Friday 16th October 2020 - Number 7114

  LAWS FAMILY REGISTER  

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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Extracted from our Database today

Friday 16th October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1603 - Baptism: Ann LAWES-27654, London Middlesex                           England 

1693 - Baptism: Alice LAWS-13545, Mildenhall Suffolk England

1694 - Marriage: Matthew MIDDLETON-7951 and Elizabeth                  LAWSE-7233, High Halden Kent England

1788 - Birth: William LAWS-42333, Loddon Norfolk England

1788 - Birth: Mary BOWERS-13478, Elsworth Cambridgeshire             England

1808 - Christen: John Robert LAWES-24483, Stepney Middlesex

           England

1815 - Marriage: James OVENS-19894 and Ann LAWES-19893,             Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England

1828 - Marriage: Joseph CLEGG-25432 (Plumber & Glazier-                 Transported?)  and Mary HARGREAVES-25679,                            Rochdale Lancashire England

1835 - Death: John CHARTERS-6529, 

1837 - Baptism: Sarah Ann FREEMAN-28520, Birmingham                   Warwickshire England

1842 - Birth: Anna Julia HERCOCK-44158, Manton Rutland                 England

1845 - Marriage: Edwin George LAWES-3563 (Carpenter)  

           and Sabina SARGEANT-3566, (Lately widow SYMES)                 Parkstone Dorset England

1846 - Birth: Joseph Arthur LAWS-45198, 

1847 - Marriage: Samuel LOVETT-7097(Master Mariner)  and                Lucinda Ann LAWS-702 4, Stepney Middlesex England

1850 - Christen: George Robert LAWS-5771, (Grocer)  

           Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1853 - Marriage: Josiah LAWS-13120 (Ag Lab & Licensed                       Victualler)  and Betsy HURRY-13124, 

           Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1856 - Birth: Florence Adelaide PRYOR-2578, Swindon Wiltshire England

1862 - Marriage: William (Farmer 1170 acres) LAWS-5199 and Jessie FROST-4372, Little Clacton ESS

1862 - Birth: Joan Virginia LAWS-18889, California United States

1881 - Birth: Thomas JACKSON-44792, (Confectioner &                         Tobacconist) 

1882 - Birth: John Charles TWEDDLE-3258, Baulkamaugh                    Victoria Australia

1884 - Birth: Carl Henry LAWS-47904, Stoughton, Wisconsin                 United States

1884 - Birth: Joshua C RUFFNER-45207, 

1887 - Marriage: James Milton LAWS-19078 (Farmer) and                      Mary Angeline WHITE-19079, Oswego, Labette County                Kansas United States

1889 - Birth: Lauretta KEMP-42135, Glanford Brigg                                Lincolnshire England

1890 - Death: Fielding LAWS-29775, Lagrange, Bond, Illinois                 United States

1890 - Birth: Charles William  LAWS-9413,  (Chartered                           Accountant) 

1892 - Marriage: Ernest AYERS-10480 and Caroline Gowler                   LAWS-10479, Little Raveley Huntingdonshire England

1893 - Birth: George LAWS-42995, (Farm & Garden Lab) 

1893 - Death: James Slade LAWES-284, (Traveller Bath Pack                 Brew Manufacturer)  Battersea Surrey England

1895 - Marriage: Frederick IVITT-49958 (Labourer)  and Sarah Ann LAWS-22159, Litcham Norfolk England

1895 - Baptism: Florence Ethel WINZAR-40599, Primrose Hill               Middlesex England

1895 - Residence: Charlotte Maud WINZAR-39798, Primrose                 Hill Middlesex England but Baptism: Camden Town                     Middlesex England

1895 - Baptism: Elizabeth Mary BARR-39184, Islington                           Middlesex England

1897 - Birth: Arthur F TRUDGETT-34755, (Carton Maker)                    Greenwich Kent England

1898 - Birth: William A (Munitions Worker) LAWES-51095, 

1901 - Birth: Ida M HOLMES-39194, 

1905 - Birth: Edward Donald LAWS-47782, Erpingham Norfolk England

1905 - Birth: Alton Brooks LAWS-11002, Mendoza, Caldwell,                 Texas United States

1909 - Marriage: Arthur LAWS-49532 (Potato Salesman)  and               Alice Flight TURNER-49531, Charlton on Otmoor,                         Oxfordshire England

1909 - Marriage: Richard Issac DRURY-24661 (Farmer) and                   Nellie Edith LAWS-8473, Beeston Norfolk England

1910 - Birth: Madeline LAWS-26168, (Domestic Servant)                         Horsham Sussex England

1913 - Birth: Ivy Winifred LAWS-24347, (Bookeeper) 

           Camden Town Middlesex England

1914 - Birth: Eileen LAWS-28870, 

1914 - Death: Paulina Frances LAWS-22505, Sulpher Bluff                      Community, Hopkins County Texas United States

1914 - Enlistment: John James LAWS-15140, (Army Private                    3052 for 38 days)  Long Sutton Lincolnshire England

1916 - Marriage: Joseph Henry LAWS-51372 (Labourer)  and                  Alease WILLIAMS-51373, Chicago Illinois United States

1916 - Birth: Charles Richard SHELLEY-48455, 

            Richmond on Thames Surrey England

1916 - Enlistment: Thomas Wake LAWS-32048, (Grocer &                     Army L/Cpl 58761 17th East Yorks)  

           Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1916 - Residence: Harry James LAWS-7372, (Architect)                            Stamford Hill Middlesex England

1932 - Death: Sarah Ann HOWARD-24021, Auburn 

           New South Wales Australia

1932 - Death: Mansfield Gibson LAWS-5740, (Farmers Son)                   Ladner, New Westminster British Columbia Canada

1937 - Marriage: Moses LAWS-39658 and Sophia MILES-39659,

           Thatcham Berkshire England

1937 - Residence: Jane HARTLEY-27983, (Cotton Weaver)                     Brentford Middlesex England

1940 - Enlistment: Cecil Stanard LAWS-51412, (Dentist) 

        Detroit Michigan United States

1940 - Enlistment: Clifford Wellington LAWS-3720, (Reverend)

1940 - Enlistment: William Homer LAWS-50920, 

           St Louis, Missouri United States

1940 - Enlistment: Leonard Stewart LAWS-17547, 

            (Dean Registrar of Southwestern College Kansas)  

            Santa Clara California United States

1940 - Enlistment: James Hubbard LAWS-49321, Gastonia                      North Carolina United States

1940 - Residence: Thaddius Roy LAWS-44216, 

            (Hospital Janitor)  Henrietta, Rutherford North Carolina               United States

1940 - Residence: Lawrence Owen LAWS-17847, 

            (Boeing Pilot Technician & Instructor)  

            Oakland California United States

1942 - Death: William Franklin LAWS-27219, 

1946 - Death: Charles E LAWS-16287, 

1955 - Death: Frank Charles LAWS-11231, Brisbane,                               Queensland Australia

1980 - Death: Vera Constance Morgan LAWS-31578, 

1986 - Death: Clinton Wesley LAWS-41889, Greene County                     Tennessee United States

1986 - Death: Ernest Edward LAWS-31168, 

            (Engineers Draughtsman) 

             Wolverhampton Staffordshire England

1989 - Death: Connie Mae HARWELL-18168, 

            Sherman, Grayson, Texas, United States

1997 - Burial: Dallas LAWS-31738, (MSgt US Air Force)                          Triangle Virginia United States

1997 - Death: William FRANCIS-28184, 

1998 - Burial: Richard Harrison LAWS-16413, (Sgt US Army)                 Williamette National Cemetery, Portland Orgon USA

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A Child of the Twenties

A suburban childhood of the Twenties as seen from the Nineteen Nineties

by John Robert Laws 1921-2008                                                 

Part 11

Education

In those days one paid fees for attendance at grammar schools though these could be waived if a family income was a bit tight. At fifteen guineas a term, or was it a year, it seems chicken feed now but for many, the amount was a big lump to find. The school uniform was obligatory of course and included caps for boys and hats for girls – to hide their pretty curls.

Minchenden was, like the elementary school, one of the schools which were co-educational probably about half and half, and one soon found out that boys and girls were pretty equal at academic subjects and that some of the girls tended to work harder, There was a theory that boys worked harder in separate schools without the girls to distract them, but I doubt the truth of it, indeed it seems possible that the boys in the boys-only schools had to put more time and effort into finding and meeting girls instead of working.

We were in general, fortunate with the school staff, a mix of types and personalities like any group, but as competent as any and better than a lot. They too must have been influenced by the pleasant working conditions and relaxed but disciplined mood of the unit. It was small by present-day standards, some four hundred pupils, quite enough to my mind even if it can be done more cheaply with twice as many. 

George Bernard Shaw’s comments about doing and teaching are very true so often, but we had both, Art and Music teachers about whom the reverse was true. - They could do but not teach. It must have been frustrating in the extreme for them. The rest of the staff must have had their frustrations too with the need to produce exam results from pupils with their normal share of laziness and only interested in only a few subjects. However produce results they did, by dint of much note scribbling and even the unorthodox use of a French text of the New Testament for religious instruction.

Not all the education was in the classroom, there were occasional outside visits, two very contrasting ones spring to mind. The first to the Roman remains of Verulanium at St.Albans and the other to the Ford Car factory a Dagenham. I think I was more impressed with the factory where it seemed to me that they made everything except the tyres, perhaps there was not a lot of sub-contracting then. The molten metal is poured into sand moulds for the cylinder blocks was a wonderful bit of knowhow even if its roots went back as far as Verulanium.

Although education was fairly broad it became exam orientated as the time went by. The General Schools Certificate with Matriculation exemption was the objective for most of us and there was plenty of homework to be done in the evenings and holidays. I fear we skimped on a lot of it. Only a few went to University in those days but the Matric served as an exemption from the preliminary exams of a number of professional bodies as well as being needed before doing the Inter for University entrance.

There were other activities outside school hours and one of my interests was the Astronomical Society. Under the guidance apparently of the woodwork master a good observatory with a revolving dome was built by the boys and was equipped with an excellent five-inch refracting telescope which had at one time belonged to King George V. How it came to us I have no idea, there must have been some sort of tie-up between one of the science masters and the powers that be who arranged it well in advance as the observatory was built to fit it. 

Apart from the idle curiosity of looking at the moon and planets, a good deal of useful work was keeping records of sunspots movements and timings of the occultation of stars by the moon. We visited the Greenwich Observatory which was still one of the great observatories of the world although beginning to be out-classed by the hundred-inch reflector at Mount Wilson in the United States. The big two hundred reflectors and the radio telescopes were not even on the drawing board.

There was at that time, already speculation about the possibility of space travel and my friend Stan Law and I gave a lecture to our group about it, all carefully mugged up from a book of course. I doubt whether at that time we believed a word of it. We were kindred spirits with common interests in mathematics and woodwork. The maths did not get that far as the ‘mathematics’ – more advanced, which a few of us did as an extra subject for Matric, was only on the fringes. 

The woodwork turned out more useful and the final exams we spent all our time in the woodwork room making equipment for the physics lab.

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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

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2008 Olympics Cyclist

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1974 -2017

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