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DearAncestor,-
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.
IMPORTANT
We suspended operation of the LAWS FAMILY REGISTER
from June 30, 3016
We will work on our LAWS FAMILY TREE
This Blog will continue
All LAWS Enquires arw still welcome
We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy -we are not showing births after 1920 or marriages after 1940 these are only available to members of the register
If you are interested in anyone listed here, email us with the name, date and reference number, and we will happily do a look up, you might even get a whole tree!
This blog will also appear on our Facebook page, please come visit us, We will be happy to help with your LAWS/LAWES research, and in certain instances we may be willing to undertake private research on your behalf.
Family Events
1773 - Birth: Elizabeth LAWIS-10578, Morpeth NBL UK
1773 - Burial: Hannah LAWES-2294, Stourton WIL UK
1800 - Birth: Pleasance LAWS-10794, Downham Market NFK UK
1836 - Burial: Edward LAWS-3625, Witchampton DOR UK
1847 - Marriage: William Henry LAWS (Carpenter) -9399 and Sarah Ann CHAMBERS-
8111, Alverstoke HAM UK
1860 - Christen: Evelyn Emma Murray LAWES-31954, St.Marylebone MDX
1866 - Birth: Sarah Agnes LAWS (Servant / Spr) -7700, Mile End MDX UK
1871 - Marriage: Robert LAWS (Farmer) -3520 and Hannah Maria YALLOP-5514,
Hoveton NFK UK
1871 - Death: Susan LAWS-16430, Lakenheath NFK UK
1885 - Birth: Robert B LAWS (Apprentice Gas Fitter) -15814, Gorleston on Sea SFK UK
1886 - Residence: Arthur Ernest LAWS-41656, Hanwell MDX UK
1886 Baptism: Alice Annie LAWS-41655, Hanwell MDX UK
1888 - Residence: Bertram Harry LAWS-41654, Hanwell MDX UK
1886 - Residence: William James LAWS (Commision Agent) -41652, Hanwell MDX UK
1893 - Death: Martha LAWS-38277, Johnson, Kane Co. UT United States
1900 - Birth: Victor Sidney L LAWES-33792,
1917 - Death: Thomas Eric LAWES (ARMY 2nd Lieutenant) -1284, FRANCE
1920 - Death: Matthew LAWS (Chemist) -17823, Anfield Plaine DUR UK
1920 - Death: Matthew LAWS (Blacksmith) -3060, Anfield Plaine DUR UK
1923 - Residence: Arthur Frederick LAWS (Marine Engineer) -3362, Mackay QLD AUSTRALIA
1925 - Marriage: James Arthur Robert HONEYFIELD-40054 and Evelyn LAWES-40053, Bedminster DOR UK
1943 - Death: Alfred John LAWS (ARMY Sapper RE 1079316) -30838, KIA Middle East
Residence: East Ham MDX UK
1945 - Death: John William LAWS (Farmer) -34189, Chatteris CAM UK
1964- Marriage: John Christopher BERNY-FICKLIN-16822 and Janet Caroline LAWES- 16821,
1968 - Death: William Hart LAWS-13806, Monticello, San Juan UT United States
1970 - Marriage: Russell Robert ENDERS-3253 and Rosalind Annette LAWS-3207,
1971 - Death: Roy T LAWS (PFC US Army) -16797,
1980 - Birth: Lakeishaw Renae LAWS-19062, TX United States
2013 - Death: Donald R LAWS-41584, Pittsfield MA USA
MISC
1831 - Birth: Joseph Rawson LUMBY (Reverend Proffesor DD) -11442, Stanningley WRY UK
1846 - Birth: Elizabeth Ann L BURVILLE-3151, Folkestone KEN UK
1910 - Birth: John Lyle CARPENTER>40641, Vernal, Uintah Co UT USA
1919 - Death: David HOWITT (Ag Lab) -26799, Castle Bytham LIN UK
1973 - Death: Amos Manan MCELWEE-30459, W. Frankfort, Franklin IL United States
1975 - Death: Rupert Ernest Giles CARTER-11529,
1975 - Death: Rupert Ernest Giles CARTER-11529,
2013 - Death: Charles Henry SPENDIFF (Colour Sgt Irish Guards) -14284, Orpington KEN UK
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A CHILD OF THE 1920's
AS SEEN FROM THE 1990's
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 21
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.
Part 22
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 my father's trod
And led them through so many lands
To find our present sod.
Lord, help me find an ancient book
Or dusty manuscript,
Thats's safely hidden now away
In some forgotten crypy.
Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts
My soul, when I can't find
The missing link between some name
That ends the same as mine
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