Wednesday 12th September 2018 - Number 3244

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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 20.

 SCHOOLS & EDUCATION 3

There was a walled large kitchen garden which had one wall removed and then had been desecrated with asphalt to provide a playground and tennis courts.

Around its walls, the beautifully trained espalier apple and pear trees had survived to bloom in the spring without the hope of ripening fruit in the autumn.

In those days one paid fees for attendance at Grammar schools, though these could be waived if a family income was a bit tight. At fifteen guineas a term, or was it a year, it seems chicken feed now but for many, the amount was a big lump to find.

School uniform was obligatory of course and included caps for boys and hats for girls – to hide their pretty curls.

Minchenden was, like the Elementary school, one of the schools which were co-educational probably about half and half, and one soon found out that boys and girls were, pretty equal at academic subjects, and that some of the girls tended to work harder.

There was a theory that boys worked harder in separate schools without the girls to distract them, but I doubt the truth of it, indeed it seems possible that the boys in the boys only schools had to put more time and effort into finding and meeting girls instead of working.

We were in general, fortunate with the school staff, a mix of types and personalities like any group, but as competent as any and better than a lot. They too must have been influenced by the pleasant working conditions and relaxed but disciplined mood of the unit. It was small by present day standards, some four hundred pupils, quite enough to my mind even if it can be done more cheaply with twice as many.

George Bernard Shaw’s, comments about doing and teaching are very true so often, but we had both, Art and Music teachers about whom the reverse was true. - They could do but not teach.

It must have been frustrating in the extreme for them. The rest of the staff must have had their frustrations too with the need to produce exam results from pupils with their normal share of laziness and only interested in only a few subjects. 

However produce results they did, by dint of much note scribbling and even the unorthodox use of a French text of the New Testament for religious instruction

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 12th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1673 - Birth: William LAWS-35881, Manokin Maryland United States

1806 - Birth: Martha LAWES-272, Costessey Norfolk England

1840 - Birth: William Harrison LAWS-12511, Illinois United States

1846 - Birth: Richard William LAWS-4331, (Clerk to Copper Mining Company) Pimlico Middlesex England

1865 - Birth: Elbert Martin LAWS-42202, Jonesborough, Maurey County Tennessee United States

1869 - Birth: Catherine Annie LAWES-12814, Romsey Hampshire England

1873 - Birth: Percy Murray LAWS-11499, Brisbane Queensland Australia

1875 - Birth: Walter LAWS-3065, (Druggist & Photographic Dealer)  South Shields, Durham, England

1880 - Christen: William George LAWES-2676,  (Infant 8 mth old) Felthorpe Norfolk England

1886 - Birth: Anna Jane LAWS-19792, 

1896 - Birth: Jessie V LAWS-20468, 

1898 - Birth: Edward G LAWES-49065, (Postman) 

1902 - Birth: Frank LAWES-48210, (Garage Proprietor)  

1902 - Birth: Thomas W LAWS-44883 (Hydraulic Pump)

1902 - Birth: William Claude LAWS-41145, Kingston Surrey England

1905 - Birth: Matthew Dobson LAWS-46299, (Wooden Pattern Maker) Gateshead Durham England

1905 - Birth: Albert Edward LAWS-18561, (CPO P/K 63728)  South Shields, Durham, England

1906 - Birth: Trentis Carroll LAWS-6712, Sikeston, Scott, Missouri United States

1907 - Birth: William Henry LAWES-34242, (Coal Miner below ground) Tycroes Pantyffynnon Carmarthenshire Wales

1914 - Birth: Lawrence Owen LAWS-18259, (Boeing Technician Instructor)  Heathbridge, New Jersey United States

1920 - Birth: Reginald LAWES-47612, (Apprentice Railway Engineer) 

MARRIAGES

1806 - Marriage: James LOWE-10632 and Anne LAWS-10633, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1826 - Marriage: George BOLTON-37618 (Servant) and Mary Ann LAWS-37617 (Spinster of Otley WRY), Leeds West Yorkshire England

1872 - Marriage: William Harrison LAWS-12511 and Ida Mae DOW-12512, Boulder Colorado United States

1875 - Marriage: Harry Augustus LAWES-250 (Commercial traveller) and Elizabeth Margaret TABRAR-39860, Walworth Surrey England

1891 - Marriage: William Henry LAWS-33697 and Mary Elizabeth PURDUE-33698, 

1928 - Marriage: Clyde Parker LAWS-16461 and Nina May SMITH-16462, Mt Vernon, Franklin County Texas United States

DEATHS 

1797 - Death: Ann LAWES-21197, Homington Wiltshire England (St Michaels)

1830 - Death: Frances Theodora LAWS-2874,(6 mths old)  Kirton Suffolk England

1884 - Death: Elma Abia LAWS-13854, Johnson, Kane County. Utah United States

1901 - Death: Cuthbert LAWS-23574, (Infant)  Gateshead Durham England

1907 - Death: James LAWS-17042, (Coal Miner - Hewer)  Backworth Northumberland England

1915 - Death: Phillip LAWS-22318, (ARMY Private 9394) 

1934 - Death: Mary Ann LAWS-7295, (Spinster) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1941 - Death: Brenda S LAWS-19756, Harlan County Kentucky United States

1975 - Death: Katherine Lilian LAWS-45644, Billingham Durham England

MISCELLANEOUS

1914 - Enlistment: George Alfred LAWS-28798, (ARMY Private S4095)  Winchester Hampshire England

1918 - Military Service: Adrian Earl LAWS-46226 (Locomotive Fireman on Frisco Railroad) , Sherman, Grayson, Texas, United States

OTHER BIRTHS

1763 - Birth: Elizabeth RICHMOND - SMITH-3512, Heigham Norfolk England

1854 - Birth: Mathias Alfred HERCOCK-45456, Whissendine RUTLAND England

1857 - Birth: William FITZ-HENRY-37578, (Corn Porter)  Shadwell Middlesex England

1873 - Birth: Flora BARNETT-23265, 

1880 - Birth: Fred JENNINGS-7154, (Nurseryman)  Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

1881 - Birth: Carrie Mae WELLER-46425, Washington County Maryland United States

1899 - Birth: Amy Pricilla DUVAL-38700,

 OTHER MARRIAGES 

1915 - Marriage: William Joseph SMITHSON-14201 (Innkeeper)  and Rachel HARKER-14200, Wigton Cumberland England

OTHER DEATHS

1917 - Death: Lena J PIERCE-45692, Ontario, San Bernardino California United States

1981 - Death: William BASS-12098, 

1967 - Death: John Charles TWEDDLE-3323, 

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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