having a smaller boating pond with canoes which children could take out on those rare occasions when enough pocket money had been saved.

The opposite direction was more rewarding. Ally Pally stands on its hill looking out over London through the haze of a coal burning suburbia. Surrounded by its few acres of green it still had its four chateauesque corners intact before Satan unleashed the telly against humanity. We could wander its empty halls and eat our sandwiches beside the pond while the sun shone. Not far from there were the woods, Queens Wood, and Highgate Woods, shady but not thicketed, a small wanderer’s delight. Apart from the occasional dog taking itself for a walk, the animals were only squirrels. The fox had not discovered the joys of urban life and the smaller rodents were not obvious.

 The accquision of roller skates extended the range of wandering on foot from three or four miles distance, to twice that range. I was able to go off for the day with one or two other roller skating fanatics and a supply of sandwiches and lemonade and could get to such fascinating places as the River Lea and Epping Forest. 

Watching the lock gates working as barges were pulled through by enormous horses on the towpath filled idle summer hours in those times when the days and the weeks were longer. What we called the River Lea was the canal of course, the remains of the river we called the Old Lea but except in times of flood it was a rather trifling stream. The canal carried the fuel for the power station at Enfield and also a lot of timber for the various timber yards along its banks. This was all brought from the then very active docks in London and the canal ran north as far as Hertford in territory I could not explore until I got a bike. 

The numerous miles covered on our roller skates on the abrasive stone paving wore their steel wheels smaller and smaller till at last the ball bearings escaped and hard saved pennies had to be spent in Lays Street market, where anything could be bought including skate wheels.

I already knew the forest from visits with my father, sometimes with the rest of the family. He knew the area well and no doubt also wandered there as a boy having lived at Tottenham. It sometimes seems that, despite memories, one was less observant as a small child. Despite natural curiosity there is a much smaller base of knowledge with which to compare things. Trees are mostly just trees and only very noticeable birds stand out from the mass, there were squawking Jays flashing away in the trees and newts and tadpoles in the ponds. There were snakes and deer there too but I never saw any deer and only once an adder. The squirrels seemed to have had it to themselves, even the rabbits that overran the countryside kept to the edge of the woodland. For wandering boys the wandering was an end, a joy in itself.

Later wandering became more organised. This started with Scout camps. First came, the Cubs one Whitsun, no further afield than Hatfield Park, then others including Gilwell, the Scout Mecca of which the most memorable item was the rather primitive swimming pool where we were allowed to swim naked, and a joy rarely available to a town dweller. We travelled to these camps in the back of a lorry and scarcely noticed the discomfort as it was different and cheap. Everything had to be cheap. The sun did not always shine and when we went to Downe in Kent our lorry got us there after dark in a pelting rainstorm in which we set up our tents on a site we could not see. After that I think I slept soundly, perhaps the ground was softer for the rain. That camp our swimming was in the river Test, it was icy, small boys must be quite mad. Swimming seems to have been the main attraction of these camps. At Hayling Island, then little built up, we swam in a sandy inlet where the temperature of the English Channel was moderated by the warm sand as the tide came in.

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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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