Friday 21st September 2018 - Number 3252

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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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LAWS FAMILY TREE

(maybe we already have)

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A child of the 1920's a  from the 1990's

by

My late father, John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 29.


Wanderers

                                   

Food was important. For some it was in short supply; for all, it was seasonal and generally less wide-ranging than it is now. Until the coming of the fridge, for us in the early thirties, keeping food fresh in summer was a problem and a variety of methods were used, The larder was mandatory in all houses built from the nineteenth century until quite recently, in large houses it became a small walk-in room.

Meat was often given special accommodation in a small ‘meat safe’ with perforated zinc sides to keep out the flies. This stood outside the house in the shade often near the back door. In hot weather, milk would be boiled as soon as it was delivered and in summer generally, it was stood in a shallow tray of water with a cover of muslin or terra cotta to soak up the water and keep it cool. These methods must still be in use in a few households but they are bygones for most of us.

It was not always, summer, however, and in winter it was normal to eat, more as well as to wear more clothes, to keep out the cold of poorly heated houses and workplaces. Quantity was of more importance than quality, not that wives and mothers were less interested in quality, simply which standards were lower and money went further if you only cut away the inedible rather than all the rough bits. It was widely recognized that if bread was a bit hard it would be ‘harder where there’s none’.

Our household was fortunate that ‘paterfamilias’ was ‘a good provider’ in the language of the day. Moreover, my mother was a good cook though she would have turned her nose up at squid or octopus and olives or wine vinegar were never seen in our larder.

Even the slightly exotic like sweetbreads or whitebait were reserved for father on his evening return from work, probably being reckoned ‘not good for children’ quite apart from the cost. 

The roast joint was the important mainstay of diet, more often than not, a sirloin of beef which turned up for Sunday lunch with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, greens and, a nice rich gravy. The joint would sometimes be mutton, it was not called lamb till much later. 

Pork was much less frequent, being reckoned to be somewhat hazardous, though with how much reason I don’t know. It seems an oddity that on the other hand pork sausages were esteemed above beef which was considered in today’s parlance a bit down market.

Sunday’s joint turned up as cold meat on Monday and would be used as hash or mince the next day or two depending on how much was left. Cold meat would be served up with hot vegetables. I do not remember any salad in my diet as a child.

Season controlled the selection of vegetables, fresh from the greengrocer not frozen from the supermarket, Cabbage was the standby; peas, runner beans, carrots sprouts and spinach came in their turn though I didn’t learn to like spinach till many years later.

There were also unidentified greens or the like, Very occasionally asparagus appeared on the Sunday table pandering to father’s fancy taste. I do not think it really belonged the Devon cuisine, that was my mother’s mainstay. Later in the week, when the joint was gone, there might be stew or sausages and occasionally fish until  Saturday when it was invariably steak and kidney pudding, a good winter warmer if ever there was one.

‘Afters’ too were often good sustaining stuff, stewed fruit and custard were popular in season and sometimes dried apricots or prunes at other times. The real favourites, however, were the apple puddings or blackcurrant puddings closely followed in popularity by Apple Charlotte or bread and butter pudding with a good leavening of raisins.

Suet puddings with dried fruit such as plum duff or roly-poly of the standby syrup pudding came along from time to time but were not quite a regular feature. Pastry was popular and fruit would more often be served in a pie than on its own. There was, of course, no ice cream at home as there were no domestic freezers, tinned fruit was a special but was readily available. 

Cream was brought round by the milkman once the changeover to bottled milk had taken place and sometimes took the place of custard to everyone’s delight.  Even father, who was a good trencherman, did not feel the need for cheese and biscuits at the end of Sunday lunch.

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 21st SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS and BAPTISMS 

1856 - Birth: Albertina LAWS-6763, (Cook & Spinster)  Hainford Norfolk England

1881 - Birth: John W LAWS-44906, (Quarryman)  

1884 - Birth: Ambrose LAWS (Kitchen Porter at restaaurant)-42343, 

1887 - Birth: George Washington LAWS-40065, (Tyre Clerk)  Walnut Lake, Faribault, Minnesota United States

1891 - Birth: Edward Herman LAWS-45628, Cincinnati Ohio United States

1896 - Birth: Lucile LAWS-41777,  Kentucky United States

1901 - Birth: Bertram LAWS-43621, (Fen Drainage Labourer)  Hilgay Norfolk England

1902 - Birth: Alice Jane Muriel LAWES-24572, Liverpool, New South Wales Australia

1904 - Birth: Alexander Leonard LAWS-30435, Acton Middlesex England

1913 - Birth: Joseph LAWS-42669, 

1914 - Birth: Robert LAWS-12943, (Australian Army) Newcastle, New South Wales Australia

MARRIAGES & Divorce

DEATHSand Burials 

1691 - Will: Henry LAWS-13142 (Worsted weaver) Kings Lynn Norfolk England

1914 - Death: Edward LAWS-22261, (ARMY Private 9476) 

1915 - Death: Robert Christopher LAWS-10456, (Pattern Maker) Napier New Zealand

1917 - Death: John LAWS-22300,  (ARMY Private 12037) 

1921 - Death: Grace R LAWS-34707, Brooklyn NewYork City New York United States

1931 - Burial: Margaret Ellen LAWS-19549, Brighton, Washington County Indiana 
United States

1931 - Death: Benjamin Glover LAWS-3491, (Solicitors Clerk) St Marylebone Middlesex England

1946 - Death: Albert LAWES-1475 (Commercial Traveller) Montrose Angus Scotland

1957 - Death: Charles Arthur LAWES-45929, (Blacksmiths Hammerman in Ship Yard)  Cardiff Glamorgan Wales

1971 - Death: Cyril Arthur LAWS-35216, (Turner) Toowoomba, Warwick Queensland Australia

1984 - Burial: Alfred William LAWES-36835, Chandlers Ford Hampshire England

1987 - Death: Eddie LAWS-16681 (PFC US Army) 

1995 - Death: Jessie Murray LAWS-5944, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1996 - Death: Jasper Jewell LAWS-11299, Lockhart, Caldwell, Texas United States

2000 - Death: Walter Cyril LAWES-18374, New Orleans Lousianna United States

2002 - Death: Robert J LAWS-12325 (retired still-man in the oil industry) Portland Texas United States

2004 - Death: John Frank LAWS-36964, Orlando Florida United States

2017 - Death: Russell Paul LAWS-46925, Newport News City, Virginia, United States

2017 - Death: Thomas Burton LAWS-46051, Boomer, Wilkes, North Carolina United States

MISCELLANEOUS

1908 - Residence: John LAWS-22935,  (Blacksmith) La Boca, Panama

1917 - Military: Howard LAWS-30646, (Unmarried) WWII

OTHER BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1802 - Birth: William SHINGLES-21520, (Ostler) Acle Norfolk England

1818 - Birth: Elizabeth FISHER-36160, Dunkeld Perth Scotland

1903 - Birth: John WEBB-28216, Stalybridge Cheshire England

1906 - Birth: Agnes Erskine STEELE-35636, 

1915 - Birth: Iris A BALDING-48413, 

1920 - Birth: Doris FIELD-48295, (Chocolate Wrapper) 

1921 - Birth: Mary Angela DEALTRY-29638, Khartoum SUDAN

 OTHER MARRIAGES 

1833 - Marriage: Joseph CHARTERS-14157 (Farmer 107 acres) and Mary PATTERSON-14158, Aspatria Cumberland England

OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS

1861 - Burial: John BALLARD-27217, 

1912 - Death: John Donald MCLAREN-3696, Tamworth, New South Wales Australia

1943 - Death: Elizabeth Sarah ALP-37788, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1948 - Death: Neva CRABLE-46227, Texas, United States

1966 - Death: Queenie Victoria HARRIS-16355, Luton Bedfordshire England

1996 - Death: Jo Martin DINGES-11304, Lockhart, Caldwell, Texas United States

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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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