Saturday 23rd January 2021 - Number 7215

  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

1650 - Marriage: Henry LAWES-1143 (Composer & Gentleman of the Chapel Royal)               and Elizabeth MILES-1139, Clerkenwell Middlesex England

1774 - Baptism: James ROFE-20826, Wymondham Norfolk England

1801 - Birth: Elizabeth AGNEW-11624, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

                                                   Great Yarmouth Norfolk

1816 - Marriage: Richard Lloyd LAWS-2772 (Master Mariner "Andromache"                         Hon East India Company Service)  and Frances Catherine STARK-2773, 

           Bengal India

1822 - Marriage: James LAWS-11475 (Widower) and MaryNORMAN-11474,  

            (Widow) Coslany Norfolk England

1859 - Birth: Arinda Annis WARDEN-32591, Montgomery Illinois United States

1861 - Birth: Joseph Preston LAWS-52626, 

1863 - Birth: Elizabeth LAWES-19842, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England

                                        

                                                    Coombe Bissett Wiltshire

            

1865 - Marriage: Abraham WILKINS-29702 and Hannah LAWS-29701, 

            Somerset England

1866 - Birth: William LAWS-4234, (Ag Lab)  Sproughton Suffolk England

1871 - Birth: Martha Ann DAVIES-33103, Bowden Cheshire England

1874 - Birth: Annie Newton LAWS-12365, 

1876 - Death: Leah Bathsheba LAWS-10623, (Infant 1 mth)  Hainford Norfolk                         England

1878 - Birth: Johanna Lydia LAWS-3128, Kialla Victoria Australia

1879 - Birth: Herbert LAWS-4212, (ARMY Private 21260 & Labourer)  

           Littleport Cambridgeshire England

                                                    Littleport Cambridgeshire

1882 - Birth: Walter LAWS-46614,  (GPO Engineering Staff Officer) 

1885 - Birth: Orris Samuel LAWS-15572, (Shoemaker) Chelsea Middlesex England

        

                                    The Royal Hospital Chelsea Middlesex

                                                home of the Chelsea Pensioners

1886 - Marriage: Alfred ARNOLD-15 347 (Ag Lab) and Esther A  LAWS-5594,                        Lakenheath Suffolk England

1887 - Birth: Lila May LAWS-31695, (Servant)  Sevenoaks Kent England

1887 - Birth: Ellen Louise LAWS-23756, Kensington Middlesex England

1887 - Birth: Fred Victor LAWS-6896, (Merchant Tailor)  Yeovil Somerset England

1888 - Death: Marie Leonora LAWS-11352, Tiruchirapalli INDIA

1894 - Birth: Benjamin Citone LAWS-16677, 

1896 - Baptism: Edith LAWS-23850, Ryhope Durham England

1896 - Burial: Joseph Searles LAWS-14027 (Ships Carpenter)  Stepney Middlesex                     England. (I still have some of his tools) He was my Great Granduncle)

  

                                                    St.Dunstan Stepney MDX
                         

1898 - Baptism: Mary Elaine LAWS-42709 (Bank Clerk) Battersea Surrey England

1901 - Marriage: Alfred Sidney LAWS-16633 (Lumber Sales)  and Margaret Eleanor               TAYLOR-16636, (Servant) Murchison, Northern District Ontario Canada

1902 - Death: William Thomas LAWS-46576, (Wine Merchant)  Wandsworth Surrey               England

1903 - Birth: Thomas George LAWS-32333, (Wireless Component Despatcher)                         Tyneham Dorset England

1907 - Death: Dorothy Mabel LAWS-49394, Woolwich Kent England

                                                    Woolwich Ferry at Sunset

1907 - Burial: Walter LAWS-49228, Waltham Forest Essex England

1907 - Birth: Violet KING-41348, 

1909 - Death: Henry Fricker LAWES-11179, (Solicitor (Barrister & Gentleman)                       Clifton Gloucestershire England

                

                                                    Clifton Bridge Avon Gorge

1910 - Birth: Frederick W Y LAWES-47175, (House Furniture Plater-Manager)  

1912 - Marriage: Mark William LAWS-24949 and Augusta KING-26367, 

           Yancy County North Carolina United States

1913 - Birth: Herbert Henry LAWS-42766, Woolwich Kent England

1914 - Birth: David Leonard LAWES - 32803 (Farmer) Holbeach Lincolnshire                         England

                                                            Holbeach Area                                      

(Covers Cambridgeshire with a bit of Norfolk, Lincolnshire & Northamptonshire)

1915 - Death: R G LAWES-21736, (ARMY Lance Corporal 11640)  

1917 - Death: William James LAWS-14950, (Army Gunner)  France & Flanders

1918 - Marriage: William Richard SPARROW-45835 and Laura CAN-45836, 

           Canning Town Essex England

1919 - Marriage License: Henry William BRANT-44896 (Engineer)  

           and Hilda Florence RIDGE-44898, Tottenham Middlesex England

           (My first cousin twice removed)

1925 - Death: Charles Bertram LAWES-2738, Rugeley Staffordshire England

1932 - Marriage: Alexander Leonard LAWS-29823 and Doris May CHALLIS-49791,                Tillingham Essex England

1933 - Death: James Learmont LAWS-3003, (Headmaster)  Newcastle upon Tyne                     Northumberland England

                                Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland England

1938 - Death: Sarah Rebecca LAWS-44727, Boomer, Wilkes, North Carolina 

           United States

1939 - Death: Thomas LAWS-3778, (Schoolmaster)  Gosforth Northumberland                         England 

1941 - Death: Herbert (Potato Salesman) LAWS-28560, Palmers Green Middlesex 

           But burial at New Southgate Middlesex England

1941 - Death: Ira Lucille LAWS-19994, 

1941 - Death: Cuthbert LAWS-5712, (Railway Clerk)  Gateshead Durham England

1942 - Death: Eliza Reeks LAWS-29713, Frayser Mississippi United States

1945 - Death: Louisa Rebecca CHAMBERLAIN-11241, Surfers Paradise, Queensland             Australia

1946 - Death: Frederick George Reginald FORD-49680, Deptford Kent England

1948 - Burial: William Vincent LAWS-20032, (1st Lt Air Corps 0-764045)  

            San Bruno California United States

1960 - Death: Wilfred Henry LAWS-22466, (Painter & Decorator) Dover Kent                         England

        

                                                Dover Castle Kent

1968 - Burial: Arthur Edmund LAWES-15718, 

1978 - Death: Elizabeth Diosma PFEIFER-24046, Dimboola Victoria Australia

1995 - Burial: Clyde Charlie LAWS-32123 (SM2 US NAVY)  San Diego California                   United States

2005 - Death: Allen L LAWES-27042, (Canadian Army Private 612750) 

2008 - Death: Ruth Emeline LAWS-48041, Yakima, Washington, United States

2010 - Death: David Sydney LAWS-50315, Camden Town Middlesex England

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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