The Lawes Family History

This is a site where you can find information about the history of the Lawes family.

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The Lawes Family in the Census

Census Freqency of the Surname Lawes
1841 Census 744
1851 Census 777
1861 Census 1,089
1871 Census 1,242
1891 Census 1,826

Most Frequent Forenames for the Lawes Family in the Census

Name 1841 Census 1851 Census 1861 Census 1871 Census 1891 Census Total
WILLIAM Lawes 60 61 63 92 81
JOHN Lawes 49 50 60 69 76
ELIZABETH Lawes 50 47 55 61 45
MARY Lawes 50 39 46 43 47
GEORGE Lawes 22 29 43 39 47
SARAH Lawes 32 27 44 36 31
JAMES Lawes 30 41 41 31 24
THOMAS Lawes 34 17 32 36 41
ANN Lawes 46 30 26 25 24
JANE Lawes 20 25 40 29 22
HENRY Lawes 24 24 29 29 28
ROBERT Lawes 20 15 17 22 22
ELIZA Lawes 17 13 21 22 20
CHARLES Lawes 10 15 16 18 33
EMMA Lawes 10 8 16 16 26
EDWARD Lawes 13 12 7 13 25
JOSEPH Lawes 7 10 19 10 22
ELLEN Lawes 6 3 14 20 19
EMILY Lawes 5 4 13 13 21
MARY ANN Lawes 4 16 18 8 10

Your Family History Search

You can use the forms below to do automatic searches for the Lawes family online amongst birth, marriage and death records from 1837, plus census transcripts for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901


 


Anatomy of the Census Page
Not every piece of information is obvious to the casual observer, so to make sure that you extract every useful piece of information from the census page.

 

Case Study - Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett
Throughout their 20 month courtship and before getting engaged, Robert and Elizabeth exchanged around 600 letters. This is how their marriage record was found.

 

Map your Surname back to 1841
Find where your ancestors lived before the boom in population and rapid expansion to towns and cities caused by the Industrial Revolution.

 

The Bronte Sisters in the Yorkshire 1841 Census
The three Bronte sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - grew up with their brother Branwell in Parsonage House in Haworth, Yorkshire. They can be found in the 1841 Census.