Wednesday 5th September 2018 - Number 3237

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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 13.

 PEOPLE  Inovations

     Houses had no garages, and the car was housed about half a mile away where a garage proprietor had a few lockup garages besides his scruffy workshop. The Morris was only used at weekends and holidays and although it was a lovely toy for my dad I thought it a bit of a bore and escaped from it as soon as I was old enough to ride a bike on the road.

    Perhaps the most innovative thing about our car was, that my mother learnt to drive it, scarcely the done thing at that time. But by the time I was ten she had one of her own, a little open-topped Singer which was far more to my taste and could be pushed up to 60 mph. I remember her saying “Don’t tell your father!”

    The road system was getting some improvement in the twenties and a few new roads space was left for a second carriageway, often it got left for another thirty years.

    At some point my father changed his Morris for a Chrysler which went much faster, too fast in fact to get-round the Anglo-Saxon corners of East Anglia, where he wrote it off, and landed himself in hospital for a day or two, seat belts were a much later innovation, after that he got a sedate Hillman which lasted the rest of his days.    

     In the High Street there were those who offered oddments from doorways, matches and lemons spring to mind. Along the gutters the sandwich board men, walked, enclosed in their advertising matter or calls to repentance, sometimes singly sometimes in threes or fours in a straggling crocodile.

    Occasionally there was an organ grinder on the corner of a side street, winding his handle and his mechanical music would add to the general street noise. There is an impression of noisiness in the High Street. Apart from the street traders there were trams clattering on their steel rails, horses were iron shod and so were the wheels of most of the carts. Lorries vans and cars were less well silenced and there was even the occasional Steam traction engine. However there were no motor scooters, and the few motorcycles did not roar around.  

    One faint memory of Green Lanes is of the buses with their cabs shrouded in wire netting to protect the volunteer drivers during the National Strike of 1926. What a good job there were no television cameras to encourage the attackers.

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 5th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1784 - Baptism: Sally LAWS-19571, Billerica, Middlesex County Massachusetts United States

1786 - Baptism: Francis LAWS-19522, Billerica, Middlesex County Massachusetts United States

1821 - Baptism: Thomas Moors LAWES-1307, (Merchant/Gentleman)  Poole Dorset England

1831 - Birth: Jemima LAWS-11881, Hevingham Norfolk England

1871 - Birth: Hannah LAWS-3111, (Servant)  Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1872 - Birth: John LAWES-48544,  (Brickworks Engineer Retired & Widowed) 

1879 - Birth: Edith Hannah LAWS-7553, Bolam Northumberland England

1880 - Birth: Henry LAWS-43560, (Port Labourer)  

1886 - Birth: Charles Goodwin LAWS-29929, - (Machine Worker in Sugar factory) 

1889 - Birth: John Oscar LAWS-41775, (US ARMY Private) Kentucky United States

1889 - Birth: Alfred William LAWS-15513, Camberwell Surrey England

1894 - Birth: Anthony John Knight LAWS-12884, (Australian Army Private V4815)  Rochester Kent England

1894 - Birth: Alice Edith LAWS-3459, (Apprentice dressmaker)  Norfolk England (Machine Worker in Sugar factory) LAWS-29929, 

1902 - Birth: William Bryan LAWS-23006, Burkett, Coleman County Texas United States

1904 - Birth: Mary Olivia LAWS-34794, Birtley Durham England

1904 - Birth: Jessie Murray LAWS-5944, Backworth Northumberland England

1906 - Birth: Ivy LAWS-35814, 

1915 - Birth: Mary H LAWES-47463, (Printers Machinist)  

1916 - Birth: Joan A LAWES-49261,  (Children's Nurse) 

1919/20 - Birth: Arthur George LAWS-33936, Penang Malaya

MARRIAGES

1685 - Marriage: Johannes HODGSON-10651 and Barbara LAWS-10650, Longbenton Northumberland England

1689 - Marriage: Johannes SUMMERBELL-27000 and Dorethea LAWS-27001, Ponteland Northumberland England

1829 - Marriage: William LAWS-10735 (Chief Manager at Distillery)  and Eliza BRIGNELL-10741, London Middlesex England (St GHS)

1869 - Marriage: John COLLIER-7206 and Elizabeth LAWS-7207, Lambeth Surrey England

1885 - Marriage: Joseph Samuel Arthur LANGHAM-11502 and Lillian LAWS-11496, Cowra New South Wales Australia

1896 - Marriage: James Henry LAWS-5180 (Railway Clerk)  and Lilly CHILDS-5181, 

1908 - Marriage: Stephen LAWS-31214 (Gardener) of Highgate and Lucy Alethea BRITCHFORD-31215, at Highgate Middlesex England, where she resided at The Eagles, West Hill, Highgate Middlesex England (Another case of Lady Chatterley's Lover, perhaps?)

1914 - Marriage: Parker Garth LAWES-24586 and Una Lily Ann MARTIN-24587, Kingston SA Australia

1917 - Marriage: Ralph Wilson LAWS-10891 (Haulage mechanic)  and Mabel Isabel TAYLOR-32984, Lewisham Kent England

1924 - Marriage: Clarence Lauback KIMBER-25108 and Wilma Elenora LAWS-25107, 

1936 - Marriage: Archibald Alfred LAWS-32646 (Railway Heavy Goods Driver) and Elsie MOULE-32647, (Shop Manageress Dyers & Cleaners)  Wolverhampton Staffordshire England

DEATHS

1832 - Death: Elizabeth LAWS-13851, Hockwold Cum Wilton Norfolk England

1854 - Death: William Henry LAWS-19578, Ripley Indiana United States

1862 - Death: John LAWS-6842, 

1891 - Death: Sarah LAWS-2994, (Spinster)  Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland

1896 - Death: Abner LAWS-36643, 

1916 - Death: Ernest George LAWES-22190, (ARMY Private 234130)  

1926 - Death: Sarah Margareta LAWS-25106,

1937 - Burial: James Milton LAWS-19501, (Farmer)  Lebo, Coffey Kansas United States

1943 - Death: George Henry LAWS-44179, (Manager of Billiard Club) Thornton Heath Surrey England

1944 - Death: Thomas LAWS-19334, Los Angeles CA United States

1949 - Death: John Frederick Albert LAWS-28842, (Manager General Outfitters) Camberwell Surrey England & Residence Peckham Surrey England

1966 - Death: William George LAWS-33314, Helston Cornwall England

1979 - Death: Victor Sidney Lawrence LAWES-20302, Southampton Hampshire England

1997 - Burial: Le-Mon L LAWS-16752, (PV2 US Army)  South Minneapolis Minnesota United States

2002 - Death: George Jamieson LAWS-19733, 

2009 - Death: David Bearman LAWS-43112, Bath Somerset England

2016 - Burial: David Mitchell LAWES-43201, Shaldon Devonshire England

MISCELLANEOUS

1914 - Enlistment: George LAWS-28795, (ARMY L/Cpl 3545)  St.Paul's Churchyard

1933 - Military: Frederick Charles Victor Killbronnau LAWS-7409, (Army Major/RAF Wg Cmdr OBE CB CBE)  Placed on retired list at own request

OTHER BIRTHS

1602 - Baptism: Leonard MATON-12064, (Reverend Vicar of Durrington Wiltshire) at Milston Wiltshire England

1773 - Baptism: Thomas CHARTERS-14150, Torpenhow Cumberland England

1874 - Birth: Annie Elizabeth M BURLES-14857, Southend-on-Sea Essex England

1897 - Birth: Victoria Edith Kate MOORE-29610, 


1898 - Birth: John RICHARDSON-22503, 

1906 - Birth: Ivy GARRARD-31761, 

1915 - Birth: Dorothy C PARFITT-48637, (Florist) 

OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1878 - Burial: Maria NEWELL-14823, South Acton Middlesex England (St Mary)

1908 - Death: Edward George BRITCHFORD-31216, (Salesman) 

1928 - Burial: Hugh Walter DICKSON-3649, (Engraver) Williamsburg, Franklin Co, Kansas United States

1985 - Death: Ida May JONES-41701, 

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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