Friday 23rd October 2020 - Number 7121

 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 23rd October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1699 - Marriage: Thomas LAWES-1039 and Mary BOYLEY-                 1040, West Acre Norfolk England

1814 - Christen: Maria GREEDUS-10603, (Dressmaker) 

           Bethnal Green Middlesex England

           (My paternal 2nd Great-Grandmother)

                  

                         

1840 - Birth: John Robert LAWS-27217, 

            Weakley County, Tennessee United States

1847 - Birth: Henry Gaspard Fernand THIERRY DE                               FALETANS-17685, Fismes Marne France.

1849 - Baptism: Eliza HATTON-24169, Newnham                                      Gloucestershire England

1849 - Birth: William IVES-21203, (Shoemaker)  

            Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1854 - Marriage: James LAWES-2245 (Carpenter)  and 

          Ann Elizabeth FULLER-2246, Newington Surrey England

1856 - Birth: Edwin J LAWES-47480, (Baker) 

1860 - Birth: James E LAWES-47467, 

1862 - Birth: John H LAWES-47645,  

            (Wire Netting Manufacturer) 

1863 - Birth: Harriett Elizabeth Emily LAWS-34743, 

1863 - Birth: Della O BANKSTON-6553, Mississippi United                     States

1867 - Burial: Amelia LAWS-19461, Tower Hamlets Cemetery,               Middlesex England

1867 - Birth: James S (Pensioner) ELLARD-42435, 

1868 - Birth: Clara HILLYARD-28017, Hunslet West Yorkshire             England

1871 - Marriage: Isaac LAWS-7420 (Coal Miner)  and Jane                     HOLLIS-23536, Durham Durham England

1872 - Marriage: Alexander LAWS-34290 (Master Mariner) and             Sophia SANCO-34291, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands

1874 - Birth: William  LAWES-46987, (Metal Machinist Railway

           Works) Hoxne Suffolk England

1875 - Burial: Anne Caroline Martha LAWS-40276, (4 mths old)              Wandsworth Surrey England

1877 - Marriage: James GOUMO-13212 and Isabella LAWS-                 6653, Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire England

1879 - Baptism: Edith Hannah LAWS-7403, 

           Bolam Northumberland England

1880 - Birth: Arthur PHILLIPS-44392, (Professional                                  Shakespearian Actor & producer)  Kensington                                Middlesex, England

1882 - Birth: Lella G LAWS-50048, Tennessee United States

1882 - Birth: John Milton RICHARDSON-11992, 

1885 - Birth: George W LAWS-46402,(Drainage Engine Driver)  

1885 - Burial: William LAWS-26635, Stoke Newington                             Middlesex England

1893 - Birth: Reginald Alfred LAWS-15062, (RN Steward 

           M6882) Portsmouth Hampshire England

1897 - Birth: Elizabeth Grace GRAY-9065, Croydon Surrey                     England

1897 - Death: Mary LAWS-7115, (Widow) Birkenhead Cheshire             England

1903 - Birth: Trevor Charles LAWES-39270, (Civil Service                       Prison Officer) Cardiff Glamorgan Wales

1905 - Birth: Gertrude Sarah Esther HOLMES-37059, Stamford

           Lincolnshire England

1905 - Birth: Albert Charles LAWS-33313, Peckham Surrey                   England

1908 - Birth: Ola LAWS-39706, Yancy County North Carolina                 United States

1909 - Birth: George Arthur LAWES-47585, (Gardener)                           Collingbourne Wiltshire England

1911 - Birth: Stanley J LAWS-41605, (Insurace Agent) 

            Swaffham Norfolk England

1913 - Birth: Hiram Adoniram LAWS-51736, (Dentist)                             Lynchburg, Moore Tennesee United States

1913 - Birth: Walter Herbert LAWS-24729, Hammond, 

           Lake County, Indiana United States

1915 - Birth: Richard LAWS-21185, Malanda Queensland                        Australia

1918 - Death: John LAWS-21807, (ARMY Private 39832) 

1919 - Birth: Frederick Albert LAWS-35239, (Munitions 

           Worker) 

1919 - Birth: Herbert William LAWES-34870, 

1929 - Death: Charles Issac LAWS-27224, Dwight, Livingston                  County, Illinois United States

1930 - Death: Emma L LAWS-30234, 

1932 - Death: Francis LAWS-15992, (Ironstone Miner)                             Middlesbrough North Yorkshire England

1933 - Marriage: George Arthur LAWS-33080 and Elizabeth                   Margaret POTTINGER-44473 (Nurse) 

           Simla Bengal INDIA

1937 - Marriage: John QUINN-42142 and Kathleen Jessie                       LAWS-42141, Coventry Warwickshire England

1938 - Marriage: Robert Franklin LAWS-17605 

           (Advertising agency executive)  and Janet West WOOD

           -17606, Alameda California United States

1948 - Death: Collins Leonard LAWS-16687, (Snr)  

1948 - Death: Collins LAWS-16684, Muskogee, 

           Oklahoma United States

1950 - Residence: Charles Joh n LAWES-20726, 

           (Church Cleaner)  Salisbury, Wiltshire England

1952 - Death: Martita Caroline EGGERS-50148, Elizabethton,                Carter, Tennessee, United States

1955 - Death: Rachael HARKER-13877, Ireby Cumberland                     England

           (My wife's paternal Great Grand Aunt) 

            (link to John PEEL)

1959 - Residence: William James LAWS-39838, (Retired Railway

           Clerk)  Gunnislake Cornwall England

1959 - Burial: Mabel JENNINGS-23049, Stanley cum                               Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

1962 - Death: Ben LAWS-38748, Wyoming United States

1964 - Burial: Robert Vincent LAWS-14250, Sydney 

            New South Wales Australia

1967 - Death: Minnie C LAWS-40857, Cabarrus County, 

           North Carolina, United States

1971 - Death: Jason Mica LAWS-13073, Burnaby, 

           British Columbia Canada

1976 - Death: Jack R LAWS-41776, Riverside California 

           United States

1980 - Death: Frances E LAWS-20042, 

1985 - Death: Hilda Blanche LAWS-41868, Guildford Surrey                   England

1987 - Death: Raymond Edward LAWS-14249, 

1993 - Burial: Charles Scott LAWS-31586, (Green Grocer)                       Penzance Cornwall England

1994 - Death: Keith LAWS-12285, Roselands New South Wales               Australia

2002 - Death: Uculas Ralph LAWS-40415, Winston Salem, 

            North Carolina United States

2005 - Death: May COX-32800, Lincolnshire England

2006 - Death: James Arnold LAWS-35356, 

2006 - Death: John LAWS-28289, (Radio Ham G6ZOR or                       G0CXG)  Lockhart, Blyth Northumberland England

2010 - Death: Ethan LAWS-41995, 

2012 - Death: Donald Edgar LAWS-3226 (Farmer)

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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 18

Before the building boom, Southgate was largely an area of large mansions set in their own parks among farmland with a village of cottages and small shops where the new Underground station was now inserted.

                                           Southgate Underground Station

It has been well documented by local historians and was in the final stages of suburbanisation when we moved there. I  scarcely knew the area before moving there, but on at least one occasion had investigated the blackberries growing in the hedges of Osidge Lane at the bottom of which Pymmes brook was still a little stream edged with overgrown hawthorn.

There was a little farm in a small gentle valley opposite our new house, but within months the farm had become a large housing estate and, passing through the stages of a sea of mud became quite a pleasant suburban area.

A house got put up about one every three weeks with very little mechanical assistance, those houses were sold for about five or six hundred pounds, not cheap. A new house could be bought for a little as three hundred and seventy-five pounds all around London.

Most houses were being built without garages but ours was one of a small development of half a dozen with a garage built-in. Builders had not yet really decided that a garage was an integral part of a house, so there was no upper storey over it.

Our enterprising builder had even put a radiator in the garage and this, together with a radiator in the hall and a towel rail in the bathroom made up his attempt at central heating. It was too bad that his knowledge of gravity circulation was weak and the garage was a bit lower than the rest of the house so that its radiator was below the level of the ‘Ideal’ boiler in the kitchen and remained forever stone cold.

The kitchen in the new house was a real update on what had gone before. There was still a built-in dresser for the china with upper grooved shelves to stand up the dinner plates but the top was enclosed by doors, albeit painted a darkish brown. The larder alongside it was deep, giving a lot of space but difficult to access.

For the first time there was a Refrigerator, a monstrous thing on legs with a big round cooling coil on top, to collect the dust where you could see it. It was however finished in white enamel and built like a tank. The black iron gas cooker was left behind and the new one was finished in mottled green vitreous enamel, all very solid.

We still had a deep white stoneware sink with a wooden draining board. The kitchen was, of course, a lot smaller than before and the old deal table used up a lot of the space so that there was little room to eat there.

A breakfast room lay alongside to eat in and this arrangement was a bit of a curate’s egg, handy when you needed an extra room but not so handy at breakfast time.

We were about half a mile from the new underground railway station, our move to the new house had been held back until it was completed. A bus route with single-decker buses ran down the road as far as the Chase Side Tavern. The bus stopped within a few yards of us on its way back and it cost a penny for the ride up the easy slope half a mile to the station. I had to be very late and actually see the bus coming before money could be wasted in this profligate way.

The shops in Southgate were at that time in course of changing over from village to suburbia, a change which had been made in nearby Palmers Green a generation earlier probably when the railway arrived. The new tube station had a few new shops built around it but the old ones survived just a little longer, a tiny sweet shop run by a tiny old lady on the corner of Chase Side opposite the ‘Bell’ Public House, and a barber beside the Bell, where boys got their hair cut for threepence. Next to that going north along Chase Side, Lees Stores survived a long time although the first moves towards supermarkets showed themselves in shops where you had to go from one counter to another to get your various goods instead of shop assistant fetching it all from far of places and piling it on the counter in front of you, before asking whether you would like it delivered.

Next to Lee’s was the paper shop and then an ancient toy shop which didn’t last long. The bike, and perhaps motorbike, repair shop was a hundred yards further on, more a single storey brick shed with a shopfront than anything, but it survived some years standing well proud of the new parade of shops built beside it which was set well back from the road with a very wide pavement.

Opposite was Collins the butchers, a purveyor of choice meat, complete with a slaughterhouse in the rear. Here Sam and his dad presided with straw hats and blue and white aprons and would chop away on their big wooden block to produce the chump chop you wanted out of half a sheep. They too would deliver if you liked in a little brown van, well known in the Southgate streets. No doubt you paid for the service in the prices but you still could buy a nice pork chop for fourpence.

There were two garages locally, petrol cost the equivalent of six or seven new pence a gallon and you could buy a brand new Austin Seven for one hundred and five pounds if you were lucky enough to scrape that much together. 

                                                                Austin 7

My dad got a Chrysler saloon in place of the old bull-nosed Morris but didn’t have it long as he was neither the first, nor the last, to drive straight on at one of the right-angled Essex lanes. I didn’t ride in it much anyway as he had given me a new bike which I liked much better. After the demise of the Chrysler came, a much more sedate Hillman which I feel nobody loved very much.      

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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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Sharon Nicola LAWS

2008 Olympics Cyclist

Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 

1974 -2017

R I P

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