Laws Family History
Laws Name Meaning
English (chiefly southern): patronymic from the personal name
Law (pet form of Lawrence).Perhaps a reduced form
of Scottish or Irish McLeish. Compare McLaws.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Laws Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Laws families
 335 - 667  112 - 334 |
 1 - 111  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Laws families
|
18 - 34 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Laws census records
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Laws Family Origin
Laws Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Laws Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Laws census records
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