Saturday 8th September 2018 - Number 3240

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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 16.

 SCHOOLS & EDUCATION

The school was less than a quarter of a mile away. Between parallel side roads of late nineteenth century houses, an oblong block held the separate buildings of the Infant school, the Elementary school and the Grammar school.

It was a gently sloping site with the New River flowing south along the upper western boundary bringing drinking water to London from Hertford.

The infants’ school was between the other two and shared an asphalt playground with the girls of the Elementary school. The boys of the Elementary school had their play ground facing the other road, firmly separated from the girls by a high brick wall on either side of which were built the children’s loos.

The Grammar school was on the downhill side of the block, separated from the rest by a foot passage which ran parallel to the High Street through all the side roads. The iron railings around the school were set in strong brick piers and gated in the same style, a line of Plane trees was well established and was as un-climbable and as sturdy as the railings themselves.

The buildings were no-nonsense and built to last. Plenty of glazed brick and most lower walls of dark colour. Classrooms were built to hold about thirty and the desks and seats all-in-one in pairs.

The first day at school sticks in the memory. It was the first real contact with kids in the mass and the first contact with any authority other than parental. At that time there were no nursery schools or crèches, as mothers, nor indeed, married women, in general, didn’t go out to work.

I started school a month or two after I was five with the worst of the winter out of the way. Mother took me and the Headmistress saw us, having established her identity she passed me over to the class teacher to absorb into the mass. The teacher kept me with her during the morning assembly then brought me into the class, found me a desk, it cannot have been very traumatic as the rest has faded away.

Our lessons as infants were the three R’s punctuated, with drawing and games. The alphabet and tables were chanted in unison. We wrote and made our drawings in chalk on pint-sized blackboards which slotted into the front of the desks. Some kids were bright, and some kids were dim, but everyone learnt, there were no options on offer. 

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 8th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1796 - Birth: William Robert LAWS-37741,

1811 - Baptism: Edward LAWS-37591, Hilgay Norfolk England

1829 - Baptism: Lucinda Ann LAWS-7158, Stepney Middlesex England

1833 - Christen: Sarah LAWS-20018, St Botolph's, without Aldgate Middlesex England

1833 - Birth: Sarah LAWS-20018, Minories City of London

1833 - Baptism: Caroline Ann LAWS-16418, Southwark Surrey England

1839 - Christen: John LAWES-1117, Holbeach Lincolnshire England

1852 - Christen: Katherine E LAWS-3413, St.John Horsley Downs Bermondsey Surrey England

1856 - Birth: Mary Ann Eliza LAWS-10754, Westminster Middlesex England

1860 - Birth: Rosetta LAWES-2510, (Housemaid)  Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England

1878 - Birth: William Willoughby LAWS-2831, (Stockbroker)  Calcutta India

1882 - Birth: John T LAWS-44992, (Motor Driver) 

1883 - Birth: George LAWS-45048, (Colliery Stoneworker)

1885 - Birth: Herbert John LAWS-15686, (Master Carpenter & shopkeeper)  Litcham Norfolk England

1886 - Birth: George E LAWS-44335, (Builders Labourer) 

1897 - Birth: Leonard Syme LAWS-47283, Connecticut, United States

1903 - Birth: Spencer N LAWS-46202, Texas, United States

1905 - Baptism: Elizabeth & John (Twins) LAWS-24377, Ryhope Durham England

1913 - Birth: Harold S  LAWES-49202, (Night Dispatch Clerk (Bakery)

1914 - Birth: Sidney LAWES-49090,  (Bench Fitter)

MARRIAGES

1858 - Marriage: Charles BUTLER-26687 and Elizabeth LAWS-26685, Whittlesey Cambridgeshire England

1858 - Marriage: Samuel Harper RICHES-14287  (Law Stationer) and Emily Jane LAWS-14286,  (Dressmaker) Stepney Middlesex England

1889 - Marriage: Francis Samuel HORROCKS-28577 (Waiter)  and Alice LAWES-925, (Nurse / Spinster) Greenwich Kent England

1900 - Marriage: Edgar Percy Cecil LAWS-5024 (Printers Reader)  and Sarah Charlotte BARRATT-31326, City of London, England

1941 - Marriage: James Frederick LAWS-25340 and Phyllis Adeline BRABON-36151, Townsville Queensland Australia

1941 - Marriage: Gordon Schuler LAWS-27812 (Mechanic)  and Mary Hilda ANDERSON-35267,  (Nurse) New Brunswick Canada

DEATHS

1860 - Death: Margaret LAWS-21611, (Servant)

1891 - Death: Sarah LAWS-34581, Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland

1891 - Death: Sarah LAWS-8216, Bombay India

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

1944 - Death: Norman Alexander LAWS-22317,  (ARMY Trooper 7915590)

1946 - Death: Caroline LAWES-227,

1962 - Death: Florence Mary Whittaker LAWES-39048, Eccles Lancashire England

1963 - Death: Myrtle Annie LAWS-49776, Edmonton Alberta Canada

1965 - Death: Sidney Thomas LAWES-31938, (Bricklayer)  Newport Isle of Wight England
Residence: St Helens Isle of Wight England

1966 - Death: Albert Charles LAWS-12878, (Australian Army)  Rochester Victoria Australia

2014 - Death: Edmund Max LAWS-41444, Lexington North Carolina United States

MISCELLANEOUS

1851 - Occupation: John Henry LAWS-8034, (Master Mariner) 

1935 - Arrival: Leonard John LAWES-26139, (Army Private 17731 7 Sig Coy RE)  Quebec Canada

OTHER BIRTHS

1822 - Baptism: Elizabeth THOMPSON-8716, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1849 - Birth: Sarah Jane FRENCH-4171, (Mariners Wife)  Limehouse Middlesex London

1861 - Birth: Helen DOW-3259, Maffia Victoria Australia

1863 - Birth: John POFFENBERGER-12324, Chewsville, Washington County Maryland United States

1866 - Birth: Eva Louisa HEDGES-24630, Ashbury Berkshire England

1869 - Birth: Alice Anne HOLMAN-23108, Stratford Essex England

1883 - Birth: Annie DOBSON-32271, Gateshead Durham England

1895 - Birth: Ethel D STAFFORD-23134, City of London, England

1900 - Birth: Nancy M R WILEMAN-47993,  (Maria) 

1910 - Birth: Nora L (Filing Clerk) DICKENS-43086, 

1910 - Birth: Reuben W FLETCHER-27590, Granville New South Wales Australia

1915 - Birth: Beryl M FRYER-47848, 

1920 - Birth: John SEWELL-29826, Sunderland Durham England

OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1814 - Death: Isaac GREEDUS-49556, Bethnal Green Middlesex England

1969 - Burial: Frederick JENNINGS-23568, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

2009 - Death: Peggie Jean ALLEN-41697, 

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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