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Thursday 31st December 2020 - Number 7194

 LAWS FAMILY REGISTER  

Henry Lawes
1595-1662
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.





A childhood of the 

1920's as seen from the 1990's
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 21

Further Afield

We spent all the family holidays on that little bit of east coast and going further afield did not arise until I could go off on my bike alone or with a friend. I had already been to scout camps, all on a shoestring. About the same time school journeys were started, only in the holidays of course not in term time like today.  The camps were for boys only. I doubt whether our devoted school staff thought they could cope with the tribulations of a mixed camp. The journeys to foreign parts  however were co-ed without any problems.
I recall one school camp at St.Audries Bay, near Watchet in of course wonderful summer weather. Our site was in a field between the coast road and low cliffs above the beach. 

We must have gone to Somerset by coach, an uneventful journey of which I remember nothing, except that our kit was moved by horse and cart from the road down a narrow track to the field beside the farm where a line of bell tents had already been erected for us. We had the luxury of palliases which we filled with straw from the tumbledown buildings near the farmhouse and the cooking was done by the school caretaker with a small amount of help from us on a rota basis. A few cows were kept by the farmer and we were able to see the milk he supplied to us hand milked into the pail.


Behind and above our camp on the other side of the road, rose the warm late summer colours of the Quantock hills, an almost impenetrable terrain of bracken and bilberries guaranteed to stain ones fingers and lips and scratch ones knees to ribbons. We had time to wander on our own and there were organised trips when we visited Dunster and walked to the top of Dunkery Beacon. 


The timeless stone cottages and ancient butter market of Dunster were already an attraction to visitors but as boys we were too keen on looking forward to really appreciate the glimpse back into the past that such places are able to give us later in life. Exmoor’s wide vistas and stony ground thatched with heather and berries were pure joy, the purples and crimsons of the foliage stretching out through the sunshine to a distant hazy horizon and the world at ones feet.
In our free time we wandered into the little town of Watchet  lying somnolent in the sunshine, seemingly untouched by tourism. There was a corner shop selling sweets and buns, and Cydrax to refuel the inner man for a walk into the hills.  Watchet was minding its own business  around its tiny harbour where cargoes seemed to be black coal in and white china clay out. There must have been a few holidaymakers about however because one day we went by paddle steamer along the coast to Lynmouth where  we disembarked in small boats  and had a day to explore and wade up the river to Watersmeet. This was decades before the catastrophic flood  destroyed the town which had previously stood secure for centuries. 



Nearly everyone who holidayed around Somerset visited Lynmouth but the numbers were small and it was not crowded.

Back at St Audries Bay the beach is stony with grey rocks and flat stones ideal for skimming the waves. The most interesting find was that it abounded in fossils of spiral creatures up to a foot across, ammonites I believe, which had been preserved when their nice grey slimy mud was pressed into rock a few million years back.

Another boys only school trip took us youth hostelling to the hostel at Millersdale in Derbyshire. There were about fifteen in the group with two of three school stall including ‘Sammy’ Stewart one of the most popular masters. He taught geography and seemed to be a member of nearly all the journeys. We walked the hills and dales and went by train to Edale where the station name board said ‘HOPE for Castleton’ though we never saw Castleton as we walked away from Hope over the hills. A visit to the Blue John Mine where blue fluorspar is mined showed us something new in this glowing rock and in an underground trip by boat through a low tunnel which led us to a cave where there is a hefty waterfall from above which went down below us into the depths of that the guide told us was a bottomless pit. At least it never filled up with water.


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FROM OUR DATABASE
for today 
31st December


1648 - Death: Elizabeth DALLY-1138, 
1716 - Marriage: George LETTICE-16763 and Thomasine LAWS-16762,                             Canterbury Kent England

1795 - Baptism: Jane CHARTERS-21428, Torpenhow Cumberland England
                                        (My wife's 4th Great Grand-Aunt)

1799 - Burial: Mary LAWS-19420, Beckenham Kent England
1802 - Birth: John L Parker EDEN-26191, Stokesley North Yorkshire England
1803 - Baptism: Elizabeth HORNE-12862, Hevingham Norfolk England
1805 - Birth: John LAWS-3877, (Weaver)  Shoreditch Middlesex England
1806 - Christen: Alice LAWS-3846, Folkestone Kent England


1812 - Marriage: James LAWS-3318 (Merchant Life) and Ann SILVERS-3334,                   Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1822 - Birth: Samuel L AWS-44794, Beeston Norfolk England


1825 - Death: Elizabeth RICHMOND - SMITH-3441, Hevingham Norfolk England
1841 - Birth: William B LAWS-11969, England
1843 - Marriage: William Herbert LAWES-38855  (Fraudster) and Ann                               HOWARD-38856, Clerkenwell Middlesex England
1848 - Birth: Edward John LAWS-9427, (Lamp Salesman)  Chertsey Surrey                       England
 

                                                                     
1851 - Birth: James LAWS-2877, (Ag Lab) Doddington Cambridgeshire England
1854 - Christen: Robert Stephenson LAWS-4164, (Clerk) Newcastle upon Tyne                   Northumberland England

1855 - Marriage: Thomas LAWES-2643 (Ag Lab) and Elizabeth RIX-2645,                         Felthorpe Norfolk England

1857 - Death: William LAWES-2302 (Gentleman) Ridgeway Hill, Stapleton,                         Gloucestershire England
1859 - Death: Maria LAWS-7743, (Spinster)  
1867 - Marriage: James William LAWS-32795 Boot Maker)  and 
           Margaret CHURCHILL-6439, Saint Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, 
           Norfolk, England
1867 - Birth: Louisa Jane LAWS-14503, Staines, Middlesex England

1869 - Birth: Robert LAWS-42604, (Labourer) 
1870 - Birth: Alfred LAWES-47383,  (Newspaper Roundsman) 
1872 - Death: Charlotte LAWS-5204, (Spinster)  Ipswich Suffolk England


1874 - Birth: Edgar S LAWS-13599, 
1879 - Birth: Jerome Alexander LAWS-16360, 
1886 - Marriage: Vincent John LAWS-26870 (Brickmaker)  and Mary Elizabeth                 BARROWMAN-27018, 
1887 - Birth: Mildred M LAWS-17390, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland                     England

1889 - Birth: Edward Walter MARTIN-50959, St Michael, City of London
1891 - Birth: Edward Ernest LAWS-41112, (Apprentice Engraver - 
            RAF Service Number: 310655)  Islington Middlesex England

1892 - Marriage: Matthew Mathias ROBERTS-28778 and Elizabeth Frances                        LAWS-28777, Wellington New South Wales Australia
1892 - Birth: Edward LAWES-47471, (Hospital Patient)  
1892 - Birth: David LAWS-23909, (RN J4506)  Gateshead Durham England
1892 - Birth: David Hugh LAWS-17093, Sunderland Durham England
 
1894 - Birth: Victor Lorraine LAWS-29451 (Lorry Driver) Clapton Middlesex                     England
1895 - Birth: Minnie Dorothy CHAPMAN-22598, Westminster Middlesex England
1898 - Marriage: John LAWS-4276 (Ag Lab)  and Sarah A H M DIXON-15359,                   Feltwell Norfolk England
1898 - Birth: Elizabeth WRIGHT-42389, West Hartlepool Durham England

1898 - Birth: Alice Maud ADNAMS-23065, Battersea Surrey England
1898 - Birth: George LAWES-15903, 
1898 - Birth: Henry Charles LAWS-8446, Bowen, Queensland Australia
1900 - Death: Muriel Kline LAWS-35354, Balmain New South Wales Australia
1901 - Birth: Frederick James WARDEN-44612, (Carpenter)  Cardiff Glamorgan               Wales
1904 - Burial: Laura Isabel LAWS-27548, Stockton-On-Tees Durham England
1905 - Birth: Jessie Beatrice LAWS-49830, 
1907 - Birth: Amy Doris HOLMES-44233, 
1907 - Birth: Essie May LAWS-28880, 
1907 - Birth: Leslie LAWES-12683, (Australian Army)  Leichhardt, 
            New South Wales Australia
1910 - Marriage: John LAWS-24178 and Barbara COLLINSON-24179, 
            Ryhope Durham England
1910 - Birth: William H LAWS-45911, (Motor Body Coach Minder) 
1910 - Birth: Lily LAWS-37052, South Shields Durham England

1912 - Birth: Richard LAWS-52419, (Uffz German Army)  Mertensdof Germany

1912 - Marriage: William Royal Garnet LAWES-35102 and Irene Catherine                        HAMILTON-35103, Sydney New South Wales Australia
1913 - Marriage: Claude Douglas LAWES-40523  (Machine Parts Salesman) and                 Mary S SWOFORD-40527, (Hardware Saleslady)  San Francisco California 
           United States
1913 - Birth: Francis H T BOSHER-44209, (Radio Instrument Maker)  Edmonton             Middlesex England 
1914 - Military: John William Oughton LAWS-21802,  (WR/202714/207480)                          (ARMY Sapper Northumberland Fusiliers) (Enlistment)
1915 - Birth: Edward A LAWS-43442, (Baker)  
1915 - Birth: Clarence L LAWS (Van Salesman)-41257, 
1915 - Birth: Thelma Louisa LAWS-11249, Warwick, Queensland Australia
1916 - Death: Sarah DOUGLAS-5147, Heaton Northumberland England
1918 - Death: Clara LAWES-19361, Moscow Idaho United States
1919 - Birth: Joseph Arthur LAWS-37293, (Labourer at Cement Works)  
1920 - Birth: Hubert LAWS-16350,  (PFC US Army) 
1932 - Death: Thomas LAWS-19408, (Dog Catcher) Ogden, Webber County, 
            Utah United States
1933 - Death: Emma LAWES-2561,  (Widow) Woking Surrey England
1935 - Birth: Brian LAWS-22936, (Company Director)  
1935 - Death: George Frederick LAWS-15096, (Market Gardener)  The Lodge,                   Kingsfield, Dartford Kent England
1939 - Birth: Harry Avin SONS-22042, 
1941 - Death: Reginald Frederick LAWES-38022, Entre Rios, Argentina
1953 - Death: Thomas Roebuck OXTOBY-40950, Bradford West Yorkshire                         England
1953 - Miscellaneous: Albert Frederick LAWS-38144, (Schools Inspector)  
1954 - Death: Pantha Della LAWS-16806, Rutherford County North Carolina                     United States
1956 - Death: William Pennington LAWS-14675, Yakima, Washington, 
            United States
1957 - Burial: Christine Emma LAWS-49230, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1958 - Death: Josephine Martin LAWS-50577, Woodacre, San Francisco 
            United States
1961 - Death: Albert Edward John LAWS-6589, (Deputy Naval Stores Officer)                   Jarrow Durham England but resided at Chatham Kent England
1970 - Death: Shirley Muriel LAWS-49459, Burwood, New South Wales Australia
1970 - Death: Phyllis Gertrude SOUTH-31759, (School Teacher London County                 Council)  Oxford Oxfordshire England
1970 - Death: Ethel Irene MCDANIEL-19987, (Supervisor)  Texarkana, Miller                   County, Arkansas United States
1973 - Death: Clarence (PVT US Army) LAWES-16245, 
1980 - Burial: Geneva LAWS-22269, Blanding Utah United States
1987 - Death: Thomas LAWS-8511, (Engineer)  High Lorton Cumberland England
1988 - Death: Norman William LAWS-21231, Oakdale New South Wales Australia
1993 - Death: Daphna May PEPPLE-16300, 
1997 - Death: John Richard LAWS-35370, 
2002 - Death: Zelma LAWS-10745, Hickory North Carolina United States
2008 - Death: Edward David LAWS-28724, (Painter)  Lowestoft Suffolk England
2011 - Death: Iris M CLARK-49317, Ramsgate Kent England
2012 - Death: Marjorie May LAWS-41139, 


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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 Great Grandparents


Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' 


Barque 'Woolhampton'

This is Robert Henry's Wife 
Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller
My paternal Great Grandmother
1846-1924
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R I P

Sharon Nicola LAWS

2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 
1974 -2017
R I P


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