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LAWS FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Wednesday 7 April 2021 Number 0003

 LAWS FAMILY HISTORY                        SOCIETY  


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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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 1920s as seen from the 1990s
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 3
The cat which had used the table leg as a scratching post was known by the unlikely name of Ma. It appears that I christened it with the only word in my vocabulary at a very early age. It was an undistingushed tabby which would catch the occasional unwary mouse but would spend more time snoozing in front of the fire. It seemed that every house had mice at that time. Food was more acccessible before fridges and freezers.

The kitchen was decorated in the deco of the period. The matchboarding of the lower part of the walls was painted a light brown like the dresser, and the upper walls were done in a strong cream gloss. I'm pretty sure there were lace curtains the same as the rest of the house. Just a touch of an earlier period was the fringe to the mantlepiece where the tea caddy (an ornamental tin), the candlesticks and the spill jar stood. The fireguard had a nice brass rim at the top, well polished by the constant touching of hands and glistened from the fire and the gaslight. Behind it was the black kitchen range, a solid fuel stove with two ovens and a back boiler for hot water. Much of the cooking was done on it in the winter using heavy old iron cooking pots which must have been heirlooms. It the only heating in the house till late afternoon unless the bedroom gas fires were used to dress by. The kitchen stove was lit at six in the morning normally by Lottie, though I remember my dad doing it on one occasion with me looking on. Everyone else must have been out of action I reckon.

The scullery next to the kitchen saved the yellowish shallow sink and the black iron gas cooker with its brass taps from spoiling the kitchen. It was definitely a workplace. the built-in copper had a fire below it to boil the wash. the mangle was enormous with big wooden rollers to get the water out before and after rinsing. the corrugated washboard had not yet been passed on to the skiffle group. Clothing must have been tough to withstand the battering. It all had to be ironed of course which was done on the kitchen table on the ironing cloth conveniently kept in its end drawer. Two heavy flat-irons were used one in use while the other was reheated on the gas cooker. No thermostats on these, a drop of spit on the finger applied to the hot iron would tell whether the sizzle was about right.

The one convenience, so to speak, about the scullery was the downstairs loo was entered from it. At that time they were normally out in the garden waiting for the first hard frost to put them out of action. Indeed so were most of those of the houses built in the later building boom of the early thirties.

There was one other work area, the coal cellar, prohibited to the infant population. This too was better than the thirties houses which had coal bunkers in the garden from which the fuel must be fetched come rain snow or shine. The descent to the cellar through a door in the hall passage was steep to go down and perhaps steeper to climb up laden with a bucket of coal, so some may dispute my feeling that it was better than going out in the rain.

The coal came into the cellar through the coal-hole in the top front step which was recessed into the house to give a small porch with the iron cover of the coal-hole in the centre. Four of five sandstone steps led up from street level and the coalman would carry his enormous sack up and upend it over the hole. Needless to say, this spoiled the pristine cleanliness of the whitened step and was not a popular event. Personally, I liked to see the patient carthorse observing the proceedings while digging into his nosebag and enjoying the enforced rest. Having delivered his orders, the coalman would patrol the streets calling 'Coal' at intervals in the hope of casual customers. Much the same perhaps as the 'butanero' delivering gas in today's Spain, though he needs no call, the clatter of his lorry enough to rouse the customers.

As well as the coal store there was plenty of space in the cellar with a sort of second room into which a feeble light filtered bt a small window below the 'front room' bay. I remember it as a junk store but maybe it was just things one couldn't throw away. Perhaps the most valuable thing in the cellar was the cold tap which didn't freeze even in the coldest snap when everybody's pipes were frozen and standpipes had to be put up in the streets.

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Today's Family Events 

1731 - Baptism: Anthony LAWS-10396, 
            Ponteland Northumberland England

1742 - Christen: Peter LAWS-3869, Stoke Dameral Devonshire                England
1804 - Birth: Matthew LAWS-7146, South Shields Durham                    England
1807 - Marriage: Thomas LAWS-16761 and Mary MOODY-                    9384, Harkstow Lincolnshire England
1816 - Birth: William LAWS-13298, (Licensed Victualler)                        Ditchingham Norfolk England


1825 - Marriage: William TARBARD-50405 and Margaret                       LAWS-50406, Dagenham Essex England
1828 - Birth: Hannah LAWS-2865, (Ag Lab) Welches Dam                       Cambridgeshire England


1834 - Death: Thomas LAWS-35577, 
1835 - Marriage: William HARDING-31655 (Miller)  and                      Georgiana Isabella MALIN-14026, Saint Pancra Middlesex            England
1841 - Marriage: William LAWS-7352 (Fancy Draper)  and #
           Ann BALLARD-14507, West Hackney Middlesex England
1842 - Birth: Martha Catherine BENTLEY-19053, 
            North Carolina United States
1844 - Death: Thomas LAWS-35577, Peterborough, Hillsborough             New Hampshire United States
1845 - Birth: James Samuel LAWS-12140, 
1851 - Birth: Ann ROBINSON-7644, Eakring Nottinghamshire                England
1851 - Birth: George Miller LAWS-5780, (Dock Labourer)                      Mulbarton Norfolk England
1852 - Marriage: Jonathan SPALDING-25955 (Lab)  and                        Elizabeth LAWS-25956, Beccles Suffolk England
  

  
1852 - Christen: John LAWS-6662, (Builder & Painter &                          former Mariner)  Dymchurch Kent England
1858 -   Baptism: Francis William LAWES-12828, 
              (Carpenter & Joiner)  South Cerney Gloucestershire                      England
1858 - Birth: Harry LAWES-384, (Wheelwright)  Bishopstone                 Wiltshire England


1859 - Birth: Yngvar LAWS-41795, Bergen Norway
1863 - Birth: Adam PREHLER-24606, 
1868 - Birth: Augustus A GODFREY-18871, Los Angeles,                       California United States
1871 - Census: Elizabeth LAWS-3089, Folkestone Kent England


1873 - Marriage: John Donald MCLAREN-3618 and Eliza Jane LAWS-3616, Cowra New South Wales Australia


1873 - Birth: William Broadus WOOLFOLK-36713, Claybrook             County Tennessee United States
1874 - Birth: Charles Frederick LAWES-242, (Inspector Of Gas             Apparatus)  Camberwell Surrey England
1877 - Death: Emille Jean Louis DE BOISSIERE-50954, 
            Cluny FRANCE
1879 - Marriage: Johann LAWS-51020 (Küper)  and Maria                    Elisabeth Bertha GROWELL-51024, Hamburg Germany
1881 - Birth: George A LAWES-47584, (Boiler Maker &                            Widower) 
1882 - Death: Joseph LAWS-10482, (Master Baker)  
            South Street, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England


1883 - Marriage: Charles Edward TOMLINSON-49794 and                     Alice Maud LAWS-49792, Bobbingworth Essex England
1886 - Birth: Bertie William LAWS-4255, (ARMY Private)                      Barnby, Suffolk, England
1888 - Marriage: James Thompson LAWS-5698 (Architect &                    Surveyor)  and Alice Annie DALGLEISH-15012, 
            Hampstead Middlesex England


1888 - Birth: Esther LAWS-22133, (Milliner)  
            Byker Northumberland England
1888 - Death: Harriet WALLER-10942, 
1891 - Marriage: William Eggleston BINLEY-23413 
          (Colliery Mason)  and Mary Ann LAWS-4170
          Willington Durham England
1891 - Death: George LAWS-5105, (Farmer 58 acres)  
            Bishops Waltham Hampshire England
1892 - Marriage: William Robert ALLEN-22187 (Stevedore) 
            and Jane Jennifer LAWS-8717, Middlesbrough 
            North Yorkshire England
1892 - Birth: Arthur LAWS-49215, (Joiner) West Pelton Durham             England
1893 - Birth: Annie LAWS-43213, (Drapers Assistant)                            Tynemouth Northumberland England
1893 - Birth: Annie LAWS-43137, 
1894 - Birth: Olive WILLIAMS-37994, 
1896 - Birth: James John LAWS-52105, 
1896 - Birth: Beatrice GRINT-47775, Somerleyton Suffolk                         England
1896 - Birth: Nellie Winifred FRAMPTON-39417, 
1896 - Death: Anthony LAWS-4269, (Railway Booking Clerk)                  Darlington Durham England
1897 - Birth: Frank LAWS-42966, (Builders Decorator) 
1901 - Marriage: Henry Walton LAWS-3994 (Clerk to Gas                        Company) and Alice Maud Mary MORRIS-    17273, 
            Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1901 - Burial: Henry LAWS-34033, School of Anatomy
1904 - Marriage: George Henry MILLER-32264 (Blacksmith)                  and Thirza Peninnah Arabella LAWS-4156, 
            Hampton Wick Middlesex England
1904 - Birth: Ivy LAWS-3385, (Cashier) 
1905 - Birth: Myrtle Grace LAWS-50494, 
            California United States
1906 - Birth: Edward LAWS-42657, (Plasterer)  
1907 - Birth: Arthur R P LAWS-41190,  (Plumber) 
1909 - Residence: Cissie LAWS-22370, (Nurse)  Statten Island             New York United States and West Croydon Surrey England
1909 - Birth: Edith Evelyn LAWS-3753, Anlaby East Yorkshire England
1910 - Birth: Flossy Mae VAUGHN-12747, Vienna, Johnson County Illinois United States
1915 - Marriage: Thomas Henry TULLETT-48787 and 
           Emily LAWS-13036, Bexley Kent England
1916 - Death: John LAWS-8494, Chatteris Cambridgeshire                     England
1917 - Birth: George W F LAWES-46792, (Labourer) 
1923 - Marriage: George Arthur SUTTON-9630 and Ivy                            STONE-29128, Stratford Essex England
1929 - Marriage: Edward Francis HARKCOM-22153 and 
            Edith LAWS-22152, Sheffield West Yorkshire England
1931 - Marriage: John JESSOP-13226 and Elsie Esther LAWS-                4742, Tilbury Essex England
1931 - Death: Otis LAWS-20148, 
1935 - Death: Madison J LAWS-22507, Mount Vernon, Franklin             County Texas United States
1940 - Burial: Elizabeth Mary GREEN-7943, Hawkinge Kent                 England
1945 - Death: Marshall Noah LAWES-21684, (ARMY Private C/612664)  Operation Market Garden
1951 - Death: Wilford Derby LAWS-13487, Monticello San Juan             Utah United States
1953 - Residence: Ruth Emma Amelia LAWS-44649, Streatham             Surrey England
1953 - Death: Elizabeth LAWS-24726, Calumet City Illinois                     United States
1977 - Death: Thomas Samuel LAWS-21229, Matcham 
            New South Wales Australia
1985 - Death: Lillian Jean BROWN-17032, Vancover 
            British Columbia Canada
1986 - Death: Hazel Anna RIPPEY-49537, Niles, Berrien,                         Michigan United States
1986 - Death: Cecil Owen MARTIN-13973, Torpoint Cornwall                 England
1995 - Death: Alfred Archie ALLEN-10746, Ashville 
            North Carolina United States
1996 - Death: David LAWS-35838, Stepney Middlesex England

2003 - Death: Albert Edward LAWS-12584, (Australian Army)                  Melbourne, Victoria Australia
2015 - Death: Hall Keith LAWS-50256, Banner Elk, Avery, 
            North Carolina, 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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2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 
1974 -2017
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