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Thursday 30th November 2017 - Number 2968

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Dear Ancestor,-
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone
The names and dates are chiselled out on polished marble stone
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 cells of you, in flesh, in blood, in bone.
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, and come to visit you. 


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SURNAMES IN MY TREE INCLUDE LAWS & LAWES, HARDING ELL ROWELL FULLER LOTHERINGTON BRANT MOONEY 

AT THE

LAWS FAMILY REGISTER 

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(MAYBE WE ALREADY HAVE)

   EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE

BUT PLEASE NOTE
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If you are interested in anyone listed here, email us with the name, date and reference number, and we will happily do a look up, you might even get a whole tree! 

We will be happy to publish within this blog Your stories of your LAWS research and also members of the LAWS and LAWES family you are searching for. 

We will be happy to help with you with your LAWS/LAWES research, and in certain instances we may be willing to undertake private research on your behalf.


The content provided on this site is not guaranteed to be error free - It is always advised that you consult original records.

 Contact me via email at registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk 

Family Events from our database for today 30th November



Family Event

BIRTHS baptisms etc

1754 - Birth: Elizabeth LAWS-13852, Feltwell Norfolk England
1800 - Christen: James LAWES-25012, Stepney Middlesex England



1806 - Birth: Leah LAWES-592, St Marylebone Middlesex England
1809 - Birth: Thomas LAWES-941, Fincham Norfolk England



1851 - Baptism: Michael Grahame LAWS (Horologist) -4708, Camden Town Middlesex                         England
1876 - Birth: Jenny A LAWS-41473, 
1877 - Birth: Caroline LAWS (Cook) -44508, 
1878 - Birth: Gertrude Beatrice LAWES-40956, Deritend, Aston Warwickshire England
1909 - Birth: Bessie Mae LAWS-41757, 


MARRIAGES

1850 - Marriage: George  LAWS (Railway Locomotive  Driver)-5694 and Mary MANGER-                   24168, Gateshead Durham England

DEATHS burials etc

1855 - Death: Percy Smith LAWS (Gentleman / Butcher) -7414, Ovingham Northumberland                 England
1760 - Burial: Catherine LAWES-9619, St.Helen Bishopsgate Middlesex England, 
            In Ye left hand churchyard
1882 - Burial: Henry LAWS  (Shoemaker) -5914, Litcham Norfolk England
1902 - Death: Thomas Alfred LAWS (Boot & shoe repairer) -7915, Hainford Norfolk England
1915 - Burial: Walter Henry LAWS (L/Cpl with the 7th BTN Rifle Brigade, 
           (Prince Consorts Own) -9535, West-Vlaanderen BELGIUM
1927 - Death: Mary Jane Heath LAWS-8219, Bruntsfield East Lothian SCOTLAND
1930 - Death: Ellen LAWS (Spinster) -7319, Hornchurch Essex England
1931 - Death: Mayme LAWS-25269, Gary, Lake IN United States
1939 - Death: Cyril Edward LAWS (Bank & Stock Exchange Doorkeeper) -16131, Enfield                     Middlesex England
1965 - Death: Katherine Joane LAWES-39653, Hastings Sussex England
1984 - Burial: Bodet LAWS (SGT US Air Force) -16655, Memphis National Cemetery, TN
1998 - Death: Walter D LAWS-20539, 
2001 - Death: Janat LAWS-19736, St George UT (Newspaper - AR The Specrum)
2004 - Death: Donna Margaret LAWS-18364, Vancover BC CANADA
2013 - Death: Paul LAWS (Railroad Employee) -12481, Ashville NC United States but resided               at Green Mountain NC United States


MISC

1949 - Occupation: Douglas Reginald LAWS (Merchant Seaman) -37043, 

OTHER BIRTHS

1719 - Birth: Augusta SAXE-GOTHA-22597, Gothenburg SWEEDEN
1895 - Birth: Laura E PAGE-41969, 
1900 - Birth: Irene Isabel CARBIS-12563, Sydney NSW AUSTRALIA

OTHER MARRIAGES



OTHER DEATHS & Burial

1863 - Death: Mary PEEL-21804, Caldbeck Cumberland England
1936 - Death: William Louis Conrad NAVIER-43383, Reading Berkshire England
1936 - Death: Lucy Ann BUSHELL-30614, Ryde Isle of Wight England
1940 - Death: Florence GOODYEAR-28683, Montrose ANS England
1940 - Death: Maud H HENARIE-19278, Marin CA

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A CHILD OF THE 1920's
AS SEEN FROM THE 1990's
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008


Part 11

EDUCATION
In those days one paid fees for attendance at grammar schools though these could be waived if a family income was a bit tight. At fifteen guineas a term, or was it a year, it seems chicken feed now but for many the amount was a big lump to find. School uniform was obligatory of course and included caps for boys and hats for girls – to hide their pretty curls.

Minchenden was, like the elementary school, one of the schools which were co-educational probably about half and half, and one soon found out that boys and girls were pretty equal at academic subjects and that some of the girls tended to work harder, There was a theory that boys worked harder in separate schools without the girls to distract them, but I doubt the truth of it, indeed it seems possible that the boys in the boys only schools had to put more time and effort into finding and meeting girls instead of working.

We were in general, fortunate with the school staff, a mix of types and personalities like any group, but as competent as any and better than a lot. They too must have been influenced by the pleasant working conditions and relaxed but disciplined mood of the unit. It was small by present day standards, some four hundred pupils, quite enough to my mind even if it can be done more cheaply with twice as many. 

G.B.S’s comments about doing and teaching are very true so often, but we had both, Art and Music teachers about whom the reverse was true. - They could do but not teach. It must have been frustrating in the extreme for them. The rest of the staff must have had their frustrations too with the need to produce exam results from pupils with their normal share of laziness and only interested in only a few subjects. However produce results they did, by dint of much note scribbling and even the unorthodox use of a French text of the New Testament for religious instruction.

Not all the education was in the classroom, there were occasional outside visits, two very contrasting ones spring to mind. The first to the Roman remains of Verulanium at St.Albans and the other to the Ford Car factory a Dagenham. I think I was more impressed with the factory where it seemed to me that they made everything except the tyres, perhaps there was not a lot of sub-contracting then. The molten metal being poured into sand moulds for the cylinder blocks was a wonderful bit of knowhow even if its roots went back as far as Verulanium.

Although education was fairly broad it became exam orientated as the time went by. The General Schools Certificate with Matriculation exemption was the objective for most of us and there was plenty of homework to be done in the evenings and holidays. I fear we skimped on a lot of it. Only a few went to University in those days but the Matric served as an exemption from the preliminary exams of a number of professional bodies as well as being needed before doing the Inter for University entrance.

There were other activities outside school hours and one of my interests was the Astronomical Society. Under the guidance apparently of the woodwork master a good observatory with a revolving dome was built by the boys and was equipped with an excellent five inch refracting telescope which had at one time belonged to King George V. 

How it came to us I have no idea, there must have been some sort of tie up between one of the science masters and the powers that be who arranged it well in advance as the observatory was built to fit it. 

Apart from the idle curiosity of looking at the moon and planets, a good deal of useful work was keeping records of sunspots movements and timings of occultation of stars by the moon. We visited the Greenwich Observatory which was still one of the great observatories of the world although beginning to be out-classed by the hundred inch reflector at Mount Wilson in the United States. The big two hundred reflectors and the radio telescopes were not even on the drawing board.


There was at that time, already speculation about the possibility of space travel and my friend Stan Law and I gave a lecture to our group about it, all carefully mugged up from a book of course. I doubt whether at that time we believed a word of it. We were kindred spirits with common interests in mathematics and woodwork. The maths did not get that far as the ‘mathematics’ – more advanced, which a few of us did as an extra subject for Matric, was only on the fringes. The woodwork turned out more useful and the final exams we spent all our time in the woodwork room making equipment for the physics lab.

The large playing field had room for several football and hockey pitches or for cricket in summer as well as grass tennis courts. Sport was encouraged and every Saturday morning there were a big turnout of teams to compete with other schools. 

I was no good at football and played in the fifth eleven which regularly lost by astronomical scores. Cricket was a little better and I reached the second eleven without any great success.

The one sport that interested me was swimming. Having learnt to swim at elementary school, I continued to enjoy it and as the years went by more and more public pools opened up. The first one I used was the old indoor pool at Wood Green. 

I do not know when this one was opened buy my mum & dad had used it before my time. I first used it before I could swim properly and I was so small that the water in the shallow end came up to my chin. Being an indoor pool it was heated. The only other indoor heated pool I came across was somewhere in Tottenham, where I went and swam in a inter school gala, the details of which escape me. 

The first of the ‘new’ open air pools was the Hornsey pool situated between Crouch end and ‘Ally Pally’. It was fine in the summer sunshine and Harry and I used it a few times before we moved away from Wightman Road. After that we cycled out at weekends to the new pool at Enfield which was more spacious, after swimming we cycled back more slowly with protesting muscles.

Having moved to Southgate, most of my swimming was done in the open air pool at Barrowell Green. This was an old pool and a little cramped but I spent many happy hours there (instead of doing my homework). The pool was supposed to get a bit of heat from the dust destructor furnace next door but this must have been minimal as the temperature in the early part of the season was often 60-61F, 

All our school swimming was at this pool and we could get cheap tickets at school (one old penny) for use out of school hours. Unless it was raining, when you could have the pool almost to yourself, there was always a crowd of school friends there, sunning, swimming, fooling and flirting. 

It was a sign of the changing times in the thirties that while this old pool had no car park, just a cramped bicycle area, the new pool at Enfield had a large car park. The latest pool completed in my schooldays was at New Southgate in Durnsford Road. This was the only one I knew with full height high diving boards. This kept the pool noticeably colder than the others and it did not become popular except in very hot weather

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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,
That's safely hidden now away
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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