Monday 17th September 2018 - Number 3248

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

by

My late father, John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 25.


Wanderers

Later wandering became more organised. This started with Scout camps. First came, the Cubs one Whitsun, no further afield than Hatfield Park, then others including Gilwell, the Scout Mecca of which the most memorable item was the rather primitive swimming pool where we were allowed to swim naked, and a joy rarely available to a town dweller. 

We travelled to these camps in the back of a lorry and scarcely noticed the discomfort as it was different and cheap. Everything had to be cheap. The sun did not always shine and when we went to Downe in Kent our lorry got us there after dark in a pelting rainstorm in which we set up our tents on a site we could not see. 

After that I think I slept soundly, perhaps the ground was softer for the rain. That camp our swimming was in the river Test, it was icy, small boys must be quite mad. Swimming seems to have been the main attraction of these camps. At Hayling Island, then little built up, we swam in a sandy inlet where the temperature of the English Channel was moderated by the warm sand as the tide came in.

holidays at that time meant the seaside, and the seaside meant the East Coast, Sunshine, East winds sand and icy grey sea.

June was the preferred month until school became important enough to interfere. My mother packed vast quantities of clothing in a big cabin trunk, which must have gone on ahead; it certainly didn’t come in the car with us. It took a good three hours to cover seventy odd miles to the coast. 

Bypass was an almost unknown word and certainly wasn’t applicable to even the Essex county town of Colchester the first time of two that we went that way. One was built in the next couple of years but now some sixty odd years later has been virtually absorbed into the town to be replaced by the (now hardly adequate) A12.

We went to Clacton on the first holiday I remember and the sand and the seafront were the attractions. The next year it was Little Holland (Now Holland on Sea) where there was more sand and no seafront and I spent the whole holiday on the beach. After that, it was always Walton on the Naze. 

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 17th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1640 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWS-13323, Ormesby St Michael Norfolk England

1815 - Birth: Peter LAWES-274, Costessey Norfolk England

1876 - Birth: Ella M LAWS-44007,  (Patient)

1878 - Birth: Albert Alfred LAWS-16436, Mudgee New South Wales Australia

1880 - Birth: William Walker LAWS-4365, (Ag Lab) Feltwell Norfolk England

1887 - Birth: John Thomas LAWS-38217,

1887 - Birth: John Thomas LAWS-11082, (Gas Fitter) Little Witchingham Norfolk England

1896 - Birth: Reginald Victor LAWES-31804, (Aircraft Record Clerk) Norwich Norfolk England

1898 - Birth: Arthur LAWES-48896, (Packer Boxmaking)

1898 - Birth: Edward Horace LAWS-33906, (War Department messenger) Darlington Durham England

1899 - Birth: Frederick Vernon LAWS-41174, Sunnidale. Simcoe Ontario Canada

1899 - Birth: Curtis Funston LAWS-19515,

1907 - Birth: Monica LAWS-48108, (Assistant Nurse)

1909 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-47677, (Tyre Fitter)

1911 - Birth: Bernice LAWS-36963,

1914 - Birth: Susan LAWES-35950,

1919 - Birth: Owen LAWS-35900, St Asaph Denbigh Wales

MARRIAGES

1683 - Marriage: John BERRY-13097 and Sarah LAWS-13096, St Giles Middlesex England

1706 - Marriage: Joseph LAWES-13134 and Mary ROBERTS-13135, Deerhurst Gloucestershire England

1787 - Marriage: John HARPER-11836 and Martha LAWS-11837, Hockwold Cum Wilton Norfolk
England

1876 - Marriage: George Robert LAWS-5883 (Grocer) and Harriett Amelia BROWN-5884,
Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1885 - Marriage: George LAWES-16101 (Railway Goods Checker G E R)  and Mary Emma IDE-16102, Forest Gate Essex England

1893 - Marriage: John LAWS-5702 (Ag Lab)  and Harriett PENDALL-15708, Hockwold Cum Wilton Norfolk England

1916 - Marriage: James Henry LAWS-30719 (Dock Labourer)  and Lily RICKWOOD-30720, Stepney Middlesex England

1927 - Marriage: Frank Walter EDWARDS-42983 (Rotary Kiln Greaser/Labourer)  and Winifred Agnes LAWS-4841, Tilbury Essex England

DEATHS 

1855 - Burial: James LAWS-33491, Walworth Surrey England

1902 - Death: Annie Isabella LAWS-6752, Gateshead Durham England

1911 - Burial: Kenneth Osborn LAWS-24860, Wyatt Missouri United States

1929 - Death: William LAWS-4290, (Farmer)  Littleport Cambridgeshire England

1947 - Death: Bernard Courtney LAWS-4553, (Naval Architect)  Sutton Surrey England

1956 - Death: Elizabeth Ann LAWS-22544, Sunderland Durham England

1959 - Death: Bertie Allen LAWS-8646, (Roadman) East Dereham Norfolk England

1963 - Death: William Henry Marsden LAWS-6705, Junction City Oregon United States

1975 - Death: Matthew LAWS-16613,  (PVT US Army)

1983 - Cremation: Vivian William  LAWS-14741, (Sewing Mechanic) Dunedin New Zealand

1984 - Burial: Jake M LAWS-16688, (PVT US Army) Riverside California United States

1999 - Death: Charles Henry LAWS-25100, (Junior)

2006 - Death: Ian Mackay LAWS-24998, Adelaide South Australia, Australia

MISCELLANEOUS

1923 - Residence: Bertha Marg LAWS-22863, Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States

1927 - Marr Witness: Walter Edward LAWS-32107, (Works at Thames Board Mills) Tilbury Essex England

OTHER BIRTHS

1758 - Baptism: Robert SHADFORTH-23928, West Hartlepool Durham England

1820 - Birth: Eleanor BLANCHARD-22149, Cuxwold Lincolnshire England

1872 - Birth: Beatrice FOSTER-22997, Longview, Cooper, Delta County Texas United States

1882 - Birth: Alice D WHATLEY-19290, Texas, United States

1915 - Birth: Olga W HAY-31776, South Shields, Durham, England

1919 - Birth: Catherine SUGRUE-46558, Killarney Co Kerry Ireland

1919 - Birth: Kathleen E MANN-46449, (Sewing Machinist) Littleport Cambridgeshire England

 OTHER MARRIAGES 

1881 - Marriage: Alfred Percival  MOONEY-31551 (Police Constable Metropolitan R34) and Mary Ann HORNE-33175, Greenwich Kent England

1888 - Marriage: Frank William Joseph MYER-8532 (Master Mariner) and Annie ADAMS-8533, Charlestown Cornwall England

OTHER DEATHS

1767 - Death: Edward Augustus HANOVER-22603, MONACO

1921 - Death: Margaret Troup GRAY-8679, Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland burial Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Scotland

1967 - Death: Sybil Evelyn COOPER-10120, Chichester Sussex England

1988 - Death: Lillian Hetty PARBERY-12577, Turramurra, Northwood New South Wales 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

R I P

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