Sunday 16th August 2020 - Number 7060

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

Sunday16th August 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

FAMILY EVENTS

1618 - Christen: Christopher LAWS-13675, Padiham Lancashire England
1691 - Baptism: Alice LAWS-6303, East Walton Norfolk England
1719 - Baptism: Catherine LAWS-7362, Holborn Middlesex England
1791 - Birth: Samuel LAWS-13798, Virginia United States
1793 - Burial: John Milligan LAWS-2792 (Infant) Swaffham Norfolk England

1816 - Death: William Hampt on LAWS-10891, Orange North Carolina           
           United States
1856 - Birth: William LAWES-2469, (RN 80325 Navy Sick Berth Attendant)                     Fordingbridge Hampshire England
1860 - Birth: Mary Bell PATTERSON-12549, Polk County, Isle of Wight, 
           Arizona United States
1872 - Death: Edmund LAWES-2140, (Gentleman) Reeth North Yorkshire                       England
1873 - Marriage: Cuthbert LAWS-5144 (Boilersmith)  and Sarah DOUGLAS-                 5147, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1873 - Baptism: Frederick James LAWS-3368, (Ag Lab)  Horstead Norfolk                       England
1874 - Birth: Lottie A LAWS-6577, 
1880 - Death: Hannah Rogers LAWS-39349,
1882 - Birth: Walter George LAWES-47312, (Upholsterer) Donhead Saint Mary               Wiltshire England
1883 - Marriage: Richard Shepherd MOORE-36639 (Share Broker)  and                           Constance LAWS-14601, Poole Dorset England
1883 - Marriage: Robert LOCK-16915 of Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire                         England and Rosa LAWS-6221, (Governess)  Weymouth Dorset England
1890 - Birth: Rose JUDD-14358, Scarsdale Victoria Tasmania
1893 - Marriage: Charles Frederick LAWS-7358 (Master Mariner 13605)  and                 Eda Susan Anketell JONES-22361, Hampstead Middlesex England

1893 - Residence: Eda Susan Anketell JONES-22361, Dalkey, County Dublin                   Ireland
1900 - Birth: Gladys CHASE-41231,
1902 - Birth: Doris Alice BOHLING-42926, Wandsworth Surrey England
1904 - Marriage: Joseph LAWS-43222 (Gas Meter Reader/ (Army Gunner                       94911)  and Elizabeth JAFF-43223, Blyth Northumberland England
1905 - Birth: Bertie LAWS-33631, (Cycle Maker)  Buckenham Norfolk England
1908 - Birth: Irene LAWS-36237, Texas United States
1910 - Birth: Caroline Elizabeth LAWES-12392, Wilton Wiltshire England
1914 - Birth: Rose E SHERER-44614, Cardiff Glamorgan Wales
1914 - Birth: Tobin Henry LAWS-24545, 
1915 - Marriage: William LAWES-20524 and Lily Louisa SAMPSON-20525,                   Queenborough, Kent England
1915 - Birth: Jean Edith LAWES-47566, (Secretary)
1915 - Birth: Forest D LAWS-38472,
1915 - Death: Harry LAWS-7271, (Army Private 15285) Gallipoli Turkey
1918 - Birth: Cecil Stanard LAWS-51412, (Dentist) Fresno California
           United States
1924 - Marriage: Wilfred Henry LAWS-22466 (Painter & Decorator)  and Laura             Louise PILCHER-22473, (Spinster)  Folkestone Kent England

1924 - Burial: Sarah ERRINGTON-17060, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe 
           West Yorkshire England
1924 - Death: Louisa Elizabeth PRIMMER-12521, Romsey Hampshire England
1930 - Marriage: Robert H LAWES-32963 (Salesman - Offset Printing - J S Swift              & Co)  and Verena E ALLEN-51774, New York City, New York
            United States
1930 - Death: Arthur LAWES-842, Balham Surrey England
1933 - Death: Albert Walter Samuel LAWES-50728, Providence Rhode Island                 United States
1938 - Marriage: George Milton JEFFERY-47868  (Ships Steward) of
           San Francisco California United States and Gwendoline Florence LAWS-
           47867, Beauty Operator) Sydney New South Wales Australia
1938 - Residence: William Frederick LAWS-34054, Beccles Suffolk England

1939 - Burial: Rebecca JENNINGS-23044, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe
           West Yorkshire England
1942 - Death: William LAWES-2495, (Ag Lab)
1949 - Burial: Harriet ELLIS-33540, Wareham Dorset England

1954 - Miscellaneous: Charles LAWS-45584, (Decorator)
1954 - Miscellaneous: Mary CALABY-28418, 
1954 - Death: Sarah CLEGG-13840, (Woollen Spinner) Leeds West Yorkshire                  England
           (My wife's Great Grandmother)
1957 - Death: Arthur LAWS-38290, Doddington Cambridgeshire England
1960 - Death: Harold Arthur William LAWS-33386,(Ag Lab) Doddington                         Cambridgeshire England
1964 - Death: Kathleen Ann LAWES-10121, (Spinster)  Shedfield Hampshire                    England
1966 - Death: William Henry  LAWES-24868, (Railroad Surveyor & Miner)                     Brisbane, Queensland Australia
1970 - Death: Kathleen Cecily JOHNSON-24826, Mackay Queensland Australia
1974 - Death: Henry H LAWS-51498, (Works for Lumber Company)  Sonoma,                 California United States
1986 - Death: Harry Charles (Warehouseman) LAWES-34868, Bracknell                           Berkshire England
1991 - Cremation: Jack David William LAWS-42043, (Lorry Driver)
           Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

2002 - Burial: Dean Barry LAWS-26797, Shepparton Victoria Australia
2003 - Burial: Fern LAWS-28502, Blanding Utah United States
2003 - Burial: Nancy Cecelia VAN DUREN-11860, Service at Saint Jude's                         Catholic Church, 747 Hackett Street, Beloit Wisconsin United States
2004 - Death: Willie OULLA-16527, North Augusta South Carolina United States
2005 - Death: Sheila Marie LAWS-27838, Sunderland Durham England

2015 - Death: Douglas Lloyd LAWS-33924, (RCAF)  Fredericton New Brunswick              Canada
2019 - Death: Paul LAWES-50733, 

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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