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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 are suspending 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.
registrar@lawslamilyregister.org.uk
Family Events
1662 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWES, Newcastle upon Tyne NBL UK
1776 - Death: William LAWS, Feltwell NFK UK
1820 - Baptism: Stephen Lot LAWES, Andover HAM UK
1837 - Birth: Joseph LAWS, (Coke Drawer) West Auckland DUR UK
1843 - Birth: Francis Edwin LAWES (Reverend) , Aldermaston BRK UK
1844 - Marriage: George LAWS (Labourer) and Ann SCOTT, Wareham DOR UK
1849 - Marriage: Richard Willoughby LAWS (C J Navy Retired) and Elizabeth WILSON, Calcutta INDIA (later divorced)
1855 - Christen: George LAWES, Costessey NFK UK
1856 - Marriage: Thomas Wing LAWS (Ag lab Imate in Workhouse) and Martha W NICHOLS, Whittlesey CAM UK
1864 - Occupation: J F LAWS,(Mate on Ship)
1867 - Birth: George William LAWS, Bungay SFK UK
1872 - Birth: Charles John LAWS, (Twin) Mansfield VIC AUSTRALIA
1872 - Birth: William Sampson LAWS, (Farmer) Mansfield VIC AUSTRALIA
1872 - Baptism: Herbert Freeman LAWES (Brewers Labourer) Booton NFK UK
1875 - Baptism: Ernest LAWES (Scholar), Lea HER UK
1885 - Birth: Arthur Ernest LAWS (RN 212394 Leading Seaman) Leyton ESS UK
1887 - Marriage: Alfred Stenning LAWS and Marian Anna KEMP, Coulsdon SRY UK
1888 - Marriage: Joseph FITCHES and Emma LAWS (Servant / Spinster), Icklingham SFK UK
1890 - Birth: Walter A LAWS (Gary Fire Fighter) Crown Point, Lake Co IN USA
1893 - Birth: Beatrice Mary LAWES, Cardiff GLA UK
1893 - Birth: Sidney Evans LAWS (RN J6089) , West Ham ESS UK
1906 - Birth: Veronica LAWES, British Columbia CANADA
1909 - Birth: Beatrice Emma LAWS,
1909 - Birth: Reginald George LAWES, Andover HAM UK
1914 - Birth: Ronald John F LAWS, Norwich NFK UK
1917 - Death: George LAWS, (ARMY L/Cpl 3545) Kensington MDX UK
1917 - Death: William Maitland LAWS (Grocer Provision Dealer) Gateshead DUR UK
1929 - Marriage: Alfa Riddell BARTON and Lurlene LAWS, Blanding UT USA
1929 - Death: William George LAWES, Mayfield SSX UK
1934 - Marriage: Percy William Herbert LAWES (Railway Officer) and Muriel TURNER
(Mothers Companion) , Whitby NRY UK
1951 - Death: John Arundel Stead (Engineers Labourer) LAWES, Leeds WRY UK
1960 - Death: Arthur Alfred LAWS, (Egine Erector / Electrical engineer) Lincoln LIN UK
1965 - Death: Frederick LAWES, Lyme Regis DOR UK
1965 - Residence: Frederick LAWES, Uplyme DOR UK
1996 - Death: Thomas Edward LAWS,
1997 - Death: Thomas Arthur William LAWS, Torbay DEV UK
1997 - Death: Aaron Benjamin LAWS(CPL, US Marine Corps) Solano CA USA
2000 - Death: John Franklin LAWS, Valparaiso, Porter IN USA
2003 - Burial: Billie Jean LAWS, Fulton MO USA
2004 - Death: Eddie Earl Snr LAWS,
MISC
1799 - Baptism: Mary Isabella KING, Chaldon SRY UK
1827 - Death: D'arcy WENTWORTH (Irish Surgeon & Highwayman) Homebush, Sydney, NSW
1830 - Baptism: Matilda BREWER,
1830 - Baptism: Matilda BREWER,
1891 - Birth: John George LAVENDER (Miner) Gateshead DUR UK
1897 - Death: John BRAWLEY, Poolville, Parker Co TX United States
1897 - Birth: Frances Lillian SEELEY, Brumby LIN UK
1897 - Birth: Frances Lillian SEELEY, Brumby LIN UK
1909 - Birth: Florence Mary WILLINGHAM,
1919 - Emigration: R MOONEY (RNR) , Noth Sydney, Nova Scotia CANADA
1931 - Death: Charlotte Ann MASTERTON, Beccles SFK UK
1971 - Death: Thelma Sarah MCDONALD, Bundara NSW AUSTRALIA
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A CHILD OF THE 1920's
AS SEEN FROM THE 1990's
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008
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 tning in the cellar
was the cold tap which didn't freeze even in the coldest snap when everybodies
pipes were frozen and standpipes had to be put up in the streets.
If the cellar was inelegant, the other rooms were much better.
After the kitchen, the most used room for living was the 'front room'
often called the dining room. today it would be called the living room but room
usage in middle class houses was different then, mainly due to the lack of
central heating. In cold weather a fire would be lit in the front room in the
late afternoon on weekdays or well before lunch on weekends. Its heat output
could only be controlled by stoking it up or letting it burn down with a
little bit of draught control at the front and the alternatives of feeding it
with lumps or slack.
The tiled fireplaces of the thirties and forties had not arrived,
the fire was ornamented with tiled inserts on either side, enclosed by an iron
surround. Above it the overmantle enclosed a big mirror and supported a heavy
green onyx clock in a Palladium style with a gilt dial and ormolu mounts.
If this were not enough, it was flanked by a pair of blue-brown Doulton glazed
vases which served as spill holders.
It all belonged to a rather earlier age, even at that time, the
product of a rather late marriage before WWI of a couple raised in late
Victorian times. Furniture was good and solid, even a dining chair took a bit
of lifting, but there was no fear of it wearing out or falling apart and the
room was big enough to hold a lot of it. As it was really a living room rather
than a dining room, the fire had a large overstuffed armchair on either side
and there was a matching sofa along the opposite wall. One recess beside the
chimney breast was occupied by a tall glazed mahogany bookcase and the other
held a dropfront coal scuttle which provided a little table top beside the
chair. An enormous mahogany sideboard sat against the wall opposite the window,
the back of its tall overmantle filled by a mirror. tapered square columns
supported the tester style top on which stood a reproduction bronze statue of
an athete. I suppose the original statue must be greek but although some thirty
years or so later I spotted a full size replica in a public park in Liege, I
remain in ignorance.
Ornaments abounded and on the sideboard were an epergne for fruit
and flowers and a couple of silver plate and glass urns which never contained
anything. More useful was the plated silver stand to hold the soda syphon
and the plated vegetable dishes sitting on the long lacey cloth.
'Cleaning the plate' was a regular chore and but one of many labour intensive
housekeeping of those days. There was of course a heavy mahogany dining table
and half a dozen chairs for the main purpose of the room. Apart from mealtimes,
a dark crimson chenille tablecoth with a fancy fringe all round covered the
table and in the middle stood another epergne, plated and just for flowers this
time. Last but not least the obligatory aspidestra sat in a magnificent state
of growth on an ornately carved ebony stand in the window bay, its pot enclosed
by a handsome china jardinaire of deep blue and white. from this window at dusk
the lamplighter could be seen on his rounds lighting the gas street lights one
by one with a long pole he carried over his shoulder.
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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 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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