Wednesday 21st October 2020 - Number 7119

 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 21st October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1658 - Marriage: Richard LAWES-2434 and Martha BROWN-               2056, Saint Benet's Pauls Wharf Middlesex England

1662 - Death: Henry LAWES-1143, (Composer) London England

1711 - Marriage: Ruben FENWICK-40861 and Esther LAWS-               40862, (widow) Stepney Middlesex England

1732 - Baptism: Mary CHARTERS-13906, Torpenhow                             Cumberland England

1759 - Marriage: Matthew LAWS-5743 and Hannah POTTER-               5744, Norwich Norfolk England

1776 - Marriage: Charles STERNDALE-16817 and Lydia                       LAWS-16816, Old Street, Finsbury Middlesex England 

1798 - Marriage: John KEMP-23594 and Mary LAWS-23593,                 Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk, England

1804 - Birth: Marianne LAWS-6658, Beddington with                               Wallington Surrey England

1805 - Birth: Maria TEALE-27592, Ossett cum Gawthorpe 

           West Yorkshire England

1810 - Christen: Cuthbert Umfreville LAWS-33821, (Solicitor)                Ovingham (or ***ton) Northumberland England

1810 - Baptism: Benjamin LAWS-10415, Newcastle upon Tyne               Northumberland England

1820 - Marriage: James LAWS-26473 and Ann FIELD-26472,                 Newchurch Kent England

1821 - Birth: Robert John LAWS-6241, (Licensed Victualler)

            East Dereham Norfolk England

1823 - Marriage: Robert EADIE-35958 and Elizabeth                               MCLAWS-35957, Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland

1831 - Marriage: William REID-30542 and Sarah Ann LAWS-               30543, Saint Pancras Middlesex England

1837 - Married Elizabeth LAWES-50800, Great Bookham,                       Surrey England to Thomas BUCKLAND-50801,                             (Gardener) Great Bookham, Surrey England at 

            Mickleham, St Michael, Surrey, England

1841 - Marriage: Robert WATT-27121 (Master Mariner) and                   Barbara LAWES-27122, Liverpool Lancashire England

1849 - Birth: Harry LAWS-31021, Fincham Norfolk England

1849 - Baptism: Robert LAWES-1212, (Gas Fitter/shopkeeper)               Cambridge Cambridgeshire England

1852 - Birth: William Henry LAWS-18912, Illinois United States

1857 - Birth: Jane  JOLLIFFE-699, (Cook) Martin Wiltshire                   England

1862 - Will Proved: Thomas CHRISTMAS-3323, (Master                          Mariner) 

1868 - Birth: Alfred William LAWES-38091, (Baker)  

           Thruxton Hampshire England

1868 - Birth: Florence Prudence MANN-15157, 

            Poplar Middlesex England

1870 -  Birth: Walter Grey LAWS-19368, 

1871 -  Birth: Annie LAWS-4738,  (Machinist) 

            Battersea Surrey England

1872 - Death: William A LAWS-40434, 

1873 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-43012, (Builders Labourer) 

1875 - Birth: Walter LAWES-46742, (General Labourer)  

1875 - Death: Nelson LAWES-2744,  (Lace Cap Maker)                           Nottingham, Nottinghamshire England

1876 - Birth: John (Ag Lab)  Feltwell Norfolk England

1877 - Marriage: Arthur Benjamin BOOTH-41793 (Coachman)

           and Emma LAWES-41792, Croydon Surrey England

1880 - Baptism: Frank LAWS-33746, Ovingham                                       Northumberland England

1883 - Baptism: Jessie Ellen F LAWES-31890, Epsom Surrey                   England

1885 - Birth: Robert John FULLER-49296, Leeds 

           West Yorkshire England

1886 - Birth: Edwin G LAWES-51060, (Builders Labourer                       Widower) 

1887 - Birth: Maud G DAVIS-41495, 

1891 - Marriage: Hugh Walter DICKSON-3577 (Engraver)  and             Mary Ledoska LAWS-3576, Rosemount, Osage County,                 Kansas, United States

1895 - Birth: John I (Book Binder/Cutter) LAWES-47658, 

1897 - Birth: Laura Maud LAWS-22491, Live Oak, 

            Colman County, Texas United States

1898 - Birth: Mabel Jane LAWS-20884, Mile End Middlesex                   England

1900 - Baptism: Harry Eustace LAWS-18051, (Insurance Claims             Superintendent) Fulham Middlesex England

1902 - Birth: Maud LAWS-41247, (Factory Bookeeper &                         Cashier)  Hackney Middlesex England

1902 - Birth: Josephine Victoria LAWS-33088, West Hartlepool               Durham England

1904 - Birth: Winifred Annie PITTUCK-32673, Tendring Essex               England

1905 - Birth: Frederick H LAWS-43605,  (Clerk) 

1905 - Birth: Matthew LAWS-16242, (PFC US Army)  

1911 - Marriage: John Henry Denham ALLEN-703 and 

           Annie Maria LAWES-702, Binstead Isle of Wight England

1914 - Birth: Leonard George Nelson BEAVEN-49849, 

            (Drapers Porter/Van Driver)  Fulham Middlesex England

1916 - Marriage: Jerome Alexander LAWS-16360 and Margaret             Mary DONOVAN-16402, Suffolk County, New York,                     United States

1916 - Birth: Kathleen Jessie LAWS-42141, Coventry                               Warwickshire England

1916 - Death: Maud Louise THOMAS-36278, Bombay India

1918 - Death: John HenryLAWES-12405, France 

           (Army Private 365986) 

1919 - Birth: Sheila Maude SQUIRE-39666, Reading Berkshire               England

1922 - Residence: Curtis Lee LAWS-22371, 

           (President of a Newspaper)  New York City, New York                   United States

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

           Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1926 - Marriage: Walter Erie LAWS-37943 (Farmer)  and 

           Mabel Estelle LAMBERT-37944, York, Ontario Canada

1930 - Death: Elizabeth Ann LAWS-7142, (Widow South Shields             Durham England

1936 - Death: Ann Margaret FURZE-4650, Shoreditch                             Middlesex England

1941 - Death: William Jesse LAWS (RN Petty Officer P/J 94221) 

           'HMS Gladiolus'

1944 - Marriage: William HUGHES-22600 and Elsie May LAWS-22599, West Ham Essex England

1946 - Birth: Alan (Company Director) LAWS-22798, 

1947 - Military: John Robert (RAF 144570) LAWS-49286, 

1949 - Emigration: Frank Henry (Tea Planter) LAWS-8357, Bombay India

1952 - Birth: Norman LAWS-27318, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1954 - Death: Alfred LAWS-41468, 

1954 - Miscellaneous: Bertha ???-43259, 

1954 - Birth: Camilla Claudia LAWS-7182, Jorhat, Assam INDIA

1954 - Birth: Camilla Claudia LAWS-7182, Jorhat, Assam INDIA

1955 - Death: James Graham John Dewitt (Theatre Manager) LAWS-38533, Saint Austell Cornwall England

1960 - Death: Mary Frances (Spinster) YOUNG-22471, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England

1960 - Residence: Mary Frances (Spinster) YOUNG-22471, Putney Heath Surrey England

1960 - Residence: Kenneth Percy (Local Government Officer) LAWS-8406, Putney Heath Surrey England

1963 - Birth: Lyndell Maria  (Deed Poll 1981) LAWS-3153, 

1964 - Death: Robert Vincent LAWS-14250, Bondi New South Wales Australia

1965 - Death: William Robert LAWS-48154, 

1965 - Burial: Mary Luella ROWLEY-22260, Provo Utah United States

1968 - Death: Brian Frank (NAVY 077868 L/ME) LAWS-26030, HMS Daedalus

1968 - Death: Charles Frederick (Disabled War Pensioner) LAWES-25309, 

1972 - Death: Mary Ellen COLLINS-35077, Maffia Victoria Australia

1973 - Death: Lilian Frances HILL-11975, Recklaw, Cherokee, Texas United States

1976 - Death: Florence Mary WILLINGHAM-14227, Parramatta New South Wales

1977 - Birth: Benjamin LAWS-40247, 

1995 - Marriage: Mark Stephen (IT Consultant) GIBSON-22609 and Cheryl Jean MILLS-22605, Rayleigh ESS

1997 - Death: Ila G WORTS-22084, Petrolia, Enniskillen Township, Lambton County, Ontario

2011 - Death: Molly Alice WELLS-49209, Gorleston on Sea Suffolk 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 16

Holidays at that time meant the seaside, and the seaside meant the English East Coast, Sunshine, East winds, sand and the icy grey North Sea.

June was the preferred month until school became important enough to interfere. My mother packed vast quantities of clothing in a big cabin trunk, which must have gone on ahead; it certainly didn’t come in the car with us. It took a good three hours to cover seventy-odd miles to the coast. 

The bypass was an almost unknown word and certainly wasn’t applicable to even the Essex county town of Colchester the first time or two that we went that way. One was built in the next couple of years but now some sixty-odd years later has been virtually absorbed into the town to be replaced by the (now hardly adequate) A12.

We went to Clacton on the first holiday I remember and the sand and the seafront were the attractions. The next year it was Little Holland (Now Holland on Sea) where there was more sand and no seafront and I spent the whole holiday on the beach. After that, it was always Walton on the Naze. 

Here we would have some rooms or latterly a house and we would stay for a month, though my father had only a fortnight of holiday and was only with us at weekends the rest of the time. We used to have a beach hut near the pier and would swim in the icy North Sea in blazing sunshine. It must have been here that I learnt to swim, taught by my mother, tuition later reinforced and widened by lessons at school. 

There was a stone-built breakwater in front of the beach huts and with the run of the tide along the coast, there was deep water on one side and sand at the water’s edge on the other.  Facing the deep side was a platform diving board and a springboard where one could display a considerable lack of skill combined with great enjoyment.

The deepwater was only there at the high tide of course and so the tides controlled the way the day was spent. In the youngest bucket and spade days, low water was in demand but once I could swim strongly it had to be high tide. Not far from the diving boards, rafts were anchored to give a point to swim to and even sit on, The young cannot sit still however and so it was to climb out and dive back in again and swim back to base to start again.

It was never crowded at Walton. Holidaymakers were squeezed off most of the beaches at high tide but there were soon big stretches of smooth virgin sand again and on one of these, a beach artist would claim a large pitch, well overlooked from the promenade.    He would draw his pictures on the hard damp sand and set his hat to catch the pennies thrown from the prom. Perhaps he doubled as a pavement artist in the winter. 

The un-crowded beaches were ideal for flying kites and even permitted the continuous swinging of a tethered tennis ball hung on long elastic between a pair of poles. On one holiday I remember a less space-consuming toy was rampant, the yoyo, and these spinning discs on strings were in every hand rising and falling, spinning and circling to show off the skill of the owner.

South of the pier was the sunniest part of the cliffs and here and there, were tiers of beach huts rising behind the prom from which one could watch the world go by or change for a swim. The beach hut was not only for swimming from, but also for sitting in the sun sheltered from the east coast wind, very rarely for sheltering from the rain, and for making tea and eating snacks and ice cream. 

I was much better at eating than the sitting but would sometimes stay and watch the sailing barges gliding serenely along the coast, their big red sails filled with the east wind. It was not so funny for them when it really blew hard. Distress flares would go up with a noisy boom and the lifeboat went out from its anchorage by the end of the pier. Even in the summer of holiday time, this was not all that unusual.

                                

As well as sailing barges there were paddle steamers which called at the end of the pier. These came from Tower Bridge by way of Southend-On-Sea. These were best watched from the end of the pier itself where the bump could be felt as ropes were thrown and contact made with the big paddle wheels churning in reverse. On the pier too, there was entertainment. The man who rode a bike off the high diving board was always worth watching, but the children’s concerts were pretty corny, even for kids.

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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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