Sunday 26th August 2018 - Number 3227

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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 4.

The scullery next to the kitchen saved the yellowish shallow sink and the black iron gas cooker with its brass taps from spoiling the kitchen. It was definitely a workplace. The built-in copper had a fire below it to boil the wash. The mangle was enormous with big wooden rollers to get the water out before and after rinsing. The corrugated washboard had not yet been passed on to the skiffle group. Clothing must have been tough to withstand the battering. It all had to be ironed of course which was done on the kitchen table on the ironing cloth conveniently kept in its end drawer.

Two heavy flat-irons were used one in use while the other was reheated on the gas cooker. No thermostats on these, a drop of spit on the finger applied to the hot iron would tell whether the sizzle was about right.

The one convenience, so to speak, about the scullery was the downstairs loo was entered from it. At that time they were normally out in the garden waiting for the first hard frost to put them out of action. Indeed so were most of those of the houses built in the larger building boom of the early thirties.

There was one other work area, the coal cellar, prohibited to the infant population. This too was better than the thirties houses which had coal bunkers in the garden from which the fuel must be fetched come rain snow or shine. The descent to the cellar through a door in the hall passage was steep to go down and perhaps steeper to climb up laden with a bucket of coal, so some may dispute my feeling that it was better than going out in the rain.

The coal came into the cellar through the coal hole in the top front step which was recessed into the house to give a small porch with the iron cover of the coal hole in the centre. Four of five sandstone steps led up from street level and the coalman would carry his enormous sack up and upend it over the hole. Needless to say, this spoiled the pristine cleanliness of the whitened step and was not a popular event.

Personally, I liked to see the patient carthorse observing the proceedings while digging into his nosebag and enjoying the enforced rest. Having delivered his orders, the coalman would patrol the streets calling 'Coal' at intervals in the hope of casual customers. Much the same perhaps as the 'butane' delivering gas in today's Spain, though he needs no call, the clatter of his lorry enough to rouse the customers. As well as the coal store there was plenty of space in the cellar with a sort of second room into which a feeble light filtered by a small window below the 'front room' bay. I remember it as a junk store but maybe it was just things one couldn't throw away.

To be continued tomorrow

EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 26th AUGUST

BIRTHS 

1742 - Baptism: William LAWES-20338, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England

1798 - Baptism: Edward LAWS-20168, Gateshead Durham England

1817 - Baptism: Louisa LAWES-31988, Andover Hampshire England

1850 - Birth: John William Horton LAWS-4315, (Bricklayer) Cheriton Kent England

1884 - Birth: John William LAWS-24403, (Carpenter & Joiner at Hospital - RN F5314 & RAF 205134)  Brixton Surrey England

MARRIAGES
1713 - Marriage: Henry LAWES-12794 and Elizabeth SYMONDS-12795, Norwich Norfolk England

1821 - Marriage: James BECKHAM-11798 (Widower)  and Sarah LAWS-11799,  (Widow) Norwich Norfolk England

1849 - Marriage: William LOVELL-3633 and Jane Ann LAWS-6987, Portsmouth Hampshire England

1868 - Marriage: Thomas Cresswell LAWS-8307 (Master Mariner & Steamship Agent)  and Hannah HARTLEY-38165, Stockton-On-Tees Durham England

1881 - Marriage: Charles Adolphus MANGUM-11225 and Delia Ann LAWS-11215, Orange County North Carolina United States

1946 - Marriage: Harry Ford LAWS-13617 (I) and Clare ARENDALE-13620, Sturgis, St Joseph, Michigan United States

DEATHS

1835 - Burial: Henry LAWS-45792, Stepney Middlesex England

1877 - Death: Amy Delila LAWS-22526, Union County Illinois United States

1889 - Death: William LAWS-7500,  (Fancy Draper) Hounslow Middlesex England

1894 - Birth: William Mckinley LAWS-29448, Madison County Kentucky United States

1901 - Birth: Henry George LAWES-39124,  (Breakdown Fitter on Buses) 

1904 - Birth: Rose LAWS-28384, (Laundry Worker) Wandsworth Surrey England

1908 - Birth: Gladys Margaret LAWS-47900, (Elementary School Teacher)

1913 - Birth: Cecil Arthur Edward LAWS-14550, Molong New South Wales Australia

1916 - Birth: William H LAWES-48547, (General Labourer & RAF)  

1916 - Death: Mary LAWS-24901, (Widow)  Kidder, Caldwell County Missouri United States

1922 - Death: Frederick Sydney LAWES-46697, 


1960 - Death: Robert Frederick LAWS-43465, (Farmer) Keppel, Capriconia Queensland Australia

1960 - Death: Florence E LAWS-21699, Botany Bay New South Wales Australia

1985 - Burial: Barbara LAWS-36978, San Mateo California United States

2005 - Death: Howard Sterling LAWS-11298, 

MISCELLANEOUS

1858 - Occupation: Francis LAWS-27173, (Steward on Ship) 

OTHER BIRTHS
1809 - Baptism: Michael Harrison BIRD-7099, (Seaman)  Hull East Yorkshire England

1811 - Baptism: William LUSH-23724, (Thatcher) Bower Chalke Wiltshire England

1838 - Baptism: Elizabeth CHARTERS-6650, Aspatria Cumberland England

1867 - Birth: Mary Anne CLEGG-7104,  (Cotton Winder) Kirkcudbright Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland

1907 - Birth: Kathleen WINTERBORN-39139, Greenwich Kent England

OTHER MARRIAGES 

1838 - Marriage: Robert BRANT-20836  (Labourer)  and Jane GLOVER-20837, Boston Lincolnshire England

OTHER DEATHS

1908 - Birth: Leslie Norris WALKER-9789, Yeadon West Yorkshire England

1942 - Death: Hermione Octavia C SCHENLEY-30879, 

1942 - Death: Hannah MASON-3993, Seaham Durham 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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