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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 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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One Man’s War – A bit about the RAF
by John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 1.
I was seventeen when WWII began, some twenty-one years after WWI had ended. It had been becoming inevitable for some time. A year’s respite had been gained by Neville Chamberlain’s trip to Munich but that didn’t do much good in the long run.
At Eleven o’clock on that sunny Sunday morning the 3rd of September he broadcast his declaration of war against Germany. About ten minutes later the air raid sirens sounded – a false alarm but the nervous went scuttling into the newly dug Anderson shelters in their gardens.
The occupation of Poland took the German army only a few weeks and then we were into the ‘phoney war’ when very little appeared to be happening in mainland Europe. The sea war of attrition stated and clothing and petrol rationing were introduced.
I had been working in the city for a couple of years articled to a small firm of Chartered Accountants. Young men were being called up into the forces and all businesses suffered a degree of disruption.
The firm seemed to slow down and I often had time available to go to the Students Room at the Institute to study. From time to time I travelled to provincial towns to work on audits there. The blackout was even more noticeable in unfamiliar towns than at home but the difficulty caused by the cutting down on vehicle headlights was limited by the small number of vehicles and petrol rationing.
The war burst into activity with the German armoured offensive that outflanked the Maginot line and led to the fall of France and the evacuation from Dunkirk.
I was having a cycling holiday in Devon and Cornwall, mostly in beautiful sunshine with scarcely a motor car to be seen. Tea in the Doone Valley, as much as you could eat for a shilling and bed and breakfast for three shillings and sixpence, for a four-poster bed and the loo in the garden.
The first I saw of the real war was one sunny weekend afternoon. I was out on my own in the Hertfordshire countryside when the distant rumble of engines made me look up, and there, far above me, were formations of silvery aircraft swinging to the south where they let go their bombs on the London docks with devastating effect.
This must have been early September 1940. The Battle of Britain followed and then the night bombing of London. A blackout had been in force from the beginning of the war, but London was a pretty broad target.
The bombers were unopposed at first but before long the anti-aircraft-guns were in place and then the noise was intense though somewhat comforting. If one were out at night it often seemed that the showers of shell splinters from the anti-aircraft barrage were a greater hazard than the bombs.
I often used to ride my bike home from my girlfriend’s to the accompaniment of the patter of shrapnel on the rooftops. In late December the warehouse area of the city burned in a fire raid which we could see from North London.
When I went to work in the city the next morning the firemen were still hard at it and I saw that the place where my father worked was just debris with the rest.
Men became liable to a call-up for the forces at gradually lower ages and Bill Bush and I decided that it wasn’t worth waiting for the call up with little choice what you did, so early in 1941, we went up to the recruiting office at Kings Cross and joined the RAF.
We both got accepted as aircrew and it was not long till we had to report for training. We were separated from the word go as Bill was recommended for a commission and I wasn’t. When it came to the crunch it finally worked out the other way around.
Training facilities were overloaded and so, after some basic training of square-bashing and arms drill, we landed up on other jobs. One started off with the rank of AC2 there was nothing lower, and pay of pennies a day paid out fortnightly at a pay parade.
I did my basic training at Skegness which was certainly bracing but there was nothing difficult about marching up and down and sticking bayonets into bags of straw. This done I was posted to Mildenhall to work as an armourer. All I remember of it was that we took the bombs from the bomb dump to the aircraft on trolleys and rode on them round the perimeter track pulled by a tractor.
The aircraft were Vickers Wellingtons of 149 Squadron and had a gun turret in the tail with four brownings which took a long ribbon of ammunition. I wasn’t trusted to deal with this as I had no training at all as an armourer.
After a little while, I was put on a pre-EFTS (Elementary Flying Training School) course at South Cerney in Gloucestershire,
I remember nothing of the course but it must have been May because the horse chestnuts were in full bloom in the park of the big house at Cirencester.
Queen Mary was staying there and did some sort of inspection in the town. Being long in the leg I got put in the Guard of Honour and saw the old bird at close quarters.
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The only other thing of note at South Cerney was that swimming was available in a large water-filled gravel pit for a very small charge; I used to go there with two or three other keen types and swim around in the sunshine in the biggest pool we were ever likely to use.
We didn’t ask how deep it was, but it was undoubtedly for confident swimmers only.
More tomorrow
Henry Lawes
1595-1662
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One Man’s War – A bit about the RAF
by John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 1.
I was seventeen when WWII began, some twenty-one years after WWI had ended. It had been becoming inevitable for some time. A year’s respite had been gained by Neville Chamberlain’s trip to Munich but that didn’t do much good in the long run.
At Eleven o’clock on that sunny Sunday morning the 3rd of September he broadcast his declaration of war against Germany. About ten minutes later the air raid sirens sounded – a false alarm but the nervous went scuttling into the newly dug Anderson shelters in their gardens.
The occupation of Poland took the German army only a few weeks and then we were into the ‘phoney war’ when very little appeared to be happening in mainland Europe. The sea war of attrition stated and clothing and petrol rationing were introduced.
I had been working in the city for a couple of years articled to a small firm of Chartered Accountants. Young men were being called up into the forces and all businesses suffered a degree of disruption.
The firm seemed to slow down and I often had time available to go to the Students Room at the Institute to study. From time to time I travelled to provincial towns to work on audits there. The blackout was even more noticeable in unfamiliar towns than at home but the difficulty caused by the cutting down on vehicle headlights was limited by the small number of vehicles and petrol rationing.
The war burst into activity with the German armoured offensive that outflanked the Maginot line and led to the fall of France and the evacuation from Dunkirk.
I was having a cycling holiday in Devon and Cornwall, mostly in beautiful sunshine with scarcely a motor car to be seen. Tea in the Doone Valley, as much as you could eat for a shilling and bed and breakfast for three shillings and sixpence, for a four-poster bed and the loo in the garden.
The first I saw of the real war was one sunny weekend afternoon. I was out on my own in the Hertfordshire countryside when the distant rumble of engines made me look up, and there, far above me, were formations of silvery aircraft swinging to the south where they let go their bombs on the London docks with devastating effect.
This must have been early September 1940. The Battle of Britain followed and then the night bombing of London. A blackout had been in force from the beginning of the war, but London was a pretty broad target.
The bombers were unopposed at first but before long the anti-aircraft-guns were in place and then the noise was intense though somewhat comforting. If one were out at night it often seemed that the showers of shell splinters from the anti-aircraft barrage were a greater hazard than the bombs.
I often used to ride my bike home from my girlfriend’s to the accompaniment of the patter of shrapnel on the rooftops. In late December the warehouse area of the city burned in a fire raid which we could see from North London.
When I went to work in the city the next morning the firemen were still hard at it and I saw that the place where my father worked was just debris with the rest.
Men became liable to a call-up for the forces at gradually lower ages and Bill Bush and I decided that it wasn’t worth waiting for the call up with little choice what you did, so early in 1941, we went up to the recruiting office at Kings Cross and joined the RAF.
We both got accepted as aircrew and it was not long till we had to report for training. We were separated from the word go as Bill was recommended for a commission and I wasn’t. When it came to the crunch it finally worked out the other way around.
Training facilities were overloaded and so, after some basic training of square-bashing and arms drill, we landed up on other jobs. One started off with the rank of AC2 there was nothing lower, and pay of pennies a day paid out fortnightly at a pay parade.
I did my basic training at Skegness which was certainly bracing but there was nothing difficult about marching up and down and sticking bayonets into bags of straw. This done I was posted to Mildenhall to work as an armourer. All I remember of it was that we took the bombs from the bomb dump to the aircraft on trolleys and rode on them round the perimeter track pulled by a tractor.
The aircraft were Vickers Wellingtons of 149 Squadron and had a gun turret in the tail with four brownings which took a long ribbon of ammunition. I wasn’t trusted to deal with this as I had no training at all as an armourer.
After a little while, I was put on a pre-EFTS (Elementary Flying Training School) course at South Cerney in Gloucestershire,
I remember nothing of the course but it must have been May because the horse chestnuts were in full bloom in the park of the big house at Cirencester.
Queen Mary was staying there and did some sort of inspection in the town. Being long in the leg I got put in the Guard of Honour and saw the old bird at close quarters.
The only other thing of note at South Cerney was that swimming was available in a large water-filled gravel pit for a very small charge; I used to go there with two or three other keen types and swim around in the sunshine in the biggest pool we were ever likely to use.
We didn’t ask how deep it was, but it was undoubtedly for confident swimmers only.
More tomorrow
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Extracted from our Database today
Extracted from our Database today
Sunday 6th September 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1787 - Birth: Shadrach LAWS-13794, Fauquier County, Virginia United States
1795 - Christen: Samuel LAWS-6843, (Ag Lab) Littleton Middlesex England
1812 - Birth: John LAWS-3582, Mount Holly, Rutland Vermont USA
1823 - Birth: John (LAWS-20605, Coal Miner) Gateshead Durham England
1833 - Burial: Ann Mary BUNN-13466, Beeston Norfolk England
1840 - Birth: Robert LAWS-5824, (Coal Miner) Longbenton Northumberland England
1850 - Marriage: William LAWES-30018 (Carpenter) and Susanna MOISEY- 30019, Westminster Middlesex England
1854 - Occupation: James A LAWS-26621, (Mate on Ship)
1857 - Birth: Alice Maria LAWS-21314, Darlinghurst New South Wales Australia
1866 - Birth: Charles Steven MACLAREN-45211,
1874 - Marriage: Mathias Robert Seppings LAWS-8099 (Army Officer) and Aurelie Emilie S BONARME-8394, Paris FRANCE
1879 - Birth: Adelaide Ellen GREENACRE-33052, (Cellarman) Kings Lynn Norfolk England
1879 - Death: William Hart LAWS-13488, Johnson, Kane County Utah United States
1880 - Marriage: J DOWNLAND-34519 and Eveline LAWS-34518,
1880 - Birth: Bertie John William BRODIE-36335, (GPO Porter)
1883 - Birth: Carolina Fermann KNOTT-26322, (Dressmaker) Sheffield,
West Yorkshire England
1884 - Birth: William H HAWBECKER-22080, Naperville Illinois United States
1888 - Death: James LAWS-3614 (Shepherd) Grafton New South Wales Australia
1891 - Birth: Stanley RYLAND-12,
1892 - Birth: George Henry LAWS-42969, Kenley Surrey England
1892 - Birth: Francis Reginald LAWES-37350,(Royal Navy, Chief Yeoman of Signals J965) Stokenham Devonshire England
1892 - Birth: Alice Mary LAWS-21052,(Drapery Assistant) Litcham Norfolk England
1896 - Birth: William Thomas LAWS-29766, (Electric Storekeeper -
Canadian Army Private) Gaspe, Quebec Canada
1899 - Birth: Owen Faulkner LAWES-25630, (ARMY Colonel) Farnham Surrey England
1899 - Birth: William Cornelius LAWS-7247, (Assitant Engineer The Gas Light
& Coke Co) Failsworth Lancashire England
1902 - Marriage: William James LAWS-33534 (Gardener) and Edith Sarah
CASE-33535, (Spinster) Parkstone Dorset England
1904 - Birth: Walter Ernest LAWES-33346, Maidenhead Berkshire England
1909 - Birth: Eleanor SMITH-36058, Provo Utah United States
1909 - Birth: Eleanor S LAWS-22264, Thistle Utah United States
1912 - Birth: Alfred LAWS-37080, Downham Cambridgeshire England
1913 - Marriage: Walter A LAWS-24736 (Gary Fire Fighter) and Matilda SCHLICHER-24737, Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana United States
1913 - Marriage: Harry Mead LAWS-13294 (Reverend) and Rose Harriett FORD-13300, Islington Middlesex England
1915 - Enlistment: George Alfred LAWS-8902, (Aircraft Factory Storekeeper) White City Middlesex England
1916 - Birth: Florence Alice BENT-19622, Saint Pancras Middlesex England
1917 - Death: Margaret LAWS-50128, DeWitt, Onodaga Co.,
New York United States
1918 - Birth: Marjorie Virgina LAWS-51200,
1920 - Marriage: Lionel Major LAWS-30790 (Engineer) and Grace Marguerite SHRIMPTON-30791, Marylebone Middlesex England
1924 - Death: Joseph ANDERSON-39341, Jersey City Heights New Jersey
United States
1924 - Burial: Thomas HATTON-24168, Newnham Gloucestershire England
1926 - Burial: Sarah Margareta LAWS-24574, Minoa, Onondaga County
New York United States
1929 - Death: William John BETHUNE-51378,
1933 - Marriage: William Frederick LAWES-47422 (Aircraft Engineer, Mills Operator) and Daisy GILL-47423, Aldershot Hampshire England
1933 - Marriage: Archie ANDERSON-3257 and Vera Amy LAWS-3204,
1933 - Residence: Frederick Charles Victor Killbronnau LAWS
(Army Major/RAF Wing Cmdr OBE CB CBE) South Kensington Middlesex England
1933 - Death: Cuthbert George LAWS-2952, (Barrister) Wimbledon Surrey England
1948 - Admon: Henry William LAWS-38079,
1950 - Death: Walter Christian LAWS-38115 (Railway Wagon Repairer) , Leeds West Yorkshire England
1953 - Death: Julia Rose May LAWES-33546, Dorchester Dorset England
1953 - Residence: Julia Rose May LAWES-33546, West Lulworth Dorset England
1974 - Cremation: Walter WEBBER-13844, (Chemists Assistant) Scunthorpe Lincolnshire England
1985 - Probate: Lily Alice LAWS-41871, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1987 - Death: May GOULD-41961, East Dereham Norfolk England
1987 - Death: Ray LAWS-14248,
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
Sunday 6th September 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1787 - Birth: Shadrach LAWS-13794, Fauquier County, Virginia United States
1795 - Christen: Samuel LAWS-6843, (Ag Lab) Littleton Middlesex England
1812 - Birth: John LAWS-3582, Mount Holly, Rutland Vermont USA
1823 - Birth: John (LAWS-20605, Coal Miner) Gateshead Durham England
1833 - Burial: Ann Mary BUNN-13466, Beeston Norfolk England
1850 - Marriage: William LAWES-30018 (Carpenter) and Susanna MOISEY- 30019, Westminster Middlesex England
1854 - Occupation: James A LAWS-26621, (Mate on Ship)
1857 - Birth: Alice Maria LAWS-21314, Darlinghurst New South Wales Australia
1866 - Birth: Charles Steven MACLAREN-45211,
1874 - Marriage: Mathias Robert Seppings LAWS-8099 (Army Officer) and Aurelie Emilie S BONARME-8394, Paris FRANCE
1879 - Birth: Adelaide Ellen GREENACRE-33052, (Cellarman) Kings Lynn Norfolk England
1879 - Death: William Hart LAWS-13488, Johnson, Kane County Utah United States
1880 - Marriage: J DOWNLAND-34519 and Eveline LAWS-34518,
1880 - Birth: Bertie John William BRODIE-36335, (GPO Porter)
1883 - Birth: Carolina Fermann KNOTT-26322, (Dressmaker) Sheffield,
West Yorkshire England
1884 - Birth: William H HAWBECKER-22080, Naperville Illinois United States
1888 - Death: James LAWS-3614 (Shepherd) Grafton New South Wales Australia
1891 - Birth: Stanley RYLAND-12,
1892 - Birth: George Henry LAWS-42969, Kenley Surrey England
1892 - Birth: Francis Reginald LAWES-37350,(Royal Navy, Chief Yeoman of Signals J965) Stokenham Devonshire England
1892 - Birth: Alice Mary LAWS-21052,(Drapery Assistant) Litcham Norfolk England
1896 - Birth: William Thomas LAWS-29766, (Electric Storekeeper -
Canadian Army Private) Gaspe, Quebec Canada
1899 - Birth: Owen Faulkner LAWES-25630, (ARMY Colonel) Farnham Surrey England
1899 - Birth: William Cornelius LAWS-7247, (Assitant Engineer The Gas Light
& Coke Co) Failsworth Lancashire England
& Coke Co) Failsworth Lancashire England
1902 - Marriage: William James LAWS-33534 (Gardener) and Edith Sarah
CASE-33535, (Spinster) Parkstone Dorset England
1904 - Birth: Walter Ernest LAWES-33346, Maidenhead Berkshire England
1909 - Birth: Eleanor SMITH-36058, Provo Utah United States
1909 - Birth: Eleanor S LAWS-22264, Thistle Utah United States
1912 - Birth: Alfred LAWS-37080, Downham Cambridgeshire England
1913 - Marriage: Walter A LAWS-24736 (Gary Fire Fighter) and Matilda SCHLICHER-24737, Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana United States
1913 - Marriage: Harry Mead LAWS-13294 (Reverend) and Rose Harriett FORD-13300, Islington Middlesex England
1915 - Enlistment: George Alfred LAWS-8902, (Aircraft Factory Storekeeper) White City Middlesex England
1916 - Birth: Florence Alice BENT-19622, Saint Pancras Middlesex England
1917 - Death: Margaret LAWS-50128, DeWitt, Onodaga Co.,
New York United States
1918 - Birth: Marjorie Virgina LAWS-51200,
1920 - Marriage: Lionel Major LAWS-30790 (Engineer) and Grace Marguerite SHRIMPTON-30791, Marylebone Middlesex England
1924 - Death: Joseph ANDERSON-39341, Jersey City Heights New Jersey
United States
1924 - Burial: Thomas HATTON-24168, Newnham Gloucestershire England
1926 - Burial: Sarah Margareta LAWS-24574, Minoa, Onondaga County
New York United States
1929 - Death: William John BETHUNE-51378,
1933 - Marriage: William Frederick LAWES-47422 (Aircraft Engineer, Mills Operator) and Daisy GILL-47423, Aldershot Hampshire England
1933 - Marriage: Archie ANDERSON-3257 and Vera Amy LAWS-3204,
1933 - Residence: Frederick Charles Victor Killbronnau LAWS
(Army Major/RAF Wing Cmdr OBE CB CBE) South Kensington Middlesex England
(Army Major/RAF Wing Cmdr OBE CB CBE) South Kensington Middlesex England
1933 - Death: Cuthbert George LAWS-2952, (Barrister) Wimbledon Surrey England
1948 - Admon: Henry William LAWS-38079,
1950 - Death: Walter Christian LAWS-38115 (Railway Wagon Repairer) , Leeds West Yorkshire England
1953 - Death: Julia Rose May LAWES-33546, Dorchester Dorset England
1953 - Residence: Julia Rose May LAWES-33546, West Lulworth Dorset England
1974 - Cremation: Walter WEBBER-13844, (Chemists Assistant) Scunthorpe Lincolnshire England
1985 - Probate: Lily Alice LAWS-41871, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1987 - Death: May GOULD-41961, East Dereham Norfolk England
1987 - Death: Ray LAWS-14248,
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Dear Ancestor,-
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone
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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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
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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
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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
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Sharon Nicola LAWS
2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc
1974-2017
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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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It is always advised that you consult original records.
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PLEASE NOTE
We have excluded records of living people to protect their privacy (GDPR 2018)
We only show births before 1920, and marriages before 1940.
We have excluded records of living people to protect their privacy (GDPR 2018)
We only show births before 1920, and marriages before 1940.
We only show births before 1920, and marriages before 1940.
If you are seeking to find folk after these years you should contact the registrar
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If you are seeking to find folk after these years you should contact the registrar
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The United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024
We reach out to all regardless of race, colour, creed, or orientation.
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The United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024
We reach out to all regardless of race, colour, creed, or orientation.
Remember
We are all one family
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Remember
We are all one family
You can e-mail us with your questions,
lawsfhs@gmail.com
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