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Sunday 3rd December 2017 - Number 2971

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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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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! 

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Family Events from our database for today 3rd December



Family Event

BIRTHS baptisms etc

1826 - Christen: Hannah LAWS-2922, Welches Dam Cambridgeshire England



1827 - Birth: Minerva Ann LAWS-13828, TN United States
1848 - Baptism: Hugh Willoughby LAWS-34556, Chollerton Northumberland England
1863 - Birth: Charles Frederick LAWS (Master Mariner 13605) -7506, St Pancras Middlesex                  England
1887 - Birth: Ruby Millicent LAWS (Shopkeeper Glass And Paints) -36514, South Shields 
           Durham England
1895 - Birth: Beatrice Maud LAWS-25350, Laidley QLD AUSTRALIA
1906 - Birth: Harry Pearson  (Expanded Metal Sniper) LAWS-41012, West Hartlepool Durham England
1909 - Birth: Lily May LAWS-21702, Marickville Road, Dulwich Hill, NSW Australia
1910 - Birth: Henry Arthur LAWES (Milkman) -20055, St Marylebone Middlesex England
1912 - Birth: Ernest E LAWS (Van SALESMAN)-42339, 

MARRIAGES

1924 - Marriage: Alton Brooks LAWS-11267 and Alfie Agnes JOHNSON-11268, Mendoza,                    Caldwell, Texas United States
1928 - Marriage: Richard Arthur LAWS (Clerk for Merchant) -7972 and 
            Agnes Wilson SINCLAIR-17994, Rabaul, New Guinea

DEATHS burials etc

1847 - Death: Cuthbert LAWS-34637, Ovingham Northumberland Englan
1850 - Death: Margaret Peggy LAWS-38654, Dickson TN United States
1902 - Burial: William John Henry LAWS (Less than 1 yr old) -28124, Stockton-On-Tees                       Durham England
1917 - Death: Walter James LAWS (Builders Labourer) -7673, 

1918 - Death: Gilbert Umfreville LAWS (Lt RNVR Naval Architect) -5020, Newchurch IOW                 England but resided at Burnham on Crouch Essex England
1919 - Death: G V LAWS (RNVR Lieutenant) -22276, HMS "Catania"
1920 - Death: S LAWS (Baghdad Railway wagon Foreman) -45848, Baghdad IRAQ
1932 - Death: Nathan Peter LAWS-35783, Beaver Creek, Wilkes County NC United States
1932 - Death: Robert Montgomery LAWS (2nd) (Accounts Clerk FSIA) -10515, 
           Luton Bedfordshire England
1933 - Death: Henry Walter LAWS-37302, Dubbo NSW AUSTRALIA
            buried at Coonabarabran, NSW, AUSTRALIA         
1938 - Death: George Hamilton LAWES (Brass Moulder) -648, Armley West Yorkshire                           England
1945 - Death: Thomas LAWES (General Labourer) -20941, Ryde Isle of Wight England
1979 - Death: Laura Maud LAWS-23002, Plymouth, Washington Co NC United States
1981 - Death: Nora LAWS-13389, Vancover BC CANADA
1983 - Death: Darren Ernest LAWS-42998, Bristol Gloucestershire England
1984 - Death: Edward M LAWS-19782, McCraken Co KY United States
1986 - Death: Jeffrey Livingston LAWES-11822,
1992 - Burial: Robbie Dae LAWS (Sgt US Army) -20456, Fort Smith AR United States
1993 - Death: Clarence Debs LAWS-23010, Coleman, Coleman Co Texas United States
2003 - Death: Norman Alvin LAWS-13465, Wilkesboro Blvd, Lenoir NC United States

MISC


OTHER BIRTHS

1852 - Birth: Mary Ann CRAVENS-27788, Williamson Co., Illinois United States1919 - Birth: William Herbert Kentway DRINKALD-29563, Sunderland Durham England




OTHER MARRIAGES

1903 - Marriage: Joseph Bird CLEGG (Hairdresser) -7113 and Agnes OUSEY-28096, 
           Ashton under Lyme Lancashire England



OTHER DEATHS & Burial

1720 - Death: Alice GRENOE-11969, 
1833 - Death: James MCMINN-12428, Milnburn Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland
1926 - Death: Fanny Rose BAWCUTT-5021, Maldon Essex England
1950 - Death: Ernest AYERS-10727, Huntingdon Huntingdonshire England
1987 - Death: Vicenzo Benito SANNASARDO-34499, Villafrati, Palermo Sicilia ITALY
1992 - Death: Horace Edward COUCHMAN-36372, Colchester Essex England
2005 - Death: Violet Ivy ROSE-21889, Kings Lynn Norfolk England



2007 - Death: Peggy BUTLER-32684, Lincolnton AL United States

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


The attraction of boats also ruled one of our regular outings during the holiday. We always went at least once to Brightlingsea, a slightly scruffy town famous only for boat yards and shrimp teas. It has always been an ocean racing centre but was not particularly prosperous in those days, there were wonderful boats on offer, at giveaway prices. We didn’t buy one. 

We just walked in the sun and looked, ate our shrimp tea and perhaps an ice cream, then trundled back to Walton. At Dedham however, another regular outing we could get a rowing boat on the Stour and glide through Constable’s countryside between the pollarded willows in the soft June sunshine. This was I fear, my father’s holiday, again just he and I went boating but then we were off in the car to Flatford for a strawberry tea amongst the wasps beside the bridge. It is all still there but somehow the rural peace is not the same since everyone spouted wheels.

All the countryside was more rural as a much smaller number of townsfolk invaded it every weekend. All the corn was cut with a reaper-binder of course and stood up in stooks in the field.
Until it was cut East Anglia was a mass of red poppies, more beloved by the holidaymaker than the farmer. Farming had been depressed for some years and old cottages were being condemned as unfit for human habitation. It is sad to think it is only the war which brought back a sort of prosperity or at least a brief understanding of the need to grow our own food which now seems to be fading away again.

The thought of the corn takes me back to another little holiday I spent in the countryside. In truth mum and dad wanted a holiday on their own and Lottie took Mary and me for a week to her parents’ cottage in Bocking which really was rural. The water came from a long handled pump outside the back door and the loo was by the wash house in the garden. 

It was late summer but any need for light was met by oil lamps and candles. Little did I know that these were the normal facilities for most of rural England, and that for many places they would stay unchanged for another thirty years.
It was harvest time  and the horse drawn reaper-binder went round and round the field throwing out sheaves and driving the ever present rabbits into the centre until they made a run for it  and someone got rabbit pie for dinner. 

Wages were meagre, but food was important, there was rhubarb under the apple tree and more cabbages than roses in the garden. There were plums in the garden too and home-made wine in the kitchen cupboard set into the wall alongside the black kitchen range.

There were no pavements through the village. There was after all virtually no traffic A few yards along the road on the other side from the cottage a path led down to the lazy river with its carpet of water lilies raising their bright yellow flowers above the dark green leaves, A few cows grazed the meadow beside the river avoiding the buttercups and leaving their squelchy traps for the unwary walker behind them. I didn’t wonder then, what it was like there in the winter time.

Another little holiday that was different turned up when my Uncle Albert and Aunt Louise were home on leave, and were going to spend a little while in a cottage in Cornwall. Their son Frank was a little younger than me, and I was invited to come along so that we could spend some time together. 

It was the only long train journey I had taken as a small boy, about ten years old I think, although the steam trains were always rushing past the bottom of our garden at home, I was unimpressed by the train journey. Once it had chugged out of Paddington the countryside rushed by, very different  from travelling in the car. Leaving our smoke and smuts behind us we dashed on through green fields until we came to the red soil of Devon,  with its sheep  smeared with the colour, then into the less lush Cornwall. 

The cottage was at Crantock on the north coast but not the bleak and barren part. It was tiny and ancient, just a few stone and thatch cottages and a church, but the memory of it is of the peace of the village and the emptiness of the beach where we were able to swipe a golf ball along without fear of hitting someone.
My uncle was reputed to be keen on photography and certainly had an enormous quarter plate camera which no doubt was capable of taking excellent photographs he must have need a pantechnicon to carry it around.
He was the up-market brother , whereas my dad was the up-to-date brother and had a little folding roll film camera just for holiday snaps.         

Before the building boom Southgate was largely an area of large mansions set in their own parks among farmland with a village of cottages and small shops where the new Underground station was now inserted.

                                           Southgate Underground Station

It has been well documented  by local historians and was in the final stages of suburbanisation when we moved there. I has scarcely know the area before moving there, but on at least one occasion had investigated the blackberries growing in the hedges of Osidge Lane at the bottom of which Pymmes brook was still a little stream edged with overgrown hawthorn.
There was a little farm in a small gentle valley opposite our new house, but within months the farm had become a large housing estate and, passing through the stages of a sea of mud became quite a pleasant suburban area.
A house got put up about one every three weeks with very little mechanical assistance, those houses were sold for about five or six hundred pounds, not cheap. A new house could be bought for a little as three hundred and seventy five pounds all around London.

Most houses were being built without garages but ours was one of a small development of half a dozen with a garage built in. Builders had not yet really decided that, a garage was an integral part of a house, so there was no upper storey over it.

Our enterprising builder had even put a radiator in the garage and this, together with a radiator in the hall and a towel rail in the bathroom made up his attempt at central heating. It was too bad that his knowledge of gravity circulation was weak and the garage was a bit lower than the rest of the house, so that its radiator was below the level of the ‘Ideal’ boiler in the kitchen and remained for ever stone cold.

The kitchen in the new house was a real update on what had gone before. There was still a built in dresser for the china with upper grooved shelves to stand up the dinner plates but the top was enclosed by doors, albeit panted a darkish brown. The larder alongside it was deep, giving a lot of space difficult to access.

For the first time there was a Refrigerator, a monstrous thing on legs with a big round cooling coil on top, to collect the dust where you could see it. It was however finished in white enamel and built like a tank. The black iron gas cooker was left behind and the new one was finished in mottled green vitreous enamel, all very solid.
We still had a deep white stoneware sink with a wooden draining board. The kitchen was of course a lot smaller than before and the old deal table used up a lot of the space so that there was little room to eat there.
A breakfast room lay alongside to eat in and this arrangement was a bit of a curate’s egg, handy when you needed an extra room but not so handy at breakfast time.

We were about half a mile from the new underground railway station, our move to the new house had been held back until it was completed. A bus route with single-decker buses ran down the road as far as the Chase Side Tavern. The bus stopped within a few yards of us on its way back and it cost a penny for the ride up the easy slope half a mile to the station. I had to be very late and actually see the bus coming, before money could be wasted in this profligate way.

The shops in Southgate were at that time in course of changing over from village to suburbia, a change which had been made in nearby Palmers Green a generation earlier probably when the railway arrived. The new tube station had a few new shops built around it but the old ones survived just a little longer, a tiny sweetshop run by a tiny old lady on the corner of Chase Side opposite the ‘Bell’ Public House, and a barbers beside the Bell, where boys got their hair cut for three pence. Next to that going north along Chase Side, Lees Stores survived a long time although the first moves towards supermarkets showed themselves in shops where you had to go from one counter to another to get your various goods instead of shop assistant fetching it all from far of places and piling it on the counter in front of you, before asking whether you would like it delivered.
Next to Lee’s was the paper shop and then an ancient toy shop which didn’t last long. The bike, and perhaps motorbike, repair shop was a hundred yards further on , more a single storey brick shed with a shop front than anything, but it survived  some years standing well proud of the new parade of shops built beside it which was set well back from the road with a very wide pavement.
Opposite was Collins the butchers, a purveyor of choice meat, complete with a slaughterhouse in the rear. Here Sam and his dad presided with straw hats and blue and white aprons and would chop away on their big wooden block to produce the chump chop you wanted out of half a sheep. They too would deliver if you liked in a little brown van, well known in the Southgate streets. No doubt you paid for the service in the prices but you still could buy a nice pork chop for four pence.

There were two garages locally, petrol cost the equivalent of six or seven new pence a gallon and you could buy a brand new Austin Seven for one hundred and five pounds if you were lucky enough to scrape that much together. 

                                                                Austin 7


My dad got a Chrysler saloon in place of the old bull-nosed Morris but didn’t have it long as he was neither the first, or the last, to drive straight on at one of the right-angled Essex lanes. I didn’t ride in it much anyway as he had given me a new bike which I liked much better. After the demise of the Chrysler came, a much more sedate Hillman which I feel nobody loved very much.      

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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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