Wednesday 22nd November 2017 - Number 2960

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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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SURNAMES IN MY TREE INCLUDE LAWS & LAWES, HARDING ELL ROWELL FULLER LOTHERINGTON BRANT MOONEY 

AT THE

LAWS FAMILY REGISTER 

WE ARE HAPPY TO WORK ON YOUR  LAWS TREE 

(MAYBE WE ALREADY HAVE)

   EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE

BUT PLEASE NOTE

We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy -therefore we are not showing births after 1920 or marriages after 1940 these are only available on request

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! 

We will be happy to publish within this blog Your stories of your LAWS research and also members of the LAWS and LAWES family you are searching for. 

We will be happy to help with you with your LAWS/LAWES research, and in certain instances we may be willing to undertake private research on your behalf.

The content provided on this site is not guaranteed to be error free - It is always advised that you consult original records.

 Contact me via email at registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk 

Family Events from our database for today 22nd November

Family Events

BIRTHS baptisms etc

1768 - Birth: William LAWS (Master Mariner) -3387, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1840 - Christen: Esther Mary Ann LAWES-1731, Stepney Middlesex England

1841 - Birth: Mary LAWS-3090, Chatteris Cambridgeshire ENGLAND

1854 - Baptism: Adolphus Brock LAWS-35019, Stepney Middlesex England
1860 - Birth: Cuthbert Umfreville LAWS(Surgeon) -3008, Morpeth Northumberland England
1874 - Birth: Benjamin LAWS (Wharf Labourer) -42726, 
1902 - Birth: Mamie Arizona LAWS-30158, Carroll Co TN UNITED STATES
1903 - Birth: Elizabeth Sarah LAWS-37799, Gateshead Durham ENGLAND
1903 - Birth: Clyde Parker LAWS-16461, Winfield, Titus Co Texas UNITED STATES
1914 - Birth: Vivian William LAWS (Sewing Mechanic) -14741, NZ

MARRIAGES

1781 - Marriage: John LAWS-6881 and Mary ALLEN-6882, Dover Kent ENGLAND

1830 - Marriage: Thomas LAWS-11766 and Mary MOY (Widow)11765 Coslany Norfolk                       England
1879 - Marriage: Henry Hill FLAMANK (Railwayman) -21593 and Margaret Jane Mckenzie               LAWS-21592, Morgan, South Australia (on the Murray River)
1885 - Marriage: James LAWS (Butcher)-28976 and Jane PIESLEY-28977, Orange NSW                       AUSTRALIA
1896 - Marriage: William Durrant LAWS (Sailmaker) -4078 and Laura Harriett SMITH-                     15805, Great Yarmouth Norfolk ENGLAND
1899 - Marriage: Joseph D BEROUJON-22687 and Cecile LAWS-22686, 

DEATHS burials etc

1652 - Burial: Samuel LAWES-809, Middlesex England (St Dunstan in the East)
1700 - Burial: Matthew LAWIS-2460, Leake Lincolnshire England
1762 - Death: Stephen LAWES-30, 
1805 - Will: George LAWS (Yeoman) -11374
1825 - Death: James LAWS (Merchant Life) -3385, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1858 - Death: Letitia LAWES (Spinster) -32052, Southampton Hampshire England

1859 - Death: William  LAWS- (US Seaman) 45611, Callao PERU
1883 - Death: Griffin LAWS (Rat Catcher) -5719, East Winch Norfolk England

1914 - Death: William Arthur LAWS-21311, Townsville QLD AUSTRALIA
1916 - Death: Henry LAWES (ARMY Private 11086) -22196, 
1918 - Death: Henry John LAWS (ARMY Private 584283) -15549, Hounslow Middlesex                          England
1928 - Death: Francis William LAWES (Relief Stationmaster) -205, Sidmouth Junction,                         Devonshire England
1936 - Death: Robert Joseph LAWS (Grocers Clerk) -15251, Cambridge Cambridgeshire                       England

1946 - Death: Arthur Judson LAWS (ARMY Sergeant SB/78382) -22178, 
1949 - Death: Benjamin Charles LAWES-39079, Burslem Staffordshire England
1959 - Death: George Aubrey LAWES-40325, Salisbury Wiltshire England

1961 - Death: Eva Gertrude LAWS (Retired Parish Church Visitor) -2954, Colwyn Bay                           Denbigh Wales
2000 - Death: Melvin LAWS-38390, Willimantic, Windham CT UNITED STATES
2003 - Burial: Robert Woodford LAWS-13460, Oswego, KS UNITED STATES

MISC

1915 - Residence: Herbert Henry LAWES (Chauffeur) -41686, Ottawa ONT CANADA
1915 - Enlistment: Joseph LAWS (Gas Meter Reader/ARMY Gunner 94911) -44451, Blyth                     Northumberland England
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OTHER BIRTHS

1713 - Baptism: Thomas PREBBLE-2078, 
1812 - Birth: James W WEBB-23500, Houston Co GA UNITED STATES

1816 - Birth: Ann WHYMENT-9214, Clipson Northamptonshire England
1861 - Birth: Helen Maria LUMBY (Hospital Nurse) -3010, Great Abington Cambridgeshire                 England
1864 - Birth: Thomas Edward COUCHMAN-43134, Horton Kirby Kent ENGLAND
1881 - Birth: Annie Edwards BOUSQUET- (Manufacturing Chemist's Clerk) 40468, 
           Clapham Surrey ENGLAND

1899 - Birth: Louis Edmund GRIMANI-22377, Camberwell Surrey ENGLAND
1902 - Birth: Frederick Charles SAVILLE (Engineer Jig Maker) -14297, Peckham Surrey                     England
1909 - Birth: Joseph CLEGG-28209, Stalybridge Cheshire ENGLAND
1915 - Birth: Margaret Ruth BAILEY-27561, 

OTHER MARRIAGES

OTHER DEATHS & Burial

1834 - Death: Charlotte MILLIGEN-24152, Taunton Somersetshire ENGLAND
1922 - Death: Robert (Ag Lab) SQIRRELL-21060, Hitcham Suffolk ENGLAND
2001 - Death: Winifred Doris ATKINSON-14598, Gerringong NSW AUSTRALIA

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A CHILD OF THE 1920's

AS SEEN FROM THE 1990's

by

John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 1

IN THE BEGINNING

The war had been over three years, the Kaiser's War that is. It was late afternoon on Christmas Eve and the sun had gone down for the day, the gaslight on and the fires lit, but of course I don't remember as I was the early Christmas present for my Mum.

When memory reaches back to it's furthest it is summer, there is a lot of summer in the early years, or so it seems. There are laburnums in flower in the garden and wooden toys with nodding heads, a swan, and a rhino to be pulled along on wheels and always the sound of trains with smoke and steam.

Every morning just after ten there was the Flying Scotsman to watch go by and then there was shunting and banging all day and night that one slept soundly through, just as one now sleeps through the noise of the television. The smoke and soot annoyed my mum, but to an infant, it was just an interesting smell which came and went, perhaps a little stronger when one climbed the railway fence to get a better view. A few missing palings made this easy even for the smallest child.

Over the fence was a narrow strip of unkempt grass often burnt in summer when a spark from a passing locomotive set it alight. at other times an unofficial path for railwaymen, children, and burglars. The tracks lay about fifteen feet down from the grass, the land held up by a hefty retaining wall. Lots of tracks, maybe a dozen, with another track on a long bridge crossing them at an acute angle and takings trains from one side to the other without touching the fast line.

The land rose on the other side of the tracks, a steep tall grassy bank with a proper footpath along the top beyond the fence and even seats along the top. In the afternoon sunshine, these would be occupied by mums and nannies with prams while the trains amused the vociferous offspring. It was not until later that I explored these distant parts, a sprawl of suburbia from the late nineteenth century broken here and there by parks and sports grounds.

HOME

The land rose on the other side of the tracks, a steep tall grassy bank with a proper footpath along the top beyond the fence and even seats along the top. In the afternoon sunshine, these would be occupied by mums and nannies with prams while the trains amused the vociferous offspring. It was not until later that I explored these distant parts, a sprawl of suburbia from the late nineteenth century broken here and there by parks and sports grounds.

We looked out that way one sunlit evening and saw the majestic airship the R101 floating gently south towards London, France and their appointment in Samarkand.

Our garden was not very large, a rectangle with a concrete path around the patch of grass to leave a border for plants and little trees. A little extra bit was squeezed in at the side of the back of the house before the narrow sideway, out to the front. Inside the rectangle of the path, the grass had half a dozen little apple trees around the edge. The plants elude my memory, only the laburnums stand out clearly, always in flower with a prickly rose bush under one of them.

One went into the garden at the side of the back door from the scullery down a couple of sandstone steps. Only in very warm weather was the double back door of the bay window in the kitchen opened for regular use. It opened onto a paved patch across the garden which caught the afternoon sun. For some time I had a white albino rabbit in a hutch in the garden. It had a wire netting run from which it would burrow out if not carefully supervised.

Our house was a semi, built of London stocks in the late 1800's, one of the better houses almost at the top of the hill. We lived there till I was ten, so being an inquisitive child, I learned to know the area better than the palm of my hand.

As an infant the day was spent in the kitchen, a pleasant enough room lit by a bay window with a half glazed double door to the garden. It was heated by a black-leaded built-in kitchen range with an oven to the side and a back boiler to heat the water. This had to be lit every morning if the weather was cold and if it were lit it would be used for some cooking. the kitchen was lit at night by a single central gaslight, a soft sympathetic light without the brilliance of the electricity which came later. candlesticks were on the mantlepiece for bedtime. Mine was enamel but my mother had a more elegant one, once silver plated but already polished down to the brass, I still have it.

The kitchen furnishings were plain and useful. A large deal table with an end drawer and covered with a tablecloth. one leg very tatty from being used as a scratching post by the cat. Bentwood chairs, comfortable enough but a little creaky, one an elbow chair the rest plain but with the usual pressed pattern on the seat. A built-in brown painted dresser with drawers and cupboards below and a slightly mixed collection of plates on edge on the shelves with the cups hanging from hooks on the front. Meals were usually taken in the kitchen except at weekends when lunch (called dinner) and tea were taken in the dining room. fortunately, the kitchen was a good sized room and a child could run about and play on the floor with little impediment.

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 undistinguished 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 accessible before fridges and freezers.

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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 safely hidden now away
In some forgotten crypt

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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