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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1891
My paternal great-grandfather
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'A Child of the Twenties'
A suburban childhood of the Twenties
As seen from the Nineteen Nineties
By
John Robert Laws (1921-2008)
IN THE BEGINNING
PART 7
My mother had just one sister, Alice who lived in Manchester, where her husband Jack was a lecturer in zoology. I only met him once, he had a nasty limp, as a result of Royal Flying Corps service, in WWI. sadly he did not make old bones.
Mother went and visited Alice after he had died she took me with her in her little car to help find the way, 172 miles according to the AA route which we followed.
Alice had a nice house in a pleasant suburb, but before long she returned to her roots in Devon and spent the rest of her years in Kingswear and Brixham.
There was also my uncle Joe, really a cousin of my father, though I think he had been brought up as a brother and was part of a trio of sailing enthusiasts with my dad and his younger brother Albert. The three of them used to go sailing in Devon and Cornwall and my father and Albert managed to acquire wives in the process.
No doubt this put an end to the sailing, but my father still liked to row and after he bought his first car in 1925, he would take me over to the river Lea on a Sunday morning and row from the boathouse at one lock, up to the next lock and back.
Being Sunday, the horse-drawn barges were all at rest and the locks inactive. It was already partly industrial along the river, the canal really, but the marshes were open and flat, crossed by the long new concrete bridge of Lea Bridge Road which led on towards Epping Forest.
Albert and his Cornish wife Louise were in Harbin, in the wilds of Manchuria so we saw them very rarely, I only remember two occasions. A slow boat to China really was slow before the airlines, and the Trans-Siberian railway not a journey for the hurried or the timid though they went that way at least once.
Joe and his wife May lived in a 1920's new semi in Palmers Green and were the relations we saw most. He was a keen gardener, which my father certainly wasn't, but they were pretty good friends and Joe and May had Christmas lunch with us some years.
To a child, Christmas was important of course and the old-time way of feasting in the greatest abundance that funds permitted were still strong. There were no supermarkets and no domestic refrigerators of course, but 'nouvelle cuisine ‘hadn’t been heard of either.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 10th December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1785 - Birth: William LAWS-3514, Hevingham Norfolk England
1820 - Birth: Emma LAWS-4573, Greenwich Kent England
1826 - Birth: George LAWS-25085, Tarling Street, Stepney Middlesex England
1836 - Baptism: Mary Ann LAWS-6246, Stratton Strawless Norfolk England
1864 - Birth: Walter Charles Wesley LAWS-34635, Redfern New South Wales Australia
1874 - Birth: Peter Syme LAWS-46233, Canada
1885 - Birth: Minnie C LAWS-41204, Cabarrus County, North Carolina United States
1893 - Birth: Jonathan LAWS-41734, (Railway Platelayer LNER)
1893 - Birth: Mattie LAWS-19349,
1898 - Birth: George LAWS-43798, (Gas Company Assistant Foreman)
1899 - Birth: Eleanor Dye LAWS-26473, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1903 - Birth: George Mervyn James LAWS-3732, Cowper New South Wales Australia
1906 - Birth: Jessie LAWS-36018, Rhyl Denbighshire Wales
1907 - Birth: George Hunter LAWS-48210, (Motor Driver) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1910 - Birth: Florence Adelaide LAWS-35455,
1913 - Birth: Nora May LAWES-47240, (Apple Packer) Broome Norfolk England
1913 - Birth: Mildred Louise LAWS-45284, Texas United States
1913 - Birth: Edward E LAWS-43326, (Labourer, Public Works Construction)
1920 - Birth: Cissie Irene LAWES-32877, Wisbech Cambridgeshire England
MARRIAGES
1696 - Marriage: Nicholas LAWS-38223 and Mary EVANS-38224, Stepney Middlesex England
1871 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-8998 (Former Mariner) and Mary Ann PAPSON-8999, Folkestone Kent England
1872 - Marriage: John LAWS-6789 (Painter or Printer & former Mariner) and Elizabeth Mary GREEN-8106, Folkestone Kent England
1805 - Death: Henry LAWES-591, St Marylebone Middlesex England
1854 - Death: Ralph LAWS-8593, (Farmer 180 Acres) Breckney Hill, East Heddon Northumberland England
1866 - Burial: Lawra LAWS-35822, Poole Dorset England
1866 - Burial: Lawra LAWS-35822, Poole Dorset England
1897 - Death: John Henry LAWES-178, (Shepherd) Brightwell Berkshire England
1913 - Death: Robert LAWS-24959, Hammond, Lake County, Indiana United States
1928 - Death: George William LAWES-31599, Winchester Hampshire England
1933 - Death: Herbert LAWS-34267, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1938 - Death: Dump LAWS-16503, (PVT US Army 4th battalion 155th Depot Brigade)
1968 - Death: James Francis LAWS-22719, Glen Cove, Colman County, Texas United States
1971 - Burial: Robert Currie LAWS-16617, (SP/4 US Army) Long Island New York
United States
1974 - Death: Arthur Hugh LAWS-42976, Smallholder Tractor Driver Agricultural Labourer) Emneth Norfolk England
1977 - Death: Elberta Fern LAWS-48530, Spokane Washington United States
1987 - Death: Ernest Alfred LAWS-3450, (Motor Cleaner) Spixworth Norfolk England
1993 - Burial: Robert John LAWES-17589, Kingston Ontario Canada
2003 - Burial: Bonnie LAWS-13346, Holy Cross Cemetery, St Croix, Indiana United States
2004 - Death: Logan Hope LAWS-40019, North Carolina United States
2008 - Death: William Robert LAWS-36038,
MISCELLANEOUS
1851 - Residence: Robert Green Edward LAWES-1001, (Hackney Cab Driver)
Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire England
Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire England
1915 - Enlistment: Robert Curtis LAWS-28513, (ARMY Private 27613)
1918 - Discharged: George LAWS-3006, (Canadian Army Private 269640)
OTHER BIRTHS
1863 - Birth: Joseph William SMITH-19919,
1874 - Birth: Minnie Alice SCHOLTEN-24782, Fulton, New York United States
1881 - Birth: Elizabeth PYLE-43881, Darlington Durham England
1881 - Birth: Grace Dorothy HORSLEY-10410, Wanganui, Rangitikei, New Zealand
1882 - Birth: Joseph Leonard (ARMY Private) SEELEY-21662, Brumby Lincolnshire England
1904 - Birth: Cecil Owen MARTIN-14169, Peckham Surrey England
1908 - Birth: Doris May COOK-39428,
1909 - Birth: William Richard George MORRIS-42566, Hartley Kent England
1919 - Birth: William HENDERSON-24047, Ashington Northumberland England
OTHER MARRIAGES
1833 - Marriage: Francis GRIMANI-26172 (Excise Accountant Retired) and Elizabeth MCCLOUGHLIN-26173, Liverpool Lancashire England
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1897 - Death: Emma Matilda GLOVER-4442, Wimbledon Surrey England
1941 - Burial: J Newton (Butcher) Ringgold Cemetery, Maryland United States
1999 - Death: Lena Marie BROWN-16580,
2001 - Burial: Emma GWINN-17063, Wenham Massachusetts United States(Cemetery)
2012 - Death: Winifred Grace MOONEY-14131, Orpington Kent England
(My maternal aunt)
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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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