LAWS FAMILY REGISTER
Henry Lawes1595-1662Lord, help me dig into the past and sift the sands of timethat I might find the roots that madethis family tree of mine
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 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
1920s as seen from the 1990sbyJohn Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 10 Education
SCHOOL
The school was less than a quarter of a mile away. Between parallel side roads of late-nineteenth-century houses, an oblong block held the separate buildings of the infant school, the Elementary school, and the Grammar school. It was a gently sloping site with the New River flowing south along the upper western boundary bringing drinking water to London from Hertford.
The infants’ school was between the other two and shared an asphalt playground with the girls of the Elementary school. The boys of the elementary school had their playground facing the other road, firmly separated from the girls by a high brick wall on either side of which were built the children’s loos.
The Grammar school was on the downhill side of the block, separated from the rest by a foot passage which ran parallel to the High Street through all the side roads. The iron railings round the school were set in strong brick piers and gated in the same style, a line of Plane trees were well established and were as un-climbable and as sturdy as the railings themselves.
The buildings were no-nonsense and built to last. Plenty of glazed brick and most lower walls of dark colour. Classrooms were built to hold about thirty and the desks and seat all-in-one in pairs.
The first day at school sticks in my memory. It was the first real contact with kids in the mass and the first contact with any authority other than parental. At that time there were no nursery schools or crèches as mothers, nor indeed, married women, in general, didn't go out to work.
I started school a month or two after I was five with the worst of the winter out of the way. Mother took me and the Headmistress saw us, having established her identity she passed me over to the class teacher to absorb into the mass. The teacher kept me with her during the morning assembly then brought me into the class, found me a desk, it cannot have been very traumatic as the rest has faded away.
Our lessons as infants were the three R’s punctuated with drawing and games. The alphabet and tables were chanted in unison. We wrote and made our drawings in chalk on pint-sized blackboards which slotted into the front of the desks. Some kids were bright and some kids were dim but everyone learned; there were no options on offer.
Before long we graduated to pen and ink writing in exercise books with inky fingers, scratchy pens and inkblots. In those days ink was still king, and the ballpoints' easy scribble still twenty years ahead.
School dinners were also twenty years in the future. All kids walked home for their dinners and back for the afternoon school. School milk started however in my first year or two at school. The little third of pint bottles. turned up in the morning break and there was much bubbling noise as the last drop was sucked up through the straws.On the other side of the road from school was the Primitive Methodist church where I went, reluctantly and intermittently, to Sunday school. Mum and Dad did not go to church but Sunday school was the thing in those days so I went for a while though they did not insist when I opted out. All that sticks in my mind is a Harvest Festival where I had been inveigled into reading a poem about a windmill. It was the only time I saw my mother in the church until I got married.
When we moved into the junior section of the Elementary School, the horizons of our lessons broadened to include history, geography, & some science. There was now an objective in front of us, the entrance exam for the Grammar schools which were themselves the first step towards better-paid jobs further ahead.
Classes were now divided by ability into A, B, and C, and school reports began to arrive, largely designed I suspect simply to prod all and sundry to greater effort. I believe the teaching must have been good, though it was a bit double-edged for me. The first year in Grammar school had nearly all been done before and the need to work faded.
At the elementary school, there was no sports field but we managed to have a Sports Day at a ground near Muswell Hill. How everyone got there remains a mystery but the sun shone, there were sack races, egg and spoon races and mums races and a good time was had by all. Running was never a favourite pastime for me it was only done when unavoidable. Swimming was another matter however and we were lucky in that there was a swimming pool in the basement of the grammar school next door. Here we were permitted a Saturday morning class for a dozen or so and I achieved the great heights of a certificate to say I could swim fifty yards.
Generally in elementary school, we did all our lessons in the same room but we did have a purpose-built room for woodwork. This was well equipped with benches and hand tools and we got a useful grounding in using them. For me, it was one of the most enjoyable lessons.
The other children at the elementary school were a very normal mix and a reasonable standard of behaviour was enforced anyway. In the playground, our play was, of course, rowdy but there was little real fighting, there was more interest in playing ‘Flickhams’ with cigarette cards. These were in good supply as most men smoked and every packet of fags had a card in it. Later the interest changed to collecting the sets of cards and swapping them to make up sets which are now almost antiques.
Most of my classmates were friendly but although we visited each other’s houses to play, few friendships were long term, because of the need to change schools and move house.
Just before I had to take the grammar school entrance exam we moved house from Harringay to Winchmore Hill so I had to take the exam in the new area. Until my time at elementary school ran out a few months after we had moved, mother ferried me to and fro daily in her little car to carry on in the same school till the term was finished and the exam was done.The move to grammar school was a move to another world. After all, we were in the thirties and 1929 and all that was slipping back behind us. The move to Southgate was a move into another world and meant that none of my friends moved on with me to the same school.
It was, of course, an elitist world and the grammar schools were reckoned next in line after the ‘Public’ schools though there was no guarantee that the boy who left the elementary school at the age of fourteen would not become a millionaire quicker than any of them. He would not become a bank clerk or a civil servant however he was saved from being a fighter pilot in the forties.
Within the schools, competition and achievement were what mattered and although the arts and manual skills were not ignored any more than games, there was never a thought that these had in any way the importance of the academic subjects.
The grammar school was based on a large house, or small mansion set in substantial grounds converted to playing fields. A purpose-built extension doubled the number of rooms and included proper laboratory facilities. This also provided a large assembly hall with a good stage as well as a separate gymnasium and woodwork and domestic science rooms.
The ‘old building’ as it was known would have been a wonderful home in its day. It dated from the early nineteenth century and sat in a high position looking out over the lower land of the Lea valley, a sea of houses by the thirties, but a green and pleasant land in earlier days.
It was basically a two-storey house but with a complete basement half sunk in the ground below it and an attic storey half in the roof above. The grand front door led into a circular foyer before giving access to the central hallway where the circular theme continued with a grand staircase to the first floor. This did not go on up to the servants quarters above, which were served by a small spiral stone stairway which went from the basement to attics. There were perhaps ten rooms large enough to serve as main classrooms with a number of others used as a library, and staff rooms, studies etc.
The basement still contained a kitchen and its main area was used as a dining room for the twenty or thirty pupils who lived some miles away and were allowed the privilege of school dinners. This part of the basement also served as a music room if the main hall or stage were unavailable.
A separate building near the main gate which had probably served as a stable block had been made into two physics laboratories with an art room above. There was no sign of the stables or coach house; their site may have been covered by the ample bike sheds, the school bus not having been invented.
Alongside the bike sheds was a dovecot up on saddle stones, no longer the home of doves, it was probably used as a store by the two groundsmen who kept the playing field as immaculate as the gardens, which no doubt kept by a team of gardeners busy before them.
There was a walled large kitchen garden which had one wall removed and then had been desecrated with asphalt to provide a playground and tennis courts. Around its walls the beautifully trained espalier apple and pear trees had survived to bloom in the spring without the hope of ripening fruit in the autumn.
A childhood of the
1920s as seen from the 1990s
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 10 Education
SCHOOL
The school was less than a quarter of a mile away. Between parallel side roads of late-nineteenth-century houses, an oblong block held the separate buildings of the infant school, the Elementary school, and the Grammar school. It was a gently sloping site with the New River flowing south along the upper western boundary bringing drinking water to London from Hertford.
The infants’ school was between the other two and shared an asphalt playground with the girls of the Elementary school. The boys of the elementary school had their playground facing the other road, firmly separated from the girls by a high brick wall on either side of which were built the children’s loos.
The Grammar school was on the downhill side of the block, separated from the rest by a foot passage which ran parallel to the High Street through all the side roads. The iron railings round the school were set in strong brick piers and gated in the same style, a line of Plane trees were well established and were as un-climbable and as sturdy as the railings themselves.
The buildings were no-nonsense and built to last. Plenty of glazed brick and most lower walls of dark colour. Classrooms were built to hold about thirty and the desks and seat all-in-one in pairs.
The first day at school sticks in my memory. It was the first real contact with kids in the mass and the first contact with any authority other than parental. At that time there were no nursery schools or crèches as mothers, nor indeed, married women, in general, didn't go out to work.
I started school a month or two after I was five with the worst of the winter out of the way. Mother took me and the Headmistress saw us, having established her identity she passed me over to the class teacher to absorb into the mass. The teacher kept me with her during the morning assembly then brought me into the class, found me a desk, it cannot have been very traumatic as the rest has faded away.
Our lessons as infants were the three R’s punctuated with drawing and games. The alphabet and tables were chanted in unison. We wrote and made our drawings in chalk on pint-sized blackboards which slotted into the front of the desks. Some kids were bright and some kids were dim but everyone learned; there were no options on offer.
Before long we graduated to pen and ink writing in exercise books with inky fingers, scratchy pens and inkblots. In those days ink was still king, and the ballpoints' easy scribble still twenty years ahead.
School dinners were also twenty years in the future. All kids walked home for their dinners and back for the afternoon school. School milk started however in my first year or two at school. The little third of pint bottles. turned up in the morning break and there was much bubbling noise as the last drop was sucked up through the straws.
On the other side of the road from school was the Primitive Methodist church where I went, reluctantly and intermittently, to Sunday school. Mum and Dad did not go to church but Sunday school was the thing in those days so I went for a while though they did not insist when I opted out. All that sticks in my mind is a Harvest Festival where I had been inveigled into reading a poem about a windmill. It was the only time I saw my mother in the church until I got married.
When we moved into the junior section of the Elementary School, the horizons of our lessons broadened to include history, geography, & some science. There was now an objective in front of us, the entrance exam for the Grammar schools which were themselves the first step towards better-paid jobs further ahead.
Classes were now divided by ability into A, B, and C, and school reports began to arrive, largely designed I suspect simply to prod all and sundry to greater effort. I believe the teaching must have been good, though it was a bit double-edged for me. The first year in Grammar school had nearly all been done before and the need to work faded.
At the elementary school, there was no sports field but we managed to have a Sports Day at a ground near Muswell Hill. How everyone got there remains a mystery but the sun shone, there were sack races, egg and spoon races and mums races and a good time was had by all. Running was never a favourite pastime for me it was only done when unavoidable. Swimming was another matter however and we were lucky in that there was a swimming pool in the basement of the grammar school next door.
Here we were permitted a Saturday morning class for a dozen or so and I achieved the great heights of a certificate to say I could swim fifty yards.
Generally in elementary school, we did all our lessons in the same room but we did have a purpose-built room for woodwork. This was well equipped with benches and hand tools and we got a useful grounding in using them. For me, it was one of the most enjoyable lessons.
The other children at the elementary school were a very normal mix and a reasonable standard of behaviour was enforced anyway. In the playground, our play was, of course, rowdy but there was little real fighting, there was more interest in playing ‘Flickhams’ with cigarette cards. These were in good supply as most men smoked and every packet of fags had a card in it. Later the interest changed to collecting the sets of cards and swapping them to make up sets which are now almost antiques.
Most of my classmates were friendly but although we visited each other’s houses to play, few friendships were long term, because of the need to change schools and move house.
Just before I had to take the grammar school entrance exam we moved house from Harringay to Winchmore Hill so I had to take the exam in the new area. Until my time at elementary school ran out a few months after we had moved, mother ferried me to and fro daily in her little car to carry on in the same school till the term was finished and the exam was done.
The move to grammar school was a move to another world. After all, we were in the thirties and 1929 and all that was slipping back behind us. The move to Southgate was a move into another world and meant that none of my friends moved on with me to the same school.
It was, of course, an elitist world and the grammar schools were reckoned next in line after the ‘Public’ schools though there was no guarantee that the boy who left the elementary school at the age of fourteen would not become a millionaire quicker than any of them. He would not become a bank clerk or a civil servant however he was saved from being a fighter pilot in the forties.
Within the schools, competition and achievement were what mattered and although the arts and manual skills were not ignored any more than games, there was never a thought that these had in any way the importance of the academic subjects.
The grammar school was based on a large house, or small mansion set in substantial grounds converted to playing fields. A purpose-built extension doubled the number of rooms and included proper laboratory facilities. This also provided a large assembly hall with a good stage as well as a separate gymnasium and woodwork and domestic science rooms.
The ‘old building’ as it was known would have been a wonderful home in its day. It dated from the early nineteenth century and sat in a high position looking out over the lower land of the Lea valley, a sea of houses by the thirties, but a green and pleasant land in earlier days.
It was basically a two-storey house but with a complete basement half sunk in the ground below it and an attic storey half in the roof above. The grand front door led into a circular foyer before giving access to the central hallway where the circular theme continued with a grand staircase to the first floor. This did not go on up to the servants quarters above, which were served by a small spiral stone stairway which went from the basement to attics. There were perhaps ten rooms large enough to serve as main classrooms with a number of others used as a library, and staff rooms, studies etc.
The basement still contained a kitchen and its main area was used as a dining room for the twenty or thirty pupils who lived some miles away and were allowed the privilege of school dinners. This part of the basement also served as a music room if the main hall or stage were unavailable.
A separate building near the main gate which had probably served as a stable block had been made into two physics laboratories with an art room above. There was no sign of the stables or coach house; their site may have been covered by the ample bike sheds, the school bus not having been invented.
Alongside the bike sheds was a dovecot up on saddle stones, no longer the home of doves, it was probably used as a store by the two groundsmen who kept the playing field as immaculate as the gardens, which no doubt kept by a team of gardeners busy before them.
There was a walled large kitchen garden which had one wall removed and then had been desecrated with asphalt to provide a playground and tennis courts. Around its walls the beautifully trained espalier apple and pear trees had survived to bloom in the spring without the hope of ripening fruit in the autumn.
To be continued
To be continued
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Today's Family Events
1766 - Marriage: William ASHBROOK-22229 and Anne LAWS 22228, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1781 - Christen: Elizabeth LAWS-6768, Norwich Norfolk England1803 - Death: Leah LAWES-581, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England1804 - Baptism: Benjamin LAWES-37223, (Farm Bailiff) West Lavington Wiltshire England1808 - Christen: William LAWS-7903, South Shields Durham England1810 - Marriage: James LITTLE-13868 and Eleanor CHARTERS-13867, Aspatria Cumberland England1832 - Baptism: Samuel LAWS-31989, (Millmaker) Shoreditch Middlesex England1834 - Marriage: George BALDWIN-4319 and Mary LAWS 4320, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1837 - Birth: Samuel P LAWS-29785, (Farmer) Bowling Green Kentucky United States1839 - Birth: Edgar WHITTON-23527, (Tailor & Shopkeeper) Stradbroke Suffolk England1842 - Death: Sophia Mary LAWS-8013, 1855 - Marriage: Christopher Leigh EVANS-41745 and Rebecca Postern LAWS-4040, Bethnal Green Middlesex England
1856 - Birth: Margaret Ellen LAWS-19125, Ripley Indiana USA1858 - Death: Thomas WEBB-12211, (Carpenter) Claydon Buckinghamshire England1860 - Baptism: Tom WOODMAN-27981, 1876 - Birth: Eliza LAWS-4238, (Scholar) Sproughton Suffolk England1880 - Marriage: William H SHAW-16182 and Harriett M LAWS-16183, Rochester New York United States1880 - Birth: Henry S LAWS-41233, (Postal Overseer) 1880 - Birth: William S LAWS-8222, Chelsea Middlesex England
1881 - Birth: Emma LAWS-43608, (Widow Independent Means) 1885 - Birth: Albert LAWS-46616, (Meat & Offal Salesman & Widower) 1888 - Birth: Horace Caleb LAWS-39356, Camden New Jersey United States1889 - Marriage: Robert LAWS-29230 (Shipwright in HM Dockyard) and Fanny Charlotte OBEE-29231, Rochester Kent England1893 - Death: William LAWS-7878, (Licensed Victualler) Lowestoft Suffolk England
1894 - Birth: Mabel Mary Eliza PRINGLE-27269, 1895 - Birth: Robert COOKE-29126, 1896 - Birth: George LAWS-46180, (Gas Stoker) 1896 - Birth: George William Edward LAWS-14966, West Ham Essex England1897 - Baptism: William WalterLAWES-39324, Cinema Operator) East Greenwich Kent England1899 - Marriage: George Charles LAWES-992 (Electric Engine Driver) and Marian GLASSCO-36362, West Ham Essex England1899 - Marriage: James Douglas LAWS-5146 (Shipyard- Boilersmith ) and Mary Jane BELL-28409, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1899 - Residence: George Charles LAWES-992, (Electric Engine Driver) West Ham Essex England1900 - Baptism: Florence Dorothy LAWS-26323, Wandsworth Surrey England1903 - Birth: George LAWS-41227, (Builders Labourer) 1904 - Birth: Joseph Albert (Upholsterer) 1905 - Marriage: William Edward ROSE-20315 and Florence Beatrice LAWS-8282, Bothel Demesne Northumberland England1907 - Birth: John Leonard Miller LAWS-21065, (Dock Worker) Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire England
1907 - Residence: Henry LAWS-12247, (Licensed Victualler) "The Old Ship" Beer Lane, Great Tower Street, London1910 - Birth: Dorothy LAWS-41211, (Senior Comptometer Operator) 1911 - Birth: Elizabeth Virginia MOLTENO-13631, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa1913 - Birth: Vereda Aileen MOON-50044, Portageville, N New Madrid County, Missouri, United States1913 - Marriage: Albert John Hanton LAWES-49783 and Valise WILLIAMSON-49784, Adelaide South Australia, Australia1913 - Birth: Annie LAWS-42838, (General Maid) 1913 - Death: George LAWS-5756 (Farmer 175 Acres) 1916 - Death: Sarah LAWS-7835, 1918 -Marriage: Thomas Charles LAWS-17956 (Corporation Gas Fitter) and Eva Elizabeth YEARSLEY-41956, Ditton Lancashire England1918 - Birth: Jack Jefferson LAWS-45474, (Carpenter) Yancy County North Carolina United States1919 - Birth: David S LAWS-51048, (Engineering Draughtsman) 1919 - Birth: Freda Barbara LAWS-34858, 1926 - Death: Alice WOODCOCK-9899, Doncaster West Yorkshire England1931 - Burial: Elizabeth LAWS-49235, Hythe Kent England1931 - Death: Isabella LAWS-7961, (Spinster) Dover Kent England
1933 - Marriage: Matthew LAWS-51039 (Miner) and Annie MCLEAN-51040, Morpeth Northumberland England1933 - Birth: James A LAWS-24157, Kensington Middlesex England1939 - Marriage: Leslie William MICHEL-37382 and Olga Edith LAWES-37381, 1939 - Marriage: Frank George LAWS-34021 and Kathleen Freda COOK-34022, 1939 - Marriage: Albert ROBERTS-20333 and Mabel Winifred LAWS-20332, (Tailoress) Kensington Middlesex England1944 Residence: Rudolph Joseph STROHALM OR STROHAHN-44656, (Chauffeur) Marks Tey Essex England1949 - Miscellaneous: Francis William LAWS-5639, (Company Director & Freeman ) 1960 - Death: George Jamison LAWS-3832 (Milk Bar Attendant) Clapham Surrey England Residence: Tulse Hill Surrey England1963 - Miscellaneous: Walter Kenneth LAWS-41251, 1963 - Death: Leonard Alfred LAWS-15212, (Gardener Private) Norwich Norfolk England resided East Dereham Norfolk England1965 - Death: George Herbert LAWES-38634 (Wine & Beer Dealer), Birchington Kent England Residence: Margate Kent England1967 - Death: Daisy Ethel Violet HARDING-7038, Hertford Hertfordshire England (My paternal Grandmother, a sweetheart)1984 - Death: Matthew LAWS-51039, (Miner) Northumberland Central, England2003 - Death: Margaret Pauline HAYES-20096, Centralia, Marion County, Illinois United States2005 - Death: Sandra REDDING-20901, Greenville, South Carolina United States2009 - Death: Edwin John LAWS-27858, Litcham Norfolk England
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Dear AncestorYour tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and aloneThe names and dates are chiselled outon polished marble stone
Today's Family Events
1766 - Marriage: William ASHBROOK-22229 and Anne LAWS
22228, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1781 - Christen: Elizabeth LAWS-6768, Norwich Norfolk England
1803 - Death: Leah LAWES-581, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England
1804 - Baptism: Benjamin LAWES-37223, (Farm Bailiff)
West Lavington Wiltshire England
1808 - Christen: William LAWS-7903, South Shields Durham England
1810 - Marriage: James LITTLE-13868 and Eleanor CHARTERS-13867, Aspatria Cumberland England
1832 - Baptism: Samuel LAWS-31989, (Millmaker) Shoreditch Middlesex England
1834 - Marriage: George BALDWIN-4319 and Mary LAWS
4320, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1837 - Birth: Samuel P LAWS-29785, (Farmer) Bowling Green Kentucky United States
1839 - Birth: Edgar WHITTON-23527, (Tailor & Shopkeeper) Stradbroke Suffolk England
1842 - Death: Sophia Mary LAWS-8013,
1855 - Marriage: Christopher Leigh EVANS-41745 and Rebecca
Postern LAWS-4040, Bethnal Green Middlesex England
1856 - Birth: Margaret Ellen LAWS-19125, Ripley Indiana USA
1858 - Death: Thomas WEBB-12211, (Carpenter) Claydon
Buckinghamshire England
1860 - Baptism: Tom WOODMAN-27981,
1876 - Birth: Eliza LAWS-4238, (Scholar) Sproughton Suffolk England
1880 - Marriage: William H SHAW-16182 and Harriett M LAWS-16183, Rochester New York United States
1880 - Birth: Henry S LAWS-41233, (Postal Overseer)
1880 - Birth: William S LAWS-8222, Chelsea Middlesex England
1881 - Birth: Emma LAWS-43608, (Widow Independent Means)
1885 - Birth: Albert LAWS-46616, (Meat & Offal Salesman & Widower)
1888 - Birth: Horace Caleb LAWS-39356, Camden New Jersey United States
1889 - Marriage: Robert LAWS-29230 (Shipwright in HM Dockyard) and Fanny Charlotte OBEE-29231,
Rochester Kent England
1893 - Death: William LAWS-7878, (Licensed Victualler)
Lowestoft Suffolk England
1894 - Birth: Mabel Mary Eliza PRINGLE-27269,
1895 - Birth: Robert COOKE-29126,
1896 - Birth: George LAWS-46180, (Gas Stoker)
1896 - Birth: George William Edward LAWS-14966, West Ham Essex England
1897 - Baptism: William WalterLAWES-39324,
Cinema Operator) East Greenwich Kent England
1899 - Marriage: George Charles LAWES-992
(Electric Engine Driver) and Marian GLASSCO-36362, West Ham Essex England
1899 - Marriage: James Douglas LAWS-5146 (Shipyard- Boilersmith ) and Mary Jane BELL-28409,
Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1899 - Residence: George Charles LAWES-992,
(Electric Engine Driver) West Ham Essex England
1900 - Baptism: Florence Dorothy LAWS-26323, Wandsworth Surrey England
1903 - Birth: George LAWS-41227, (Builders Labourer)
1904 - Birth: Joseph Albert (Upholsterer)
1905 - Marriage: William Edward ROSE-20315 and Florence Beatrice LAWS-8282,
Bothel Demesne Northumberland England
1907 - Birth: John Leonard Miller LAWS-21065, (Dock Worker)
Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire England
1907 - Residence: Henry LAWS-12247, (Licensed Victualler) "The Old Ship" Beer Lane, Great Tower Street, London
1910 - Birth: Dorothy LAWS-41211, (Senior Comptometer Operator)
1911 - Birth: Elizabeth Virginia MOLTENO-13631,
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
1913 - Birth: Vereda Aileen MOON-50044, Portageville, N
New Madrid County, Missouri, United States
1913 - Marriage: Albert John Hanton LAWES-49783 and
Valise WILLIAMSON-49784, Adelaide South Australia, Australia
1913 - Birth: Annie LAWS-42838, (General Maid)
1913 - Death: George LAWS-5756 (Farmer 175 Acres) 1916 - Death: Sarah LAWS-7835,
1918 -Marriage: Thomas Charles LAWS-17956 (Corporation Gas Fitter) and Eva Elizabeth YEARSLEY-41956,
Ditton Lancashire England
1918 - Birth: Jack Jefferson LAWS-45474, (Carpenter)
Yancy County North Carolina United States
1919 - Birth: David S LAWS-51048, (Engineering Draughtsman) 1919 - Birth: Freda Barbara LAWS-34858,
1926 - Death: Alice WOODCOCK-9899, Doncaster
West Yorkshire England
1931 - Burial: Elizabeth LAWS-49235, Hythe Kent England
1931 - Death: Isabella LAWS-7961, (Spinster) Dover Kent England
1933 - Marriage: Matthew LAWS-51039 (Miner) and Annie MCLEAN-51040, Morpeth Northumberland England
1933 - Birth: James A LAWS-24157, Kensington Middlesex England
1939 - Marriage: Leslie William MICHEL-37382 and Olga Edith LAWES-37381,
1939 - Marriage: Frank George LAWS-34021 and Kathleen Freda COOK-34022,
1939 - Marriage: Albert ROBERTS-20333 and Mabel Winifred LAWS-20332, (Tailoress) Kensington Middlesex England
1944 Residence: Rudolph Joseph STROHALM OR STROHAHN-44656, (Chauffeur) Marks Tey Essex England
1949 - Miscellaneous: Francis William LAWS-5639, (Company Director & Freeman )
1960 - Death: George Jamison LAWS-3832 (Milk Bar Attendant)
Clapham Surrey England Residence: Tulse Hill Surrey England
1963 - Miscellaneous: Walter Kenneth LAWS-41251,
1963 - Death: Leonard Alfred LAWS-15212, (Gardener Private) Norwich Norfolk England resided East Dereham Norfolk England
1965 - Death: George Herbert LAWES-38634 (Wine & Beer Dealer), Birchington Kent England Residence: Margate Kent England
1967 - Death: Daisy Ethel Violet HARDING-7038, Hertford Hertfordshire England
(My paternal Grandmother, a sweetheart)
1984 - Death: Matthew LAWS-51039, (Miner) Northumberland Central, England
2003 - Death: Margaret Pauline HAYES-20096, Centralia, Marion County, Illinois United States
2005 - Death: Sandra REDDING-20901, Greenville,
South Carolina United States
2009 - Death: Edwin John LAWS-27858, Litcham Norfolk England
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Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest,
neglected and alone
on polished marble stone
It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mournYou did not know that I exist, you died and I was bornYet 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 agoSpreads out amongst the ones you left who would have loved you so,I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knewThat someday I would find this spot and come to visit you.
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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
and come to visit you.
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Look out for start date
E-Mail us at:-
lawsfhs@gmail.com
Our 'LAWS FAMILY REGISTER' Group'
which is is currently under development -
Look out for start date
E-Mail us at:-
lawsfhs@gmail.com
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++My Great Grandparents
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My Great Grandparents
Robert Henry Laws1828-1881Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton'
Barque 'Woolhampton'
This is Robert Henry's Wife Sarah Ann Laws, formerly FullerMy paternal Great Grandmother1846-1924
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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
Sharon Nicola LAWS
2008 Olympics CyclistEnvironmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 1974 -2017R I P
2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc
1974 -2017
R I P
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Member of The Guild of One-Name Studies
THE GUILD OF ONE-NAME STUDIES
www.one-name.org
registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk
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THE GUILD OF ONE-NAME STUDIES
www.one-name.org
registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk
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With grateful thanks to Simon Knott for his permission to reproduce his photographs on this site see http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk
Cédric Minel
https://cheesee-peasee.com/
https://cheesee-peasee.com/
This organization recognizes:-
The United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024 We reach out to all regardless of race, colour, creed, or orientation.
This organization recognizes:-
The United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024
We reach out to all regardless of race, colour, creed, or orientation.
Remember, We are all one family
Remember, We are all one family
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