Monday 21st December 2020 - Number 7184

 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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We could put your LAWS/LAWES story here 

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Your Story can go here

This was my teenage home first built in 1478

   

Today's Family Events 

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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A childhood of the 

1920s as seen from the 1990s

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.   

To be continued

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This was my teenage home first built in 1478

   

Extracted from our Database today

Monday 22th, December 2020

BUT PLEASE NOTE

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Today's Family Events 

1721 - Baptism: William LAWES-37371, Tilshead Wiltshire                     England

1778 - Birth: Cuthbert LAWS-33770, Lanchester Durham                       England

1811 - Birth: Ann SIMONS-6960, Longham Norfolk England

1825 - Marriage: William LAWS-22517 and Elizabeth                               WHOEBERRY-22523, Mercer County Kentucky USA

1836 - Birth: Abby LAWS-52377, 

1840 - Birth: Robert Morrow LAWES-10555, (Colliery Clerk)                 Belmont, Pittington Durham England

1862 - Marriage: Alfred GOWER-3853 and Agnes Isabella                     LAWS-3833, Stepney Middlesex England

1870 - Marriage: John LAWS-3708 (Ag Lab)  and Charlotte                   CARRICK-3716, Kilnsea East Yorkshire England

1874 - Birth: Percy Robert George LAWES-1214, 

          (RN 168394 CPO / Coastguard)  Bethnal Green Middlesex             England

1876 - Birth: Louisa D LAWS-46049, (Domestic Servant)  

1876 - Birth: Jennie Alfreda LAWS-13520, Johnson, 

           Kane County Utah United States

1879 - Birth: Ada L SMITH-24510, 

1880 - Birth: Rosanna CLARKE-23904, 

1882 - Birth: William C LAWES-48622,(Contractors Labourer)  

1884 - Will  Dated: Thomas LAWES-1322,

           (Gentleman Independent) 

1887 - Birth: Gertrude Lily LAWES-20728, Homington Wiltshire

           England

1891 - Birth: Rachael Emeline MILLER-35221, Cocke County                Tennessee United States

1891 - Death: William Charles LAWS-31510, Battersea Surrey                England

1891 - Birth: William Edward LAWS-23891, (Petty Officer Clerk

           RN M3041) Wandsworth Surrey England

1894 - Birth: Arthur James LAWS-44310, (Manufacturer &

          Artist) York Ontario Canada

1901 - Marriage: Albert Ernest LAWS-47792 (Horse Keeper)

           and Emily Harriet Grace HAMMOND-47791, 

           Wandsworth Surrey England

1901 - Marriage: George LAWS-40813 (Market Porter)  and                   Mary Ann BURCHELL-40814, Spitalfields Mdx England

1901   Birth: Percy WILLICOMBE-47887,Watchet                                   Somersetshire  England

1902 - Marriage: Clarence A DENT-29869 and Quillie LAWS-                 29868, Weakley County, Tennessee United States

1903 - Birth: Dorothy TAYLOR-36065, Edmonton Middlesex                  England

1904 - Death: William George LAWS-18148, (Civil Engineer)                    Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1905 - Burial: Caroline LAWS-49262, Folkestone Kent England

1907 - Marriage: Percy LAWS-8299 (Motor Car Mechanic) and              Lydia May RADFORD-34475, Lincoln, 

            Lincolnshire England

1907 - Marriage: James M LAWS-24948 and Margaret E FOX-              24955, 

1908 - Birth: Frank Edward LAWS-39504, (Railwayman 88373               Great Western Railway) 

1911 - Birth: Ulysses Grant SIPES-40426, North Carolina 

           United States

1915 - Military Service: William James LAWS-30412,                               (Surveyor) 

1916 - Birth: Reva Merle LAWS-44884, Texas United States

1916 - Miscellaneous: Dorothy Dale LAWS-14935, 

           (Chartered Masseuse)  Marylebone Middlesex England

1918 - Birth: Clinton Roy LAWS-13640, (Supervisor) 

           Wilkes County North Carolina United States

1919 - Birth: Hannah M LAWS-30594, (Shop Assistant)                           Easington, Durham, England

1928 - Marriage: Harry COLLINGS-45734 (Civil Servant)  and             Hilda Beatrice LAWS-45733, New Cross Gate, Surrey                    England

1934 - Burial: Mary Ann JENNINGS-20982, (Scholar)  

            Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

11936 - Burial: Alice Millicent BREACH-15782,                                         (Milliner) Bristol Gloucestershire England

1939 - Marriage: Manon Francis ALLEN-48037 and Evelyn                  Sarah Elizabeth LAWS-48035, Arkansas United States

1942 - Residence: Alice Flight TURNER-49531, Bowes Park                    Middlesex England but died  London WC1

1943 - Death: Walter George Arnold LAWES-2533, Felthorpe                 Norfolk England

1945 - Death: John James GARDINER-35079, Mclean 

            New South Wales Australia

1949 - Residence: Frederick Joseph LAWS-25542, 

           Underground) Blackhall Colliery Durham England 

           (Coal Putter) 

1953 - Death: Nellie Isabel LAWS-39399, Clewer Berkshire                     England

1958 - Burial: Miriam LAWS-25183, (Widow)  

           Christchurch New Zealand

1962 - Death: Henry George LAWS-23892, (Chief Clerk)                        Kempston Bedfordshire England

1965 - Death: Hazel K LAWS-20022, 

1969 - Death: Sidney Hopkins (Van Driver) GROVES-22193,                West Hartlepool Durham England

1975 - Death: Edith May DUDLEY-29722, Peterborough                      Cambridgeshire England

1992 - Death: Myrtle Grace LAWS-50494, Mariposa California              United States

1992 - Death: Joyce Elaine MCKEE-29846, Leesburg Florida                   United States

1993 - Burial: Catherine Jewel (PV2 US Army) LAWS-16284,                Mountain Home National Cemetery, Johnson City TN

2002 - Death: Macy LAWS-10742, Lenoir North Carolina 

          United States

2003 - Death: Belton LAWS-13169, (Reverend) Spartenberg NC

2005 - Death: Ruth Almeda BLACK-20933, Ashville 

           North Carolina United States

2010 - Death: Laura Ledean SMITH-52269, Eugene, 

         Lane County, Oregon Unted States

2014 - Death: Elaine PISKORIK-51322, Scotch Plains, 

         New Jersey United States

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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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My Family

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

R I P

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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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                                                                   This organization recognizes:- 

         The United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024         

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