Monday 27th August 2018 - Number 3228

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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

IN THE BEGINNING

Part 5.

Perhaps the most valuable thing 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 in 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 in 1912, 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 it 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.

To be continued tomorrow

EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 27th AUGUST

BIRTHS 

1810 - Birth: Edward LAWS-24232, Whickham Durham England

1830 - Birth: Thomas Brignell  LAWS-7994, (Secretary Copper Mining Company) 
Pimlico Middlesex England

1865 - Baptism: Alice Louisa LAWS-3434, (Barmaid) Horstead Norfolk England

1872 - Birth: William Stephen LAWES-38051, (Hostler) Andover Hampshire England

1876 - Birth: Edward Lucian LAWS-2861, (Army Officer) Tenby Pembrokeshire Wales
(Often called Little England beyond Wales)

1880 - Birth: John William LAWS-3800,  (Coppersmith's Labourer) Roos East Yorkshire England

1883 - Birth: James William LAWS-15232, (ARMY Private 6266)  Isleham Cambridgeshire England

1891 - Birth: Holman LAWS-22534, 

1893 - Birth: William Henry LAWES-39086, (Railway Permanent Way Ganger, on Great Western Railway)
  
1897 - Birth: Harold Victor LAWS-15949, (Senior Staff Officer Inland Revenue)  Bedford Bedfordshire England

1899 - Birth: Frederick L LAWS-43657,(Milk Roundsman)  

1906 - Birth: Herbert Ernest LAWS-33847, Willesden Middlesex England

1909 - Birth: Winifred Agnes LAWS-4841, Orsett Essex England

MARRIAGES

1655 - Marriage: Thomas HARPER-1848 and Elizabeth LAWES-1847, Norwich Norfolk England

1805 - Marriage: Jerimiah LAWS-30311 and Susannah BAILEY-23035, Mercer County Kentucky United States

1843 - Marriage: William AKEHURST-28100 and Kate LAWS-28101, 

1886 - Marriage: James LAWES-49562 (Merchant Seaman) and Catherine CLARK-48967, Newington Surrey England

1851 - Marriage: Charles William LAWS-32062 (Merchants Clerk/Ship Agent) and Caroline Elizabeth Kett PUNCHER-32063, Stepney Middlesex England

1906 - Marriage: Charles Henry James LAWES -37348 (Motor Engineer)  and Harriett Sarah STEPHENS-37349, West Ham Essex England

1936 - Marriage: Lyle Jackson LAWS-26417 and Loretta Edith BRIGHT-26418, 

DEATHS

1900 - Death: John Joseph LAWS-6506, (Head Teacher Of Elementary School)  Portsmouth Hampshire England

1929 - Death: Margaret Jane LAWS-7311, (Spinster) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland 
England

1940 - Death: Treen Hunt LAWES-3170 (Cab Driver & Furniture Dealer) Isleworth Middlesex England

1948 - Burial: Mary LAWS-12051, Falkner Green Memorial Park, Victoria Australia

1953 - Burial: James Horace LAWS-12049, Falkner Green Memorial Park, Victoria Australia

1974 - Death: Arthur James Thomas  LAWS-32492, (Shop porter)Cheshunt Hertfordshire England

1982 - Burial: Catherine V LAWS-16616, Long Island New York United States

1985 - Death: Kevin Lee LAWS-17089, 

1996 - Death: Ellen LAWES-14534, 

2007 - Burial: David Thomas LAWS-41717, Centertown, Cole Missouri United States

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

MISCELLANEOUS

1923 - Residence: Rose LAWS-22946, (African Servant) Cinderford Gloucestershire England

1940 - Residence: Treen Hunt LAWES-3170, (Cab Driver & Furniture Dealer) Margate Kent England

OTHER BIRTHS

1837 - Baptism: Louisa SEXTON-3429, Horstead Norfolk England

1851 - Birth: Cyrus S SITES-12272, (Carpenter)  Rouzerville Pennsylvania United States

1866 - Birth: Walter BLANCHARD-26681, (Sanitary Labourer) Immingham Lincolnshire England

1898 - Birth: Jeanette COOPER-22654, Chesterfield Derbyshire England

1904 - Birth: Marjorie THOMPSON-37823, 

1908 - Birth: Queenie May MATTHEWS-38861, 

1911 - Birth: Doris N JEWKES-49504, 

1918 - Birth: Lura Dell ROGERS-46927, Fines Creek, Haywood County North Carolina United States

OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1882 - Burial: Honor or Anna or Hannah ANDREWS-7130,  (Farm Servant) Waverley New South Wales Australia

2008 - Death: Hilda CLEGG-36038, 

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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