Sunday 18th October 2020 - Number 7116

 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

Sunday 18th October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1674 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWES-2726, London Middlesex                   England 

1731 - Christen: John LAWS-7205, Portsmouth Hampshire                     England

1771 - Marriage: Joseph LAWS-27847 and Jane CAPON-27848,             Ipswich Suffolk England

1772 - Birth: Elizabeth HARTLEY-25717, Lancashire England

1780 - Marriage: John LAWS-4498 (Riding Officer) and Mary               COTT-4493, Walpole Saint Peter Norfolk England

1784 - Burial: Ann LAWES-1313, Saint Helen Bishopsgate                        Middlesex England, In Ye left-hand churchyard

1804 - Birth: Isabella MCMINN-31866, Kirkcudbright                              Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland

            (My wife's maternal 3rd Great Grand Aunt)

1807 - Baptism: Edward LAWES-2722, Simonburn                                   Northumberland England

1828 - Marriage: Joseph LAWS-23986 and Margaret WEARS-               23987, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1839 - Birth: Joseph James (Shipwright) LEITHEAD-29742,                   Low Southwick, Bishopwearmouth Durham England

1840 - Birth: Edward HARKER-13858, (Road Contractor)                      Hawes West Yorkshire England

            (My wife's maternal 2nd Great Grandfather)

1868 - Baptism: Ann Danby LAWS-10374, Newcastle upon Tyne              Northumberland England

1873 - Birth: George E LAWES-47168, (Carpenter) 

1881 - Will: Anne LAWS-3322, Bethnal Green Middlesex                         England

1887 - Birth: Edna Grace LAWS-24738, Crown Point, 

            Lake County, Indiana United States

1887 - Birth: Mary Ann LAWS-15139, (Ag Lab) Long Sutton                    Lincolnshire England

1888 - Birth: Harry LAWES-27783, 

1890 - Marriage: Arthur LAWS-13138 (Coalyard Labourer)                   and Jane HARTLEY-51824, (Cotton Weaver) 

           at Burnley Lancashire England

1892 - Birth: Olive Agatha LAWS-48613, St Kitts & Nevis

           (My paternal 1st Cousin once removed)

1893 - Naturalization: Frank William Joseph MYER-8360,                     (Master Mariner)  Belfast Ireland

1894 - Birth: William Albert LAWES-12689, (Australian Army)             Wood Green Hampshire England

1898 - Death: Edward LAWS-4647, Heaton Northumberland                   England

1901 - Marriage: William Martin HUNTER-25008 and Polly                   LAWS-24940, 

1902 - Birth: Frederick Ernest BRANT-12962, Edmonton                         Middlesex England

           (My maternal 1st cousin twice removed)

1903 - Birth: Howard Lee LAWS-48776, 

1903 - Baptism: George James Thomas HEATH-47252,                           (Wholesale Tobacco & Confectioner  Representative)                     Edmonton Middlesex England

1903 - Birth: Jack William LAWS-33055, Ipswich Suffolk                         England

1904 - Birth: Dorothea Veronica COLE-42325, 

1905 - Birth: Victor LAWES-33550, (Farmer) Chalbury,                           Wimborne Dorset England

1905 - Birth: Harold LAWES-33549, (Farmer) Chalbury,                         Wimborne Dorset England

1906 - Birth: Beryl LAWS-46170, 

1906 - Death: Dudley Simms LAWS-11091, Carroll County,                     Tennessee United States

1908 - Burial: Barbara LAWS-33825, Ovingham                                        Northumberland England

1908 - Death: Barbara LAWS-33825, Brechin Angus Scotland

1910 - Birth: Marvin Richard LAWS-17449, Colonia Diaz,                       Galeana, Chihuahua Mexico

1912 - Birth: Stuart Frank LAWS-42543, Norwich Norfolk                       England

1914 - Birth: David Richard LAWS-35974, 

1915 - Enlistment: John William LAWS-28253, (Army Sapper &

           Pioneer 13387) Whittlesey Cambridgeshire England

1915 - Birth: Mary Elizabeth COOPER-18172, 

1916 - Death: Oliver M M LAWS-21136, Drummoyne, 

            New South Wales Australia

1917 - Death: Herbert Edward LAWES-9638, 

           (Commercial Traveller) Leeds West Yorkshire England

1918 - Residence: Henry Alexander LAWS-17333, 

           (RNVR Lieutenant)  Boroughbridge North Yorkshire

1918 - Burial: William Charles LAWS-15445, 

            (Cloth Manufacturer)  Le Havre, France

1918 - Death: William Charles (Cloth Manufacturer) LAWS-15445, France & Flanders (Army Private S4/072201) 

1919 - Birth: Norma LAWS-34813, Provo Utah United States

1920 - Birth: George LAWS-43789,  (Pneumatic Driller) 

1922 - Marriage: Frederick LAWS-14933 and Ellen Elizabeth                 FRAMPTON-20376, 

1929 - Marriage: Marvin Richard LAWS-17449 and Eva LaVon             STREADBECK-17450, Bountiful Utah United States

1930 - Death: Joseph William LAWS-13578, Fort Smith Arizona             United States

1932 - Death: Clara Louise LAWS-7333, (Spinster) 

            Strand Middlesex England

1935 - Marriage: Chester Hart LAWS-22259 and Kathryn                       DAVIDSON-39614, Duchesne, Utah United States

1946 - Death: William Catcheside LAWS-7340, 

           Melbourne, Victoria Australia

1951 - Death: Julia Catherine Marian STRONG-44655,                           Colchester Essex England

1957 - Death: Agnes Emily LAWS-19673, East London 

            South Africa

1963 - Burial: Garnett LAWS-16331,  (Cpl US Army) 

           Beverley New Jersey United States

1965 - Death: Mary Luella ROWLEY-22260, Provo Utah 

           United States

1966 - Death: Carrie Mae WELLER-45056, 

1966 - Death: Elsie LAWS-28766, Wauchope New South Wales                Australia

1980 - Death: Maggie ENOCH-47827, 

1988 - Death: George Wilson SNIDER-50078, San Antonio 

           Texas United States

1988 - Death: Phoebe Gertrude LAWS-20328, Hammersmith                   Middlesex England

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

2001 - Death: Jessie Maria LAWS-11295, 

2005 - Death: John Cecil LAWS-51482, Ferndale 

            Michigan United States

2006 - Death: Pauline LAWS-23016, Lincolnton, North Carolina              United States

2011 - Death: Kevin John LAWS-49218, Loddon Norfolk                         England

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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 13

Holidays Boats and more Wandering

The attraction of boats also ruled one of our regular outings during the holiday. We always went at least once to Brightlingsea, a slightly scruffy town famous only for boatyards and shrimp teas. It has always been an ocean racing centre but was not particularly prosperous in those days, there were wonderful boats on offer, at giveaway prices. We didn’t buy one. 

We just walked in the sun and looked, ate our shrimp tea and perhaps an ice cream, then trundled back to Walton. At Dedham however, another regular outing we could get a rowing boat on the Stour and glide through Constable’s countryside between the pollarded willows in the soft June sunshine. This was I fear, my father’s holiday, again just he and I went boating but then we were off in the car to Flatford for a strawberry tea amongst the wasps beside the bridge. It is all still there but somehow the rural peace is not the same since everyone spouted wheels.

All the countryside was more rural as a much smaller number of townsfolk invaded it every weekend. All the corn was cut with a reaper-binder of course and stood up in stooks in the field.

Until it was cut East Anglia was a mass of red poppies, more beloved by the holidaymaker than the farmer. Farming had been depressed for some years and old cottages were being condemned as unfit for human habitation. It is sad to think it is only the war which brought back a sort of prosperity or at least a brief understanding of the need to grow our own food which now seems to be fading away again.

The thought of the corn takes me back to another little holiday I spent in the countryside. In truth, mum and dad wanted a holiday on their own and Lottie took Mary and me for a week to her parents’ cottage in Bocking in the county of Essex, which really was rural. The water came from a long-handled pump outside the back door and the loo was by the wash house in the garden. 

It was late summer but any need for light was met by oil lamps and candles. Little did I know that these were the normal facilities for most of rural England and that for many places they would stay unchanged for another thirty years.

It was harvest time and the horse-drawn reaper-binder went round and round the field throwing out sheaves and driving the ever-present rabbits into the centre until they made a run for it and someone got rabbit pie for dinner. 

Wages were meagre, but the food was important, there was rhubarb under the apple tree and more cabbages than roses in the garden. There were plums in the garden too and home-made wine in the kitchen cupboard set into the wall alongside the black kitchen range.

There were no pavements through the village. There was after all virtually no traffic A few yards along the road on the other side from the cottage a path led down to the lazy river with its carpet of water lilies raising their bright yellow flowers above the dark green leaves, A few cows grazed the meadow beside the river avoiding the buttercups and leaving their squelchy traps for the unwary walker behind them. I didn’t wonder then, what it was like there in the wintertime.

Another little holiday that was different turned up when my Uncle Albert and Aunt Louise were home on leave and were going to spend a little while in a cottage in Cornwall. Their son Frank was a little younger than me, and I was invited to come along so that we could spend some time together. 

It was the only long train journey I had taken as a small boy, about ten years old I think, although the steam trains were always rushing past the bottom of our garden at home, I was unimpressed by the train journey. Once it had chugged out of Paddington the countryside rushed by, very different from travelling in the car. Leaving our smoke and smuts behind us we dashed on through green fields until we came to the red soil of Devon,  with its sheep smeared with the colour, then into the less lush Cornwall. 

The cottage was at Crantock on the north coast but not the bleak and barren part. It was tiny and ancient, just a few stone and thatch cottages and a church, but the memory of it is of the peace of the village and the emptiness of the beach where we were able to swipe a golf ball along without fear of hitting someone.

My uncle was reputed to be keen on photography and certainly had an enormous quarter-plate camera which no doubt was capable of taking excellent photographs he must have need a pantechnicon to carry it around.

He was the up-market brother, whereas my dad was the up-to-date brother and had a little folding roll film camera just for holiday snaps.

 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

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2008 Olympics Cyclist

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1974 -2017

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