Tuesday 29th 2020 - Number 7104

WELCOME TO THE 

 LAWS FAMILY REGISTER

Henry Lawes

1595-1662

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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.

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A suburban childhood of the Twenties 

Seen from the Nineteen Nineties

By John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 1

IN THE BEGINNING

The war had been over three years, the Kaiser's War that is. It was late afternoon on Christmas Eve and the sun had gone down for the day, the gaslight on and the fires lit, but of course I don't remember, as I was the early Christmas present for my Mum.

When memory reaches back to it's furthest it is summer, there is a lot of summer in the early years, or so it seems. There are laburnums in flower in the garden and wooden toys with nodding heads, a swan and a rhino to be pulled along on wheels and always the sound of trains with smoke and steam.

Every morning just after ten there was the Flying Scotsman to watch go by and then there was shunting and banging all day and night that one slept soundly through, just as one now sleeps through the noise of the television. The smoke and soot annoyed my mum, but to an infant, it was just an interesting smell which came and went, perhaps a little stronger when one climbed the railway fence to get a better view. A few missing palings made this easy even for the smallest child.

Over the fence was a narrow strip of unkempt grass often burnt in summer when a spark from a passing locomotive set it alight. at other times an unofficial path for railwaymen, children and burglars. The tracks lay about fifteen feet down from the grass, the land held up by a hefty retaining wall. Lots of tracks, maybe a dozen, with another track on a long bridge crossing them at an acute angle and takings trains from one side to the other without touching the fast line.

The land rose on the other side of the tracks, a steep tall grassy bank with a proper footpath along the top beyond the fence and even seats along the top. In the afternoon sunshine, these would be occupied by mums and nannies with prams while the trains amused the vociferous offspring. It was not till later that I explored these distant parts, a sprawl of suburbia from the late nineteenth century broken here and there by parks and sports grounds.

We looked out that way one sunlit evening and saw the majestic airship the R101 floating gently south towards London, France and their appointment in Samarkand.

To be continued tomorrow

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Extracted from our Database today

Tuesday 29th September 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

FAMILY EVENTS

1688 - Birth: Mary KITTSON-23580, Mildenhall Suffolk England

1724 - Marriage: Edward LAWES-1568 and Mary JEX-1569, Stanhoe Norfolk England

1743 - Baptism: Alice LAWES-23211, Bower Chalke Wiltshire England

1768 - Marriage: Christopher LAWS-13687 and Jane HOLLAND-13691, Padiham Lancashire England

1771 - Marriage: James LAWES-1970 and Eliz Ann WILLIAMS-1971, Portsmouth Hampshire England

1776 - Marriage: John BROOKS-9849 and Martha LAWS-29959, Appledram Sussex England

1776 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWES-23249, Bishopstone Wiltshire England

1782 - Baptism: Elam LAWS-3578, Billerica, Middlesex County Massachusetts United States

1793 - Marriage: Edward LAWES-11424 and Ann FOX-40407, Norwich Norfolk England

1799 - Marriage: Jacob Wing LAWS-36073 (Ag Lab)  and Anne NICHOLS-30145, Hilgay Norfolk England

1817 - Birth: Mary LAWS-2965, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1822 - Baptism: Eliza CLEGG-25279, Manchester Lancashire England

1830 - Birth: Emma Selina T MURRAY-31246, Stinsford Dorset England

1833 - Christen: Joannes LAWS-6821, 

1839 - Residence: James LAWES-47036, (Press Centre Lathe Turner) Slough Buckinghamshire England

1850 - Baptism: Frederick HERRINGTON-19947, Bower Chalke Wiltshire England

1855 - Marriage: William MUMBERSON-27378 and Mary CHARTERS-27377, Crosthwaite Cumberland England

1856 - Birth: Albertina LAWS-6637 (Cook & Spinster) Hainford Norfolk England

1857 - Arrival: Charles LAWS-25228, (Brickmaker)  

1862 - Residence: Mary MATHIAS-2795, Binfield Berkshire England

1863 - Marriage: Henry LAWES-13039 and Elizabeth COOPER-13041, Whitchurch Hampshire England

1864 - Marriage: James LAWS-6460 and Adelaide Victoria ATKINS-6461, Saint Mary, Portsea Hampshire England

1871 - Birth: Sarah A H M DIXON-15359, Deopham Norfolk England

1874 - Birth: Edward William LAWS-7285, (Solicitors Law Clerk/Newsagent) Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk England

1875 - Death: Jane Ann LAWS-21145, Willington Durham England

1877 - Marriage: John William Middleton LAWS-6349 (Ag Lab)  and Sarah Jane BARNES-6351, Hilgay Norfolk England

1878 - Birth: Percival WINN-30911 (Draper & Church Organist) , 

1884 - Birth: Minnie LAWS-48151, Hidalgo County, Illinois, United States

1885 - Birth: Arthur LAWS-3132, (Farmer) Kialla Victoria Australia

1886 - Residence: Elizabeth A LAWS-43543, Sunderland Durham England

1886 - Birth: Ethel Edith CAMPBELL-42308, Camberwell Surrey England

1888 - Birth: Thomas M LAWS-46310, (Dry Dock Shipwright)  

1888 - Birth: William Michael LAWES-30291, (Carpenter Theatre  Scenery)  New Cross Surrey England

1889 - Burial: Albert  JENNINGS-20984, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

1890 - Birth: Benjamin Early LAWS-22010, Carroll County Massachusetts United States

1892 - Birth: Frederick LAWS-28206, (ARMY Private 30228) Bournemouth Hampshire England

1893 - Birth: Hilary Bowers LAWS-34919, Wilkes County North Carolina United States

1894 - Birth: Ernest LAWS-22676, (Chauffeur/Gardener)  Skipsea East Yorkshire England

1897 - Birth: Leslie Montague LAWES-37657, (Builder & Quantity Surveyor) Handsworth Staffordshire England

1898 - Baptism: John Claude Bennett LAWES-225, Walkerville South Australia Australia

1904 - Marriage: Harry John BENNETT-5412 (Head Gardener)  and Kate Elizabeth LAWS-5411, (Ladies Maid) 

1904 - Birth: Arthur LAWS-38292, 

1906 - Birth: Lucille Sophia LEGRESLEY-51442, Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, United States

1906 - Burial: Mary LAWS-35518, Portland Dorset England

1907 - Birth: Charles Herbert PURKISS-45554,  (BSM RA 1055313) 

1909 - Birth: Muriel M BARTLETT-11813, 

1910 - Burial: Hugh LAWS-24320, (Farmer)  Farmington, Saint Francois County Missouri United States

1913 - Birth: Edward John LAWS-35315, (Vertical Driller) Nottingham, Nottinghamshire England

1915 - Marriage: Arthur LAMACRAFT-44235 and Florence Henrietta LAWS-15158, (General Servant) Tottenham Middlesex England

1915 - Birth: William Charles (Gasfitter) LAWS-32622, Ryde Isle of Wight England

1916 - Residence: Adam Davison LAWS-48589, Easington, Durham, England

1916 - Birth: Ernest Leslie LAWS-39492, Poole Dorset England

1917 - Birth: Maurice LAWS-46381, (Engineer Draughtsman)  

1917 - Birth: Bert N LAWS-16277, (PFC US Army)  

1918 - Death: Isaac LAWS-20616 Coal Miner in Shaft & (Private 10th Btn East Yorks 51150), France & Flanders

1919 - Residence: Dorothy LAWS-43691, (Dental Receptionist)  Widnes Lancashire England

1919 - Birth: Kenneth Jack LAWES-12680, (Australian Army) Jeparit Victoria Australia

1921 - Marriage: Archibald Centenial LAWS-14357 and Rose JUDD-14358, Petersham, New South Wales, Australia

1923 - Residence: Eric LAWS-42530, (Lorry Driver)  Wisbech Cambridgeshire England

1924 - Arrival: Isabel Annie LAWS-26001, London Docks England

1929 - Residence: Hilda D LAWS-42584, (Diary & Provisions Shop Assistant ) Norwich Norfolk England

1929 - Residence: Doreen LAWS-41514, (Mental Hospital Nurse)  Gateshead Durham England

1929 - Residence: Hilda Louisa BRYANT-24011, Penarth Glamorgan Wales

1930 - Marriage: George William LAWES-51790 and Ruth HINSPETER-51791, Mount Vernon, Skagit, Washington United States

1930 - Residence: Vera Queenie LAWES-47167,(Shorthand Typist)  Margate Kent England

1930 - Residence: Martha J LAWS-46053, Liverpool Lancashire England

1930 - Residence: Annie LAWS-42906, (Laundress)  Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire England

1931 - Birth: Leonard LAWES-45301, West Hartley Hampshire England

1933 - Birth: Joyce E LAWES-45949, 

1934 - Residence: Peter John LAWS-43687, Sturminster Dorset England

1939 - Residence: Albert W LAWES-81, (Decorator)  Southampton Hampshire England

1939 - Residence: Edwin Ernest LAWES-76, (House Painter)  Southampton Hampshire England

1939 - Residence: Dennis HarryLAWES-45, (Electrical Contractor)  Basingstoke Hampshire England

1939 - Residence: Stanley C LAWES-44, (Assistant Weights & Measures)  Basingstoke Hampshire England

1939 - Residence: Sidney S LAWES-43, Basingstoke Hampshire England

1939 - Residence: Elizabeth MUDGE-41, Basingstoke Hampshire England

1939 - Residence: Eva Mary Anne LAWES-11, 

1939 - Residence: Ellen BATTY-3, Wimbledon Surrey England

1943 - Death: John Wesley LAWS-38735, Marion County Kentucky United States

1943 - Death: John LAWS-24987, 

1956 - Death: Siddie Emma BRANDON-29550, Carroll County Tennessee United States

1956 - Death: James Charles LAWS-24942, Burnsville, Yancey, North Carolina, United States

1963 - Birth: Janice LAWS-28915, 

1965 - Death: Ethel May LAWS-34366, Begga New South Wales Australia

1965 - Death: James Herbert LOGAN-11817, Bournemouth Hampshire England

1978 - Burial: George Close DACRE-23054, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

1982 - Death: Hugh Douglas Willoughby LAWS-16948, (Merchant Navy) Reading Berkshire England

1997 - Death: Doris K Evelyn MURRAY-21878, Bromley Middlesex England

2008 - Death: Thomas William LAWS-32409, 

2010 - Death: Audrey LAWS-42224, Bishop Auckland Durham England

2011 - Death: Cyril James LAWS-31895, Cowbridge Glamorgan Wales

2013 - Death: Richard Scott Paul LAWS-18050, Oakville, Ontario Canada

2014 - Death: Lillian HANNAFORD-40128, Cumberland Beach Ontario Canada

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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