Thursday 6th September 2018 - Number 3238

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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 14.

 PEOPLE  Innovations 2.

As well as the main shopping area in Green Lanes there were a few little shops around the

Railway station. The sweet shop was to me the most important, and in those far-

far-off days, many sweetshops kept a halfpenny and farthing box with a selection of sweets

at those prices for kids with pocket money. It is a sign of of changing times that 

as I type this computer throws out the word Farthing as not being in the dictionary.

Besides cars, the other result of the internal combustion engine was the increasing 

number of aircraft in the sky. With development forced ahead of WWI, they had 

now become a practicable thoughan expensive form of transport. Small air shows 

with two or three small aeroplanes would tour the summer holiday resorts seeking 

out a suitable field to set up their circus.

They would offer a quick circuit of the town at five bob a go and give a little show 

of aerobatics. With a small charge for admission to the field they struggles on for a 

few years before going broke or in a very few cases managed to get an airline or charter business going.

As well as these little efforts, the RAF put up an annual show at Hendon which was 

very impressive at the time though very small beer by today’s standards. In my late 

schooldays I went there on my bike and found a hillside field overlooking the 

aerodrome where one could see it all for free. The highlight of the show was a low 

wing monoplane, probably a prototype Hurricane which came through a shallow 

dive at over three hundred miles an hour. There were still ten years to wait for the 

first jet engines.

Another lusty industry of my early years was the cinema. The silent screen with its 

overworked pianist trying to provide theme music was just beginning to give way

to the ‘talkies’. Charlie Chaplin carried on without a word eating his boots in the 

film ‘The Gold rush’ but the soundtrack was with us and although it all continued 

to be black and white the musical was on its way and the cinema was moving into 

its few decades of boom years.

One of the more treasured toys, of my under ten years, was a movie projector and 

its few cans of film. It had no motor and had to be cranked by hand, like the early

movie cameras, but it was well made and worked well. The was no eight millimetre

 then and it used the full size 35mm so the films were short and ran perhaps five or

 ten minutes. I knew them all off by heart before long but this did not detract from 

the fascination of something that actually worked

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 6th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1787 - Birth: Shadrach LAWS-14114, Fauquier Virginia United States

1795 - Christen: Samuel LAWS-6971, (Ag Lab) Littleton Middlesex England

1812 - Birth: John LAWS-3654, Mt.Holly, Rutland Vermont United States

1823 - Birth: John LAWS-21063, (Coal Miner) Gateshead Durham England

1840 - Birth: Robert LAWS-5936, (Coal Miner) Longbenton Northumberland England

1857 - Birth: Alice Maria LAWS-21790, Darlinghurst New South Wales Australia

1892 - Birth: Francis Reginald LAWES-38307, (Chief Yeoman of Signals Royal Navy J9658) Stokenham Devonshire England

1892 - Birth: Alice Mary LAWS-21516, (Drapery Assistant)  Litcham Norfolk England

1892 - Birth: George Henry LAWS-44179, (Manager of Billiard Club)  Kenley Surrey England

1896 - Birth: William Thomas LAWS-30377,  (Electric Storekeeper - Canadian Army Private) Gaspe, Quebec CANADA

1899 - Birth: Owen Faulkner LAWES-26173, (ARMY Colonel)  Farnham Surrey England

1899 - Birth: William Cornelius LAWS-7391, (Assitant Engineer Mim The Gas Light & Coke Co) Failsworth Lancashire England

1912 - Birth: Alfred LAWS-38022, Downham Cambridgeshire England

MARRIAGES

1850 - Marriage: William LAWES-30631(Carpenter)  and Susanna MOISEY-30632, Westminster Middlesex England

1874 - Marriage: Mathias Robert Seppings LAWS-8264  (Army Officer) and Aurelie Emilie S BONARME-8566, Paris FRANCE

1880 - Marriage: J DOWNLAND-35377 and Eveline LAWS-35376, 

1902 - Marriage: William James LAWS-34336 (Gardener)  and Edith Sarah CASE-34337 (Spinster), Parkstone Dorset England

1913 - Marriage: Walter A LAWS-25271 (Gary Fire Fighter)  and Matilda SCHLICHER-25272, Crown Point, Lake County Indiana United States

1913 - Marriage: Harry Mead LAWS-13609 (Reverend)  and Rose Harriett FORD-13615, Islington Middlesex England

1920 - Marriage: Lionel Major LAWS-31435 (Engineer)  and Grace Margurite SHRIMPTON-31436, Marylebone Middlesex England

1933 - Marriage: Archie ANDERSON-3322 and Vera Amy LAWS-3269, 

DEATHS

1879 - Death: William Hart LAWS-13803, Johnson, Kane County. Utah United States

1888 - Death: James LAWS-3692, (Shepherd)  Grafton New South Wales Australia

1926 - Burial: Sarah Margareta LAWS-25106, Minoa, Onondaga County New York United States

1933 - Death: Cuthbert George LAWS-3013, (Barrister) Wimbledon Surrey England

1948 - Admon: Henry William LAWS-39061, 

1950 - Death: Walter Christian LAWS-39102, (Railway Wagon Repairer)  Leeds West Yorkshire England

1950 - Death: William Randall LAWS-19719, Fayette County  West Virginia United States

1953 - Death: Julia Rose May LAWES-34349, Dorchester Dorset England

1953 - Residence: Julia Rose May LAWES-34349, West Lulworth Dorset England

1985 - Probate: Lily Alice LAWS-43007, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1987 - Death: Ray LAWS-14581, 

MISCELLANEOUS

1854 - Occupation: James A  LAWS-27183, (Mate on Ship) 

1915 - Enlistment: George Alfred LAWS-9081, (Aircraft Factory Storekeeper) White City Middlesex England

1933 - Residence: Frederick Charles Victor Killbronnau LAWS- (Army Major/RAF Wg Cmdr OBE CB CBE) 7409, South Kensington Middlesex England

OTHER BIRTHS

1866 - Birth: Charles Steven MACLAREN-46596, 

1879 - Birth: Adelaide Ellen GREENACRE-33828 (Cellarman) Kings Lynn Norfolk England

1880 - Birth: Bertie John William BRODIE-37259, (GPO Porter) 

1883 - Birth: Carolina Fermann KNOTT-26881, (Dressmaker)  Sheffield West Yorkshire England

1884 - Birth: William H HAWBECKER-22582, Naperville Illinois United States

1891 - Birth: Stanley RYLAND-13, 

1909 - Birth: Eleanor SMITH-36977, Provo Utah United States

1916 - Birth: Florence Alice BENT-20058, St Pancras Middlesex England

THER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1833 - Burial: Ann Mary BUNN-13781, Beeston Norfolk England

1924 - Death: Joseph ANDERSON-40364, Jersey City Heights New Jersey United States

1924 - Burial: Thomas HATTON-24699, Newnham Gloucestershire England

1974 - Cremation: Walter WEBBER-14165, (Chemists Assistant)  Scunthorpe Lincolnshire England

1987 - Death: May GOULD-43102, East Dereham Norfolk England

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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