Saturday 15th September 2018 - Number 3246

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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 23.

SPORT

It was a sign of the changing times in the thirties that while this old pool had no car park, just a cramped bicycle area, the new pool at Enfield had a large car park. The latest pool completed in my schooldays was at New Southgate in Durnsford Road. This was the only one I knew with full height high diving boards. This kept the pool noticeably colder than the others and it did not become popular except in very hot weather.         

WANDERERS

There was little opportunity to wander before going to school, opened-up, new horizons. Once the short walk to school was permitted unaccompanied, and a few friends were known, for the range of life to be extended.

The familiar places were visited first, the lake in Finsbury Park with its ducks, swans and boats was known already, but now more time was spent with the slides and swings than feeding the ducks. It cannot always have been summer though, because the lake froze, and the ducks sat back on their tails as they landed.

Once or twice there were even skaters on the ice, skating serenely around the island that normally gave the ducks refuge from human intruders. These short periods of snow and ice and frozen lead pipes which burst are all that early memory holds of winter. Toys and books must have pushed the cold and wet into the background. Even pea soup fogs belong to later childhood.

It seems not long till we found there were other open spaces beside Finsbury Park. Another half mile towards London was Clissold Park. Its sole claim to fame was having a smaller boating pond with canoes which children could take out on those rare occasions when enough pocket money had been saved.

The opposite direction was more rewarding. Alexandra Palace or ‘Ally Pally’ as Londoners know it, stands on its hill looking out over London, through the haze of a coal-burning suburbia. Surrounded by its few acres of green it still had its four chateauesque corners intact before Satan unleashed television against humanity.

We could wander its empty halls and eat our sandwiches beside the pond while the sun shone. Not far from there were the woods, Queens Wood, and Highgate Woods, shady but not thicketed, a small wanderer’s delight. 

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 15th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1761 - Birth: Mary LAWES-781, Drayton Norfolk England

1820 - Christen: William K LAWS-7129, Northfleet Kent England

1860 - Birth: David LAWS-44029,  (Colliery Pumpman retired)

1870 - Birth: Isabella LAWS-3549, (General Servant) Bedlington Northumberland England

1874 - Birth: Newton R LAWS-46579,

1880 - Birth: Arthur Edward LAWES-48329, (Railway Platelayer)

1881 - Birth: George Malcolm LAWS-17878,  (Physician) Paulsboro New Jersey United States

1883 - Birth: Albert LAWES-45130, (Finnisher at Paper Mill)

1886 - Birth: Elizabeth Ann LAWS-22544, Sunderland Durham England

1887 - Birth: Roland LAWS-43905, (Company Director)

1889 - Birth: John H LAWES-48383, (Chemist Manure Labourer)

1889 - Birth: John William LAWES-38286, (Private 2 Bedfordshire Rgt))  Doddington Cambridgeshire England

1891 - Birth: Beatrice E LAWS-17118,

1892 - Birth: John G LAWS-44790, (Retail Hat & Clothing Manager)

1892 - Birth: Herbert Edward LAWS-22626, (Shop Assistant)

1899 - Baptism: Dora LAWS-17735, Sedgeford Norfolk England

1902 - Birth: Frederick W LAWES-37007, (Dairy Hand Incapacitated)  Newburn on Tyne Northumberland England

1906 - Birth: Alice LAWS-20557, Tama County Iowa United States

1914 - Birth: William Frederick LAWES-38481,

1914 - Birth: Robert Franklin LAWS-18009, (Advertising agency executive)  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

MARRIAGES

1611 - Marriage: John FLOCKTON-1105 and Annis LAWES-1104, Lammas Norfolk England

1831 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-5184 and Sarah GOLTRIP-5185,

1853 - Marriage: James A ALLEN-22505 and Margaret LAWS-22504,

1934 - Marriage: Lucious Cubye Jnr (Dickey Clay Company) LAWS-20428 and Mary Elizabeth COOPER-18592, Nashville Howard Co AK United States

DEATHS 

1882 - Death: Henry O LAWS-13915,

1913 - Death: James LAWS-6560, Higham Kent England

1914 - Burial: Charles LAWS-45917, Bletchingley Surrey England

1916 - Death: Thomas LAWS-22337, (ARMY Private 13952) 

1916 - Death: Sydney Harold LAWS-22332, (ARMY Private 15658)  Stradsett Norfolk England

1916 - Death: G LAWES-22194, (ARMY Private 16404) 

1916 - Death: Stephen  LAWS-2996, (Accountant's Clerk) FRANCE

1937 - Death: William LAWS-34881, The Middles, South Moor, Stanley Durham England

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

1983 - Death: Vivian William LAWS-14741, (Sewing Mechanic)  Hawea New Zealand

1990 - Death: Vaughn David LAWS-16810, (S1C US Navy) 

1998 - Death: Russell Gary LAWS-16800, (DC3 US Navy)

2000 - Burial: Homer Huston LAWS-33281, Nashville Tennessee United States

2002 - Death: Earl William LAWS-10693, Panther Drive, Connelly Springs, Hickory North Carolina United States

2003 - Burial: Edward George LAWS-12630 (Turbine Engineer) , Springfield Illinois United States

MISCELLANEOUS

1855 - Occupation: Edward LAWS-27165, (Steward on Ship "TELEGRAPH"

1926 - Emigration: Elizabeth Margaret POTTINGER-45794 (Nurse), Liverpool Lancashire England

1926 - Emigration: Patricia Muriel J LAWS-37206,

1926 - Emigration: Edith Maud ALLEN-37202,

1927 - Emigration: Hugh Douglas Willoughby LAWS-17337, (Merchant Navy) Liverpool Lancashire England

1942 - Enlistment: Frank Leslie LAWS-12045, (Plasterer)  Residence Kensington, Victoria Australia

OTHER BIRTHS

1812 - Birth: Henry ROGERS-10682, Bombay India

1854 - Birth: John James GARDINER-35970, West Hartlepool Durham England

1905 - Birth: William John ADAMS-36318, Stoke on Trent Staffordshire England

1920 - Birth: Brian Leslie PARISH-29539,

 OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

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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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