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
1920's as seen from the 1990'sbyJohn Robert Laws 1921-2008
Before the building boom Southgate was largely an area of large mansions set in their own parks among farmland with a village of cottages and small shops where the new Underground station was now inserted..jpg)
Southgate Underground Station
It has been well documented by local historians and was in the final stages of suburbanisation when we moved there. I has scarcely know the area before moving there, but on at least one occasion had investigated the blackberries growing in the hedges of Osidge Lane at the bottom of which Pymmes brook was still a little stream edged with overgrown hawthorn.There was a little farm in a small gentle valley opposite our new house, but within months the farm had become a large housing estate and, passing through the stages of a sea of mud became quite a pleasant suburban area.A house got put up about one every three weeks with very little mechanical assistance, those houses were sold for about five or six hundred pounds, not cheap. A new house could be bought for a little as three hundred and seventy five pounds all around London.
Most houses were being built without garages but ours was one of a small development of half a dozen with a garage built in. Builders had not yet really decided that, a garage was an integral part of a house, so there was no upper storey over it.
Our enterprising builder had even put a radiator in the garage and this, together with a radiator in the hall and a towel rail in the bathroom made up his attempt at central heating. It was too bad that his knowledge of gravity circulation was weak and the garage was a bit lower than the rest of the house, so that its radiator was below the level of the ‘Ideal’ boiler in the kitchen and remained for ever stone cold.
The kitchen in the new house was a real update on what had gone before. There was still a built in dresser for the china with upper grooved shelves to stand up the dinner plates but the top was enclosed by doors, albeit panted a darkish brown. The larder alongside it was deep, giving a lot of space difficult to access.
For the first time there was a Refrigerator, a monstrous thing on legs with a big round cooling coil on top, to collect the dust where you could see it. It was however finished in white enamel and built like a tank. The black iron gas cooker was left behind and the new one was finished in mottled green vitreous enamel, all very solid.We still had a deep white stoneware sink with a wooden draining board. The kitchen was of course a lot smaller than before and the old deal table used up a lot of the space so that there was little room to eat there.A breakfast room lay alongside to eat in and this arrangement was a bit of a curate’s egg, handy when you needed an extra room but not so handy at breakfast time.
We were about half a mile from the new underground railway station, our move to the new house had been held back until it was completed. A bus route with single-decker buses ran down the road as far as the Chase Side Tavern. The bus stopped within a few yards of us on its way back and it cost a penny for the ride up the easy slope half a mile to the station. I had to be very late and actually see the bus coming, before money could be wasted in this profligate way.
The shops in Southgate were at that time in course of changing over from village to suburbia, a change which had been made in nearby Palmers Green a generation earlier probably when the railway arrived. The new tube station had a few new shops built around it but the old ones survived just a little longer, a tiny sweetshop run by a tiny old lady on the corner of Chase Side opposite the ‘Bell’ Public House, and a barbers beside the Bell, where boys got their hair cut for three pence. Next to that going north along Chase Side, Lees Stores survived a long time although the first moves towards supermarkets showed themselves in shops where you had to go from one counter to another to get your various goods instead of shop assistant fetching it all from far of places and piling it on the counter in front of you, before asking whether you would like it delivered.Next to Lee’s was the paper shop and then an ancient toy shop which didn’t last long. The bike, and perhaps motorbike, repair shop was a hundred yards further on , more a single storey brick shed with a shop front than anything, but it survived some years standing well proud of the new parade of shops built beside it which was set well back from the road with a very wide pavement.Opposite was Collins the butchers, a purveyor of choice meat, complete with a slaughterhouse in the rear. Here Sam and his dad presided with straw hats and blue and white aprons and would chop away on their big wooden block to produce the chump chop you wanted out of half a sheep. They too would deliver if you liked in a little brown van, well known in the Southgate streets. No doubt you paid for the service in the prices but you still could buy a nice pork chop for four pence.
There were two garages locally, petrol cost the equivalent of six or seven new pence a gallon and you could buy a brand new Austin Seven for one hundred and five pounds if you were lucky enough to scrape that much together.
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Austin 7
My dad got a Chrysler saloon in place of the old bull-nosed Morris but didn’t have it long as he was neither the first, or the last, to drive straight on at one of the right-angled Essex lanes. I didn’t ride in it much anyway as he had given me a new bike which I liked much better. After the demise of the Chrysler came, a much more sedate Hillman which I feel nobody loved very much.
MORE TOMORROW
A childhood of the
1920's as seen from the 1990's
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Before the building boom Southgate was largely an area of large mansions set in their own parks among farmland with a village of cottages and small shops where the new Underground station was now inserted.
Southgate Underground Station
It has been well documented by local historians and was in the final stages of suburbanisation when we moved there. I has scarcely know the area before moving there, but on at least one occasion had investigated the blackberries growing in the hedges of Osidge Lane at the bottom of which Pymmes brook was still a little stream edged with overgrown hawthorn.
There was a little farm in a small gentle valley opposite our new house, but within months the farm had become a large housing estate and, passing through the stages of a sea of mud became quite a pleasant suburban area.
A house got put up about one every three weeks with very little mechanical assistance, those houses were sold for about five or six hundred pounds, not cheap. A new house could be bought for a little as three hundred and seventy five pounds all around London.
Most houses were being built without garages but ours was one of a small development of half a dozen with a garage built in. Builders had not yet really decided that, a garage was an integral part of a house, so there was no upper storey over it.
Our enterprising builder had even put a radiator in the garage and this, together with a radiator in the hall and a towel rail in the bathroom made up his attempt at central heating. It was too bad that his knowledge of gravity circulation was weak and the garage was a bit lower than the rest of the house, so that its radiator was below the level of the ‘Ideal’ boiler in the kitchen and remained for ever stone cold.
The kitchen in the new house was a real update on what had gone before. There was still a built in dresser for the china with upper grooved shelves to stand up the dinner plates but the top was enclosed by doors, albeit panted a darkish brown. The larder alongside it was deep, giving a lot of space difficult to access.
For the first time there was a Refrigerator, a monstrous thing on legs with a big round cooling coil on top, to collect the dust where you could see it. It was however finished in white enamel and built like a tank. The black iron gas cooker was left behind and the new one was finished in mottled green vitreous enamel, all very solid.
We still had a deep white stoneware sink with a wooden draining board. The kitchen was of course a lot smaller than before and the old deal table used up a lot of the space so that there was little room to eat there.
A breakfast room lay alongside to eat in and this arrangement was a bit of a curate’s egg, handy when you needed an extra room but not so handy at breakfast time.
We were about half a mile from the new underground railway station, our move to the new house had been held back until it was completed. A bus route with single-decker buses ran down the road as far as the Chase Side Tavern. The bus stopped within a few yards of us on its way back and it cost a penny for the ride up the easy slope half a mile to the station. I had to be very late and actually see the bus coming, before money could be wasted in this profligate way.
The shops in Southgate were at that time in course of changing over from village to suburbia, a change which had been made in nearby Palmers Green a generation earlier probably when the railway arrived. The new tube station had a few new shops built around it but the old ones survived just a little longer, a tiny sweetshop run by a tiny old lady on the corner of Chase Side opposite the ‘Bell’ Public House, and a barbers beside the Bell, where boys got their hair cut for three pence. Next to that going north along Chase Side, Lees Stores survived a long time although the first moves towards supermarkets showed themselves in shops where you had to go from one counter to another to get your various goods instead of shop assistant fetching it all from far of places and piling it on the counter in front of you, before asking whether you would like it delivered.
Next to Lee’s was the paper shop and then an ancient toy shop which didn’t last long. The bike, and perhaps motorbike, repair shop was a hundred yards further on , more a single storey brick shed with a shop front than anything, but it survived some years standing well proud of the new parade of shops built beside it which was set well back from the road with a very wide pavement.
Opposite was Collins the butchers, a purveyor of choice meat, complete with a slaughterhouse in the rear. Here Sam and his dad presided with straw hats and blue and white aprons and would chop away on their big wooden block to produce the chump chop you wanted out of half a sheep. They too would deliver if you liked in a little brown van, well known in the Southgate streets. No doubt you paid for the service in the prices but you still could buy a nice pork chop for four pence.
There were two garages locally, petrol cost the equivalent of six or seven new pence a gallon and you could buy a brand new Austin Seven for one hundred and five pounds if you were lucky enough to scrape that much together.
Austin 7
My dad got a Chrysler saloon in place of the old bull-nosed Morris but didn’t have it long as he was neither the first, or the last, to drive straight on at one of the right-angled Essex lanes. I didn’t ride in it much anyway as he had given me a new bike which I liked much better. After the demise of the Chrysler came, a much more sedate Hillman which I feel nobody loved very much.
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FROM OUR DATABASEfor today 29th December
1678 - Christen: Edward LAWES-1500, Folkestone Kent England
1679 - Marriage: James MURRELL-1823 and Elizabeth LAWES-1854, Norwich Norfolk England
1733 - Marriage: William LAWS-33735 and Ann Louisa BELL-2959, Chopwell Durham England1735 - Baptism: Eleanor LAWS-9896, Chillingham Northumberland England1765 - Death: Frederick William HANOVER-22107, Leicester House, London1774 - Marriage: John LAWS-3587 and Sarah SPALDING-3588, Middlesex County, Massachusetts United States1783 - Marriage: Thomas LAWES-54 and Elizabeth FAITHFULL-55, Amport Hampshire England1790 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWES-11703, Warminster Wiltshire England1794 - Death: Maria LAWES-19426, Ightham Kent England1817 - Christen: Robert LAWS-26214, (Stone Mason) Egton North Yorkshire England
1827 - Baptism: Isabella CORMACK-45407, Old Machar, Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Scotland1833 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWS-10490, London Middlesex England 1839 - Marriage: Kindred LAWS-24438 (Labourer) and Hannah MYAL- 24439, (Servant) Weston Suffolk England1857 - Arrival: William LAWS-9198, (Ag Lab) 1857 - Immigration: Charles LAWS-3118, (Farmer) Melbourne, Victoria Australia1859 - Death: William James LAWES-2297, Forest Gate Essex England1860 - Marriage: Thomas CHARTERS-25703 and Elizabeth BROWN-25704, Wigton Cumberland England (My wife's 1st cousin 5 times removed)1860 - Birth: Edwin D LAWS-22759, Crown Point, Lake County Indiana United States1862 - Marriage: Edward Frederick LAWS-5353 and Nancy WENDELL-5354, Brenchley Kent England1864 - Burial: Jane Ann LAWS-25167, (Infant) Kirby Bedon Norfolk England1875 - Birth: Arthur James LAWES-2656, Honingham Norfolk England1883 - Marriage: Charles Alfred LAWES-15714 (Widowed Engine Fitter) and Mary J HOW-26664, Wanstead Essex England1883 - Death: John LAWES-660, (Farm Bailiff) 1884 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-41456, (Textile Fitters Labourer) 1898 - Birth: Albert VictorLAWS-27488, (Lamp Lighter) Hove Sussex England1899 - Birth: William Herbert James LAWES-46815 (Builders Foreman), Norwich Norfolk England1903 - Birth: Lucy E VAUGHN-52447, Mercer County Missouri United States1904 - Birth: Cyril Brunton LAWS-33998, Enfield Wash Middlesex England1905 - Birth: Frances LAWS-24724, 1905 - Birth: Ellen Frances SIMMONDS-20502, 1907 - Birth: Leslie William LAWES-35552, (Clerical Officer Customs & Excise) Bedminster Dorset England1908 - Marriage: Richard Arthur LAWS-7815 (Clerk for Merchant) and Elsie Marion ROY-17707, Richmond on Thames Surrey England
1908 - Birth: Ernest John LAWS-14345, (Driver) Spicers Creek New South Wales Australia1912 - Birth: Harold C J LAWES-48620, 1913 - Birth: Gilbert Lawrence LAWES-39199, (Farmer) Norwich Norfolk England1913 - Birth: Benjamin Albert PALMER-25028, Ramah, McKinley, New Mexico1913 - Birth: Albert ROBERTS-20333, Kensington Middlesex England1913 - Birth: James Herbert LOGAN-11817, Wortley West Yorkshire England1915 - Military: Alan A LAWS-2943, (ARMY Sergeant 624337 1917 - Birth: Harry Maxwell (Clerk) LAWS-27012, Cwmbran Glamorgan Wales1917 - Birth: Leonard Stewart LAWS-17547, (Dean Registrar of Southwestern College Kansas) Pocasset, Grady, Oklahoma, United States1919 - Death: Daniel Percy JONES-28682, (Warehouse Assistant) Bermondsey Surrey England1919 - Death: Eliza LAWES-1916, (Widow) Hastings Sussex England1931 - Death: Walter Ezra BUNN-3370, Norwich Norfolk England1937 - Burial: PercyLAWS-14958, (Outfitters Porter) Wareham Dorset England
1939 - Burial: Cora E LAWS-16683, Perkins Cemetery, Payne Oklahoma USA1940 - Death: Robert LAWS-50161, West Sleekburn Northumberland England1944 - Death: Alfred G COLE-45729, Winchester Hampshire England1947 - Residence: Joyce BUCKERIDGE-40646, Farnborough Hampshire England1958 - Death: Duncan Willoughby LAWS-36281, Cricklewood Middlesex England1961 - Death & Residence: Walter Robert (Sales Supervisor) LAWES-34830, Ealing Middlesex England1961 - Death: Frederic LAWS-5656, Sunderland Durham England1961 - Residence: Frederic LAWS-5656, Hetton le Hole Durham England1966 - Death: John William David LAWES-26039, (NAVY Jnr NAM 096565 HMS Ganges) 1967 - Death: Lavinia Jane Bennett LAWS-26241, Sydney New South Wales Australia1980 - Death: Geneva LAWS-22269, Provo Utah United States1986 - Burial: Douglas LAWS-16690, Broken Arrow, Tulsa Oklahoma United States1997 - Death: Frederick Leonard LAWS-44328, Coffs Harbour New South Wales Australia2000 - Burial: David Laws ERICKSON-8304, Lincoln Center Cemetery, Corning IA
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Dear AncestorYour tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and aloneThe names and dates are chiselled outon polished marble stone
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FROM OUR DATABASE
for today
29th December
1678 - Christen: Edward LAWES-1500, Folkestone Kent England
1679 - Marriage: James MURRELL-1823 and Elizabeth LAWES-1854, Norwich Norfolk England
1733 - Marriage: William LAWS-33735 and Ann Louisa BELL-2959,
Chopwell Durham England
1735 - Baptism: Eleanor LAWS-9896, Chillingham Northumberland England
1765 - Death: Frederick William HANOVER-22107, Leicester House, London
1774 - Marriage: John LAWS-3587 and Sarah SPALDING-3588,
Middlesex County, Massachusetts United States
1783 - Marriage: Thomas LAWES-54 and Elizabeth FAITHFULL-55, Amport Hampshire England
1790 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWES-11703, Warminster Wiltshire England
1794 - Death: Maria LAWES-19426, Ightham Kent England
1817 - Christen: Robert LAWS-26214, (Stone Mason) Egton North Yorkshire England
1827 - Baptism: Isabella CORMACK-45407, Old Machar, Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Scotland
1833 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWS-10490, London Middlesex England
1839 - Marriage: Kindred LAWS-24438 (Labourer) and Hannah MYAL- 24439, (Servant) Weston Suffolk England
1857 - Arrival: William LAWS-9198, (Ag Lab)
1857 - Immigration: Charles LAWS-3118, (Farmer) Melbourne, Victoria Australia
1859 - Death: William James LAWES-2297, Forest Gate Essex England
1860 - Marriage: Thomas CHARTERS-25703 and Elizabeth BROWN-25704,
Wigton Cumberland England
(My wife's 1st cousin 5 times removed)
1860 - Birth: Edwin D LAWS-22759, Crown Point, Lake County Indiana United States
1862 - Marriage: Edward Frederick LAWS-5353 and Nancy WENDELL-5354, Brenchley Kent England
1864 - Burial: Jane Ann LAWS-25167, (Infant) Kirby Bedon Norfolk England
1875 - Birth: Arthur James LAWES-2656, Honingham Norfolk England
1883 - Marriage: Charles Alfred LAWES-15714 (Widowed Engine Fitter) and Mary J HOW-26664, Wanstead Essex England
1883 - Death: John LAWES-660, (Farm Bailiff)
1884 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-41456, (Textile Fitters Labourer)
1898 - Birth: Albert VictorLAWS-27488, (Lamp Lighter) Hove Sussex England
1899 - Birth: William Herbert James LAWES-46815 (Builders Foreman), Norwich Norfolk England
1903 - Birth: Lucy E VAUGHN-52447, Mercer County Missouri United States
1904 - Birth: Cyril Brunton LAWS-33998, Enfield Wash Middlesex England
1905 - Birth: Frances LAWS-24724,
1905 - Birth: Ellen Frances SIMMONDS-20502,
1907 - Birth: Leslie William LAWES-35552, (Clerical Officer Customs & Excise) Bedminster Dorset England
1908 - Marriage: Richard Arthur LAWS-7815 (Clerk for Merchant) and
Elsie Marion ROY-17707, Richmond on Thames Surrey England
1908 - Birth: Ernest John LAWS-14345, (Driver) Spicers Creek New South Wales Australia
1912 - Birth: Harold C J LAWES-48620,
1913 - Birth: Gilbert Lawrence LAWES-39199, (Farmer) Norwich Norfolk England
1913 - Birth: Benjamin Albert PALMER-25028, Ramah, McKinley, New Mexico
1913 - Birth: Albert ROBERTS-20333, Kensington Middlesex England
1913 - Birth: James Herbert LOGAN-11817, Wortley West Yorkshire England
1915 - Military: Alan A LAWS-2943, (ARMY Sergeant 624337
1917 - Birth: Harry Maxwell (Clerk) LAWS-27012, Cwmbran Glamorgan Wales
1917 - Birth: Leonard Stewart LAWS-17547, (Dean Registrar of Southwestern College Kansas) Pocasset, Grady, Oklahoma, United States
1919 - Death: Daniel Percy JONES-28682, (Warehouse Assistant) Bermondsey Surrey England
1919 - Death: Eliza LAWES-1916, (Widow) Hastings Sussex England
1931 - Death: Walter Ezra BUNN-3370, Norwich Norfolk England
1937 - Burial: PercyLAWS-14958, (Outfitters Porter) Wareham Dorset England
1939 - Burial: Cora E LAWS-16683, Perkins Cemetery, Payne Oklahoma USA
1940 - Death: Robert LAWS-50161, West Sleekburn Northumberland England
1944 - Death: Alfred G COLE-45729, Winchester Hampshire England
1947 - Residence: Joyce BUCKERIDGE-40646, Farnborough Hampshire England
1958 - Death: Duncan Willoughby LAWS-36281, Cricklewood Middlesex England
1961 - Death & Residence: Walter Robert (Sales Supervisor) LAWES-34830, Ealing Middlesex England
1961 - Death: Frederic LAWS-5656, Sunderland Durham England
1961 - Residence: Frederic LAWS-5656, Hetton le Hole Durham England
1966 - Death: John William David LAWES-26039, (NAVY Jnr NAM 096565
HMS Ganges)
1967 - Death: Lavinia Jane Bennett LAWS-26241, Sydney New South Wales Australia
1980 - Death: Geneva LAWS-22269, Provo Utah United States
1986 - Burial: Douglas LAWS-16690, Broken Arrow, Tulsa Oklahoma United States
1997 - Death: Frederick Leonard LAWS-44328, Coffs Harbour New South Wales Australia
2000 - Burial: David Laws ERICKSON-8304, Lincoln Center Cemetery, Corning IA
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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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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++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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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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