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Dear Ancestor,-
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone
The names and dates are chiselled
It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist, you died and I was born
Yet each of us are
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor,
The place you filled one hundred years ago
Spreads out amongst the ones you left who would have loved you so,
I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
SURNAMES IN MY TREE INCLUDE LAWS & LAWES, HARDING ELL ROWELL FULLER LOTHERINGTON BRANT MOONEY
EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE
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Family Events from our database for today 24th November
Family Events
BIRTHS baptisms etc
1782 - Christen: Jane LAWS-6076, Breamore Hampshire England1843 - Birth: William LAWS-14478, South Shields Durham England
1869 - Birth: James William LAWS (Pig Dealer)-14824, Kensington Middlesex England
1871 - Birth: Ethel LAWS-34525, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1880 - Birth: William LAWS (Farmer) -43634,
1884 - Birth: Frank Ernest LAWS (Blacksmiths Labourer) -15902, Carlton Colville
Suffolk England
1887 - Birth: Bertie Allen LAWS (Roadman) -8646, Norfolk England (Mitford Reg Dist)
1893 - Birth: Lillian Mary LAWS (Laundry) -14445, Wandsworth Surrey England
1905 - Birth: Matthew LAWS (Boiler House Attendant) -43865,
1906 - Birth: William R G LAWS (Grocer) -43737,
1908 - Birth: William W E LAWS (Commercial Traveller Biscuits) -43778,
1910 - Birth: Edna May LAWES-28777, Winchester Hampshire England
1911 - Birth: Albert Francis LAWS (Royal Australian Navy 20095) -12542, Prahran VIC Australia
1913 - Birth: Cyril Frederick LAWS (Electric Arc Welder) -31476, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England
1915 - Birth: Alexander LAWS-40303,
1915 - Birth: John William LAWS (Australian Army) -12572, Narrabri West NSW Australia
1916 - Birth: George A E LAWS (Labourer) -44461,
BIRTHS baptisms etc
1782 - Christen: Jane LAWS-6076, Breamore Hampshire England1843 - Birth: William LAWS-14478, South Shields Durham England
1869 - Birth: James William LAWS (Pig Dealer)-14824, Kensington Middlesex England
1871 - Birth: Ethel LAWS-34525, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1880 - Birth: William LAWS (Farmer) -43634,
1884 - Birth: Frank Ernest LAWS (Blacksmiths Labourer) -15902, Carlton Colville
Suffolk England
1887 - Birth: Bertie Allen LAWS (Roadman) -8646, Norfolk England (Mitford Reg Dist)
1893 - Birth: Lillian Mary LAWS (Laundry) -14445, Wandsworth Surrey England
1905 - Birth: Matthew LAWS (Boiler House Attendant) -43865,
1906 - Birth: William R G LAWS (Grocer) -43737,
1908 - Birth: William W E LAWS (Commercial Traveller Biscuits) -43778,
1910 - Birth: Edna May LAWES-28777, Winchester Hampshire England
1911 - Birth: Albert Francis LAWS (Royal Australian Navy 20095) -12542, Prahran VIC Australia
1913 - Birth: Cyril Frederick LAWS (Electric Arc Welder) -31476, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England
1915 - Birth: Alexander LAWS-40303,
1915 - Birth: John William LAWS (Australian Army) -12572, Narrabri West NSW Australia
1916 - Birth: George A E LAWS (Labourer) -44461,
MARRIAGES
1787 - Marriage: Jeremiah LAWS-30311 and Frances DURHAM-16465, Lincoln Co KY
United States
1794 - Marriage: John LAWS (Tailor) -3954 and Elizabeth SOWELL-3955, Shoreditch Middlesex England
1795 - Marriage: Edward LAWES-20129 and Sarah WHITLOCK-12876, Fisherton Anger Wiltshire England
1822 - Marriage: Samuel PLAYFORD-11792 and Maria LAWS-11793, Norwich Norfolk England
1846 - Marriage: William Willoughby LAWS-37214 and Jane LONG-43498, Calcutta INDIA
1846 - Marriage: James DOE (Farmer) -26759 and Sarah LAWS-26758, Kirby Cane
Norfolk England
1877 - Marriage: Thomas ATKINSON-24029 and Matilda LAWS-15206, Roos East Yorkshire England
1909 - Marriage: Robert HEADLEY-23193 and Ada LAWS-23192, North Ferriby
East Yorkshire England (All Saints)
DEATHS burials etc
1877 - Death: Thomas LAWS (Coal Heap Keeper) -3982, Castle Eden Durham England
1888 - Death: Alfred Frederick LAWS (Baker & Confectioner) -4266, Southwold Suffolk England
1894 - Burial: Thomas James LAWES (Railway Stationmaster) -210, Twickenham Middlesex England
1913 - Death: Elizabeth LAWS (Widow) -7267, Penrith Cumberland England
1927 - Burial: Benjamin Palmer LAWS (Coachmaker) -3373,
1937 - Death: Robert LAWS (General Labourer) -3430,
1941 - Death: William LAWS (RAAF Sgt 405181) -12955, Evans Head, NSW Australia
1952 - Burial: Albert Ernest LAWS-33025, Harrow Middlesex England
1964 - Death: David Arthur LAWS-16410, Bridgewater, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
1997 - Death: Margaret Scott LAWS (Shop Assistant/Storekeeper) -12096, Holsworthy Devonshire England
1999 - Death: Peter James LAWS (Machinist) -22123, Waihola NZ
MISC
OTHER BIRTHS
1815 - Christen: Ann BESFORD (Gentlewoman) -6317, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1827 - Birth: Hannah NIXON (Farmer/Widow) -6768, North Whalton Northumberland England
1855 - Birth: John Richard James JAMES (School Teacher) -21952, Parramatta NSW Australia
1879 - Birth: James Alexander SHEPLEY-30373, Manchester Lancashire England
1881 - Birth: Rosella BRINKLEY-43043, Holborn Middlesex England
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS & Burial
1894 - Death: Catherine Ada MURRAY-35528, Sydney NSW AUSTRALIA
1979 - Death: Elton Troy KEMP-23013, Comanche Texas UNITED STATES
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A suburban childhood of the Twenties
Seen from the Nineteen Nineties
By John Robert Laws 1921-2008
1894 - Death: Catherine Ada MURRAY-35528, Sydney NSW AUSTRALIA
1979 - Death: Elton Troy KEMP-23013, Comanche Texas UNITED STATES
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A Child of the Twenties
A suburban childhood of the Twenties
Seen from the Nineteen Nineties
By John Robert Laws 1921-2008
The kitchen was decorated in the deco of the period. The match-boarding of the lower part of the walls was painted a light brown like the dresser, and the upper walls were done in a strong cream gloss. I'm pretty sure there were lace curtains the same as the rest of the house. Just a touch of an earlier period was the fringe to the mantle piece where the tea caddy (an ornamental tin), the candlesticks and the spill jar stood.
The fire guard had a nice brass rim at the top, well polished by the constant touching of hands and glistened from the fire and the gaslight. Behind it was the black kitchen range, a solid fuel stove with two ovens and a back boiler for hot water. Much of the cooking was done on it in the winter using heavy old iron cooking pots which must have been heirlooms. It the only heating in the house till late afternoon unless the bedroom gas fires were used to dress by. The kitchen stove was lit at six in the morning normally by Lottie, though I remember my dad doing it on one occasion with me looking on. Everyone else must have been out of action I reckon.
The fire guard had a nice brass rim at the top, well polished by the constant touching of hands and glistened from the fire and the gaslight. Behind it was the black kitchen range, a solid fuel stove with two ovens and a back boiler for hot water. Much of the cooking was done on it in the winter using heavy old iron cooking pots which must have been heirlooms. It the only heating in the house till late afternoon unless the bedroom gas fires were used to dress by. The kitchen stove was lit at six in the morning normally by Lottie, though I remember my dad doing it on one occasion with me looking on. Everyone else must have been out of action I reckon.
The scullery next to the kitchen saved the yellowish shallow sink and the black iron gas cooker with its brass taps from spoiling the kitchen. It was definitely a workplace. The built-in copper had a fire below it to boil the wash. The mangle was enormous with big wooden rollers to get the water out before and after rinsing. The corrugated washboard had not yet been passed on to the skiffle group. Clothing must have been tough to withstand the battering. It all had to be ironed of course which was done on the kitchen table on the ironing cloth conveniently kept in its end drawer. Two heavy flat-irons were used one in use while the other was reheated on the gas cooker. No thermostats on these, a drop of spit on the finger applied to the hot iron would tell whether the sizzle was about right.
The one convenience, so to speak, about the scullery was the downstairs loo was entered from it. At that time they were normally out in the garden waiting for the first hard frost to put them out of action. Indeed so were most of those of the houses built in the larger building boom of the early thirties.
There was one other work area, the coal cellar, prohibited to the infant population. This too was better than the thirties houses which had coal bunkers in the garden from which the fuel must be fetched come rain snow or shine. The descent to the cellar through a door in the hall passage was steep to go down and perhaps steeper to climb up laden with a bucket of coal, so some may dispute my feeling that it was better than going out in the rain.
The coal came into the cellar through the coal hole in the top front step which was recessed into the house to give a small porch with the iron cover of the coal hole in the centre. Four of five sandstone steps led up from street level and the coalman would carry his enormous sack up and upend it over the hole. Needless to say, this spoiled the pristine cleanliness of the whitened step and was not a popular event.
Personally I liked to see the patient carthorse observing the proceedings while digging into his nosebag and enjoying the enforced rest. Having delivered his orders, the coalman would patrol the streets calling 'Coal' at intervals in the hope of casual customers. Much the same perhaps as the 'butane' delivering gas in today's Spain, though he needs no call, the clatter of his lorry enough to rouse the customers.
Personally I liked to see the patient carthorse observing the proceedings while digging into his nosebag and enjoying the enforced rest. Having delivered his orders, the coalman would patrol the streets calling 'Coal' at intervals in the hope of casual customers. Much the same perhaps as the 'butane' delivering gas in today's Spain, though he needs no call, the clatter of his lorry enough to rouse the customers.
As well as the coal store there was plenty of space in the cellar with a sort of second room into which a feeble light filtered by a small window below the 'front room' bay. I remember it as a junk store but maybe it was just things one couldn't throw away. Perhaps the most valuable tuning in the cellar was the cold tap which didn't freeze even in the coldest snap when everybody’s pipes were frozen and standpipes had to be put up in the streets.
If the cellar was inelegant, the other rooms were much better. After the kitchen, the most used room for living was the 'front room' often called the dining room. Today it would be called the living room but room usage in middle class houses was different then, mainly due to the lack of central heating. In cold weather a fire would be lit in the front room in the late afternoon on weekdays or well before lunch on weekends. Its heat output could only be controlled by stoking it up or letting it burn down with a little bit of draught control at the front and the alternatives of feeding it with lumps or slack.
The tiled fireplaces of the thirties and forties had not arrived; the fire was ornamented with tiled inserts on either side, enclosed by an iron surround. Above it the over mantle enclosed a big mirror and supported a heavy green onyx clock in a Palladium style with a gilt dial and ormolu mounts. If this were not enough, it was flanked by a pair of blue-brown Doulton glazed vases which served as spill holders.
It all belonged to a rather earlier age, even at that time, the product of a rather late marriage before WWI of a couple raised in late Victorian times. Furniture was good and solid, even a dining chair took a bit of lifting, but there was no fear of it wearing out or falling apart and the room was big enough to hold a lot of it. As it was really a living room rather than a dining room, the fire had a large overstuffed armchair on either side and there was a matching sofa along the opposite wall.
One recess beside the chimney breast was occupied by a tall glazed mahogany bookcase and the other held a drop front coal scuttle which provided a little table top beside the chair. An enormous mahogany sideboard sat against the wall opposite the window, the back of its tall overmantle filled by a mirror. Tapered square columns supported the tester style top on which stood a reproduction bronze statue of an athlete. I suppose the original statue must be Greek but although some thirty years or so later I spotted a full size replica in a public park in Liege, I remain in ignorance.
One recess beside the chimney breast was occupied by a tall glazed mahogany bookcase and the other held a drop front coal scuttle which provided a little table top beside the chair. An enormous mahogany sideboard sat against the wall opposite the window, the back of its tall overmantle filled by a mirror. Tapered square columns supported the tester style top on which stood a reproduction bronze statue of an athlete. I suppose the original statue must be Greek but although some thirty years or so later I spotted a full size replica in a public park in Liege, I remain in ignorance.
Ornaments abounded and on the sideboard were an epergne for fruit and flowers and a couple of silver plate and glass urns which never contained anything. More useful was the plated silver stand to hold the soda siphon and the plated vegetable dishes sitting on the long lace cloth. 'Cleaning the plate' was a regular chore and but one of many labour intensive housekeeping of those days. There was of course a heavy mahogany dining table and half a dozen chairs for the main purpose of the room.
Apart from mealtimes, a dark crimson chenille tablecloth with a fancy fringe all round covered the table and in the middle stood another epergne, plated and just for flowers this time. Last but not least the obligatory aspidistra sat in a magnificent state of growth on ornately carved ebony stand in the window bay, its pot enclosed by a handsome china jardinière of deep blue and white. From this window at dusk the lamplighter could be seen on his rounds lighting the gas street lights one by one with a long pole he carried over his shoulder.
Apart from mealtimes, a dark crimson chenille tablecloth with a fancy fringe all round covered the table and in the middle stood another epergne, plated and just for flowers this time. Last but not least the obligatory aspidistra sat in a magnificent state of growth on ornately carved ebony stand in the window bay, its pot enclosed by a handsome china jardinière of deep blue and white. From this window at dusk the lamplighter could be seen on his rounds lighting the gas street lights one by one with a long pole he carried over his shoulder.
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Lord, help me dig into the past
and sift the sands of time
That I might find the roots that made
This family tree of mine
Lord, help me trace the ancient roads,
On which my father's trod
And led them through so many lands
To find our present sod.
Lord, help me find an ancient book
Or dusty manuscript,
In some forgotten crypt
Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts
My soul, when I can't find
The missing link between some name
That ends the same as mine
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