Saturday 25th August 2018 - Number 3226

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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 3.

The kitchen furnishings were plain and useful. A large deal table with an end drawer and covered with a tablecloth, one leg very tatty from being used as a scratching post by the cat. Bentwood chairs, comfortable enough but a little creaky, one an elbow chair the rest plain but with the usual pressed pattern on the seat. A built-in brown painted dresser with drawers and cupboards below and a slightly mixed collection of plates on edge on the shelves with the cups hanging from hooks on the front. Meals were usually taken in the kitchen except at weekends when lunch (called dinner) and tea were taken in the dining room. Fortunately, the kitchen was a good sized room and a child could run about and play on the floor with little impediment.

The cat which had used the table leg as a scratching post was known by the unlikely name of Ma. It appears that I christened it with the only word in my vocabulary at a very early age. It was an undistinguished tabby which would catch the occasional unwary mouse but would spend more time snoozing in front of the fire. It seemed that every house had mice at that time. Food was more accessible before fridges and freezers.

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 mantlepiece where the tea caddy (an ornamental tin), the candlesticks and the spill jar stood. The fireguard 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.

To be continued tomorrow

EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 25th AUGUST

BIRTHS 

1819 - Baptism: Henry LAWS-3932, Dover Kent England

1822 - Christen: Ann LAWES-1718, Folkestone Kent England

1845 - Baptism: William Mead LAWS-13606, (Master Builder & Carpenter) Ditchingham Norfolk England

1870 - Birth: Bernard Courtney LAWS-4553, (Naval Architect)  Portsmouth Hampshire England

1875 - Birth: Ethel Treen LAWS-3168, Margate Kent England

1887 - Birth: Bertie LAWES-40277, (Ag Lab) 
1888 - Birth: Stanley Richard LAWES-2376, Basingstoke Hampshire England

1890 - Birth: Anna Rosalind LAWS-19507, 

1910 - Baptism: Barbara May Muriel LAWES-22953,

MARRIAGES
1810 - Marriage: Charles LAWS-5050 and Ann FLOWERS-5051, Norwich Norfolk England

1867 - Marriage: William Thomas LAWS-17558 (Warehouseman)  and Eliza Agnes GARDNER-8377, Southwark Surrey England

1870 - Marriage: Walter Pennington CREYKE-16818 and Caroline LAWES-227, Harpenden Hertfordshire England

1877 - Marriage: Walter Ernest WOOLNOUGH-27923 and Caroline Anne Newitt LAWS-27922, North Aylesford Kent England

1901 - Marriage: Harry Freeman BUTTERWORTH-38885 and Eleanor Mary  LAWS-38884,(Drapers Assistant) Godstone Surrey England

1915 - Marriage: Robert Ed LAWS-37852 and Clara WILKIN-37854, Lambton County Ontario Canada

DEATHS

1914 - Death: James William LAWES-4869,  (General Foreman in Iron Works) Norwich Norfolk England

1918 - Death: W LAWES-22235, (ARMY Rifleman 50133) 

1925 - Death: John LAWS-8555, Norwich Norfolk England

1963 - Death: Lucy Rosanna LAWS-29319, ACT New South Wales Australia

1968 - Death: Queen Esther LAWS-26052, Houston, Harris County Texas United States

1972 - Death: Haskel Warren LAWS-36153, Johnson City, Washington Co Tennessee United States

1977 - Burial: Hubert  LAWS-16724, (Cpl US Marine Corps) Houston, Harris County,  Texas United States

1981 - Burial: Herbert William LAWS-25714, (Bricklayer retired)  Christchurch New Zealand

1982 - Death: Catherine V LAWS-16616, 

1983 - Death: Danny LAWS-41695, Bruceton Tennessee United States

1993 - Death: David Charles Allan LAWES-14528, 

2000 - Death: John Walter LAWS-35583, (Bar Steward)  Ipswich Suffolk England

2003 - Death: Violet Aurine LAWS-12192, (Southern Beauty Supply) Greenville South Carolina United States

2004 - Death: Shelby Jean LAWS-41751, 

2005 - Death: Gerald Francis LAWS-45238, Gering, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska United States

MISCELLANEOUS

1902 - Education: Victor Lorraine LAWS-30055, (Lorry Driver) Hackney Middlesex England

1909 - Residence: Charles Edward LAWS-22867, (Lithograph Artist) London Road, East Finchley Middlesex England

1987 - Divorce: Joseph James LAWS-43223 and Geneva Carolyn BURNETTE-43224, Virginia United States

OTHER BIRTHS
1841 - Birth: Jane CLEGG-25824, Dukinfield Cheshire England

1869 - Birth: Ellen CUTHILL-17487, Houghton le Spring Durham England

1891 - Birth: Kate MILLER-713, West Cowes Isle of Wight England

1896 - Birth: William J LADD-48608,  (Crate maker) 

1910 - Birth: Winifred Florence NEWMAN-48635,  (WaItress) 

OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1688 - Death: Captain Sir Henry MORGAN-2736, 

1805 - Death: Edward  Henry HANOVER-22605, Piccadilly, London England

1809 - Death: Fanny RILEY-900, Hampton Wick Middlesex England

1882 - Death: Honor or Anna or Hannah ANDREWS-7130, (Farm Servant) Surrey Hills New South Wales Australia

1885 - Death: James M SPRINGER-33326, Carroll Co Tennessee United States

1978 - Death: Cyrus MORGAN-12151, 

1979 - Death: Jane Willis RUSSELL-32799, Napier New Zealand

1991 - Death: Zela Agnes PACKARD-25129, Spitalfields Middlesex 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

 registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk

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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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