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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)
SCHOOL 2
PART 22
SPORT
It was a sign of the changing times in the thirties that while this old pool had no car park, just a cramped bicycle area, the new pool at Enfield had a large car park. The latest pool completed in my schooldays was at New Southgate in Durnsford Road. This was the only one I knew with a full height high diving boards. This kept the pool noticeably colder than the others and it did not become popular except in very hot weather.
WANDERERS
There was little opportunity to wander until going to school, opened-up, new horizons. Once the short walk to school was permitted unaccompanied, and a few friends were known the range of life extended.
The familiar places were visited first, the lake in Finsbury Park with its ducks, swans and boats was known already, but now more time was spent with the slides and swings than feeding the ducks. It cannot always have been summer though, because the lake froze, and the ducks sat back on their tails as they landed.
Once or twice there were even skaters on the ice skating serenely around the island that normally gave the ducks refuge from human intruders. These short periods of snow and ice and frozen lead pipes which burst are all that early memory holds of winter. Toys and books must have pushed the cold and wet into the background. Even pea soup fogs belong to later childhood.
It seems not long till we found there were other open spaces beside Finsbury Park. Another half mile towards London was Clissold Park. Its sole claim to fame was having a smaller boating pond with canoes which children could take out on those rare occasions when enough pocket money had been saved.
The opposite direction was more rewarding. ‘Ally Pally’ stands on its hill looking out over London, through the haze of coal-burning suburbia. Surrounded by its few acres of green it still had its four chateauesque corners intact before Satan unleashed the telly against humanity.
We could wander its empty halls and eat our sandwiches beside the pond (a pond on which I learned to row) while the sun shone. Not far from there were the woods, Queens Wood, and Highgate Woods, shady but not thicketed, a small wanderer’s delight.
To be continued tomorrow
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Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1816 - Birth: Mary LAWS-12114, Norfolk England
1858 - Birth: Mollie B LAWS-30641, Mercer County, Kentucky United States
1866 - Birth: Arthur Frederick LAWS-3362, (Marine Engineer) Gorleston on Sea Suffolk England
Gorleston on Sea on the left bank with Great Yarmouth on the right bank see above)
1878 - Birth: Harriett Elizabeth LAWS-5886, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1890 - Birth: Arthur Curl LAWES-30521, (Road Sweeper) Greenwich Kent England
1894 - Birth: Gilbert Ernest LAWES-38628, (Chemists Dispenser) Handsworth Staffordshire England
1899 - Birth: George LAWES-45328, Margate Kent England
1858 - Birth: Mollie B LAWS-30641, Mercer County, Kentucky United States
1866 - Birth: Arthur Frederick LAWS-3362, (Marine Engineer) Gorleston on Sea Suffolk England
1878 - Birth: Harriett Elizabeth LAWS-5886, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1890 - Birth: Arthur Curl LAWES-30521, (Road Sweeper) Greenwich Kent England
1894 - Birth: Gilbert Ernest LAWES-38628, (Chemists Dispenser) Handsworth Staffordshire England
1899 - Birth: George LAWES-45328, Margate Kent England
1899 - Birth: Violet E LAWES-30126, (Fried Fish Shopkeeper) Margate Kent England
1901 - Birth: Margaret Lilian LAWES-35854, (Shopkeeper Library)
1904 - Birth: Matthew Raine LAWS-43543,
1905 - Baptism: Arthur Richard John LAWS-48150, (Inspector PO Eng Dept Telecommunications)
Dover Kent England
1906 - Birth: Leslie Mark LAWS-36754, (Grocer Provision Wine & Spirit Shop Manager)
Islington Middlesex England
1906 - Birth: Herbert LAWES-36403, (RAF 847151910 RAF Chigwell)
1907 - Birth: Edgar George LAWES-35938, (Radio Dealer) Exmouth Devonshire England
1911 - Birth: Agnes Emily LAWS-42497,
1911 - Birth: Frederick R H LAWS-42404, LAWES-12056, (Air Raid Shelter Assembler)
Cwmbran Glamorgan WALES
1914 - Birth: Allan Spencer (RAAF 418853) Melbourne, Victoria Australia
1921 - Birth: John Robert LAWS-7174, (Accountant Rtd) Harringay Middlesex England
(My late father whose story is shown above)
MARRIAGES
1748 - Marriage: Thomas PREBBLE-2078 and Judith LAWES-2079, Saint Mary Bredin, Canterbury Kent England
1769 - Marriage: John LAWES-2270 and Elizabeth COLEMAN-2305, Thursley Surrey England
1824 - Marriage: John LAWS-11754 and Rebecca FORSTER-11753, Norwich Norfolk England
1827 - Marriage: William LAWS-16589 and Elizabeth FULLER-16590, Littleport Cambridgeshire England
1833 - Marriage: Joseph FLACK-16435 and Elizabeth LAWS-16434, Lakenheath Norfolk England
1836 - Marriage: George LAWS-21328 and Anne MOORE-21327, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1837 - Marriage: Jerimiah RATHBONE-5369 and Mary LAWS-5370, Alverstoke Hampshire England
1844 - Marriage: George SPENCER-21342 and Mary LAWS-21340, Feltwell Norfolk England
1859 - Marriage: Joshua Stephen CULLEN-49367 and Maria LAWS-3486, Cheriton Kent England
1862 - Marriage: Henry Thomas OSBORN-3967 and Ann LAWS-3963, Bethnal Green Middlesex England
1882 - Marriage: William LAWS-5609 (Stoker/Stationary Engine Driver / ARMY Private 11340) and Elizabeth SMITH-21093, Wandsworth Surrey England
1885 - Marriage: Charles Thomas LAWS-4770 (Retort Setter) and Martha TAYLOR-17653, Wandsworth Surrey England
1892 - Marriage: Malachia LAWS-5481 (Steam Crane Driver) and Martha Ann DAVIES-33881,
Salford Lancashire England
1899 - Marriage: John H PLUMB-40959 and Leah LAWES-40958, Aston Warwickshire England
1903 - Marriage: Claude Marvin McDOUGAL-30409 and Sallie LAWS-30408, Wake, North Carolina
United States
1911 - Marriage: Huber Woodruff LAWS-40041 and Dell BUSHNELL-40042, Mclennan Texas United States
1914 - Marriage: Jefferson Davis LAWS-25533 (Mining Engineer) and Bessie HUGHES-25534,
1927 - Marriage: Stanley PERRY-42982 (Time Keeper) and Ethel May LAWES-42981,
Grays Thurrock Essex England
1929 - Marriage: Alfred William LAWES-730 (Machine Tender) and Eleanor Mary RAMPLEY-42979, Grays Thurrock Essex England
1929 - Marriage: Benjamin Eugene EATON-2787 and Amy Louise LAWES-2785, Manchester, Hillsborough New Hampshire United States
1890 - Death: Elizabeth LAWS-17571, Bethnal Green Middlesex England
1902 - Death: Emma Elizabeth LAWS-8417, (Widow) Hove Sussex England
1916 - Death: Samuel James LAWS-24904, (Farmer) Jackson, Missouri United States
1916 - Death: Samuel James LAWS-24904, (Farmer) Jackson, Missouri United States
1943 - Death: Anna Jane LAWS-19792, Emida Idaho United States
1962 - Death: John Peter LAWS-6555, (Farmer) Hunwick Durham England
1976 - Death: Malcolm Montrose LAWS-16778, (MOMM1 US Navy)
1986 - Death: Douglas LAWS-17072, Tulsa Oklahoma United States
2001 - Death: Janet Alma Scott LAWS-12092, (Shop Assistant) Christchurch Hampshire England
2005 - Burial: Denise LAWS-20679, Pisgah Garden, Henderson North Carolina United States
1885 - Residence: Ellen Sarah GALE-32423, (Newsagent) Islington Middlesex England
1885 - Residence: Horace Charles LAWS-35885, (Clerk) Islington Middlesex England
1897 - Residence: William WALKER-15350, (Blacksmith's Hammerman) West Ham Essex England
1927 - Marr Witness: Alfred William LAWES-730, (Machine Tender) Grays Thurrock Essex England
OTHER BIRTHS
1811 - Baptism: Ann SYMONDS-7091, Longham Norfolk England
1826 - Birth: Frances JAMES-3785, Dickleburgh Norfolk England
1826 - Birth: Frances JAMES-3785, Dickleburgh Norfolk England
1856 - Birth: Elizabeth Sarah EVANS-41894, Gosport Hampshire England
1868 - Birth: Isabella Ann MUNT-3697, Gympie Queensland Australia
1873 - Birth: Evangeline Olivia RAKE-18375, (Governess) Birtley Durham England
1895 - Birth: Ivy May HERSEY-31546,
1916 - Birth: Olive Nellie JACKSON-26740,
1939 - Birth: Joyce Nell DAVIS-17941, (Artist) George, West Texas United States
OTHER MARRIAGES
1853 - Marriage: Robert John LOTHERINGTON-26072 (Coppersmith) and Catherine GODLEY-43475, Poplar Middlesex England
1897 - Marriage: Hugh G DELAPP-22514 and Bessie Mae WILSON-22515, Yalobusha County, Missouri United States
1904 - Marriage: Albert JENNINGS-17464 (Gardener) and Mabel HUDSON-41209,
Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England
1897 - Marriage: Hugh G DELAPP-22514 and Bessie Mae WILSON-22515, Yalobusha County, Missouri United States
1904 - Marriage: Albert JENNINGS-17464 (Gardener) and Mabel HUDSON-41209,
Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1928 - Death: Cornelius BOND-40156, Market Weston Suffolk England
1946 - Burial: Fred JENNINGS-7154, (Nurseryman) Wortley West Yorkshire England
(My wife's paternal grandfather)
1956 - Death: Walter COOK-20204,
1971 - Death: Frances Emma KING-11029, Dover Kent England
1974 - Death: Charles Richard SHELLEY-50146, Leeds West Yorkshire England
1982 - Death: Catherine Eva LUCKHAM-12673,
2000 - Death: David Laws ERICKSON-8475, Mission Kansas United States
2002 - Death: Flossie Gertrude WHITTAKER-49449, Lawrenceburg Tennessee United States
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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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