Thursday 13th September 2018 - Number 3245

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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 21.

 SCHOOLS & EDUCATION 4

 Not all the education was in the classroom, there were occasional outside visits, two very contrasting ones, spring to mind. The first to the Roman remains of Verulanium at St.Albans in North West Hertfordshire, and the other to the Ford Car factory at Dagenham in South Essex.

I think I was more impressed with the car factory where it seemed to me that they made everything except the tyres, perhaps there was not a lot of sub-contracting then. The molten metal is poured into sand moulds for the cylinder blocks was a wonderful bit of know-how, even if its roots went back as far as Verulanium.

Although education was fairly broad it became exam orientated as the time went by. The General Schools Certificate with Matriculation exemption was the objective for most of us and there was plenty of homework to be done in the evenings and holidays. I fear we skimped on a lot of it.

Only a few went to University in those days but the Matric served as an exemption from the preliminary exams, of a number of professional bodies as well as being needed before doing the Inter for University entrance.

There were other activities outside school hours and one of my interests was the Astronomical Society. Under the guidance apparently of the woodwork master, a good observatory with a revolving dome was built by the boys and was equipped with an excellent five inch refracting telescope which had at one time belonged to King George V. How it came to us I have no idea, there must have been some sort of tie-up between one of the science masters and the powers that be who arranged it well in advance as the observatory was built to fit it.

Apart from the idle curiosity of looking at the moon and planets, a good deal of useful work was keeping records of sunspots movements and timings of an occultation of stars by the moon. We visited the Greenwich Observatory which was still one of the great observatories of the world although beginning to be out-classed by the hundred inch reflector at Mount Wilson in the United States. The big two hundred reflectors and the radio telescopes were not even on the drawing board.

There was at that time, already speculation about the possibility of space travel and my friend Stan Law and I gave a lecture to our group about it, all carefully mugged up from a book of course. I doubt whether at that time we believed a word of it.

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 13th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1812 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWES-28153, Tanfield Durham England

1812 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-13102, (Coal Miner) South Shields, Durham, England

1847 - Birth: George William LAWS-24452, (Royal Navy 48016)  Buckland, Portsea Hampshire England

1873 - Birth: Mary Catherine LAWS-3187, Murchison Victoria Australia

1877 - Birth: George William LAWS-48145, (Warehouse Night Watchman) 

1877 - Birth: George William LAWS-5885, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1878 - Birth: Charles Issac LAWS-27794, Illinois United States

1883 - Birth: Lewis Edward LAWES-2282, (Warden Sing Sing) Elmion New York New York United States


1892 - Birth: Thomas LAWES-28654 (Casting Cleaner Metal Treatment Department)  Kington Langley Wiltshire England

1892 - Birth: Nancy Elizabeth (Lizzie) LAWS-25487,

1895 - Birth: Joseph T LAWES-48751, (Cowman) 

1908 - Birth: Charles LAWS-48076, (Docker)

1908 - Birth: Mary LAWS-35734,

1908 - Birth: Charles Miller LAWS-21530, (Dock Worker) Hull East Yorkshire England

1909 - Birth: William James LAWS-28825, (Foreman Baker & Confectioner Cake)  Borough Surrey England

MARRIAGES

1761 - Marriage: John LAWES-23757 and Ann SMITH-23760, Bishopstone Wiltshire England

1773 - Marriage: Robert LAWES-1820 and Mary POOLEY-1821, Norwich Norfolk England

1847 - Marriage: William WOOTTEN-33280 and Mary Ann LAWS-33279, St Peter, Eaton Square Middlesex England

1897 - Marriage: Jesse Elias LAWS-27856 and Mary Theresa CISSELL-27859, Perryville, Missouri United States

1922 - Marriage: Walter Brunton AITKEN-40397 and Doris Edna LAWES-38093, Hersham Surrey England

1908 - Marriage: Walter Henry LAWS-9535 (L/Cpl with the 7th BTN Rifle Brigade, (Prince Consorts Own)  and Ada KEMP-33834, Barnsbury Middlesex England

DEATHS 

1868 - Death: Emily LAWES-25835, (1 year 9 mths) 

1880 - Death: George LAWS-6151, (Beerhouse Keeper)  Cliffe Kent England

1892 - Burial: Jane Elizabeth LAWS-28120, (Less than 1 yr old) Stockton-On-Tees Durham England

1930 - Burial: Charles Horace LAWS-2832, Hanwell Middlesex England

1930 - Death: Charles Horace LAWS-2832, Westminster Middlesex England

1930 - Death: Henry Albert LAWES-2003, Beaulieu Hampshire England

1932 - Death: Louisa LAWES-2320, (Widow) Manor House, Dartmouth Devonshire England

1949 - Death: Mary Rose LAWS-20136, Southend-on-Sea Essex England

1949 - Death: Wildia Margaret LAWS-19401, Ventura California United States

1966 - Death: Gladys Lela LAWS-22530, Princeton, Mercer County Missouri United States

1967 - Burial: Gilbert Wilson LAWS-2977, Stockton-On-Tees Durham England

1979 - Death: Harold Stanley LAWES-264, Mississauga Ontario Canada

1980 - Death: Albert Ernest LAWS-14601, Alexandria New South Wales Australia

1983 - Death: Walter Garrard LAWS-35201, Begga New South Wales Australia

1985 - Death: Donald George LAWS-38139, 

1986 - Death: Margaret Eastmuir LAWS-12579, (Royal Australian Air Force 98506) Canberra ACT Australia

1994 - Death: Lucille V LAWS-46571, 

1994 - Death: Dawanna LAWS-20404, Alabama United States

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

2006 - Death: Florence LAWS-23536, St. Francis Hospital, Greenville North Carolina United States

MISCELLANEOUS

1949 - Arrival: Thomas Preston LAWES-43239, Bristol Gloucestershire England

OTHER BIRTHS

1809 - Baptism: Mary Ann LOTHERINGTON-7171, Woolwich Kent England

1853 - Birth: Ellen Louise MOONEY-31550,

1870 - Birth: Alma B CHATBURN-22541, Harlan, Shelby County, Iowa United States

1879 - Birth: Mary Theresa CISSELL-27859, Perry County Missouuri United States

1879 - Birth: Harry REED-2639,

1894 - Birth: Sarah Elizabeth WILLMOTT-39462, Wrexham Denbigh WALES

1908 - Birth: Mary LUNNON-47883,

1912 - Birth: Millie Viola STEELE-5274, West Chester Pennsylvania United States

1915 - Birth: James Victor COOPER-43538, (Electric Wireman)  Weybourne, Erpingham Norfolk England

1920 - Birth: Dottie BLACK-13807, Monticello, San Juan Utah United States



 OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1885 - Death: Polly SHOBERT-13770, Ridgefield, Clarke County Washington United States

1919 - Death: Mary Ann NEWLANDS-10432, Manawatu, Horowhenua, New Zealand

1932 - Death: Louisa BALKHAM-2316, Dartmouth Devonshire England

1940 - Death: Joshua C RUFFNER-46592,

1943 - Death: Albert Charles TRUDGETT-35618, (Tram Conductor)  London SW

1946 - Death: Dorothy Keith ST.CLAIR HUGHES-40113,

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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