LAWS FAMILY REGISTER
Lord, help me dig into the past and sift the sands of timethat I might find the roots that madethis family tree of mine
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 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 Lawes1595-1662
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Henry Lawes
1595-1662
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This was my teenage home first built in 1478 
This was my teenage home first built in 1478
Today's Family Events
LAWS FAMILY REGISTER
Today's Family Events
LAWS FAMILY REGISTER
Lord, help me dig into the past and sift the sands of timethat I might find the roots that madethis family tree of mine
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 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 Lawes1595-1662
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A childhood of the
1920s as seen from the 1990sbyJohn Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 5Surely the most elegant piece of furniture stood opposite the fireplace behind the settee. A china cabinet to match the rest of the furniture, standing around six feet high by four feet six, with its mirrored back multiplying the pretty little collection of china and figurines. Although fragile in appearance it has survived a war and several house removals and is still with us, No doubt my mother lived in fear and trembling when I was in the same room and hence my feeling that the room was little used.
The front door of the house led into a normal hall and passage with a long red and green 'Turkish' carpet runner, over the linoleum which covered all our floors. The hazard of a slip mat guarded every door and a matching carpet strip ascended the stairs, held in place by gleaming stair rods, another regular chore. The wall of the hallway carried a wooden moulding about three feet from the floor, below which it was papered in a heavy moulded paper and painted. The wall above was papered in the normal way. As in all rooms there was the obligatory picture rail with pictures, of which more anon.
The stairway was straight and unremarkable, once I tumbled from top to bottom in a careless moment with no worse effects than considerable surprise. Going up or down in a more conventional manner could be aided by a substantial banister rail which was not however very good for sliding down on account of the newel post sticking out at the bottom. The stairs faced the front of the house and at the top a passage went on down to the back and a landing turned round to the front and led to the main bedroom.
As a small infant I had my cot in there with my parents but must have generally slept like a log as there are few memories of wakefulness. Perhaps it is just one winter of memory before I had a little room of my own. There were venetian blinds at the windows and an occasional motor vehicle would trundle past before I slept and its lights throwing the pattern of the slatted blinds on the wall and moved it round the room as it passed. It must have been that year that the electric light was put in. I was in my cot with some childhood ailment and watched as a rising and falling two light filaments were put above the dressing table in the window bay and wired up through the ceiling. What a pity to have missed the rest of the performance.
Each main bedroom had a marble topped washstand with a set comprising a hand basin, water ewer, soap dish, and toothbrush vase, in the double cupboard below were a pair of chamber pots in the matching pattern. This set was patterned with large red roses, but of these only the hand basin now survives. Being a large one, it has gone through a number of uses, from the earliest being I was told. My bath in the earliest weeks, to mixing Christmas puddings in succeeding years and holding wine much later.
Now gas fires were fitted in the main bedrooms to provide a trifle of heat at bedtime and a brass jar of water stood in front to stop it drying out the air. Not that the furniture stood in any danger of drying out in those days although it was all solid wood, even plywood does not seem to come in, till much later. There must have been more furniture, but nothing built in except the larder and the dresser in the kitchen. The freestanding wardrobes were big since one needed plenty of clothing and were supplemented by large chests of drawers and blanket chests. Bedroom furniture was only slightly less ornamented than downstairs.
The beds varied through the plain iron, and the iron with brass knobs and fittings to the wooden headboard and footboard veneered in burr walnut which could not have been part of the original set up in 1912 as it did not match anything else. The bedsprings of that day were a sort of lightly stretched steel spring fabric which became a hammock with the passing of years but though with often no trace of eider ancestry. The white quilts were not quilted but of and can be consigned to the past without a trace of nostalgia. Sheets were white and cotton, or linen for the fortunate, blankets thick and numerous and the eiderdown of heavy cotton material with an embossed pattern. These whites and white lace curtains fitted the general darkness of the furniture and decor as did the use of mirrors in the furniture and over fireplaces wherever possible.
To be continued
Henry Lawes
1595-1662
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A childhood of the
1920s as seen from the 1990s
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 5
Surely the most elegant piece of furniture stood opposite the fireplace behind the settee. A china cabinet to match the rest of the furniture, standing around six feet high by four feet six, with its mirrored back multiplying the pretty little collection of china and figurines. Although fragile in appearance it has survived a war and several house removals and is still with us, No doubt my mother lived in fear and trembling when I was in the same room and hence my feeling that the room was little used.
The front door of the house led into a normal hall and passage with a long red and green 'Turkish' carpet runner, over the linoleum which covered all our floors. The hazard of a slip mat guarded every door and a matching carpet strip ascended the stairs, held in place by gleaming stair rods, another regular chore. The wall of the hallway carried a wooden moulding about three feet from the floor, below which it was papered in a heavy moulded paper and painted. The wall above was papered in the normal way. As in all rooms there was the obligatory picture rail with pictures, of which more anon.
The stairway was straight and unremarkable, once I tumbled from top to bottom in a careless moment with no worse effects than considerable surprise. Going up or down in a more conventional manner could be aided by a substantial banister rail which was not however very good for sliding down on account of the newel post sticking out at the bottom. The stairs faced the front of the house and at the top a passage went on down to the back and a landing turned round to the front and led to the main bedroom.
As a small infant I had my cot in there with my parents but must have generally slept like a log as there are few memories of wakefulness. Perhaps it is just one winter of memory before I had a little room of my own. There were venetian blinds at the windows and an occasional motor vehicle would trundle past before I slept and its lights throwing the pattern of the slatted blinds on the wall and moved it round the room as it passed. It must have been that year that the electric light was put in. I was in my cot with some childhood ailment and watched as a rising and falling two light filaments were put above the dressing table in the window bay and wired up through the ceiling. What a pity to have missed the rest of the performance.
Each main bedroom had a marble topped washstand with a set comprising a hand basin, water ewer, soap dish, and toothbrush vase, in the double cupboard below were a pair of chamber pots in the matching pattern. This set was patterned with large red roses, but of these only the hand basin now survives. Being a large one, it has gone through a number of uses, from the earliest being I was told. My bath in the earliest weeks, to mixing Christmas puddings in succeeding years and holding wine much later.
Now gas fires were fitted in the main bedrooms to provide a trifle of heat at bedtime and a brass jar of water stood in front to stop it drying out the air. Not that the furniture stood in any danger of drying out in those days although it was all solid wood, even plywood does not seem to come in, till much later. There must have been more furniture, but nothing built in except the larder and the dresser in the kitchen. The freestanding wardrobes were big since one needed plenty of clothing and were supplemented by large chests of drawers and blanket chests. Bedroom furniture was only slightly less ornamented than downstairs.
The beds varied through the plain iron, and the iron with brass knobs and fittings to the wooden headboard and footboard veneered in burr walnut which could not have been part of the original set up in 1912 as it did not match anything else. The bedsprings of that day were a sort of lightly stretched steel spring fabric which became a hammock with the passing of years but though with often no trace of eider ancestry. The white quilts were not quilted but of and can be consigned to the past without a trace of nostalgia. Sheets were white and cotton, or linen for the fortunate, blankets thick and numerous and the eiderdown of heavy cotton material with an embossed pattern. These whites and white lace curtains fitted the general darkness of the furniture and decor as did the use of mirrors in the furniture and over fireplaces wherever possible.
To be continued
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This was my teenage home first built in 1478
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Today's Family Events
1789 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-30528 and Ann RYNN-30529, St Pancras Middlesex England1796 - Christen: Edward LAWS-6272, (ARMY Pensioner) Folkestone Kent England
1797 - Marriage: JohnPEEL-19223 (Caldbeck huntsman) and Mary WHITE-19224, Gretna Green Dumfries Scotland (Distant relative's of my wife on her mothers' side)1806 - Birth: John LAWES-1231, Fincham Norfolk England
1842 - Birth: Amelia LAWS-3099, (Spinster) Margate Kent England1850 - Occupation: Stephen Andrew LAWS-31489, (Master Mariner) 1851 - Marriage: Robert Green Edward LAWS-42323 and Sarah NASH-42324, Saint Pancras Middlesex England1853 - Marriage: John Henry LAWS-7821 and Maria Eliza LOFT-7823, Southwark Surrey England1855 - Baptism: David Charles WARWICK- 40279, (RailwayPorter) Ferozepore, Bengal India1858- Marriage: Thomas (Carpenter) WEBB-12211 and Elizabeth LAWS-12212, East Claydon Buckinghamshire England1860 - Birth: William LAWS-46176, (Hotel Porter/Widower) 1860 - Burial: Benjamin James LAWS-32308, Plumstead Kent England1876 - Birth: Arthur LAWS-5025, (Ag lab) Shoreham Sussex England1879 - Death: Luke LAWS-24632, Costessey Norfolk England
1880 - Birth: Grover Nelson LAWS-24939, North Carolina United States1882 - Birth: Lilian A CORNELL-40103, 1883 - Residence: Isabella Annandale JOHNSTON-33739, Earsdon Northumberland Englan1886 - Burial: William James LAWES-560, (Annuitant "Isaac Bawcombe") Mortimer West End Hampshire England (Main character in W H Hudson's book 'A Shepherds Life)1886 - Birth: John Harry LAWES-117, (Engineers Assistant) Aldershot Hampshire England1886 - Birth: Albert LAWES-77, (Baker & Breadmaker) Southampton Hampshire England1887 - Marriage: John William LAWS-25931 (Turncock) and Louisa Jane SERIVENER-30520, Islington Middlesex England1888 - Death: Stephen LAWES-2001, (Baker) Lymington Hampshire England1892 - Marriage: William REED-40924 and Marg LAWS-40925, Carlisle Cumberland England1893 - Birth: Ernest O LAWS-42670, (Order Book Clerk (S Met Gas Company) 1897 - Birth: William Charles LAWS-29820, Acton Middlesex England1898 - Birth: Herbert O LAWS-37257, (Miner - Coal Cutter) Barnsley West Yorkshire England1899 - Birth: Richard Thomas LAWES-23973, Norwich Norfolk England
1904 - Birth: William Manford BERTHOLF-40580, Saint Louis Missouri United States 1905 - Marriage: Nathan RAY-24990 and Julie LAWS-24989, 1906 - Birth: Herbert Leslie LAWS-33278, (Taxi Driver Unemployed) 1907 - Birth: Anna Ray LAWS-37241, 1911 - Birth: Reginald Lucas LAWS-22546, (Insurance Agent) South Shields Durham England
1912 - Birth: George R (Tinsmith Gas Meter- Married) 1912 - Birth: Cecil Edwin James LAWES-37476 Machinist Food) Brentford Middlesex England 1912 - Birth: Jack LAWS-34934, 1913 - Birth: Beatrice LAWS-32613, (A Confectionery Worker) Basford Nottinghamshire England1914 - Death: Herbert William John LAWES-31332, (ARMY Private S/294) KIA Fleurbaix FRANCE1915 - Marriage: Milas Robert LAWS-52398 & Flora Missouri YATES-52399, Wilkes County North Carolina United States1915 - Birth: Joseph William Christopher LAWS-48039, Rudy, Crawford Arkansas United States1916 - Death: Hilda May LAWS-15610, Kenley Surrey England1917 - Birth: Ivy P LAWES-47320, (Shorthand Typist & Bookkeeper) 1921 - Death: Percy William LAWS-33051, Elm Cambridgeshire England1934 - Death: Audrey May LAWES-33092, Exeter Devonshire England1934 - Death: Albert Edward LAWS-15294, (Ag Lab) Stradsett Norfolk England1938 - Burial: Gertrude Henrietta LAWS-15295, Stradsett Norfolk England1941 - Marriage: Leighton Fay LAWES-49664 and Ramona Grace RICHARDS-49665, Franklin Vermont United States1943 - Residence: Elizabeth BOWMAKER-35869, Sunderland Durham England1991 - Burial: Nellie WARE-20408, Cowes Isle of Wight England1992 - Death: Margaret A LAWS-16403, (A1/C US Air Force) 1993 - Death: Catherine Jewel LAWS-16284,(PV2 US Army) 2001 - Death: Mabel Florence LAWES-51753, Botley Oxfordshire England2007 - Death: Eliza Aurora THOMPSON-50778, Ipswich Suffolk England2007 - Death: Violet Annie Frances BISHOPP-46610, Hove Sussex England
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Dear AncestorYour tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and aloneThe names and dates are chiselled out on polished marble stone
Today's Family Events
1789 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-30528 and Ann RYNN-30529,
St Pancras Middlesex England
1796 - Christen: Edward LAWS-6272, (ARMY Pensioner) Folkestone Kent England
1797 - Marriage: JohnPEEL-19223 (Caldbeck huntsman) and Mary WHITE-19224, Gretna Green Dumfries Scotland
(Distant relative's of my wife on her mothers' side)
1806 - Birth: John LAWES-1231, Fincham Norfolk England
1842 - Birth: Amelia LAWS-3099, (Spinster) Margate Kent England
1850 - Occupation: Stephen Andrew LAWS-31489,
(Master Mariner)
1851 - Marriage: Robert Green Edward LAWS-42323 and Sarah NASH-42324, Saint Pancras Middlesex England
1853 - Marriage: John Henry LAWS-7821 and Maria Eliza LOFT-7823, Southwark Surrey England
1855 - Baptism: David Charles WARWICK- 40279, (RailwayPorter) Ferozepore, Bengal India
1858- Marriage: Thomas (Carpenter) WEBB-12211 and Elizabeth LAWS-12212, East Claydon Buckinghamshire England
1860 - Birth: William LAWS-46176, (Hotel Porter/Widower)
1860 - Burial: Benjamin James LAWS-32308, Plumstead Kent England
1876 - Birth: Arthur LAWS-5025, (Ag lab) Shoreham Sussex England
1879 - Death: Luke LAWS-24632, Costessey Norfolk England
1880 - Birth: Grover Nelson LAWS-24939, North Carolina United States
1882 - Birth: Lilian A CORNELL-40103,
1883 - Residence: Isabella Annandale JOHNSTON-33739, Earsdon Northumberland Englan
1886 - Burial: William James LAWES-560, (Annuitant
"Isaac Bawcombe") Mortimer West End Hampshire England
(Main character in W H Hudson's book 'A Shepherds Life)
1886 - Birth: John Harry LAWES-117, (Engineers Assistant) Aldershot Hampshire England
1886 - Birth: Albert LAWES-77, (Baker & Breadmaker) Southampton Hampshire England
1887 - Marriage: John William LAWS-25931 (Turncock) and Louisa Jane SERIVENER-30520, Islington Middlesex England
1888 - Death: Stephen LAWES-2001, (Baker) Lymington Hampshire England
1892 - Marriage: William REED-40924 and Marg LAWS-40925, Carlisle Cumberland England
1893 - Birth: Ernest O LAWS-42670, (Order Book Clerk (S Met Gas Company)
1897 - Birth: William Charles LAWS-29820, Acton Middlesex England
1898 - Birth: Herbert O LAWS-37257, (Miner - Coal Cutter) Barnsley West Yorkshire England
1899 - Birth: Richard Thomas LAWES-23973, Norwich Norfolk England
1904 - Birth: William Manford BERTHOLF-40580, Saint Louis Missouri United States
1905 - Marriage: Nathan RAY-24990 and Julie LAWS-24989,
1906 - Birth: Herbert Leslie LAWS-33278, (Taxi Driver Unemployed)
1907 - Birth: Anna Ray LAWS-37241, 1911 - Birth: Reginald Lucas LAWS-22546, (Insurance Agent) South Shields Durham England
1912 - Birth: George R (Tinsmith Gas Meter- Married)
1912 - Birth: Cecil Edwin James LAWES-37476 Machinist Food) Brentford Middlesex England 1912 - Birth: Jack LAWS-34934,
1913 - Birth: Beatrice LAWS-32613, (A Confectionery Worker) Basford Nottinghamshire England
1914 - Death: Herbert William John LAWES-31332, (ARMY Private S/294) KIA Fleurbaix FRANCE
1915 - Marriage: Milas Robert LAWS-52398 & Flora Missouri YATES-52399, Wilkes County North Carolina United States
1915 - Birth: Joseph William Christopher LAWS-48039, Rudy, Crawford Arkansas United States
1916 - Death: Hilda May LAWS-15610, Kenley Surrey England
1917 - Birth: Ivy P LAWES-47320, (Shorthand Typist & Bookkeeper)
1921 - Death: Percy William LAWS-33051, Elm Cambridgeshire England
1934 - Death: Audrey May LAWES-33092, Exeter Devonshire England
1934 - Death: Albert Edward LAWS-15294, (Ag Lab) Stradsett Norfolk England
1938 - Burial: Gertrude Henrietta LAWS-15295, Stradsett Norfolk England
1941 - Marriage: Leighton Fay LAWES-49664 and Ramona Grace RICHARDS-49665, Franklin Vermont United States
1943 - Residence: Elizabeth BOWMAKER-35869, Sunderland Durham England
1991 - Burial: Nellie WARE-20408, Cowes Isle of Wight England
1992 - Death: Margaret A LAWS-16403, (A1/C US Air Force)
1993 - Death: Catherine Jewel LAWS-16284,(PV2 US Army)
2001 - Death: Mabel Florence LAWES-51753, Botley Oxfordshire England
2007 - Death: Eliza Aurora THOMPSON-50778, Ipswich Suffolk England
2007 - Death: Violet Annie Frances BISHOPP-46610,
Hove Sussex England
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Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone
It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mournYou did not know that I exist, you died and I was bornYet 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 agoSpreads out amongst the ones you left who would have loved you so,I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knewThat someday I would find this spot and come to visit you.
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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
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Robert Henry Laws1828-1881Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' my paternal Great Grandfather
Barque 'Woolhampton'
This is Robert Henry's Wife Sarah Ann Laws, formerly FullerMy paternal Great Grandmother1846-1924
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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 LAWS2008 Olympics CyclistEnvironmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 1974 -2017R I P
Sharon Nicola LAWS
2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc
1974 -2017
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News
Big delivery arriving from FRANCE
Most goats cheeses are BACK IN STOCK as well as the very popular Pâté de champagne
( country style ). plus all the usual cow’s milk and blue cheeses.
( country style ). plus all the usual cow’s milk and blue cheeses.
Cédric Minel https://cheesee-peasee.com/
Cédric Minel
https://cheesee-peasee.com/
This organization recognizes:-
The United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024 We reach out to all regardless of race, colour, creed, or orientation.
This organization recognizes:-
The United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024
We reach out to all regardless of race, colour, creed, or orientation.
Remember,
We are all one family
Remember,
We are all one family
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