Tuesday 13th October 2020 - Number 7111

 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

Tuesday 13th 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 - Marriage: Henricus LAWSE-6483 and Elizabeth                           MYLLER-6484, Weeting Norfolk England 

           (St Mary All Saints)

1611 - Marriage: Richard DERRYE-1274 and Agnes LAWES-                 1275, Plymouth Devonshire England

1616 - Marriage: Thomas WAKE-1374 and Amy LAWES-1375,             Lammas Norfolk England

1689 - Christen: Elizabeth LAWS-6751, Swanton Morley Norfolk

           England

1762 - Baptism: Jane LAWES-23244, Bishopstone Wiltshire                     England

1779 - Birth: Charlotte LAWS-10883, Fauquier County, Virginia             United States

1779 - Birth: Charlotte LAWS-10883, 

1800 - Marriage: John LAWS-6756 and Fanny BOOKHAM-                   6757, Dartford Kent England

1811 - Marriage: Joseph LAWS-26823 and Ann DAWSON-                     26824, Newburn on Tyne Northumberland England

1828 - Death: James Townsend LAWES-1938, (Reverend) Easton

           Wiltshire England

1831 - Marriage: Edward RUSHTON-13121 and Hannah                         LAWS-31624, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1842 - Marriage: Anthony SAUNDERS-36763 (Farmer)  and                   Mary LAWES-36764,  (Spinster) Eggesford Devonshire                 England

1856 - Death: Charles Henry LAWES-34676 (Cabin Passenger) ,             Ship 'Orivell'

1861 - Marriage: Henry Barrett LAWES-35553 (Corn Miller) 

           and Ann Elizabeth GWINNETT-846, Painswick                             Gloucestershire England

1872 - Birth: Kate LAWES-13048, 

1874 - Death: James MURRELL-26652, (Silk Manufacturer)                   Walthamstow Essex England

1874 - Death: Joshua RUMBLE-13213, Bowral, 

            New South Wales Australia

1878 - Marriage: William GODBED-26047 (Gardener) and                      Emma LAWS-14832, (Servant unemployed)  

            Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1879 - Marriage: Edgar WHITTON-23527 (Tailor &                                 Shopkeeper)  and Mary Ann LAWS-23526, Hoxne Suffolk

           England

1882 - Marriage: William LAWS-10478  (Ag Lab) and Emma                 GOWLER-10477,(Servant)  Chatteris Cambridgeshire                 England

1882 - Birth & Death: Dorothy LAWS-33715, Durham  England

1882 - Death: Lewis MATHIAS-9437, (Gentleman JP & DL)  

1883 - Marriage: George John LAWES-20724 

           (Groom & Dairyman) and Maria Rose CARPENTER-                   20725, Homington Wiltshire England

1884 - Birth: Mary LAWES-22076, Brooke Township, 

           Lambton County, Ontario Canada

1887 - Marriage: Charles LAWS-15503 (Horseman on Farm)                   and Alice SEXBY-15504, Cratfield Suffolk England

1889 - Birth: Lucious Cubye LAWS-19986, Franklin County                   Kansas United States

1891 - Birth: Frederick LAWS-43582, (Jobbing Gardener)  

1891 - Birth: Edgar James LAWES-30688, 

1893 - Birth: Mary Ellen COLLINS-35077, Toongabbie 

            New South Wales Australia

1899 - Birth: Robert Francis LAWES-24102, (Bank Official)                   Paddington Middlesex England

1900 - Marriage: David Edward LAWES-683 (Gardener) and                 Mary Elizabeth MAGEE-45372, Hunstanton Norfolk                      England

1901 - Marriage: John Arundel Stead LAWES-28028 (Engineers              Labourer)  and Jane Heywood SADLER-28029, Hunslet,

           West Yorkshire England

1905 - Birth: Hazel P ZINK-51441, Kansas United States

1906 - Miscellaneous: Ernest Frederick Robert LAWES-1609,                 (Newspaper Manager) 

1907 - Death: Samuel Brewster WOODHULL-38566, Long Island NY United States

1909 - Birth: Robert Alfred Herbert Cecil LAWS-45461, 

1911 - Death: Thomas Roger (Ag Lab) LAWS-4232, Samford Suffolk England

1912 - Birth: Arthur Edward J LAWS-31194, 

1914 - Birth: Elizabeth ???-43520, 

1914 - Birth: George (Grocer) LAWS-43519, 

1921 - Birth: Edward SAUZER-22131, 

1921 - Death: Edward Thornton Hill LAWES-2299 (Barrister),               Bath Somerset England

1922 - Death: Isabella Catherine LAWS-28683, Dulwich Surrey

           England

1925 - Death: Arthur Herbert LAWS-4336, (Postal worker)                     Goodmayes Essex England

1937 - Death: Henry William Frederick LAWS-38012,(Attorney 

            at Law)  Aberdeen Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

1937 - Birth: Keith Leslie LAWES-27248, Montreal Quebec                     Canada

1940 - Death: John David LAWS-21810, (Machine Operator)                   (Civilian War Dead)  Lambeth Surrey England

1946 - Death: Charlotte Emily ENGLAND-10187, Waikaraka,                  Auckland New Zealand

1951 - Death: John Henry LAWS-37981, (Railway Blacksmith)               Norwich Norfolk England

1951 - Residence: John Henry (Railway Blacksmith) LAWS-37981, Norwich Norfolk England

1954 - Burial: George Washington LAWS-39051, (Tyre Clerk)                 Williamette National Cemetery, Portland Oregon USA

1970 - Death: Earl Grant LAWS-12229, (Maintenance man)                     Ceres, Stanislaus California United States

1971 - Death: Wilfred Hay LAWS-26979, Rahiwi, Tinui Valley,                New Zealand.

1973 - Death: Mattie LAWS-19132, 

2008 - Burial: Thomas William LAWS-32409, Biddulph                           Staffordshire England

MORE TOMORROW

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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 8

One faint memory of Green Lanes is of the buses with their cabs shrouded in wire netting to protect the volunteer drivers during the National Strike of 1926. What a good job there were no television cameras to encourage the attackers.

As well as the main shopping area in Green Lanes there were a few little shops around the railway station. The sweet shop was to me the most important, and in those impecunious days, many sweet shops kept a halfpenny and farthing box with a selection of sweets at those prices for kids with pocket money. It is a sign of changing times that as I type this computer throws out the word Farthing as not being in the dictionary.

The dress of the period is familiar from photographs but the black and white of these photos do not tell us how much to colours changed. These monochrome photos are perhaps appropriate to the rather drab colours of everyday wear. Grey, black and white was definitely favourites except for special occasions. Green was thought unlucky by some though my mother had a brilliant green evening dress for one special occasion. Red tended to be associated with the immoral so one was left with brown and blue and usually dark at that. Even holiday wear was much less colourful, white flannels and a navy blue blazer being about the height of seaside fashion for Pater families. The ladies did much better with flower-patterned fabrics. For better or for worse the mini skirt hadn't been invented and bikini was still the name of an unknown Pacific island.

Among the street people with a distinctive dress, the policeman stood out. A big man in his navy blue tunic and trousers, a leather belt around his middle with a bull’s-eye torch at the rear and his outfit completed with a proper Bobbies helmet on his head and big black boots on his feet for pavement pounding. Just occasionally his whistle might be heard shrilling as he chased some malefactor down the road. More often he was seen but not heard as he came by on foot or on his bike with his rain cape neatly folded over the handlebars.

Our family doctor lived just across the way in a sizable corner house. I saw him from time to time when I had various childhood ailments but his likeness escapes me. My mother always thought me thin and needing fattening up but rather doubting when the doctor included pork in his dietary recommendations. Anyway, I ate like a horse the only dislike I can remember was the kidney in steak and kidney pudding. The doctor had installed a machine for 'sun-ray treatment' and my mother took me over to him several times for a dose of the beneficial light. It was some sort of ultraviolet light emission which would no frighten a quack silly today but in small doses probably did neither good nor harm.

 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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Sharon Nicola LAWS

2008 Olympics Cyclist

Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 

1974 -2017

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