Friday 14th September 2018 Number 3245

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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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A child of the 1920's as seen from the 1990's

by

My late father, John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 22.

SPORT

We were kindred spirits with common interests in mathematics and woodwork. The maths did not get that far as the ‘mathematics’ – more advanced, which a few of us did as an extra subject for Matric, was only on the fringes.

The woodwork turned out more useful and the final exams we spent all our time in the woodwork room making equipment for the physics lab.

The large playing field had room for several football and hockey pitches or for cricket in summer as well as grass tennis courts. Sport was encouraged and every Saturday morning there were a big turnout of teams to compete with other schools. I was no good at football and played in the fifth eleven which regularly lost by astronomical scores. Cricket was a little better and I reached the second eleven without any great success.

The one sport that interested me was swimming. Having learnt to swim at elementary school, I continued to enjoy it and as the years went by more and more public pools opened up. The first one I used was the old indoor pool at Wood Green. I do not know when this one was opened, but my mum & dad had used it before my time. I first used it before I could swim properly and I was so small that the water in the shallow end came up to my chin.

Being an indoor-pool, it was heated. The only other indoor heated pool I came across was somewhere in Tottenham, where I went and swam in a inter-school gala, the details of which escape me. The first of the ‘new’ open air pools was the Hornsey pool situated between Crouch end and ‘Ally Pally’. It was fine in the summer sunshine and Harry and I used it a few times before we moved away from Wightman Road. After that we cycled out at weekends to the new pool at Enfield which was more spacious, after swimming we cycled back more slowly with protesting muscles.

Having moved to Southgate, most of my swimming was done in the open air pool at Barrowell Green. This was an old pool and a little cramped, but I spent many happy hours there (instead of doing my homework). The pool was supposed to get a bit of heat from the dust destructor furnace next door but this must have been minimal as the temperature in the early part of the season was often 60-61F, All our school swimming was at this pool and we could get cheap tickets at school (one old penny) for use out of school hours. Unless it was raining, when you could have the pool almost to yourself, there was always a crowd of school friends there, sunning, swimming, fooling and flirting.

To be continued tomorrow

There's a family who misses you dearly, 

In a home where you used to be; 

There's a family who wanted to keep you, 

But God willed it not to be. 

You left many happy memories, 

And a sorrow too great to be told; 

But to us who loved and lost you, 

Your memory will never grow old.

EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 14th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1674 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWES-10569, Longbenton Northumberland England

1755 - Baptism: Anthony LAWS-10640, Stannington Northumberland England

1806 - Birth: Jerimiah Wicum LAWS-33692, Wilkes County North Carolina United States

1823 - Baptism: Harriett LAWS-22026, Littleport Cambridgeshire England

1845 - Baptism: Isabella LAWES-1224, Cambridge Cambridgeshire England

1853 - Birth: George LAWS (Labourer Cement Works) -5387, Frindsbury Kent England

1867 - Birth: Joseph Charles LAWS (Farm Bailiff) -3435, Horstead Norfolk England

1870 - Baptism: Ernest John Woodford LAWES-703, (Railway Signalman)  Donhead St Mary Wiltshire England

1871 - Birth: James G LAWS-47539, (Greengrocer) 

1873 - Birth: Alfred Edgar Edwin LAWES (Railway Guard) -452, Cupernham, Romsey Hampshire England

1874 - Birth: Ellen Charlotte LAWS-3155, Folkestone Kent England

1885 - Birth: Frank LAWES-21188,

1890 - Birth: Charles Thomas LAWS-34049, (Apprentice Retort Setter)  Wandsworth Surrey England

1893 - Birth: George S LAWS-30704, (Fitter Erector) 

1896 - Birth: Lawrence Joseph LAWES-40285, (Motor Engineer) Croydon Surrey England

1897 - Birth: Sidney Lionel  LAWS-39289,  (Storehouse Assistant)

1897 - Birth: Sydney LAWS-28868, (ARMY Private 4226) Strood Kent England

1902 - Birth: Lillian Victoria LAWS-20774, Blackheath Kent England

1903 - Birth: Ethel Grace LAWES-35939,

1912 - Birth: Florence LAWS-3822, Anlaby East Yorkshire England

1914 - Birth: John C LAWES-48271 (Air Raid Precaution Warden & Metal Worker)

1915 - Birth: Nellie LAWS-44399,  (Shop Assistant Electrical)

1916 - Birth: Richard Harrison LAWS-16790, (Sgt US Army)

1918 - Birth: Sarah LAWS-30451, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

MARRIAGES

1865 - Marriage: Charles LAWES-869 (Innkeeper) and Lydia HUGHES-23599, Worcester Worcestershire England

1874 - Marriage: Charles William LAWS-4774 (Blacksmith) and Mary Ann CLEMENT-4775, Lambeth Surrey England

1889 - Marriage: William LAWES-32982 (Gardener)  and Leah FRANKS-37295, Edgware Middlesex England

1892 - Marriage: Arthur LOOSEMORE-22575 and Elizabeth LAWES-22574, Brooke Twp., Lambton County, Ontario Canada

1918 - Marriage: Arthur Stanley LAWS-14751 (Commonwealth Audit Dept) and Bernice Maud BRUNTNELL-12545, Leichhardt, New South Wales Australia

1931 - Marriage: Maurice William Parry LAWS-37203 (Tea Planter circa 1949)  and Dorothy Randall EALES-43503, Northwood Middlesex England

DEATHS 

1803 - Death: Thomas LAWS-3663, Westminster, Worcester County. Massachusetts United States

1915 - Death: Joseph Henry LAWS-8075, (ARMY Sapper 51631) FRANCE

1918 - Death: Joseph H LAWS-30908, (Blacksmith & Ship Plater) FRANCE & FLANDERS

1845 - Death: Jerimiah LAWS-30311, Perryville, Boyle County, Kentucky United States

1903 - Death: Edgar Ripsher Joseph LAWS-41550, Goulburn New South Wales AUSTRALIA

1929 - Death: Samuel Dawson LAWS-45829, (Draper) Ventnor, Isle of Wight England

1948 - Burial: Milbert  LAWS- (PFC US Army) 16515, Rock Island National Cemetery, IL

1951 - Death: Ralph  LAWS -(PVT CO.B, 7TH BN TC US Army) LAWS-16789, 

1959 - Burial: Gilbert P LAWS-16709, (Sgt US Army)  San Diego CA United States

1994 - Death: Mildred LAWS-22633, Saint Albans, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States

2006 - Cremation: Derek Ernest LAWS-25959, Ipswich Suffolk England

2016 - Death: Jack Richard LAWES-43231, 

MISCELLANEOUS
1839 - Occupation: W W LAWS-37529, (Master HEICS  Bengal Pilot Service) 

1912 - Residence: Margaret Louisa ANTHONY-1733, West Kensington Middlesex England

1918 - Discharged: George Alfred LAWS-28798, (ARMY Private S4095) 

1928 - Residence: Geoffrey Reginald LAWES-41580, Santa Monica California United States

1928 - Naturalization: Robert Reginald LAWES-2501, Los Angeles CA United States

1931 - Residence: Maurice William Parry LAWS-37203, (Tea Planter circa 1949) Northwood Middlesex England

1939 - Miscellaneous: Hilda Mary LAWS-16024,  (Private Means) 

1939 - Miscellaneous: Edith Gertrude LAWS-14850,  (Spinster living on own means) 

1966 - Residence: Kathleen LAWS-49397, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

OTHER BIRTHS

1828 - Birth: Isabella PRINCE-30544, Wilton Wiltshire England

1880 - Birth: Elizabeth JAFF-44452,

1894 - Birth: Winifred THORPE-31537,

1898 - Birth: Maud Rose BROWN-32985,

1900 - Birth: Ella Mabel Eugenie STEWARD-33720,

1912 - Birth: Rosina Mary  FURLONG-10079,  (Battery Assembler)

1914 - Birth: Robert H SMITH-46572,

1919 - Birth: Lovie BURRIS-30420, Jackson Tennessee United States

 OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1929 - Death: Catherine CARLYON-3184, Shepparton Victoria Australia

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

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