I would suggest it might have been a Michael Graham LAWS. Assuming marriage would have been between 1880 and 1887 gives just 1 for a LAWS to an Edith, a Michael Graham LAWS in Hackney district in 1885. Good timing for a 1886 birth and the match on Graham as a middle name suggests to me Ernyst could well be the son of this couple (the other 2 on the page were Philip OVER and Emma CARD; looking for all Philip OVERs in the 1891 census, Ancestry index, shows only one old enough - and his wife was Emma, stepson Francis Card, so I think we can be pretty sure Michael and Edith married). There was a Michael Graham LAWS born Clerkenwell district 1851, and I'd suggest this was Edith's husband. 1861 census shows his father was Michael G LAWS, aged 39. MGL seniors death would appear to be Croydon district, 1889, aged 67 - i.e. age matches census. Croydon is as you will know where Ernyst and his brothers were born. Of course Edith could have married MGL senior, and the 'Married' in the census an error. Otherwise married the younger and they had separated. A MGL married in Croydon in 1887 - a latish marriage of senior, or a marriage of junior after divorce (or bigamous after separation?) Unfortunately the probate calendar entry for MGL senior gives no clue, relict not named as executrix. Teresa On 08/02/2015 16:58, John P Laws via wrote: > Hi One-Namers Everywhere, > > Today's search has been for the father of Ernyst Graham LAWS born 1886 > Croydon SRY (Science Teacher, BSc Oxford MA 1st Hon BA Oxford) Died 1974 > Oxford. > > I find him on the 1901 census with his mother Edith LAWS (Married > Schoolteacher)she was born 1863 Bristol, but can't find them in 1891 census. > I did consider that she may have been unmarried but doubted that a single > mother in that time would have been able to put a son through Oxford. > > So who and what was the father? Any Ideas you sleuths. > > John P Laws > > Registrar > Laws Family Register > Putting Flesh on the Bones of History > > wwww.lawsfamilyregisterr.tribalpages.com > > www.lawsandlawes.blogspot.com > > > > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- ------------------------ Teresa Goatham Sign the petition to open historic BMD registers - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/62779 (UK residents / British citizens only)