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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.
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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 8.
PEOPLE Part 1.
I do not think that there was as much obesity then as now, the ignorant did not have the means for it, and most of the prosperous were working too hard to get fat. Beer was however proportionately cheaper, and a few more men could be seen carrying the mark of it in their big bellies or red noses.
Until school age, there was not a lot of contact with adults outside the family. One saw the neighbours in their gardens from time to time, but it was not till a little later that a family came next door, with whom we became friendly. The Kemble’s had five offspring, five daughters, for starters the youngest in her late teens, and a son Harry, a bit older than myself with whom I became quite friendly. For some years we were regular cycling companions.
The tradesmen were the people who are impressed on my memory, delivery was the order of the day, despite shopping on an almost daily basis.
The milkman had an open-backed float with churns in it and would dip the milk out with a long-handled measure into your jug, it was not long till he graduated to a horse and cart with four wheels, and milk in glass bottles with cardboard tops. In very hot weather, despite two deliveries a day, you still had to boil the milk soon after delivery otherwise, it went off.
My mother used to tell me that when she lived in Devon as a child they had their own cow and that after milking, she would separate the cream which she loved, and churn the butter. That was all gone for town dwellers of course, but in the grocers shop the butter would still be scooped up and patted into shape instead of arriving in oblong paper packets.
The grocer delivered as well, and his man would arrive at the doorstep and jog the memory with a verbal list of commodities delivered in a rapid-fire voice rather like a market auctioneer. "Salt - Pepper - Vinegar - Mustard." he would fire away, and then take up his list at the same point after he had been interrupted with an item.
The baker's man pulled a two-wheeled handcart with a rounded top and a leg at the back so that it didn't tip up when he let go. He would delve into this for the loaf you wanted, warm and crusty and certainly not wrapped or sliced!
The postman was distinctive in his blue uniform with red piping and his odd little flat hat, almost a helmet. He did not bring a load of junk mail for the dustman to take away again, and what he delivered today had been posted yesterday, except that from foreign parts.
To be continued tomorrow
EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 30th AUGUST
(Please note spelling is British English)
(Please note spelling is British English)
BIRTHS
1718 - Birth: Eunice HOSLEY-3662, Billerica, Middlesex County Massachusetts United States
1844 - Baptism: Johanna Hendrina LAWS-34539, Tynemouth Northumberland England
1845 - Birth: William Gordon LAWS-34616, Barrasford Northumberland England
1846 - Baptism: Isabella LAWS-21613, Houghton le Spring Durham England
1864 - Baptism: Ellen LAWS-6238, Stratton Strawless Norfolk England
1865 - Birth: Francis Willis LAWES-876, (Shipwright) Woolwich Kent England
1868 - Baptism: Louisa Ann LAWS-23926, Hawkinge Kent England
1872 - Birth: William LAWES-47467, (Coal Labourer above ground)
1874 - Birth: Julia Eliza LAWS-6486, (Drapers Shop assistant) Old Catton, Norwich Norfolk England
1874 - Birth: Ernest Lingwood LAWES-1649, (House Furniture Assistant) Maidenhead Berkshire England
1878 - Birth: John Joseph Michael LAWES-1975, (Master Mariner/RN 185088) Gunards Head Cornwall England
1885 - Birth: Edward Herbert LAWS-31621, (Railway Clerk & Wholesale Fish Merchants) Whitby North Yorkshire England
1891 - Birth: Frank Leslie LAWS-12045, (Plasterer)
1892 - Birth: Jerimiah LAWES-37635,(Clerk - Public Assistance) Accomb Northumberland England
1900 - Baptism: Gilbert Henry Powell LAWS-14443, Greenwich Kent England
1901 - Birth: Horace LAWES-48519, (Textile Worker Wool)
1901 - Birth: Arthur LAWS-42644, (Shoe Worker Examiner)
1909 - Birth: Samuel Kenneth LAWS-25112,
1909 - Birth: Jack LAWS-12916,v (RAAF Flying Officer 412979) Sydney New South Wales Australia
1915 - Birth: James Parley LAWS-13834, Blanding Utah United States
MARRIAGES
1740 - Marriage: James LAWS-6585 and Ruth BROWN-6586, Heigham Norfolk England
1826 - Marriage: Charles CHAMBERS-3418 and Mary Ann LAWS-3398, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1834 - Marriage: Isaac LAWS-744 (Gardener) and Jane KETTLE-745, (Widow - Laundress) Thames Ditton Surrey England
1886 - Marriage: George Henry WARE-30384 and Alice Louisa LAWS-(Housemaid / Spinster) 10125, Plaistow Essex England
1916 - Marriage: William CHILTON-2686 and Clara Lillie LAWES-2665, Rock Springs, Sweetwater Wyoming United States
1919 - Marriage: Claude Stanley PYE-46017 (Storeman) and Mabel Matilda Muriel LAWS-46018, Leichhardt, New South Wales Australia
1930 - Marriage: Joseph Edwin Horace LAWS-36144 (Engine Draughtsman) and Lydia Rose HOUNSLOW-43071, West Ealing Middlesex England
DEATHS
1853 - Death: William LAWS-32458, Lumley Colliery Durham England
1867 - Death: William Webster LAWS-7926, (Grocer) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1867 - Death: William Webster LAWS-7926, (Grocer) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1893 - Burial: James LAWES-27226,
1893 - Death: William LAWS-5355, (Butler retired) Washington Durham England
1910 - Death: Elizabeth LAWS-18358,
1918 - Death: Thomas Cresswell LAWS-8307,(Master Mariner & Steamship Agent) Liverpool Lancashire England
1918 - Death: Charles LAWS-3183, (Farmer) Kialla Victoria Australia
1918 - Death: William Henry LAWES-2429, (ARMY Private 146487) France
1923 - Death: William James LAWES-2402, St.Andrews Hospital, Devon Road, Bromley Kent England
1923 - Death: Alfred LAWES-723, Battersea Surrey England
1930 - Death: Christopher Columbus LAWS-17188, Rutherford County North Carolina United States
944 - Death: Naff L LAWS-36670, (Seaman 1st class US Navy 9665491)
1949 - Death: Everett LAWS-20528,
1951 - Death: Jeffery James LAWS-32273, (Railway Clerk) Felixstowe Suffolk England
1951 - Residence: Jeffery James LAWS-32273, (Railway Clerk) Ipswich Suffolk England
1958 - Death: Basil W LAWS-16649, (MUSC2C US Army)
1997 - Death: Le-Mon L LAWS-16752, (PV2 US Army)
1998 - Death: James Maxwell LAWS-37076,
2003 - Burial: Lovancy LAWS-12311, Hollywood, Carteret, North Carolina, United States
2011 - Cremation: Terence Ronald LAWS-36994,
2013 - Burial: Willis Taylor LAWS-39197, Cumberland City Tennessee United States
MISCELLANEOUS
1807 - Will: Seth LAWES-31982, (Gentleman) Charlton Hampshire England
1856 - Occupation: Edward LAWS-27165, (Steward on Ship "TELEGRAPH"
1906 - Residence: Robert LAWES-30293, (Foreman Shoemaker) Camden Town Middlesex England
1922 - Residence: Charles LAWS-22875, Sydney New South Wales Australia
1787 - Birth: Mary Ann MOORE-25154, Delaware United States
1829 - Baptism: Thomas HARRISON-13022, (Draper) Allington Wiltshire England
1843 - Baptism: Elizabeth WOODFORD-474, Semley Wiltshire England
1867 - Birth: Roden Horace Powlett ORDE-14525,
1874 - Baptism: James Frederick BAILEY-23046, (Fisherman) Kings Lynn Norfolk England
1883 - Birth: Lily L SAMPSON-20982,
1890 - Birth: Edith Kate HEDGES-23898, Monk Sherborne Hampshire England
1902 - Birth: Margaret Edith COLLINS-34981, Bermondsey Surrey England
1917 - Birth: Minnie Violet MARSHALL-20780, Wandsworth Surrey England
1918 - Birth: Violet HAMBY-48570, (Maid in Mental Hospital)
OTHER DEATHS
1916 - Burial: Sarah Sophia GOODALL-8603, Dutton Park, Brisbane Queensland Australia
1924 - Death: Alfred James CLEMENTS-47285, (Gentleman Retired) East Molesey Surrey England
1924 - Death: Alfred James CLEMENTS-47285, (Gentleman Retired) East Molesey Surrey England
1933 - Death: Anna WALLER-19696, Marion West Virginia United States
1935 - Death: Martha Catherine BENTLEY-19476, Wilkes County North Carolina United States
1982 - Death: Mary Jane ROBERTS-33565, (Nurse Probationer) Peterborough Cambridgeshire England
2005 - Death: Georgia M PERKINS-19445, Loyall KY
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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.
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