Friday 29th January 2021 - Number 7321

  LAWS FAMILY REGISTER 

      

Henry Lawes

1595-1662

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.

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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 Great Grandparents

Robert Henry Laws

1828-1881

Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' 

Barque 'Woolhampton'

This is Robert Henry's Wife 

Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller

My paternal Great Grandmother

1846-1924
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FROM OUR DATABASE TODAY

FAMILY EVENTS

1813 - Birth: Lewis MATHIAS-9437, (Gentleman JP & DL) Wells Somerset England

1815 - Baptism: Joanna LAWES-407, Finsbury Middlesex England

1820 - Death: William Frederick HANOVER-22099, Windsor Berkshire England

                                                        Windsor Berkshire

1835 - Birth: Ellen LAWS-19171, (Servant)  Chertsey Surrey England

1849 - Marriage: Robert WANLESS-25042 and Jane LAWS-25041, Darlington                          Durham England

1852 - Marriage: Henry ROGERS-10436 and Dinah Eleanor LAWS-10435, 

            Ovingham Northumberland England

1854 - Marriage: Thomas HINCKLEY-9462 and Maria LAWS-39435, 

            Stepney Middlesex England

                                                             Stepney Middlesex

1856 - Birth: Ida Ethel COMBS-11970, New Hampshire United States

1859 - Birth: Alice LAWS-12145, Fincham Norfolk England

                                                        Fincham Norfolk

1862 - Marriage: Joseph LAWS-6261 (Coal Merchant)  and Anna CANEY-29774,                    Narborough Norfolk England

                                                        Narborough Norfolk

1866 - Birth: James LAWS-46512, (Public Works Contractors Labourer Retired) 

1867 - Baptism: Albert John LAWES-552, (Farm Servant)  Martin Wiltshire England

1868 - Birth: Harriet CAMPBELL-33419, Welney Cambridgeshire England

1868 - Birth: Richard LAWS-15101, (Bookstall Manager)  Chieveley Berkshire                         England

1870 - Birth: Isabel Ann LAWS-18863, (Teacher) 

1875 - Birth: Frances BERG-21454, Crown Point, Lake County Indiana United States

1883 - Birth: David Coltart MCMINN-25723, Borgue Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland

            (My wife's maternal 3rd cousin twice removed )

1883 - Birth: William WEBB-21864, (Engineer)  Aston Warwickshire England

1888 - Baptism: Gertrude Lily LAWES-20728, Homington Wiltshire England

1891 - Birth: Emma Louise LAWES-2667, Battersea Surrey England

1892 - Birth: Sidney BRANT-37361, (Gun Trade Repairer)  Small Heath, Birmingham             Warwickshire England

             (My maternal 1st cousin twice removed)

1893 - Birth: Georges Edouard Marie Claude PETITPIERRE-32464, Redon, 

            Ille-et-Vilaine Brittany FRANCE

 1897 - Death: John E LAWS-42377, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States

1900 - Birth: Wilfred W MARLAND-47748, (Oil Skin Dresser) 

1905 - Birth: Charles Scott LAWS-31586, (Green Grocer)  West Ham Essex England

1907 - Burial: Dorothy Mabel LAWS-49394, Greenwich Kent England

                                            Greenwich Kent, Royal Observatory

1908 - Death: Stephen LAWES-51177, Ibworth, Basingstoke Hampshire England

1912 - Death: Hannah LAWS-24791, Staple Kent England

1914 - Residence: Dorothy E WILDER-31124, 

1916 - Death: Elizabeth Jane LAWS-29754, 

1917 - Death: Thomas LAWS-21840,  (ARMY Private 41386) 

1918 - Death: William (Farmer) LAWS-6899, Gedney Lincolnshire England

1934 - Death: James Thomas LAWS-23604, 

1937 - Death: Louisa HERTZEL-24604, Crown Point, Lake County Indiana 

            United States

1946 - Death: Grace Miriam  LAWS-25883, (Hospital Nurse & Midwife) Chatham                    Kent England

1950 - Death: William John (Market Gardener) LAWS-5314, Buckland by Dover Kent England

1950 - Residence: William John (Market Gardener) LAWS-5314, Buckland by Dover Kent England

1951 - Death: Ivy Cornelia SHIELDS-48155, Henderson, North Carolina United States

1960 - Death: Bertram John James LAWES-37140, Ashford Kent England

1960 - Residence: Bertram John James LAWES-37140, Sunbury on Thames 

           Middlesex England

1962 - Residence: Ethel Louise PENDLE-3077, Folkestone Kent England

                                                        Folkestone Kent 

1974 - Death: Kenneth Melvin LAWS-27011, (Biscuit Weigher) Cwmbran 

           Glamorgan Wales

1974 - Death: Ernest Graham LAWS-15483, (Science Teacher Bsc Oxf MA 1st Hon at             BA Oxf)  Headington Oxfordshire England

1976 - Death: John Lyle CARPENTER-39615, Provo Utah United States

1978 - Death: Dora LAWS-24757, Bighill, Madison County Kentucky United States

1985 - Probate: Darren Ernest LAWS-41863, Bristol Gloucestershire England

1990 - Death: Iredell Josephine LAWS-52590, 

1993 - Death: Matthew (PFC US Army) LAWS-16242, 

2004 - Death: Larry Gerald (Logger) LAWS-14089, Hampton, Calhoun County                         Arizona United States

2006 - Death: Josephine Idell LAWS-21115, Lexington North Carolina United States

2009 - Death: Lucille Effie LAWS-39313, United States

2016 - Death: Nellie Pauline LAWS-52298, Mecklenburg County North Carolina United States

PHEW!!!

MORE TOMORROW

                                                                                                                                                                   

R I P

Sharon Nicola LAWS

2008 Olympics Cyclist

Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 

1974 -2017

R I P

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                      Member of The Guild of One-Name Studies

THE GUILD OF ONE-NAME STUDIES

www.one-name.org

registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk

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With grateful thanks to Simon Knott 

for his permission to reproduce his photographs on this site 

see 

http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk

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