Tuesday 4th September 2018 - Number 3236

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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

Part 12.

Innovation Part 1.

 The radio, which we called the wireless with a wry smile, it had more wires than any other previous domestic item, was now released from the tyranny of the accumulator as mains powered sets arrived. The voice from the trumpet of your loud speaker no longer started to fade as the battery power ran down. It is odd to think that a considerably later innovation the replacement of the valve by the transistor, brought back the rechargeable battery but in a small and convenient form.

With the plugging in of the new radios the electric supply had started on its trail of removing chores from the household. The next arrival after the radio was the electric fire which rapidly penetrated into every home with electric supply and brought quick warmth. More flexible than the older gas fire was, it was even more useful before central heating became commonplace.

Following it up the front steps came the vacuum cleaner salesman, the first and probable the greatest beneficiary of the small electric motor in the domestic field, except the housewife of course. No longer were the clouds of dust raised as the bass broom worked its way down the stairs and through the hall to the back door. The volume of dirt in the house was reduced but the battle could not be won until the open coal fire was on the way out.

Somehow progress was slow with the electric cooker which did not really become controllable until my childhood was well into double figures. Gas and solid fuel cookers continued to spread dirt in the home but were the easiest and cheapest stoves to use and even now hold material portion of the market.

The only other innovation to compare with electricity was the motor vehicle. It had been invented some thirty odd years before, but development and cost reduction took time, and I was about four years old when my father bought his first car, a bull nosed Morris, built like a tank but a troublesome beast.

It was 1925 and there were not a lot of cars on the road, the speed limit was 20 mph and although this lasted very little longer my dad managed to get fined for exceeding it before it was changed.. 

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 4th SEPTEMBER

Please note spelling is British English

BIRTHS 

1640 - Christen: Elizabeth LAWES-1715, Benets Wharf Middlesex England

1748 - Christen: Ann LAWS (base born) -8232, Stourton Wiltshire England

1825 - Baptism: Harry James LAWES-259, (Commercial Traveller) 

1865 - Birth: John Edward LAWS-5440, (Ag Lab) South Creake Norfolk England

1884 - Birth: Nellie Edith LAWS-8647, Weasenham All Saints Norfolk England

1885 - Birth: Clifton F LAWS-16667, (PVT US Army 182241) 

1887 - Birth: Elizabeth Emily LAWES-16053, (Dressmaker)  Edmondsham Dorset England

1889 - Birth: William Frederick John Littleton LAWS-18539, (Royal Navy Rigger 233462 Able Seaman)  Saltash Cornwall England

1891 - Birth: Ada LAWS-15699, West Walton Norfolk England

1896 - Birth: Archie Bishop LAWS-49439, Lawrence County Tennessee United States

1897 - Birth: Fred LAWS-42391, (Farmer) 

1898 - Birth: Alice May LAWES-23751, Old Alresford Hampshire England

1899 - Birth: Norman LAWS-17699, (Ships Platers Assistant)  West Hartlepool Durham England

1908 - Birth: Helen E LAWS-49315, 

1908 - Birth: Reginald N W LAWS-48158,  (Decorator) 

1917 - Birth: Florence LAWES-16621,

MARRIAGES

1738 - Marriage: John LAWS-5383 and Janet CHEESING-5384, Weeting Norfolk England (St Mary & All Saints)

1785 - Marriage: Thomas POST-27018 and Anne LAWS-27019, Lympne Castle Kent England

1787 - Marriage: John CLARKE-22831 (widower)  and Ann LAWS-22832 (Widow), Strumpshaw Norfolk England

1869 - Marriage: George LAWS-4826 (Coachman Domestic) and Catherine Jane MERRITT-4821, Shedfield Hampshire England

1887 - Marriage: James Lawn LAWS-12424 (Waiter in City)  and Alice BUTT-15515, 
St Pancras Middlesex England

1906 - Marriage: Robert James LAWES-21523 and Beatrice Maud EWLES-21524, Norwich Norfolk England

1910 - Marriage: Joseph WHITMORE-41086 (Motor Conductor)  and Elizabeth Jane LAWS-41087, Pimlico Middlesex England

1919 - Marriage: William Herbert James LAWES-48372 (Builders Foreman)  and Daisy A ???-48373, 

1920 - Marriage: James CUMMINGS-21068 and Mary Lizzie LAWS-21067,

1938 - Marriage: Howard Leslie BARRATT-12094 and Janet Alma Scott LAWS-12092 (Shop Assistant), Walthamstow Essex England

DEATHS

1808 - Burial: Alexander LAWS-35561, South Shields, Durham, England

1856 - Death & Burial: John LAWES-34669, Montevideo Uraguay

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

1900 - Burial: John Bennett LAWES-219, Harpenden Hertfordshire England

1904 - Death: Francis LAWES-12591, Michel British Columbia Canada

1906 - Death: Charlotte E LAWS-40893, 

1917 - Death: Albert Geoffrey LAWS-41685, (Private 41685, 5th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers) in France.

1922 - Death: George Richard LAWES-481, (Master Miller)  Vernon British Columbia Canada

1928 - Death: Henry  LAWS-32106,  (Chalk Quarry Labourer) Tilbury Essex England

1930 - Death: Charles Watson  LAWS-2971, (Fancy Draper) Stockton-On-Tees Durham England

1945 - Death: William Henry Bateman LAWES-195, (Mech Eng Apprentice)  Milford Hampshire England Residence: New Milton on Sea Hampshire England


1960 - Burial: James Dee LAWS-22761, Huntingdon Utah United States

1970 - Burial: Ann LAWS-29800, Mere Knolls Cemetary, Sunderland (Fullwell) Durham
England

2000 - Death: Richard Bernard LAWES-14544, (Cost Accountant (retired)  Galston, Terry Hills New South Wales (Glenorie) Australia

2000 - Death: Lillian LAWS-12576, Campleltown New South Wales Australia

2009 - Death: Elsie Caroline LAWES-45868, Newbury Berkshire England

MISCELLANEOUS

1871 - Occupation: David C LAWS-17174, (Master Mariner)  Mauritius - Sydney

1985 - Admon: Frederic Patrick LAWS-34771 (Barrister at Law) , Brighton Sussex England

OTHER BIRTHS

1803 - Christen: Charlotte Lucy SEPPINGS-38682, Chatham Kent England

1904 - Birth: Samuel Harry HAMMERSLEY-36334, Stoke on Trent Staffordshire England

OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1759 - Death: Elizabeth  Caroline of HANOVER-22604, Kew Palace Surrey England

1843 - Birth: Samantha HOPPER-13869, Ruswarp North Yorkshire England

1908 - Burial: Jessie CLEGG -25830, Outwood West Yorkshire England

1934 - Death: Mary Therasa FORESTER-10012, (Widow) Le Zoutle BELGIUM

1985 - Death: Martha Ann JOHNSON-35788, Lenoir North Carolina United States

2003 - Death: Mary E VANMILLER-12728, The Laurels, Sandy Creek, Wayland Michigan 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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