Wednesday 19th September 2018

Wednesday 19th September 2018 - Number 3250

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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 as seen from the 1990's

My late father, John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 27.

Wanderers

There was time to wander while parents were busy, mother shopping and father at work, and every corner of that little town stay clear in my mind. The crumbling cliffs were ideal for climbing and sliding down the dusty gullies if a piece of wood or tin could be found to sit on. Not so good for my white shorts which would acquire an ochre-coloured seat. Resulting in the admonition “You be careful now”.

These cliffs were gradually being eroded by the North Sea and from time to time a part of a garden or even a house would go sliding down. The sea defences were made stronger by extension of the hefty concrete promenade towards the south which is still holding up well. A walk along the beach beyond its end soon brought one to the more exclusive resort of Frinton, with its wide green lawns along the cliff tops which was usually visited once or twice during a holiday.

The northern part of Walton was lower and without cliffs. The end of the High Street came along to the front and the road and seawall went on past a sometimes marshy patch of land, beyond which the road went into a scattered little residential area and then dying out. Here the cliffs had risen again at the golf course where an old brick tower stands at the highest point. This provided a pleasant evening stroll which my father and I often took as far as the Naze.

Felixstowe could be seen across the water as the land on our side ran back to the muddy tidal backwaters behind the coast. These backwaters ran right up behind the town and about an area of about twenty-five acres of them, were cut off from the tides with a dyke and made into a large lake with boats.

This was a main attraction of the town to my father and virtually every morning that was fit, he and I would have a sailing dinghy out and sail the seven seas. His father had been a Sea Captain and, I am told that only his mother’s insistence had prevented my father, not going to sea as a young man. As I grew older I was allowed a dinghy to myself and although I was never to become an addict I can understand how others do so. Being regulars and known to the boatman. We were allowed to sail on days when the wind was too strong to risk his dinghies in the hands of strangers and these were the days when it became quite fun.

The attraction of boats also ruled one of our regular outings during the holidays. We always went at least once to Brightlingsea, a slightly scruffy town famous only for boatyards and shrimp teas. It has always been an ocean racing centre but was not particularly prosperous in those days, there were wonderful boats on offer, at giveaway prices. We didn’t buy one.

We just walked in the sun and looked, ate our shrimp tea and perhaps an ice cream, then trundled back to Walton. At Dedham however, another regular outing we could get a rowing boat on the Stour and glide through Constable’s countryside between the pollarded willows in the soft June sunshine. This was I fear, my father’s holiday, again just he and I went boating, but then we were off in the car to Flatford for a strawberry tea amongst the wasps beside the bridge. It is all still there but somehow the rural peace is not the same since everyone spouted wheels.

All the countryside was more rural, as a much smaller number of townsfolk invaded it every weekend. All the corn was cut with a reaper-binder of course and stood up in stooks in the field.

Until it was cut East Anglia was a mass of red poppies, more beloved by the holidaymaker than the farmer. Farming had been depressed for some years and old cottages were being condemned as unfit for human habitation.

It is sad to think it is only the war which brought back a sort of prosperity or at least a brief understanding of the need to grow our own food which now seems to be fading away again.

The thoughts of the corn, takes me back to another little holiday, I spent in the countryside. In truth, mum and dad wanted a holiday on their own and Lottie took Mary and me for a week, to her parents’ cottage in Bocking which really was rural. The water came from a long handled pump outside the back door and the loo was by the wash-house in the garden.

It was late summer but any need for light was met by oil lamps and candles. Little did I know that these were the normal facilities for most of rural England and that for many places they would stay unchanged for another thirty years.

It was harvest time and the horse-drawn reaper-binder went round and round the field throwing out sheaves and driving the ever present rabbits into the centre, until they made a run for it and someone got rabbit pie for dinner.

Wages were meagre, but food was important, there was rhubarb under the apple tree and more cabbages than roses in the garden. There were plums in the garden too and home-made wine in the kitchen cupboard, set into the wall alongside the black kitchen range.

There were no pavements through the village. There was after all virtually no traffic, a few yards along the road on the other side from the cottage a path led down to the lazy river with its carpet of water lilies, raising their bright yellow flowers above the dark green leaves. A few cows grazed the meadow beside the river avoiding the buttercups and leaving their squelchy traps, for the unwary walker behind them. I didn’t wonder then, what it was like there in the winter time.

Another little holiday that was different turned up when my Uncle Albert and Aunt Louise were home on leave and they were going to spend a little while in a cottage in Cornwall. Their son Frank was a little younger than me, and I was invited to come along so that we could spend some time together.

It was the only long train journey, I had taken as a small boy, about ten years old I think, although the steam trains were always rushing past the bottom of our garden at home, I was unimpressed by the train journey. Once it had chugged out of Paddington the countryside rushed by, very different from travelling in the car.

Leaving our smoke and smuts behind us we dashed on through green fields until we came to the red soil of Devon, with its sheep smeared with the colour, then into the less lush Cornwall.

The cottage was at Crantock on the north coast but not the bleak and barren part. It was tiny and ancient, just a few stone and thatch cottages and a church, but the memory of it, is of the peace of the village and the emptiness of the beach, where we were able to swipe a golf ball along without fear of hitting someone.

My uncle was reputed to be keen on photography and certainly had an enormous quarter plate camera, which no doubt was capable of taking excellent photographs, he must have needed a pantechnicon to carry it around. He was the up-market brother, whereas my dad was the up-to-date brother and had a little folding roll film camera just for holiday snaps.

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 19th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS and BAPTISMS

1773 - Baptism: Ann LAWES-23765, Bishopstone Wiltshire England

1779 - Christen: Thomas LAWES-11962, Ryton Durham England

1810 - Birth: Cuthbert Umfreville LAWS -34640, (Solicitor) Ovington/ham Northumberland England

1824 - Baptism: Thomas LAWES-31974, (Loan Office Keeper) Andover Hampshire England

1854 - Baptism: David LAWES-1518, (Property Owner) South Shields, Durham, England

1862 - Birth: Sophia LAWS-3791, Tivetshall St Mary Norfolk England

1876 - Birth: William H LAWS-48085, (Ag Lab)

1876 - Birth: John William Miller LAWS-46248, (RAF Service Number: 283688) Hingham Norfolk England

1880 - Baptism: Hannah Elizabeth LAWS-3566, Bedlington Northumberland England

1889 - Birth: Albert LAWS-42432, (Valet)

1906 - Birth: Percy Charles LAWS-36939, (Car Body Mounter) Dartford Kent England

1919 - Birth: Jessie Maud LAWS-35733,

MARRIAGES

1776 - Marriage: James SACKRY or SACKREE-6257 and Kesia LAWS-6258, Folkestone Kent England

1785 - Marriage: John LAWES-21195 (Ag Lab) and Elizabeth WARREN-21196,

1807 - Marriage: Samuel HASSELL-27028 and Elizabeth LAWS-27029, Dymchurch Kent England

1810 - Marriage: Michael LAWS-9679 and Marion CHRISTINE-9680, St.George Hannover Square
Middlesex England

1823 - Marriage: James CATAMOLE-36355 and Phoebe LAWS-36354, Bungay Suffolk England

1825 - Marriage: Joseph LAWS-3509 (Farmer 48 Acres) and Sophia CORY-3510, Stratton Strawless Norfolk England

1842 - Marriage: James RICHARDSON-3105 and Susannah LAWS-3175, Ramsgate Kent England

1877 - Marriage: Benjamin Jonathan (Brickmaker) LAWS-27438 and Amy LOVE-29476, Sydney New South Wales Australia

1878 - Marriage: Thomas Augustus MATTINGLEY-23017 and Paulina Frances LAWS-23016,

1885 - Marriage: Edward MARSHALL-40432 and Eliza Alice LAWS-40431, Headley Hampshire England

1888 - Marriage: James Newton CADWELL-25134 and Frances M LAWS-25133, Hammond, Lake County Indianana United States

1891 - Marriage: Charles Edward LAWES-49078 (Railway Platelayer and Elizabeth LUFF-28261 (Sick Nurse), Hersham Surrey England

1906 - Marriage: Elgin LAWS-17662 (Physician And Surgeon) and Louisa Ellen ROGERS-28312, Liverpool Lancashire England

1917 - Marriage: Albert LAWS-3198 (Farmer) and Lillian WRIGHT-33328, Shepparton Victoria Australia

1940 - Marriage: Max Carlton WHITE-22684 and Cecile Amelia LAWS-22683,

DEATHS

1832 - Burial: Isabella LAWES-28041, Forton Hampshire England

1833 - Burial: John LAWES-28040, Forton Hampshire England

1926 - Burial: William Grundy LAWS-32824, Ta'Braxia Cemetery MALTA

1930 - Death: Jeter W LAWS-49668, Old Fort, McDowell, North Carolina, United States

1931 - Death: Margaret Ellen LAWS-19549, Brighton, Washington County Iowa United States

1944 - Death: Raymond LAWS-22323, (ARMY Private 14391045)

1947 - Death: George LAWS-39058, South Shields, Durham, England

1951 - Burial: Ralph LAWS-16789, (PVT CO.B, 7TH BN TC US Army) Knoxville Tennessee United States

1960 - Marriage: Henry Arthur LAWES-20055 (Milkman) and Doris SUMMERFIELD-20061, Hendon Middlesex England

1960 - Death: John Frederick LAWES-40282, Weymouth Dorset England

1992 - Burial: Elwood Wayne LAWS-22772, Huntingdon Utah United States (City Cemetery)

2011 - Death: Dulcie Joyce LAWS-21273, Kempsey, Bundara New South Wales Australia

2012 - Death: Anna Jane LAWS-41740,

2014 - Death: Anne Bernadette LAWS-27489,

MISCELLANEOUS

1906 - Residence: Elgin LAWS-17662, (Physician And Surgeon ) Liverpool Lancashire England

1915 - Enlistment: Henry LAWS-28813, (ARMY Private 266080 POW) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1939 - Residence: John LAWES-40399,(Grocery Shop Assistant) Salisbury, Wiltshire England

1939 - Residence: William Curl (Fitters Mate) LAWES-37334, Greenwich Kent England

1952 - Residence: Jacqueline Ann Toynbee LAWES-40471, Parkstone Dorset England

1952 - Residence: Joan Toynbee Ellen WILLIAMS-40470, Southampton Hampshire England

1952 - Residence: Ralph Bousquet LAWES-40469, (BOAC E/O) Parkstone Dorset England

OTHER BIRTHS and BAPTISMS

1817 - Christen: Mary MARTIN-2930, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1851 - Birth: Emily NASH-13796, Walworth Surrey England

1860 - Birth: Elizabeth Ann BOYES-22628, Houghton le Spring Durham England

1867 - Birth: Caroline Ellen SIMMONS-42355, West Hoathly Sussex England

1892 - Birth: Mary GOLDING-36020,

1900 - Baptism: Evelyn Fanny POTHOW-31299, Quemerford, Calne Wiltshire England

1903 - Birth: Howard Leslie BARRATT-12094, Peasdown St John Somersetshire England

OTHER MARRIAGES

1868 - Marriage: Richard JENNINGS-22182 (Colliery Labourer) and Emma BRAMHAM-41186, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

1874 - Marriage: Edward HARKER-21990 (Husbandman) and Mary Ann WIGHTMAN-21991 (Servant) , Blennerhasset Cumberland England

OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS

1764 - Death: Elizabeth GILES-25748, Tarrant Hinton Dorset England

1918 - Burial: George JENNINGS-17453, (Labourer) Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

1959 - Death: Alice Maud Mary MORRIS-17672, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1995 - Death: Ethel Phyllis WILKINS-31780, Benfleet Essex England

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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

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