Friday 14th August 2020 - Number 7058

WELCOME TO THE 

 LAWS FAMILY REGISTER

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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.

Henry Lawes

1595-1662

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A suburban childhood of the Twenties 

Seen from the Nineteen Nineties

By John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 8.

One faint memory of Green Lanes is of the buses with their cabs shrouded in wire netting to protect the volunteer drivers during the National Strike of 1926. What a good job there were no television cameras to encourage the attackers.

As well as the main shopping area in Green Lanes there were a few little shops around the railway station. The sweet shop was to me the most important and in those impecunious days, many sweet shops kept a halfpenny and farthing box with a selection of sweets at those prices for kids with pocket money. It is a sign of changing times that as I type this computer throws out the word Farthing as not being in the dictionary.

The dress of the period is familiar from photographs but the black and white of these photos do not tell us how much to colours changed. These monochrome photos are perhaps appropriate to the rather drab colours of everyday wear. Grey, black and white was definitely favourites except for special occasions. Green was thought unlucky by some though my mother had a brilliant green evening dress for one special occasion. Red tended to be associated with the immoral so one was left with brown and blue and usually dark at that. Even holiday wear was much less colourful, white flannels and a navy blue blazer being about the height of seaside fashion for Pater families. The ladies did much better with flower-patterned fabrics. For better or for worse the mini skirt hadn't been invented and bikini was still the name of an unknown Pacific island.

Among the street people with a distinctive dress the policeman stood out. A big man in his navy blue tunic and trousers, a leather belt around his middle with a bull’s-eye torch at the rear and his outfit completed with a proper Bobbies helmet on his head and big black boots on his feet for pavement pounding. Just occasionally his whistle might be heard shrilling as he chased some malefactor down the road. More often he was seen but not heard as he came by on foot or on his bike with his rain cape neatly folded over the handlebars.

Our family doctor lived just across the way in a sizable corner house. I saw him from time to time when I had various childhood ailments but his likeness escapes me. My mother always thought me thin and needing fattening up but rather doubting when the doctor included pork in his dietary recommendations. Anyway, I ate like a horse the only dislike I can remember was the kidney in steak and kidney pudding. The doctor had installed a machine for 'sun-ray treatment' and my mother took me over to him several times for a dose of the beneficial light. It was some sort of ultraviolet light emission which would frighten a quack silly today.

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Extracted from our Database today

Tuesday 11th August 2020

We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940 

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

FAMILY EVENTS

1768 - Birth: Matthew LAWS-4426, Rackham Norfolk England
1804 - Marriage: Richard LAWS-39656 and Sarah SMITH-                 39657, Thatcham Berkshire England
1807 - Death: William LAWES-31268, Knights Enham                           Hampshire England
1814 - Birth: Maria GREEDUS-10603, (Dressmaker) 
           Bethnal Green Middlesex England

            (My 2nd Great Grandmother)
1814 - Christen: Jane LAWES-1988, Portsmouth Hampshire                 England

1822 - Christen: Thomas LAWES-379, (Lieutenant / Master                  Mariner HEICS) 
1835 - Birth: William Campbell LAWS-4429, (Japaner)                         Whitechapel Middlesex England
1842 - Baptism: James Thomas LAWS-38508, Bermondsey                   Surrey England
1844 - Death: John LAWS-8400, Breckney Hill, East Heddon                 Northumberland England
1853 - Birth: Alice M LANGILLE-37666, 
1857 - Birth: Sarah Elizabeth LAWS-48144, Jordan, Lincoln,               Ontario, Canada
1859 - Baptism: Edgar James Kenniworth LAWES-48254,
           (Lithographer)  Worth Sussex England
1860 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-7657, (Wholesale Provisions                       Manager) 
1860 - Death: James LAWS-39763, Westminster, Worcester 
           County Massachusetts United States
1860 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-7657 (Wholesale Provisions
            Manager) Hackney Middlesex England
1861 - Occupation: Augustus LAWS-26609, (Surgeon on Ship)  
1875 - Death: Charles John LAWS-40013, Hampstead                           Middlesex England

1885 - Birth: Hazel K LAWS-20022, 
1886 - Birth: Joseph LAWS-43540, (Roller Cleaner &                             Repairer) 
1888 - Birth: Frederick William Derwin LAWS-31702, 
           (Retired Engineer) Lincoln, Lincolnshire England

1894 - Birth: Wilfred LAWS-47692, (Northern County Council             ARP Storekeeper And Retired Seam?)  
           Durham Durham England

1898 - Death: Mary Ann LAWES-2284, (Widow)  Wimbourne               Minster Dorset England
1899 - Marriage: Henry OMER-24254 and Amelia Elizabeth                  LAWS-24251, 
1901 - Birth: Arthur R LAWS-41346, (Omnibus Conductor) 
1901 - Birth: Albert Edward LAWS-31907, (Water Filter Beds
           Labourer)  Woolston Hampshire England
1903 - Birth: George James Thomas HEATH-47252,(Wholesale
           Tobacco & Confectioner  Representative)  Edmonton                   Middlesex England
1907 - Birth: William Arlington LAWS-16142, (T4 US Army)  
1907 - Birth: Gwendoline Annie GIBSON-14230, Surry Hills                 New South Wales Australia
1909 - Birth: Alberta LAWS-34901, 
1910 - Birth: Leonard James Francis MCGRATH-34358, 
1912 - Birth: Marian Alice LAWES-49671, Leeds West                            Yorkshire England
1912 - Birth: Frances LAWS-42943, 
1912 - Birth: Alfred H LAWS-37314, (Bus Conductor) Norwich
           Norfolk England
1913 - Birth: Leslie Stephen G LAWS-44128,                                           (Carpenter/Joiner)  Edmonton Middlesex England
1916 - Marriage: William George LAWES-27442                                     (Oxy-Acetylene Welder) and Edith Alice SPOARD-
            (Servant)  27443, Uxbridge Middlesex England
1916 - Death: George GIBBON-21592, Newcastle upon Tyne                 Northumberland England

1918 - Birth: Frank LAWS-42386, (House Painter)  
1920 - Birth: William Frederick LAWES-36422, 
1920 - Occupation: Edwin Francis John LAWS- 10794,
           (Railwayman) 
1931 - Burial: Nellie LAWS-11777, Falkner Green 
            Memorial Park, Victoria Australia
1935 - Burial: Thomas John LAWS-11779, Falkner Green                     Memorial Park, Victoria Australia
1943 - Death: Eva HALSALL-35699, Richmond on Thames                   Surrey England

1943 - Burial: Charles Henry LAWS-24550, Minoa, Onondaga              County New York United States
1970 - Death: John Edward LAWS-44337, South Shields                       Durham England
1973 - Death: Evelyn Maud LAWES-47623, Bayswater                           Middlesex England
1976 - Death: Doris Lilian LAWS-45467, Purley Surrey                         England
1983 - Death: Bertha CABLE-42257, Elkhart, Indiana 
           United States
1990 - Death: Dorothy Agnes LAWS-20689, Windsor Victoria                ustralia
1998 - Death: George Gordon John LAWS- 10794, (Reverend)                LAWS-11135, Canberra ACT Australia
2002 - Death: Irene LAWS-16175, 
2003 - Death: George Henry LAWS-11853, (Retired Carpenter
           and farmer)  
2004 - Death: Mary Ruth EARLS-16519, Bend Oregon 
           United States
2006 - Death: Donald LAWS-25761, Chelmsford Essex England

MORE TOMORROW

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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

R I P

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Sharon Nicola LAWS

2008 Olympics Cyclist

Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 

1974-2017

R I P

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