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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 632,793 Historical Documents with Laws on Ancestry
- 222,958 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 142,774 Census and Voter Lists
- 24,792 Military Records
- 12,670 Immigration Records
- 229,599 Member Trees
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Number of Laws families
 335 - 667  112 - 334 |
 1 - 111  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Laws families
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18 - 34 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Laws census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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