Welcome to the Laws Family Blog
We reach out to all, regardless of Race, Colour, Creed, Gender & Orientation, or National Origin, with support for researching family history and documenting cultural inheritance.
Dear Ancestor,-
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone
The names and dates are chiseled 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.
LAWS FAMILY REGISTER
We are happy to work on your
LAWS FAMILY TREE
(maybe we already have)
Enquires are still very welcome, so Please e-mail us at
-------------------------------
registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk
-------------------------------
PLEASE NOTE GDPR (2018) PRIVACY TERMS
We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy - We DO NOT show 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 lookup.
We are happy to help you with your Laws or Lawes research, and in certain instances, we may be willing to undertake private research on your behalf.
We are happy to publish within this blog, stories of your Laws or Lawes research, and also to list members of the Laws or Lawes family you are searching for. (Subject to the rule above.)
BIRTHS
1765 - Baptism: James LAWS-3385, (Merchant Life) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1821 - Baptism: Samuel LAWS-13320, Ormesby St Michael Norfolk England
1822 - Baptism: Christopher LAWS-4421, Norwich Norfolk England
1822 - Birth: Ann LAWS-3176, Folkestone Kent England
1839 - Baptism: John LAWS-6504, (Railway Porter) Helington Norfolk England
1853 - Birth: Eliza LAWS-29648, Gateshead Durham England
1864 - Birth: William Bernard LAWS-19309,
1865 - Birth: Thomas Little LAWS-5938, (Coal Miner) North Backworth, Earsdon Northumberland England
1871 - Baptism: Walter LAWS-5412, (Sweeper/Labourer) West Ham Essex England
1873 - Birth: Harold Lionel LAWS-45774, (Dr M R C S L R C P) East Islington Middlesex England
1877 - Birth: William Wilbur LAWS-19336, Illinois United States
1878 - Birth: Eliza Louisa LAWES-27704, Hastings Sussex England
1878 - Baptism: Henry LAWS-3567, (Infant / Not grandson but illegitimate son) Bedlington Northumberland England
1883 - Birth: Fred LAWS-44255, (Colour Mixer In Paper Mill)
1884 - Birth: Frank C LAWS-8446, (Brush Traveller) Norwich Norfolk England
1888 - Birth: Frederick William Derwin LAWS-32419, (Retired Engineer) Lincoln Lincolnshire England
1889 - Birth: William LAWES-48278, (Storekeeper)
1889 - Birth: Ellen Florence LAWS-30375, Gaspe, Quebec CANADA
1892 - Birth: Percy Bankston LAWS-12435, Greenwood Mississippi United States
1896 - Birth: John LAWS-44820, (Colliery Maintenance Waggon Wright)
1896 - Birth: John Franklin LAWS-19543, Kansas United States
1901 - Birth: Thomas William R LAWS-47678, (Widower)
1901 - Birth: Arthur R LAWS-42670, (Painter & Decorator)
1904 - Birth: Walter A LAWS-47829, (Metal Polisher)
1907 - Birth: Margaret LAWES-35931,
1909 - Birth: Ena W LAWES-48406,
1912 - Birth: Jack Clifford LAWS-43012, (Head Provision Hand Grocery & Provision Stores)
1914 - Birth: William Charles LAWS-47840, (Foreman Despatch Clerk)
1919 - Birth: Frances Blanche LAWS-37775,
MARRIAGES
1779 - Marriage: William LAWS-3667 and Sarah TAY-3672,
1787 - Marriage: Thomas LAWS-36486 and Mary LOCKE-36487,
1799 - Marriage: John LAWES-12870 and Ann BATH-12871, Allington Wiltshire England
1818 - Marriage: John DOWN-46136 and Gertrude LAWS-3628, Whitchurch-Canonicorum Dorset England
1823 - Marriage: William James LAWES-568 ("Isaac Bawcombe") and Mary UPJOHN-569,
The village of Martin, at the furthest western reaches of Hampshire, has, like so many border settlements see-sawed between Wiltshire and Hampshire. Its beautiful situation on the western downland with chalk at its feet is perfect sheep country and therefore to find the grave of a shepherd is not an unusual thing.
Shepherd Lawes however is. For those who live on the chalk of Hampshire, Wiltshire or Dorset, the writing of W.H Hudson ‘A Shepherd’s Life’ is a welcome reminder of a time when the slopes were covered in a fine grassland with a precious and bountiful flora and full of sheep.
The plough had not yet pushed its way through the greensward to reveal the bare bones of white chalk.
The plough had not yet pushed its way through the greensward to reveal the bare bones of white chalk.
Hudson’s tale of the life of the shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, his father, Issac Bawcombe and his family is based on the life of Shepherd Lawes. Hudson was not a native of Britain, his home was Argentina where he spent his time wandering the Pampas. He wrote the book a handful of years before the outbreak of WWI which is a narrative thrown back even further in time, to the early decades of the 19th century and the life of a shepherd on the Wiltshire Downs as related by his son, Caleb. Caleb is an old man himself as he relates the story of his life and that of his father before him. His account meanders through his memory and Hudson as the writer, allows it to find its own course. The result, a gentle observation of life through the quiet eyes of one who spends hours observing nature, the shepherd.
Shepherd William Lawes
The headstone tells us that his descendants have restored the stone and added a plaque telling us that William Lawes was the shepherd 'Issac Bawcombe' who Hudson based his book upon. He died in December 1886, aged 96 years, a fine age and is buried with his wife Mary who died the year before. In the book, Caleb his son describes him as a fine specimen of a man, both physically and morally, a stalwart of a man whose very presence was both commanding and reassuring
Many thanks to Amanda Moore & Helen Banham of 'Hampshire History' for the above for more information see http://www.hampshire-history.com
1877 - Marriage: George LAWES-566 (HM Royal Marines) and Jemima BOND-550, Broad Chalke Wiltshire England
1884 - Marriage: John YOUNGS-26710 and Eliza LAWS-22468, Littleport Cambridgeshire England
1897 - Marriage: James Milton LAWS-19501 (Farmer) and Mary E QUINN-19542
1905 - Marriage: William Reuben LAWS-25436 and Lou Reanie EDWARDS-25437
1909 - Marriage: Bertie John William BRODIE-37259 (GPO Porter) and Sally LAWS-8164,
Canning Town Essex England
Canning Town Essex England
1912 - Marriage: William LAWS-43859 (Wood Turner) and Ethel Mary TOWNBROW-43860, (Office Cleaner) Hoxton Middlesex England
1913 - Marriage: Frank Reginald LAWS-27837 (Mechanical Engineer) and Elsie Louisa BENNETT 40855, Camden Town Middlesex England
1913 - Marriage: Arthur Augustus DAYSON-40387 and Ada Laura LAWES-27288, Battersea Surrey England
1923 - Marriage: Ernest Samuel HALL-40388 (Engineer) and Ada Laura LAWES-27288, Wimbledon Surrey England
1928 - Marriage: Leonard LAWS-43172 (Stone Mason) and Annie DUCKWORTH-43173, (Weaver) Whitworth Lancashire England
DEATHS
1856 - Death: Charles Horace LAWS-2832, Newgate LONDON burial Kensal Green Middlesex England
1878 - Death: Caroline LAWS-25160,
MISC & OTHER INFORMATION
1856 - Death: Charles Horace LAWS-2832, Newgate LONDON burial Kensal Green Middlesex England
1878 - Death: Caroline LAWS-25160,
1927 - Burial: George William LAWS-17081, Park Grove Cemetery, Broken Arrow, Tulsa
Oklahoma United States
Oklahoma United States
1940 - Death: Roland Sydney LAWS-32293, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1960 - Burial: William Henry LAWS-21312, Townsville Queensland Australia
1972 - Death: Alfred Charles LAWES-38451, (Groom Handyman) Norwich Norfolk England
1973 - Death: Mary J LAWS-46062, North Wilkesboro North Carolina United States
1976 - Death: Bill LAWS-23801, Canberra Australia
1978 - Death: Martin LAWS-20374, Aldershot Hampshire England
1994 - Cremation: Thomas George Ernest LAWS-28159, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent England
1996 - Death: Edwin John LAWS-12554, Kingsgrove New South Wales Australia
1856 - Residence: Charles William LAWS-32062 (Merchants Clerk/Ship Agent) and
Caroline Elizabeth Kett PUNCHER-32063, Newgate LONDON England
1912 - Residence: William LAWS-43859, (Wood Turner) Hoxton Middlesex England
1913 - Residence: Elsie Louisa BENNETT-40855, Camden Town Middlesex England
1915 - Residence: Ernest LAWS-41665, (ARMY Private 491100) Goderick Ontario Canada
OTHER BIRTHS
Caroline Elizabeth Kett PUNCHER-32063, Newgate LONDON England
1912 - Residence: William LAWS-43859, (Wood Turner) Hoxton Middlesex England
1913 - Residence: Elsie Louisa BENNETT-40855, Camden Town Middlesex England
1915 - Residence: Ernest LAWS-41665, (ARMY Private 491100) Goderick Ontario Canada
1973 - Residence: Belle WILLIAMS-46066, Route 1, Box 73 Boomar North Carolina United States
1710 - Baptism: Elizabeth FISHER-17676, Lowestoft Suffolk England
1858 - Birth: John YOUNGS-26710,
1858 - Birth: John YOUNGS-26710,
1893 - Birth: Edith A WHALEY-38617, Abingdon Berkshire England
1893 - Birth: Robert Charles BODIE-9220, Old Machar, Aberdeen Aberdeenshire England
1907 - Birth: Margaret TAYLOR-41240, Coffey County Kansas United States
1917 - Birth: Mabel D WORRELL-47865, (Shorthand Typist)
OTHER MARRIAGES
1765 - Marriage: Christopher HORTON-4612 and Anne (Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn) LUTTRELL-4630, Mayfair Middlesex England
1884 - Marriage: William Frederick (Clockmaker) CLEGG-7095 and Mary Eleanor JONES-360351935 - Marriage: Frederick William HOCKNELL-23113 (French Polisher) and Ivy BRANT-14283, Edmonton Middlesex England
OTHER DEATHS
1809 - Burial: Martha WILKINSON-4512, Rackham Norfolk England
1994 - Death: Alma Louis DAVIS-47241, Bromley Kent England
Did you find anyone, whether its yes or no we'd love to hear from you, we've got over 47,800 records
Mail us at
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 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
2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc
1974-2017
R I P
The content provided on this site is not guaranteed to be error free
It is always advised that you consult original records.
Member of The Guild of One-Name Studies
THE GUILD OF ONE-NAME STUDIES
www.one-name.org
registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk
With grateful thanks to Simon Knott
for permission to reproduce his photographs on this site see
http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/
We support INVICTUS and Help for Heroes
"This organization recognizes:-
The United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024.
We reach out to all regardless of race, color, creed, orientation or national origin with support for researching family and documenting cultural inheritance
The United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024.
We reach out to all regardless of race, color, creed, orientation or national origin with support for researching family and documenting cultural inheritance
Comments
Post a Comment