What's happneded lately to make you kind of chuckle?

Shirley, please don't take this wrong. I was reading your article and enjoyed it but what made me chuckle was your name...shirley lawson. I live in a town where Lawson's is a well known butcher and has been here for many years. There is a also a lady in the lawson family named Shirley, and I met her once.She is of the similar spirit as you are in as much as she enjoys a good bit of laughter. This butcher shop has been in the community for generations and altho it was sold recently, the Lawson name remains with it as a part of the sale arrangement. They are known for their great quality of meats, excellent service to the community and personable spirit. Your british relatives here are ones to brag about as they are well liked, hard working, honest and as we say( enjoy a good crack) joke.

there are other Shirley Lawson's I am well familiar with here where I live also, but I've seen one on TV, as her an her and  husband own an historical home in Mississiippi..then there's this Shirley Ann Lawson, they messed up our bank accounts one time, last I heard she went back to Missouri so I have no idea if she's kin or not...but hubby's kin is in Missouri. There are four people with my hubby's name also, one is an "union" President, another is an well known real estate agent in this area in general, and the third one..I'm trying to think what they told me he did, besides send all his friends Reader Digest subscriptions one year and they billed us for them. If you' d like to know how the Lawson's are an off spring of the Planegnent family of British rulership, go to Roland Lawson's on line genelaogy chartwork out of Brough (am) Hall. Lawson's  and thier in-law's were highly instrumental in colonization an immigrating people to "America" from it's founding days onward.There are not to many people they have not married into at sometime over the years and tracing them is hard at times because they were as much "tories" as they were "americans" for the cause...they have made tremedous wealth and lost it time again, through the Rev. War and into the Civil War and it keeps a going on..they tend to help everyone. but likewise isn't' that what makes wealth to begin with?  My hubbby's dad died when he was young and his mother never raised them much around her husband's family. He had one brother in town, but they are such an big family.. his mother stayed to herself more so.It's my dad's "White" family owns the butcher shop near me now..I can walk to it, it has an decent name for itself also. My mother's side seemingly is going across country with restruants and music groups. Some of the allied family as kin to me are the Thomas Graves Family ..I think it was Northampton, I'll have to check it but, the Lettes family of England..as an brother-in-law to my grandmother's side of my mother's Reed/Read ..married (Strawn-Percell, Washington, Piercy aka Percell/Price lineages also) Second generation of the Tissue name, later I find to be "Trabu" became "Rue" in thier family, the Martin's of Wales, the Harrod family, the Barlow's of Lancastershire, and George Reade family..he was relatively famous over here also and said to been my grandmother on my mother's side family line m. the Letts and Griffiths here. I have that my White's (dad's side) sold the ground that Winsor Castle sits on today...they were Episcopal preachers and school teacher's and possbily off the Mayflower (ship) at one time. For all our noriety we should be terribly wealthy, but helping others doesn't make you terribly wealthy...if it's done in an humanitarian way, I guess you know. They did live comfortably though. My hubby was an namesake of my mother's side and/or most likely the Rev. Jeremiah Lawson, methoidist circuit-rider preacher of Mason, County, Ky 1790 era... at least what we know of right now. His mother looks to been an Native American captive perhaps. I'm still into her lines. After she returned from her captivity she married an John Miller. She treaked 800 miles on her own when she escaped them, her children given to others, only one ever grew up to come back, they said she left an strong sturdy woman, and when they found her after her return she was naked, bone thin, and on the edge of death and her hair had completely turned snow white at the early age she was. But she survived. They killed her husband when they took the rest of them captive. Yet its interesting the the family has also many affliations with the Native Amiercans also. some were good to them, some  killed them. It depended on which ones they ran into. When I'm done I'll post the people from England for all of you so you can tell these people about thier later cousins here.