Wednesday 14th octobwer 2020 - Number 7112

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 14th October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1662 - Will: Henry LAWES-1143, (Composer)  

1769 - Marriage: John LAWS-6769 (Husbandman)  and                           Elizabeth HORTON-6770, Saint Mildreds, Canterbury                 Kent England.

1790 - Death: Mary Catherine LAWS-44802, 

1800 - Birth: Henry LAWS-6769 (Ostler)  Houghton le Spring                 Durham England

1822 - Marriage: Ann ROLFE-30997 and William LAWES-                      30996, Fincham Norfolk England

1822 - Marriage: Ann HALL-30995 and Robert LAWES-30994,             Fincham Norfolk England

1823 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-5664 (Coal Carrier)  and 

           Mary PAPSON-5665, Folkestone Kent England

1827 - Marriage: Thomas FULLER-23367 and Elizabeth LAWS

          -23368, Doddington Cambridgeshire England

1832 - Baptism: John Thomas LAWS-6368, (Labourer in Timber

           Yard)  Overton Wiltshire England

1843 - Marriage: William LAWS-28575 (Ag Lab)  and Elizabeth

           CLARKE-28576, Ipswich Suffolk England

1844 - Indicted: Isaac LAWES-51650, (Rail Road Labourer)                   Hampshire England

1844 - Marriage: John LAWS-4226(Ag Lab)  and Elizabeth                     WEBB-4231, Cheriton Kent England

1856 - Birth: Charlotte Maria LAWES-246, Walworth Surrey                 England

1859 - Death: Anne HALL-4242, Chelsea Middlesex England

1860 - Birth: Tom WOODMAN-27981, 

1862 - Death: Hannah LAWES-1255, (Widow) Beccles Suffolk                 England

1865 - Marriage: William B LAWS-5377 (Journeyman Tailor)                 and Jane A MARQUESS-5378, 

1865 - Birth: Edward George LAWS-6863, (Postman 1st Class)               Battersea Surrey England

1874 - Birth: Anna G Mead LAWS-13295, Bungay Suffolk                       England

1875 - Death: Joseph LAWS-50203, (Ships Engineer)  At Sea                   (SteamTug, off Shields)

1876 - Birth: Harry Alfred LAWES-154, (Retired Mechanical                 Draughtsman)  Basingstoke Hampshire England

1881 - Will: Walton HARDY-1952,  (Solicitors Clerk) 

1882 - Marriage: Thomas LAWS-7657 (Wholesale Provisions                   Manager)  and Ellen Elizabeth BETTS-10510, 

          Stoke Newington Middlesex England

1882 - Birth: George Alpheus LAWS-43025, (Railway Guard                    Southern Railway)  Portsmouth Hampshire England

1883 - Death: Mary Ann WILSON-5208, (Farmer 400 acres 

           10 men 4 boys) Stamford Lincolnshire England

1884 - Birth: Hannah Allison LAWS-19600, Newcastle upon                     Tyne Northumberland England

1885 - Marriage: Henry Capel LAWS-6165 (Road Sweeper)  and

           Emily EVANS-2828, Cookham Berkshire England

1889 - Birth: Mary Alice LAWS-24821, Laidley Queensland                     Australia

1890 - Birth: Frank S LAWS-39511, (Passenger Lift Attendant)               Westwell Kent England

1891 - Marriage: Frank EAGER-30495 (Waiter)  and Ellen                     LAWES-27997 (Domestic Servant) , Greenwich Kent                     England

1891 - Burial: Henry French LAWS-35519, Poole Dorset                           England

1894 - Birth: Alice J PENTON-37065, Shorncliffe Kent England

1895 - Birth: Ethel May MOONEY-13934, Edmonton Middlesex             England

1895 - Death: John LAWS-7238, Dover Kent England

1901 - Birth: Ernest LAWS-37006, (Rigman Air Boring) 

           Whitby North Yorkshire England

1907 - Birth: John David LAWS-21810, (Machine Operator)                    (Civilian War Dead) London SW9

1908 - Birth: Stella Elizabeth WACKETT-45177, 

1909 - Marriage: Harry REED-2587 and Ellen Maria LAWES-

           2586,)  Felthorpe Norfolk England

1910 - Birth: Fredrick William ARKLE-13991, (Nurse RMN 

           at former Canes Hill Hospital)  Edmonton Middlesex                     England

1910 - Burial: Ann CLIFFORD-11324, (Widow) Whitby 

           North Yorkshire England

1912 - Birth: Ivy BRANT-13956, Edmonton Middlesex England

1914 - Birth: Nora LAWS-11559, 

1915 - Birth: Kathleen Lutrelle DESENIS-32579, Chicago                       Illinois United States

1916 - Discharged: James Warren LAWS-28233, (Army Private              1891) 

1917 - Death: Sarah ELGAR-196, Camberwell Surrey England

1918 - Marriage: Frederick William Henry LAWES-29007                       (Locomotive Engine Driver Southern Railway)  

            and Victoria Edith Kate MOORE-29008, Brighton

            Sussex  England

1918 - Birth: George William LAWS-40658, Chicago Illinois                   United States

1918 - Burial: Eric Cecil LAWS-11719,(Army Private)  

            West-Vlaanderen BELGIUM

1918 - Death: Charles LAWS-7272, (Army Private) France

1919 - Death: Cordelia LAWS-49453, 

1923 - Death: James Thomas LAWS-40726, 

1942 - Death: Raymond Dwight LAWS-29851, (Air Corps Pilot)

            Puerto Rico

1975 - Burial: James Parley LAWS-13519, Blanding Utah 

           United States

1976 - Death: Norman LAWS-11660, Lincoln, Lincolnshire                      England

1984 - Death: Beatrice Miriam WALLIS-45560, 

           Louth Lincolnshire England

1987 - Burial: Ollie Madie LAWS-16092, Memorial Park,                         Lamesa, Texas United States

1988 - Death: Cynthia LLEWELLYN-31753, Westcot Barton 

           Oxfordshire England

1991 - Death: Kathryn DAVIDSON-39614, Provo Utah 

            United States

1997 - Death: Evelyn Roberta LAWS-51210, 

2006 - Death: Martin John LAWS-26973, (Labourer)  

           Timaru New Zealand

2016 - Death: Janet Elizabeth LAWS-32732, 

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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 9

Besides cars, the other result of the internal combustion engine was the increasing number of aircraft in the sky. With development forced ahead of WWI, they had now become a practicable though an expensive form of transport. Small air shows with two or three small aeroplanes would tour the summer holiday resorts seeking out a suitable field to set up their circus. They would offer a quick circuit of the town at five bob (shillings.ed) a go and give a little show of aerobatics. With a small charge for admission to the field, they struggled on for a few years before going broke or in a very few cases managed to get an airline or charter business going.

As well as these little efforts, the RAF put up an annual show at Hendon which was very impressive at the time though very small beer by today’s standards. In my late schooldays, I went there on my bike and found a hillside field overlooking the aerodrome where one could see it all for free. The highlight of the show was a low wing monoplane, probably a prototype Hurricane which came through a shallow dive at over three hundred miles an hour. There were still ten years to wait for the first jet engines.

Another lusty industry of my early years was the cinema. The silent screen with its overworked pianist trying to provide theme music was just beginning to give way to the ‘talkies’. Charlie Chaplin carried on without a word eating his boots in ‘The Goldrush’ but the soundtrack was with us and although it all continued to be black and white the musical was on its way and the cinema was moving into its few decades of boom years. 

One of the more treasured toys of my under ten years was a movie projector and its few cans of film. It had no motor and had to be cranked by hand, like the early movie cameras, but it was well made and worked well. The was no 8mm then and it used the full-size 35mm so the films were short and ran perhaps five or ten minutes. I knew them all off by heart before long but this did not detract from the fascination of something that actually worked. 

  

Although the early thirties were just crawling out of depression there were more large houses being built than cheap semis. The extension to the Piccadilly Line of the Underground railway to Enfield West now called Oakwood, and then to Cockfosters which influenced our move to Southgate was an important event. Free tickets to try it out were given out to all households in the catchment area. 

A building project which interested me more was however the new ice rink at Harringay. It was after we had moved to Southgate when I was able to get there, but Harry and I became regulars. Being already able to roller skate made it much easier to get going on ice though not without a few tumbles. At one of our first visits, we were offered free admission to the evening ice hockey if we would take part in a farcical match with brooms and a football in the interval of the ice hockey. We accepted of course and I seem to remember it brought the house down. Next Monday at school I found that I had been observed was asked why I had been acting the clown.

Innovations in materials were less noticeable than other major changes but nonetheless on the way with enormous potential. Plywood soon replaced solid panels in all but the most expensive furniture. A brief reign of a few decades before chipboard came, bringing back the use of veneering which had existed a couple of hundred years earlier. In our old fashioned furniture the wood was solid. 

In our kitchen the knives were sharp, made before the new stainless steel became de rigour for cutlery. They had to be cleaned of course and the knife cleaner, a wooden machine with rotary brushes turned with a cast iron handle stood in the kitchen with its tin of abrasive powder nearby. There was no plastic except celluloid which was highly inflammable and used for little except toys, and ebonite which was used for a while in electrical goods. Even the plug tops for our new electric points were ceramic. Cooking pots and saucepans were iron, vitreous enamel or copper, aluminium on the way for a few years later and stainless steel way in the future. Plastic bags were a blessing yet to come. This means that few groceries were pre-packed, the grocer weighed out your biscuits from a large tin into a paper bag and the broken ones were sold off cheap.

 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

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