Saturday 15th August 2020 - Number 7059

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

1633 - Marriage: Edward LAWES-1549 and Margaret                           GOOCH-1550, Norwich Norfolk England

1652 - Christen: Alyce LAWS-1123, North Walsham Norfolk                 England

1773 - Marriage: Jas LAWS-50402 & Mary NICHOLS-50401,               Ealing Middlesex England
1824 - Christen: WilliamLAWS-2863, 
           Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1830 - Baptism: George PENNY-9627, (Ag Lab) Broad Chalke
           Wiltshire England

1839 - Christen: Ann CLIFFORD-11324, (Widow) Whitby                     North Yorkshire England

1841 - Marriage: Benjamin LAWS-14493 (Foundery Man) and
           Maria LINCOLN-14494, Bungay Suffolk England

1849 - Birth: Jerome Corelius FITZ-11994, (retired farmer) 
           St Thomas, Franklin County Pennsylvania United States
1852 - Birth: H Langdon LAWS-50333, (Merchant) Cincinnati, 
           Hamilton, Ohio United States
1854 - Death: William LAWS-34520, 
1857 - Baptism: Thomas LAWS-5003 (Ag Lab, Horsman on                   Farm), Copdock Suffolk England
1862 - Birth: Frederick Charles LAWES-27982, (Box Maker) 
1868 - Burial: William Arthur LAWS-26639, (6 months old) 
1871 - Baptism: Albert Edward LAWES-165, (Foreman Pastry
           Cook) Ringwood Hampshire England
1872 - Birth: Pantha Della LAWS-16806, 
1877 - Marriage: Thomas Howard JACKSON-13816 and 
           Susan Ida LAWS-13815, Paris, Fauquier County,                         Virginia United States
1880 - Birth: Thomas Davison LAWS-6434, (Farmer) Hunwick              Durham England
1882 - Birth: William LAWES-48647, (General Labourer)  
1884 - Birth: Alice LAWES-43920, (Housekeeper) 
1885 - Death: William WALTON-23441, Horton Delaval                         Northumberland England
1885 - Birth: Samuel LAWS-20151, 
1887 - Birth: William D LAWS-32087, (Ag Lab) Ospringe Kent
           England
1892 - Baptism: Herbert George LAWES-38827, (Engineer)                   Buenos Aires Argentina
1893 - Birth: Ernest LAWS-22141, (Wood Worker &                                Coachbuilder)  Sheffield West Yorkshire England
1894 - Birth: Dorcas LAWS-48293, 
1894 - Birth: Frederick J  LAWES-47360, (Carman & Ag lab)  
1894 - Birth: Dorcas A WILLEY-28197, Carlton, Barnsley                     West Yorkshire England
1894 - Birth: Claude Edward LAWES-307, (Ag Lab) Rushall                 Norfolk England
1899 - Birth: Augustus J LAWS-41347, (Shirt Cutter) 
1901 - Birth: William Ryott LAWS-38028, (Wholesale Fruit &               Veg Merchant) 
1902 - Birth: Eulion Earl LAWS-19991, 
1906 - Birth: Elizabeth C MADDEN-31092, (Housemaid) 
1908 - Marriage: Charles John BUCK-32270 (Jeweller &                       Silversmiths Clerk) and Edith Florence LAWS-32269,                 Westminster Middlesex England
1908 - Birth: Harrison Russell MOSELEY-45183, Springfield,               Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
1910 - Birth: Edith Margery LAWS-3806 (Certificated                            Schoolteacher), Gosforth Northumberland England
1916 - Birth: Reginald LAWS-42493(Chocolate Worker) 
1918 - Birth: Hugh Douglas Willoughby LAWS-16948, 
            (Merchant Navy) Reading Berkshire England
1919 - Birth: Dennis J LAWES-39080, (Assistant Cashier                       Hampstead Borough Counci) 
1924 - Death: Louisa LAWES-1953, (Widow) Plaistow Essex                 England
1927 - Burial: G W LAWS-16698, Broken Arrow, Tulsa                         Oklahoma United States

1933 - Death: Ernest Charles LAWS-5635, (Bill Brokers Clerk)
           Watford Hertfordshire England
1935 - Birth: Gerald Francis LAWS-43947, Denver Colorado
           United States
1944 - Death: Thomas Jefferson LAWS-29714, 
1947 - Death: Doyle Richard LAWS-19365, Pierce, Clearwater,             Idaho, United States
1954 - Death: Alice Maud Mary HARDING-7095, 
            (My Great Aunt) (Boarding House Keeper)  
            Brixham Devonshire England

1955 - Marriage: Harry Vanden LAWS-36735 and Myra Gay               BLANKENSHIP-36736, Corinth Mississippi 
           United States
1957 - Residence: Arthur LAWS-38290, 
           March Cambridgeshire England
1960 - Residence: Harold Arthur William LAWS-33386, 
           (Ag Lab) Chatteris Cambridgeshire England
1964 - Death: Grace Margaret DAVIDSON-17947, Swanage                  Dorset England but resided in Victoria 
            British Columbia, Canada
1966 - Death: John Edward LAWES-38643, Borden Kent                        England
1975 - Death: Wilfred Harold SYMES-51767, Gillingham                       Dorset England
1976 - Death: Earl L LAWS-16307, (Sgt US Army)
1978 - Death: Dulcie Annabel MORIARTY-14376, Warren 
           New South Wales Australia
1988 - Death: Mildred LAWS-37439, Chicago Illinois 
           United States
1990 - Death: Billy Ernest LAWS-13435, Shreveport, 
            Caddo Louisiana United States
2003 - Death: Johnnie Seldon LAWS-16369, (PVT US Army) 

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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