Tuesday 28rh August 2018 - Number 3229

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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 6.

 Ornaments abounded and on the sideboard were an epergne for fruit and flowers and a couple of silver plate and glass urns, which never contained anything. More useful was the plated silver stand to hold the soda siphon, and the plated vegetable dishes sitting on the long lace cloth. 

'Cleaning the plate' was a regular chore and but one of many labour intensive housekeeping of those days. There was, of course, a heavy mahogany dining table and half a dozen chairs for the main purpose of the room. 

Apart from mealtimes, a dark crimson chenille tablecloth with a fancy fringe all round covered the table and in the middle stood another epergne, plated and just for flowers this time.

Last, but not least, the obligatory aspidistra sat in a magnificent state of growth on an ornately carved ebony stand in the window bay. It's pot enclosed by a handsome china jardinière of deep blue and white. 

From this window at dusk, the lamplighter could be seen on his rounds lighting the gas street lights one by one, with a long pole he carried over his shoulder.  

There seemed to be a wider range of people then than there are now. There was no question of or concept of equality. To me, Mum was all important but to everyone, Dad was 'The Boss’ and this nickname was used all the time between mother and her helper Lottie the maid.

Lottie was a sort of auntie to me, having been part of the family longer than I had. This help was much needed by my mother not only, on account of the housework, but because catastrophe had struck my parents when my sister Mary had suffered brain damage, as a complication of meningitis. This happened at about the age of three, after which there was no further mental progress, although she grew up physically, but totally dumb.

Standards of living then were much lower, but in this respect, we were fortunate, though everyone worked hard. It is my belief that most people were as happy then as now, except where poverty and illness coincided.

It is the pressures of daily life that makes for unhappiness, and these were just different. In many ways, it is the small comforts and conveniences that we would miss if we had to step back in time.

We did not have swarms of relations; the Victorian habit of enormous families had gone just in time. There were two maiden aunts, my father’s sisters, who lived together in the bottom part of a house off West Green Road. They worked in garment manufacture and their smallish rooms were crammed with too large furniture, inherited from my grandparents of the true Victorian era who I never knew. Some of it would be museum pieces now. 

To be continued tomorrow

EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 28th AUGUST

BIRTHS 

1819 - Baptism: Martha Bush LAWS-13340, Ipswich Suffolk England

1852 - Baptism: Thomas LAWS-45313, Morpeth Northumberland England

1852 - Birth: Henry LAWS-44367, (StoneWorker Mine) 

1858 - Baptism: Eliza Frances LAWS-5252, Hawkinge Kent England

1859 - Birth: William LAWS-13777, (Wire Rope Maker)  South Creake Norfolk England

1885 - Birth: Victor Edward LAWS-30189, (Engineers Pattern Maker) Stowmarket Suffolk England

1885 - Birth: Everett LAWS-20528, 

1885 - Birth: Dorothy Dale LAWS-15277, (Chartered Masseuse) Weymouth Dorset England

1887 - Birth: Minnie LAWS-19561, Lebo, Coffey Kansas United States

1889 - Birth: Andrew Augustus LAWS-49444, Lawrence County Tennessee United States

1893 - Birth: Alice M LAWES-45258, (Cook) 

1893 - Birth: Lionel Edward LAWS-11511, Berry New South Wales Australia

1894 - Birth: Frederick William Henry LAWES-29609, (Locomotive Engine Driver) St Saviour London

1895 - Birth: Dorothy Dale LAWS-15277, (Chartered Masseuse)  

1899 - Birth: Hugh Stanley LAWS-24435, (RN F52205) Sunderland Durham England

1903 - Birth: Edgar Thomas LAWES-36466,  (Docker - Ship & Wharf) Hastings Sussex England

1905 - Birth: William LAWS-44837,  (General Labourer) 

1907 - Birth: Mitchell LAWES-16625, (PFC US Army)  

1908 - Birth: Gladys Muriel LAWS-35306, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England

MARRIAGES

1821 - Marriage: Benjamin Stephen LAWS -3133 and Joanna LEE-35540, Chatham Kent England

1748 - Marriage: John, or Joseph LAWES-373 (Yeoman)  and Mary FLEMINGTON-322, Martin Wiltshire England

1828 - Marriage: Wilfred Cecil LAWES-24728  (Coach & Lorry Driver) and Gwendoline NOBLE-24729, Breamore Hampshire England

1831 - Marriage: Richard ROSS-11808 and Sarah LAWS-11809, Norwich Norfolk England

1879 - Marriage: Robert LAWS-8678 (Reverend DD Missionary CMG) and Margaret Troup GRAY-8679, Blantyre, Nyasaland

1900 - Marriage: John LAWS-6331 (Electrician in Charge) and Grace WHITEHEAD-15979, Valley End, Chobham SRY (St Saviours)

1906 - Marriage: James Roy LAWS-18007 (Clerk Wholesale Grocery)  and Zelinn Alberta NORMAN-18008, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States

1909 - Marriage: Frederick Charles LAWS-5173 (Surgical Bootmaker & Leather Worker)  and Annie Rosina TOWNSEND-37744, Wandsworth Surrey England

1921 - Marriage: Sidney LAWS-47243 (Mason) and May Louisa CAMERON-47244, West Green Middlesex England

1938 - Marriage: William Vern GOSSETT-11650 and Naomi May LAWS-11649, Franklin County Kansas United States

DEATHS

1832 - Burial: Edward Kent LAWS-14273, Clapham Surrey England

1862 - Death: Elizabeth LAWS-5717, (Widow) Egham Surrey England

1865 - Burial: Thomas LAWS-2955, (Bricklayer / Coachman / Groom)  Wareham Dorset England

1874 - Death: Charles Seth LAWES-960, (Painter & Oilman)  Stapleton Road, Bristol Gloucestershire England

1875 - Burial: Hannah Elizabeth LAWS-29052, Bedlington Northumberland England

1888 - Death: William LAWES-1140, (Timber Merchant) Exeter Devonshire England

1891 - Burial: Cecil Henry Bignall LAWS-25344, Cooktown Queensland Australia

1902 - Burial: Charles LAWS-4758, (Engine & Crane Driver) 

1918 - Death: William George LAWS-22356, (Gunner 115422) 

1930 - Death: Robert LAWS-13817, Kanab, Kane Utah United States

1964 - Death: Cecil Charles LAWES-39663, (General Labourer) Southwark Surrey England

1975 - Death: Geoffrey LAWS-45645, Woodbridge Suffolk England

1977 - Death: Mark William LAWS-25484, Yancy County North Carolina United States

1986 - Death: Stuart Edwin LAWS-22124, (Commercial artist)  Penglandeteraki New Zealand

1996 - Burial: Gavin Gerald LAWES-36649, Salisbury South Australia Australia

1997 - Probate: Thomas Arthur William LAWS-41130, (Universal Grinder Mill Fitter Turner Mechanic Indentured LPTB) Bristol Gloucestershire England

2003 - Burial: Violet Aurine LAWS-12192, (Southern Beauty Supply.)  Greenville North Carolina United States

2004 - Burial: Tony Ray LAWS-16868, Mebane North Carolina United States

2004 - Burial: Lloyd Clinton LAWS-16833, (YN3 U.S. Navy / Korea)  Melvern Cemetery Kansas United States

2005 - Death: Kenneth Ray LAWS-20406, (Office Manager) 

2013 - Death: Willis Taylor LAWS-39197, Gleason Tennessee United States

MISCELLANEOUS

1809 - Residence: Vitruvius LAWES-899, (Barrister)  Bloomsbury Middlesex England

1843 - Military: Edward Laws (Naval Cadet) PYM-17340, Royal Marine Corps - Gentlemen Cadet
1914 - Enlistment: Francis Edwin John (ARMY Cpl Signaller 94564) LAWS-28786, 

1926 - Residence: Leonard Matthew LAWS-17622, (Clerk)  Kensal Rise Middlesex England

OTHER BIRTHS

1825 - Baptism: Mary Ann HARWOOD-1542, Homington Wiltshire England (St Michaels)

1842 - Baptism: Hannah HATTON-24698, Newnham Gloucestershire England

1855 - Baptism: Elizabeth  CHARTERS-6649, (Servant) Blennerhassett Cumberland England

1857 - Birth: Juhn LUSTY-43992, Limehouse Middlesex London

1873 - Birth: Job LEWIS-24661, Dorset England

1879 - Birth: Bertha PINK-27305, Bexley Kent England

1919 - Birth: Walter WEBBER-14165, (Chemists Assistant) Hunslet West Yorkshire England
(My late father in Law)

OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1848 - Death: George William  RAPIER-3376, (Navy) London Docks

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

1897 - Death: Mary Ellen GLOVER-13818, Kanab, Kane Utah United States

1916 - Death: Sarah Sophia GOODALL-8603, Mountjoy Street, Petrie Terrace, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

1938 - Burial: Iris JENNINGS-23558, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

1950 - Death: Walter (Sanitary Labourer) BLANCHARD-26681, Great Grimsby Lincolnshire England
1974 - Death: Jim Henry Jessie RODGERS-33295, Carroll Co Tennessee United States

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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