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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 a from the 1990's
by
My late father, John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 31
The school journeys abroad were more of a revelation than the camps. Package holidays had not yet been dreamed up and although the wealthy might holiday in the South of France or you could ‘Join the Army and see the world’, the general urge to travel was only just beginning.
I recall a book called ‘France on ten pounds’ but only a few had the inclination, the time, and the ten pounds, to follow its inviting advice. Trips by school parties must have whetted the appetite of many in the latter part of the years between the wars.
We went to Paris in 1937, the year of the big Paris Exhibition. It was immediately evident that our French was not their French, understanding some of the written signs seemed to be out limit. As well as the historic buildings of the city which are compulsory viewing for all visitors we were able to visit the exhibition, grandiosely laid out with a long vista of lakes and fountains down a slope towards the Eiffel Tower.
The contents of the impressive pavilions seemed insignificant compared to the buildings particularly the Soviet building surmounted by enormous figures of a man and a woman holding aloft a hammer and a sickle.
What we really enjoyed, however, was the roller coaster ride which must have made tame all previous efforts in this direction. This and the ascent of the Eiffel Tower, which laid out a map of Paris below us were the highlights of the day of sunshine and unnoticed footslogging.
Of the conventional sights of Paris, the stained glass impressed me most and then the white mass of Sacre’ Coeur on its hill looking down on the city, where the ever-present taxis hurtled round corners blaring on their horns. The traffic must have been light or they could not have done it.
Our few days of cultural duty in Paris done, we had a day or two at Wimereau, on the channel coast, lazing, swimming and sitting on the beach. The beach was vast and flat with a good stiff breeze for the sand yachts which trundled along and across at a fair pace. A new sight for me then, and one which I have never seen since.
Even now there seems to be an air of the past, over the French channel coast resorts, even those destroyed in the war and have been since rebuilt, it would have been impossible to have imagined one to be on the English side of the channel.
In 1938 the school trip was to Italy, this was much more adventurous even apart from the political troubles which led to the war a year later. We left Southgate tube station in the late afternoon to get the train from London and crossed the channel over-night to get to another train, to trundle across France and through the fantastic alpine scenery to Milan in Northern Italy.
Milan was just hot. We duly admired the thousand or so little spires of the enormous cathedral but saw very little or the ornate interior because we were shooed out on account of our short sleeves, Florence and Verona were different, they still are, despite the ravages of the motor car, and even as teenagers, I think we appreciated their beauty and agelessness, despite our considerable interest in ice cream and fizzy bottled orangeade which we had discovered.
You see little in a couple of days but these visits like the Italian ice cream awakened a taste for more.
No loitering, however, on to Venice which was busy being itself, more quietly than it does now. We duly traversed the Grand Canal by Vaporetta, under the Rialto Bridge and on to St Marks Square and the pigeons.
It was memorable and it all matched the guide books so we went on to the Lido for a swim in the Med. This was a real revelation. The water was warm, not like the sea we knew at home. You could stay in without getting cold. This was the discovery of the journey.
More trains, wooden seats, all tracks lead to Rome, a quick glimpse really, a full week spent wandering around Rome in later life only scratched the surface.
More trains, more wooden seats down south to Napoli. This was before the motor car engulfed Italy and I have photos to prove it showing the Naples seafront with nothing more than a couple of policemen and a tricycle ice cream vendor.
We did not see the slums of Naples, but we did visit a home, a hutted camp that is, for orphans who were at least fed and clothed, while they learned to shout for ‘Il Duce’.
We were treated to a small glass of sweet wine and a speech in Italian, pledging eternal friendship, from a uniformed 'gent' who presumably ran the place. Back at the hotel that evening we ate a tables set in the open air under a lemon tree from which I had to pick a small souvenir.
I recall a book called ‘France on ten pounds’ but only a few had the inclination, the time, and the ten pounds, to follow its inviting advice. Trips by school parties must have whetted the appetite of many in the latter part of the years between the wars.
We went to Paris in 1937, the year of the big Paris Exhibition. It was immediately evident that our French was not their French, understanding some of the written signs seemed to be out limit. As well as the historic buildings of the city which are compulsory viewing for all visitors we were able to visit the exhibition, grandiosely laid out with a long vista of lakes and fountains down a slope towards the Eiffel Tower.
The contents of the impressive pavilions seemed insignificant compared to the buildings particularly the Soviet building surmounted by enormous figures of a man and a woman holding aloft a hammer and a sickle.
What we really enjoyed, however, was the roller coaster ride which must have made tame all previous efforts in this direction. This and the ascent of the Eiffel Tower, which laid out a map of Paris below us were the highlights of the day of sunshine and unnoticed footslogging.
Of the conventional sights of Paris, the stained glass impressed me most and then the white mass of Sacre’ Coeur on its hill looking down on the city, where the ever-present taxis hurtled round corners blaring on their horns. The traffic must have been light or they could not have done it.
Our few days of cultural duty in Paris done, we had a day or two at Wimereau, on the channel coast, lazing, swimming and sitting on the beach. The beach was vast and flat with a good stiff breeze for the sand yachts which trundled along and across at a fair pace. A new sight for me then, and one which I have never seen since.
Even now there seems to be an air of the past, over the French channel coast resorts, even those destroyed in the war and have been since rebuilt, it would have been impossible to have imagined one to be on the English side of the channel.
In 1938 the school trip was to Italy, this was much more adventurous even apart from the political troubles which led to the war a year later. We left Southgate tube station in the late afternoon to get the train from London and crossed the channel over-night to get to another train, to trundle across France and through the fantastic alpine scenery to Milan in Northern Italy.
Milan was just hot. We duly admired the thousand or so little spires of the enormous cathedral but saw very little or the ornate interior because we were shooed out on account of our short sleeves, Florence and Verona were different, they still are, despite the ravages of the motor car, and even as teenagers, I think we appreciated their beauty and agelessness, despite our considerable interest in ice cream and fizzy bottled orangeade which we had discovered.
You see little in a couple of days but these visits like the Italian ice cream awakened a taste for more.
No loitering, however, on to Venice which was busy being itself, more quietly than it does now. We duly traversed the Grand Canal by Vaporetta, under the Rialto Bridge and on to St Marks Square and the pigeons.
It was memorable and it all matched the guide books so we went on to the Lido for a swim in the Med. This was a real revelation. The water was warm, not like the sea we knew at home. You could stay in without getting cold. This was the discovery of the journey.
More trains, wooden seats, all tracks lead to Rome, a quick glimpse really, a full week spent wandering around Rome in later life only scratched the surface.
More trains, more wooden seats down south to Napoli. This was before the motor car engulfed Italy and I have photos to prove it showing the Naples seafront with nothing more than a couple of policemen and a tricycle ice cream vendor.
We did not see the slums of Naples, but we did visit a home, a hutted camp that is, for orphans who were at least fed and clothed, while they learned to shout for ‘Il Duce’.
We were treated to a small glass of sweet wine and a speech in Italian, pledging eternal friendship, from a uniformed 'gent' who presumably ran the place. Back at the hotel that evening we ate a tables set in the open air under a lemon tree from which I had to pick a small souvenir.
Fini
Here's a family who misses you dearly,
In a home where you used to be;
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 23rd SEPTEMBER
(Please note all spelling is British English)
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1621 - Baptism: Ellinor LAWS-6429, Holbeton Devonshire England
1856 - Birth: William John LAWS-24406, (RN 88527) Landport Hampshire England
1875 - Birth: Frederick William LAWES-24479, (RN 278717) Hornington Wiltshire England
1876 - Birth: John LAWS-43755, (Labourer)
1879 - Birth: Harry E LAWES-36358, (Farm Worker)
1887 - Birth: Edward B LAWS-44691, (Baker Disabled)
1891 - Birth: John LAWS-44758, (Incapacitated Miner)
1901 - Birth: William F LAWES-48219, (Fish Salesman)
1903 - Birth: William Hall LAWS-36614, (Lt Cmdr RN) Widnes Lancashire England
1905 - Birth: Elizabeth Storey LAWS-24179, North Seaton Northumberland England
1907 - Birth: James LAWS-48882, (Colliery Stone Man (Below ground)
1908 - Birth: George Henry LAWS-32763, South Shields, Durham, England
1916 - Birth: Kenneth G LAWES-48516, (Engineers Progress Planner)
1916 - Birth: Sophia LAWS-43943, (Factory Operative)
MARRIAGES & Divorce
1621 - Baptism: Ellinor LAWS-6429, Holbeton Devonshire England
1856 - Birth: William John LAWS-24406, (RN 88527) Landport Hampshire England
1875 - Birth: Frederick William LAWES-24479, (RN 278717) Hornington Wiltshire England
1876 - Birth: John LAWS-43755, (Labourer)
1879 - Birth: Harry E LAWES-36358, (Farm Worker)
1887 - Birth: Edward B LAWS-44691, (Baker Disabled)
1891 - Birth: John LAWS-44758, (Incapacitated Miner)
1901 - Birth: William F LAWES-48219, (Fish Salesman)
1903 - Birth: William Hall LAWS-36614, (Lt Cmdr RN) Widnes Lancashire England
1905 - Birth: Elizabeth Storey LAWS-24179, North Seaton Northumberland England
1907 - Birth: James LAWS-48882, (Colliery Stone Man (Below ground)
1908 - Birth: George Henry LAWS-32763, South Shields, Durham, England
1916 - Birth: Kenneth G LAWES-48516, (Engineers Progress Planner)
1916 - Birth: Sophia LAWS-43943, (Factory Operative)
MARRIAGES & Divorce
1588 - Marriage: Thomas BROTHER-1752 and Cycele LAWES-1753, Norwich Norfolk England
1747 - Marriage: Samuel LAWS-4715 and Margaret ALGERS-4716, Roydon by Diss Norfolk England
1856 - Marriage: John Wesley LAWS-11357 and Susan Jane WILLIAMS-11358,
1910 - Marriage: Frank James LAWES-16085(Artist & Designer) and Florence Beatrice WIDDOWS-36562, Romford Essex England
1916 - Marriage: Albert SPINK-1271 (Gardener) and Lily Maria LAWES-1272, Felthorpe Norfolk England
1922 - Marriage: William Gerald LAWES-5 and Rosa Annie Eleanor INGRAM-6, Surrey England
1933 - Marriage: Romie Marion LAWS-30473 and Mrs Mary DAVIDSON-30477, Weakley County. Tennessee United States
DEATHSand Burials
1893 - Death: William LAWES-(Gentleman) 1285, Quemerford, Calne Wiltshire England
1899 - Burial: Abbet Eli William LAWS-36410 (Infant 8 mths old) , Newtown, Kinson Dorset England
1913 - Death: Richard William LAWS-4331, (Clerk to Copper Mining Company) Brighton Sussex England
1923 - Death: Gwendoline May LAWES-25847,
1928 - Death: Joseph Parry LAWS-4550, (Analytical Chemist) Bayswater Middlesex England
1933 - Death: George Herbert LAWES-756, (Ag Lab) Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England
1936 - Death: Henry Edmond LAWS-42146,
1936 - Death: William Wilson LAWS-7616, (Grocers Traveller) Somersham Suffolk England
1913 - Death: Richard William LAWS-4331, (Clerk to Copper Mining Company) Brighton Sussex England
1923 - Death: Gwendoline May LAWES-25847,
1928 - Death: Joseph Parry LAWS-4550, (Analytical Chemist) Bayswater Middlesex England
1933 - Death: George Herbert LAWES-756, (Ag Lab) Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England
1936 - Death: Henry Edmond LAWS-42146,
1936 - Death: William Wilson LAWS-7616, (Grocers Traveller) Somersham Suffolk England
1950 - Death: Hilda Nellie LAWES-29542, (Sampler)Chiswick Middlesex England
1961 - Death: Leonard Gilbert LAWES-37339, (Insurance Clerk) Surbiton Surrey but Burial: Hull East Yorkshire England
1962 - Death: Cuthbert F LAWS-34510, Sonoma California United States
1972 - Death: George Cruse LAWES-37339, (Burser of Lincoln Coll Oxford since 1953)
1982 - Death: Walter Leslie LAWES-24570, (Baker) Penrith, New South Wales Australia
1985 - Death: Leonard George LAWS-36798, (Farmer/Cowman) Northallerton North Yorkshire England
1985 - Death: Katie Pearl LAWS-19547,
1994 - Death: Staci Michelle LAWS-20458, Fort Smith Arizona United States
2000 - Burial: Ivy Gloria LAWS-25715, (Cashier) Christchurch New Zealand
1961 - Death: Leonard Gilbert LAWES-37339, (Insurance Clerk) Surbiton Surrey but Burial: Hull East Yorkshire England
1962 - Death: Cuthbert F LAWS-34510, Sonoma California United States
1972 - Death: George Cruse LAWES-37339, (Burser of Lincoln Coll Oxford since 1953)
1982 - Death: Walter Leslie LAWES-24570, (Baker) Penrith, New South Wales Australia
1985 - Death: Leonard George LAWS-36798, (Farmer/Cowman) Northallerton North Yorkshire England
1985 - Death: Katie Pearl LAWS-19547,
1994 - Death: Staci Michelle LAWS-20458, Fort Smith Arizona United States
2000 - Burial: Ivy Gloria LAWS-25715, (Cashier) Christchurch New Zealand
1866 - Occupation: Octavius LAWS-27169, (2nd Mate on ship "Racehorse")
1939 - Residence: Roland Victor LAWES-20974, (Flour Millers Clerk) Dover Kent England
1952 - Residence: Ernest John Woodford LAWES-703, (Railway Signalman) Salisbury, Wiltshire England
1939 - Residence: Roland Victor LAWES-20974, (Flour Millers Clerk) Dover Kent England
1952 - Residence: Ernest John Woodford LAWES-703, (Railway Signalman) Salisbury, Wiltshire England
1852 - Birth: Mary Penelope PEARSON-13843, Henderson Co North Carolina United States
1874 - Birth: Lily Rosanna BATTLE-35584, Campsey Ash Suffolk England
1878 - Birth: Harry Charles LAMPORT-28365, Hale Surrey England
1900 - Birth: Alwyn Keith WARREN-25741, (Bishop the right Reverend) Wellington New Zealand
1905 - Birth: Zola M CUNNINGHAM-46565, Mississippi United States
1909 - Birth: Elizabeth EARLS-48870, (At Worsted Mill)
1912 - Birth: Lavinia HUNTER-41019,
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1905 - Death: Marian FORSYTH-7383, (Widow Independent means) Tynemouth Northumberland England
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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.
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