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Saturday 19 December 2020 - Number 7183

  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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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 childhood of the 

1920s as seen from the 1990s
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 6
There seemed to be a wider range of people then than there are now. There was no question or concept of equality. To me, Mum was all-important but to everyone, Dad was 'The Boss'  and this nickname was used all the time between mother and her helper Lottie the maid. Lottie was a sort of auntie to me, having been part of the family longer than I had. This help was much needed by my mother not only on account of the housework but because a catastrophe had struck, my sister Mary had suffered brain damage as a complication of Meningitis. This happened at about the age of three, after which there was no further mental progress although she grew up physically but dumb.

Standards of living then were much lower then, but in this respect, we were fortunate, though everyone worked hard. It is my belief that most people were as happy then as now except where poverty and illness coincided. It is the pressure of daily life, that makes for unhappiness and these were just different. In many ways, it is the small comforts and conveniences that we would miss if we had to step back in time.

We did not have swarms of relations, the Victorian habit of enormous families had gone just in time. There were two maiden aunts, my father's sisters, who lived together in the bottom part of a house off of West Green Road. They worked in garment manufacture and their smallish rooms were crammed with too large furniture inherited, from my grandparents of the true Victorian era who I never knew. Some of it would be museum pieces now. There was a bed with a half tester rail over it and time to time they would occasionally come to tea on Sunday or to a Christmas lunch. I remember a Christmas present of a little purse with two half-crowns in it, the old-age pension was then just four of these coins, and although they were still working at that time, this was soon to be their weekly income.

My mother had just one sister, Alice who lived in Manchester, where her husband Jack was a lecturer in zoology. I only met him once, he had a nasty limp as a result of RFC service in WWI and he did not make old bones. Mother went and visited Alice after he had died and took me with her in her little car to help her find the way, 172 miles according to the AA route which we followed. Alice had a nice house in a pleasant suburb but before long she returned to her roots in Devon and spent the rest of her years in Kingswear.

There was also my uncle Joe, really a cousin of my father, though I think he had been brought up as a brother and was part of a trio of sailing enthusiasts with my dad and his younger brother Albert. The three of them used to go sailing in Devon and Cornwall and my father and Albert managed to acquire wives in the process. No doubt this put an end to the sailing but my father still liked to row and after he bought his first car in 1925 he would take me over to the river Lea on a Sunday morning and row from the boathouse at one lock, up to the next lock and back. Being Sunday, the horse-drawn barges were all at rest and the locks inactive. It was already partly industrial along the river, the canal really, but the marshes were open and flat, crossed by the long new concrete bridge of Lea Bridge Road which led on towards Epping Forest.  

Albert and his Cornish wife Louise were in Harbin, in the wilds of Manchuria so we saw them very rarely, I only remember two occasions. A slow boat to China really was slow before the airlines and the Trans Siberian railway not a journey for the hurried or the timid, though they went that way at least once.

Joe and his wife May lived in a 1920's new semi-detached house, in Palmer's Green and were the relations we saw most. He was a keen gardener, which my father certainly wasn't but they were pretty good friends, and Joe and May had Christmas lunch with us for some years. To a child, Christmas was important of course and the old-time way of feasting in the greatest abundance that funds permitted, was still strong. there were no supermarkets and no domestic refrigerators of course, but 'nouvelle cuisine' hadn't been heard of either. I do not think that there was as much obesity then as now, the ignorant did not have the means for it and most of the prosperous were working too hard to get fat. Beer was however proportionately cheaper and a few more men could be seen carrying the mark of it in their big bellies or red noses.

Until school age, there was not a lot of contact with adults outside the family. One saw the neighbours in their gardens from time to time but it was not till a little later that a family came next door with whom we became friendly. The Kemble family, had six offsprings, five daughters for starters the youngest in her late teens, and a son Harry a bit older than myself with whom I became quite friendly. For some years we were regular cycling companions.


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Today's Family Events 

1785 - Baptism: Joseph CHARTERS-13864, 
           (Master Joiner & Licensed Victualler at the Black Bull)                  Torpenhow Cumberland England
                
            (My wife's maternal 4th Great Grand Uncle)
1819 - Death: Sarah LAWES-20732, Homington Wiltshire                        England
1819 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-6548, (Prisoner at  Hockwold)                 Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk, England

1824 - Christen: CarolineLAWS-7486, (Silk Winder)  Norwich                 Norfolk England
 

 1832 - Burial: Jane Elizabeth LAWS-11842, Diss Norfolk                          England   
1863 - Residence: Margaret LAWS-29743, Bishopwearmouth                   Durham England
1863 - Residence: Joseph James LEITHEAD-29742,                                 (Shipwright)  Bishopwearmouth Durham England
1867 - Birth: John Jeremiah HOWARD-23538, (Coal Hewer)                   Shotton Durham England
1871 - Birth: Elizabeth Sarah ALP-36849, Gateshead Durham                 England
1878 - Marriage: William HARLEY -37653 and Sarah LAWS-             30146, Gundagai, New South Wales Australia
1882 - Birth: George Ernest LAWS-17255,  
1882 - Admon: Jane LAWS-7186, (Spinster) 
1886 - Baptism: Alice Mary LAWES-27781, Headley Hampshire             England
1887 - Marriage: Otis Allen BROACH-22512 and Ruthie Lee                    LAWS-22511, Franklin County Texas United States
1887 - Birth: Thomas Frederick LAWS-40102, Woodford Green              Essex England
1887 - Birth: Raymond LAWES-25038, (Engineer Mechanic                   Road Transport) Ward (Estate Agents Branch Manager)               East Cowes Isle of Wight England
1888 - Birth: Arnold Alfred LAWS-10636, (Stores Clerk &                       Workhse Officer)  Litcham Norfolk England

1890 - Burial: Jane CHARTERS-13870,(Licensed Victualler
           'Grey Goat' Baggrow)  Blennerhasset Cumberland 
            England
            (My wife's 3rd Great Grand Aunt)
1891 - Birth: Reuben William Henry LAWS-33289,
           (Gas Rental Clerk - Army Private 3253)  
           Kensington Middlesex England
1893 - Marriage: Cyril JOYCE-12242 and Grace Ethel LAWES-             481, Vernon British Columbia Canada
1893 - Marriage: Francis Walter COLLIN-12241 and Frances                 Elizabeth LAWES-477, Vernon British Columbia Canada
1893 - Marriage: William LAWS-3809 
           (Woodman/ Widower) and Susannah WATSON-3810,                    Widow)  Aylsham Norfolk England
 1893 - Birth: George William LAWS-38323, 
1894 - Birth: Adam LAWS-26280, (Coal Miner) Hylton Durham,
            England
1899 - Birth: Henry J LAWES-43834, (Sorting Clerk Telegraphic
           GPO) 
1899 - Birth: Henry Thomas LAWES-35548, Bath Somerset                    England
1904 - Burial: Cecil Robert William LAWS-49264, Ealing                         Middlesex England
1910 - Birth: James W LAWS-43402, (Shipyard Labourer)  
1910 - Birth: Gill LAWES-35052, 
1911 - Birth: Doris Louisa LAWS-42793, (Laundry worker)  
1914 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-38698 (Bricklayer) and 
           Mary Ann COPSEY-38699, Mildenhall Suffolk England
1914 - Marriage: Homer Elmer LAWS-19103 and Sarah Blanche
           SMITH-19104, 
1914 - Residence: Mary Ann COPSEY-38699, 
          Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk England
1915 - Death: William Phillip LAWS-29611, 
           (Engineer Iron Turner) 
           Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire England
1917 - Death: Henry Edward LAWES-21721, (Army Private                   268124) 
1919 - Birth: Olga Edith LAWES-37381, 
1920 - Birth: Reginald George WEEKS-36407, Paulton Somerset
1926 - Death: Robert Cuthbert LAWS-6433, (Farmer 196 Acres)             Hunwick Durham England
1927 - Death: George LAWS-7905, Low Willington Durham                     England
1935 - Death: Mollie B LAWS-30028, Jackson Missouri United                States
1935 - Death: Elizabeth LAWS-10490, 
1936 - Death: Alice Rose LAWS-34009, Paddington Middlesex                 England
1941 - Burial: William Jones LAWS-21638, Dunedin 
           New Zealand
1941 - Death: Isabel Ann LAWS-18863, (Teacher)  Alameda                     California United States
1943 - Death: Elizabeth BOWMAKER-35869, Sunderland                       Durham England
1953 - Death: William BOLTON-51539, London Docks England
1954 - Death: David LAWES-26036, (Navy AA4 FX 855599                     RNAS Lossiemouth)  
1954 - Death: Henry William LAWS-17946, (Consultant Mining             Engineer) Victoria British Columbia Canada
1954 - Residence: Henry William LAWS-17946,
          (Consultant Mining Engineer)  Saanich British Columbia              Canada
1967 - Death: Frederick Claude LAWES-11165, (RN K36805) 
1969 - Residence: Lionel William LAWES-40537, Palm Desert,                California United States
1969 - Naturalization: Lionel William LAWES-40537, 
           Los Angeles, California United States
1972 - Burial: Alfred John LAWES-16243 (CPL US Army),      
           Long Island NY United States
1973 - Death: Eric Archibald LAWS-12608, (Australian Army                 NX202736) Newtown New South Wales Australia
1974 - Death: Edward Horace LAWS-33126, (War Department                messenger)  Darlington Durham England
1977 - Death: William M YELTON-24996, Washington County               Tennessee United States
1979 - Death: Thomas Richard TREWIN-3256, 
1995 - Death: Robert J W LAWS-49498, Wellington 
           New Zealand
1996 - Residence: Frank Edwin LAWS-45085, Shillingstone                     Dorset England
2003 - Death: Lawrence David LAWS-13168, 
2005 - Death: Olive Nellie JACKSON-26181, 
2005 - Death: Denise LAWS-20232, Hendersonville 
           North Carolina United States
2009 - Death: Harley ARMITSTEAD-11261, Warwick,                              Queensland Australia
2015 - Death: Ruth Kae LAWS-51487, Fredericksburg, 
            Virginia United States



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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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