Friday 31st August 2018 - Number 3232

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Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone, 

The names and dates are chiseled 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 not entirely 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. 

Dear Reader, we are happy to work on your 

LAWS FAMILY TREE

(maybe we already have)

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Starting today

A child of the 1920's as seen from the 1990's

by

My late father, John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 10.

PEOPLE Part 1.

Part 9

 It is odd to have no memory of a butcher delivering at that time, perhaps my mother preferred to select our meat in the shop. There were certainly butchers boys to be seen on their delivery bicycles with a basket on the front, whistling their way around the streets. Later, in the thirties, we had a butcher who would call early and then would come back with the meat in time for lunch. Going by the name of Sam Collins he was a big beefy fellow with a perpetual grin who was everybody’s friend.

There were street traders in the twenties as throughout the ages. A muffin man came along the street at weekends ringing his handball with a cloth covering a tray of muffins and crumpets on his head.

From time to time a knife grinder would come along with a grinding wheel attached to the front of his bicycle and worked in some mysterious way from the pedals. He called as he came, offering his services and out would come the women with their carvers and kitchen knives to sharpen. Most doorsteps were sandstone anyway so there were plenty who managed well without him.

In the High Street there were those who offered oddments from doorways, matches and lemons spring to mind. Along the gutters the sandwich board men, walked, enclosed in their advertising matter, or calls to repentance, sometimes singly sometimes in threes or fours in a straggling crocodile.

Occasionally there was an organ grinder on the corner of a side street, winding his handle and his mechanical music would add to the general street noise. There is an impression of noisiness in the High Street. Apart from the street traders there were trams clattering on their steel rails, horses were iron shod and so were the wheels of most of the carts. Lorries vans and cars were less well silenced and there was even the occasional Steam traction engine. However there were no motor scooters and the few motorbikes did not roar around.    

One faint memory of Green Lanes is of the buses with their cabs shrouded in wire netting to protect the volunteer drivers during the National Strike of 1926.

What a good job there were no television cameras to encourage the attackers.     

To be continued tomorrow

EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 31st AUGUST

(Please note spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1794 - Christen: Charles LAWS-7643, Norwich Norfolk England

1801 - Birth: Sarah LAWS-29150, Shoreditch Middlesex England

1806 - Baptism: George Thomas LAWS-6856, Gosport Hampshire England

1831 - Birth: Charley LAWS-20634, 

1833 - Baptism: Flora Ellen LAWS-5673, East Holme Dorset England

1864 - Birth: Emma LAWES-48382, 

1876 - Birth: John Henry V LAWS-5519, (Farmer) Haveringland Norfolk England

1896 - Birth: Richard James LAWS-31851, (Labourer)  Poplar Middlesex England

1897 - Birth: Walter Charles LAWES-38469, 

1907 - Birth: Sydney A LAWES-48285,  (Publisher Bill Poster) 

1914 - Birth: Hilton LAWS-45012, (Marine Engine Fitter)  

1916 - Birth: Arthur LAWS-43617 (Invalid Unfit For Work)  

1916 - Birth: Jas Lenard LAWS-39910, Concord North Carolina United States

1916 - Birth: Arthur William LAWS-37984, 

1920 - Birth: Stuart Arthur LAWS-3202, 

MARRIAGES

1701 - Marriage: Thomas, COX-1387 and Alice LAWES-1388, Norwich Norfolk England

1811 - Marriage: Matthew LAWS-13697 and Ann WANDLASS-13698, Tanfield Durham England

1838 - Marriage: Alfred LAWS-40777 and Eliza SMITH-40776, Great Yeldham Essex England

1862 - Marriage: James NEWMAN-47318 and Margaret LAWS-47316, Halstead, Essex, England

1863 - Marriage: William HARBOTTLE-40465 and Dorothy LAWS-15102, Morpeth Northumberland England

1870 - Marriage: George LAWS-3915  (Gardener) and Jane Elizabeth (Jennie) INGRAM-3916, Clapham Surrey England

1889 - Marriage: Samuel James LAWS-7422 (Grocers Porter, House Painter / Inmate)  and Lucy TUCKER-36322, Derby Derbyshire England

1889 - Marriage: Thomas HARDIE-29051 (Coal Miner) and Sarah J LAWS-3563, Bedlington Northumberland England

1896 - Marriage: Ernest Platten LAWS-34716 (Police Constable)  and Ruth IMPEY-34717, 

1912 - Marriage: Ernest Benjamin LAWS-15523 (Stockbrokers Clerk) and Lillian Eileen CASS-35154, Hornsey Middlesex England

1912 - Marriage: George William LAWS-24804 (Mustard Manufacturer's Manager) and Kate Ryland HUGGINS-24805, Southwark Surrey England

1929 - Marriage: Frederick John LAWES-37294 and Rosina WOODS-40434, Whitchurch Winterbourne Dorset England

1932 - Marriage: Stephen LOCKEY-35640 (Consultant/ Production Engineer) and Hannah Norah LAWS-35639, South Shields, Durham, England

1934 - Marriage: Benjamin Albert PALMER-25564 and Wanda HURST-25563, Salt Lake City Utah United States

DEATHS

1864 - Death: George LAWES-1963 (Pawnbroker) Southwark Surrey England

1894 - Death: Ellen LAWS-8239, (Widow) Walworth Surrey England

1900 - Death: John Bennett LAWES-219, Harpenden Hertfordshire England

1906 - Death: Robert LAWES-30293, (Foreman Shoemaker) Frome Somerset England

1910 - Death: Agnes Isabella LAWS-3912, Stepney Middlesex England

1918 - Burial: Charles LAWS-3183, (Farmer) Shepparton Victoria Australia

1939 - Death: Edith Gertrude LAWS-14850, (Spinster living on own means)  Redhill Surrey England

1949 - Death: Frances Jane LAWS-39069, (Widow) Whitley Bay Northumberland England

1958 - Death: Lucy Ann Wiles LAWS-42117, 

1969 - Death: Sylvia LAWS-17326, Aldham Essex England

1982 - Death: Robert John LAWS-16542, 

1984 - Death: Maud Myrtle LAWES-22583, Fremont, Dodge County Nebraska United States

2013 - Cremation: Robert William LAWES-495, (Stock Controller) Tauranga New Zealand

MISCELLANEOUS

1922 - Residence: Lucille LAWS-22943, New York City New York United States

1944 - Military: Peter Malcolm LAWS-17381, (Army Lieutenant) Military Cross

1961 - Residence: Reginald William LAWS-3890,(Builders Labourer) Porchester Hampshire England

1961 - Residence: Thomas A LAWS-3890, (Railway Clearing House Clerk) x Potterne, Devizes Wiltshire England

OTHER BIRTHS

1815 - Birth: Sophia COWARD-24617, North Baddesly Hampshire England

1837 - Baptism: William BELL-24081, (Warehouseman) Heworth Durham England

1869 - Birth: Fanny Ellen JUDD 20280, Winterbourne Wiltshire England

1885 - Birth: Elizabeth HART-44138, 

1918 - Birth: Doris MILLER-29065, Wallsend Northumberland England

1919 - Birth: Eveline BALL-36340, (Pottery Decorator)  Stoke on Trent Staffordshire England

OTHER MARRIAGES 

1905 - Marriage: William John BALDWIN-10747 (House decorator) and Edith Sarah SMITH-10745, Brighton Sussex England

OTHER DEATHS

1861 - Death: Thomas CHRISTMAS-3390, (Master Mariner) Mile End Middlesex England

1867 - Death: William August HOWE-7015, (Cooper) Poplar Middlesex England

1881 - Burial: Henry HERCOCK-45452, (Cordwainer & Baptist Minister)  Leeds West Yorkshire England

1909 - Death: Ambrose PAGE-41422, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1950 - Burial: Walter BLANCHARD-26681, (Sanitary Labourer)  Great Grimsby Lincolnshire England

1951 - Burial: Catherine Anne KENNEDY-41577, Glendale, Los Angeles County California United States 

1961 - Death: Florence L HURST-11939, (Widow) Cosham Hampshire England

but resided: Porchester Hampshire England

1977 - Burial: Mary Ann Frances STEEL-21330, Chadwell Heath Essex England

Did you find anyone? whether it's yes or no, we'd still love to hear from you, we've got  48,276 records, Mail us at

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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 our fathers trod.

Which led them through so many lands, to find our present sod.

that missing link between some name that ends the same as mine

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,

that missing link between some name, that ends the same as mine.

Sharon Nicola LAWS

2008 Olympics Cyclist

Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 

1974-2017

R I P

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