Monday 14rh December 2020

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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This was my teenage home first built in 1478

Today's Family Events

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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A Child of the twenties

A suburban childhood of the 1920s as seen from the 1990s
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008

IN THE BEGINNING

The war had been over three years, the Kaiser's War that is. It was late afternoon on Christmas Eve and the sun had gone down for the day, the gaslight on and the fires lit, but of course I don't remember as I was the early Christmas present for my Mum.

When memory reaches back to it's furthest it is summer, there is a lot of summer in the early years, or so it seems. There are laburnums in flower in the garden and wooden toys with nodding heads, a swan and a rhino to be pulled along on wheels and always the sound of trains with smoke and steam.

Every morning just after ten there was the Flying Scotsman to watch go by and then there was shunting and banging all day and night that one slept soundly through, just as one now sleeps through the noise of the television. The smoke and soot annoyed my mum, but to an infant, it was just an interesting smell which came and went, perhaps a little stronger when one climbed the railway fence to get a better view. A few missing palings made this easy even for the smallest child.

Over the fence was a narrow strip of unkempt grass often burnt in summer when a spark from a passing locomotive set it alight. at other times an unofficial path for railwaymen, children and burglars. The tracks lay about fifteen feet down from the grass, the land held up by a hefty retaining wall. Lots of tracks, maybe a dozen, with another track on a long bridge crossing them at an acute angle and takings trains from one side to the other without touching the fast line.

The land rose on the other side of the tracks, a steep tall grassy bank with a proper footpath along the top beyond the fence and even seats along the top. In the afternoon sunshine, these would be occupied by mums and nannies with prams while the trains amused the vociferous offspring. It was not till later that I explored these distant parts, a sprawl of suburbia from the late nineteenth century broken here and there by parks and sports grounds.

We looked out that way one sunlit evening and saw the majestic airship the R101 floating gently south towards London, France and their appointment in Samarkand.

To be continued

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Today's Family Events

1701 - Birth: Mary TATE-604,
1769 - Baptism: Mary LAWS-12981, Heddon-on-the-Wall Northumberland England
1778 - Christen: John LAWS-16224, Littleport Cambridgeshire England
1789 - Marriage: Seth LAWES-2328 (Plumber) and Margaret or
Mary WRIGHT-1033, Andover Hampshire England
1790 - Birth: Edward Valentine LAWS-5534, (Vermin Killer/
Widower) Fakenham Norfolk England
1812 - Birth: William LAWS-11618, (Ag Lab) Brandiston
Norfolk England
1829 - Baptism: James LAWS-21542, Littleport Cambridgeshire England
1835 - Birth: George LAWS-5767, (Commercial Manager) London Middlesex England
1841 - Birth: Mary Ann LAWS-31732, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England
1851 - Birth: George William LAWS-4902, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1862 - Christen: Jane Elizabeth LAWES-1477,  (Dressmaker / Spinster) Burnham Buckinghamshire England
1872 - Death: Mary PATTERSON-13837,
1878 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-42464, (Ag Lab)
1878 - Birth: Alfred L LAWS-41307, (Colliery Repairer)
1879 - Birth: Howard Whealton LAWS-51512, Farmington Delaware USA
1880 - Birth: Almon Doddridge LAWS-18935, Indiana USA
1881 - Baptism: Rosella BRINKLEY-41907, Camden Town Middlesex England (Nurse Domestic)
(My paternal bigamous great grandfather's 2nd wife:)
1882 - Burial: William K LAWS-6997, Waverley New South Wales Australia
1885 - Birth: Ethel Frances LAWS-31717, (Tailoress) Ipswich Suffolk England

1886 - Birth: Dora HUGHES-52305, McDowell, North Carolina USA
1890 - Birth: Herbert Victor LAWS-21790, (RN SS/109446) Reading Berkshire England
1892 - Marriage: Charles ROGERS-45210 and Dora Norval LAWS-12363, Fauquier County, Virginia USA
1894 - Birth: Francis John (Director of Public Works Company) LAWS-44454, Clapton Middlesex England
1894 - Birth: Thomas Gilbert LAWES-23951,
(Washerman, Officers Mess, Lydd Camp)
Aldershot Hampshire England
1896 - Birth: Dorothy Madge LAWS-15063, Portsmouth Hampshire England

1898 - Birth: John LAWS-43537, (Colliery Greaser)
1899 - Birth: Carl Hobson LAWS-10881, Winnsboro,
Wood County, Texas USA(Army Private)
1901 - Birth: Mary G LAWS-33293, Peckham Surrey England
1909 - Death: Thomas CHARTERS-21364,
(My wife's 1st cousin 5 times removed)
1909 - Birth: Glenn E LAWS-16337, (PFC US Army)
1910 - Birth: William Ebenezer LAWS-46424, (Postman Driver)
1912 - Death: Maria LAWES-2152, (Cook Domestic)
Orchard Cottage, North Moreton, Wallingford Berkshire England
1914 - Death: Edward R WODEHOUSE-10864,
(MP & Barrister)
1918 - Birth: Mary Beth LAWS-50124, Oklahoma Oklahoma, USA
1918 - Discharged: Arthur Murray LAWS-28192,
(ARMY Gunner 755846)
1927 - Death: Emma LAWS-31481 (Widow) Sunderland,
Durham England

1927 - Death: Edgar James LAWES-541, (Publican & Farmer,
also Civil Service Messenger) Royal Berkshire Hospital,
Reading Berkshire England
1936 - Death: Margaret Jane Mckenzie LAWS-21126,
1938 - Miscellaneous: Frederick Stanley LAWS-21779,
(RAFVR 41431 Pilot Officer 142 Sqdn)
1938 - Burial: Dump LAWS-16305, (PVT US Army,
4th Btn 155th Depot, Brigate) Long Island NY USA
1940 - Death: Rudolph Joseph STROHALM or STROHAHN
- 44656, (Chauffeur) SS 'Ormonde' Grennock Lanarkshire Scotland
1941 - Birth: Boodet LAWS-16282, (SGT US Air Force)
1948 - Miscellaneous: Maureen Isobel Winifred HOLMES- 31598,
1950 - Death: John James BEZZANT-19458, Mountain Ash, Pontypridd Monmouthshire Wales
1953 - Death: Dora SONES-25310,
1960 - Death: William B LAWS-16143, (PVT US Army)
1962 - Birth: Robert P LAWS-38989, Statesville, Iredell County North Carolina USA
1964 - Burial: Horace LAWS-16349, (PVT US Army)
Memphis National Cemetery, Tennessee USA
1975 - Death: Madelaine Grace Mathews WITHERS-16940, (Examiner - Postal Censor) Holland Park
Middlesex England
1988 - Death: Elijah LAWS-39291, Montgomery Pennsylvania USA
1994 - Death: Opal Mahala LAWS-48033, Arkansas USA
2002 - Death: Derek John Jonas LAWS-52104, Kings Lynn Norfolk England

2006 - Death: William Robert LAWS-35725, Coleman,
Coleman County Texas USA
2006 - Death: Gweneth May LAWS-34357, Hurstville
New South Wales Australia
2009 - Death: Ada LAWS-12506,

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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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My Family

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
R I P

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LFR 22 Aug Number 615

North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland Welcome to the Laws Family Register. A Child of the Twenties A suburban childhood of the Twenties seen from the Ninteen Nineties by my late father John Robert Laws 1921-2008 Part 16 Holidays 1, Holidays at that time meant the seaside, and the seaside meant the East Coast, Sunshine, East winds sand, and an icy grey 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. Bypass was an almost unknown word and certainly wasn’t applicable to even the Essex county town of Colchester, the first time of two, that we went that way. One was built in the next couple of years but now some sixty odd years later has been virtu...

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