Saturday 8th December 2018 - Number 3331

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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 5

Perhaps the most valuable thing in the cellar was the cold tap which didn't freeze even in the coldest weather when everybody’s pipes were frozen and standpipes had to be put up in the streets.

If the cellar was inelegant, the other rooms were much better. After the kitchen, the most used room for living was the 'front room' often called the dining room. Today it would be called the living room, but room usage in middle-class houses was different then, mainly due to the lack of central heating.

In cold weather, a fire would be lit in the front room in the late afternoon on weekdays or well before lunch on weekends. Its heat output could only be controlled by stoking it up or letting it burn down with a little bit of draught control at the front and the alternatives of feeding it with lumps or slack.

The tiled fireplaces of the thirties and forties had not arrived; the fire was ornamented with tiled inserts on either side, enclosed by an iron surround. Above it, the over mantle enclosed a big mirror and supported a heavy green onyx clock in a Palladium style with a gilt dial and ormolu mounts. If this were not enough, it was flanked by a pair of blue-brown Doulton glazed vases which served as spill holders.

It all belonged to a rather earlier age, even at that time, the product of a rather late marriage in 1912, of a couple raised in late Victorian times.

Furniture was good and solid, even a dining chair took a bit of lifting, but there was no fear of it wearing out or it falling apart and the room was big enough to hold a lot of it. As it was really a living room rather than a dining room, the fire had a large overstuffed armchair on either side and there was a matching sofa along the opposite wall.

One recess beside the chimney breast was occupied by a tall glazed mahogany bookcase and the other held a drop front coal scuttle which provided a little table top beside the chair. An enormous mahogany sideboard sat against the wall opposite the window, the back of its tall overmantle filled by a mirror. Tapered square columns supported the tester style top on which stood a reproduction bronze statue of an athlete. I suppose the original statue must be Greek but although some thirty years or so later, I spotted a full-size replica in a public park in Liege, I remain in ignorance.

To be continued tomorrow

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               EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 8th December 

    

Family Events

BIRTHS and BAPTISMS   

1686 - Birth: Mary LAWS, 

1869 - Birth: James LAWES (Farmer)  Tivetshall St Mary Norfolk England

1874 - Birth: Caleb LAWS, (Coachman) Sedgeford Norfolk England
1878 - Birth: William Henry Marsden LAWS Wells MD

1880 - Birth: George Henry LAWS, (Painter House Repairer)  Lambeth Surrey England

1881 - Birth: Walter G A LAWS,  (Railway Permanent Way Labourer) 

1890 - Birth: Claude Lorraine  LAWS (Garage Owner) Maple Spring, Wilkes co North Carolina, United                     States

1895 - Birth: Robert Victor LAWS (EM2D US Navy) 

1897 - Birth: Norman B LAWES, (Poultry Farmer) 

1902 - Birth: Catherine Ellen LAWS, Horsham Sussex England

1908 - Birth: Annie LAWS, Blyth Northumberland England

1911 - Birth: Delilah LAWS, Pittingdon Northumberland England

1913 - Birth: Norman Charles LAWS, New Zealand

1918 - Birth: George LAWS,(Colliery Truck Weight Man)  

1919 - Birth: John Robert LAWS, (Soldier) Fulham Middlesex England

MARRIAGES

1798 - Marriage: Thomas BARRON and Hannah LAWS, Bishop Auckland Durham England
1872 - Marriage: Edmund Thomas LAWS (Hotel Chef)  and Hannah CORFIELD, Hastings Sussex England

1875-  Marriage: Robert LAWS and Mollie JONES, Wake, North Carolina United States
1879 - Marriage: Medlock Wilson LAWES- (Hawker) Wangford MC and Susannah LAMBERT, 
           Bungay Suffolk England

DEATHS and BURIALS

1821 - Burial: John LAWES Portsmouth Hampshire England

1883 - Death: James LAWS, (Homoeopathic Chemist) Croydon Surrey England

1918 - Death: Stephen  LAWES (Cabinet Maker)- Basingstoke Hampshire England

1921 - Death: Margaret LAWS- Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1938 - Death: Mary Thane LAWS, 

1941 - Death: Johan LAWS, (ARMY Lance Corporal C/274755)  

1947 - Death: Bruce Wayne LAWS, Crows Nest, New South Wales Australia

1961 - Death: Robert LAWES (Blacksmiths Labourer) Aldershot Hampshire England

             but  Residence: Farnham Surrey England

1974 - Death: Mabel Lillian LAWS, Gillingham Kent England

1975 - Death: Mona Edith LAWS, Gosford New South Wales Australia

1983 - Death: Sam E LAWS, (Airman 1C US Air Force) 

1997 - Death: Charles George LAWS, (Grocery Assistant) James Paget Hospital Gorleston Norfolk England

           but residence:  11 Orwell Drive, Lowestoft Suffolk England

2003 - Death: Leslie William  LAWES, (Clerical Officer Customs & Excise) Weston Super Mare Somerset                 England

2008 - Death: Nita Eliza LAWES, Launcester, Tasmania Australia

2009 - Death: Howard Wilson LAWS, Kansas City, Kansas United States

2010 - Death: Leonard Stewart LAWS, (Dean & Registrar of Southwestern College Kansas) 

           Winfield, Cowley, Kansas, United States

2011 - Death: Barbara Gertrude LAWS, Newton Abbot Devonshire England

MISCELLANEOUS

1856 - Residence: William LAWS (Police Officer & Ex 1st Dragoons) and Charlotte SKINNER, 
           Hulme Lancashire England

1877 - Will  Dated: William LAWS, (Farmer 40 acres) 

1902 - Enlistment: James William LAWS (ARMY Private 6266)  Ely Cambridgeshire England

1915 - Discharged: James William LAWS, (ARMY Private 6266) Felixstowe Suffolk England

1923 - Residence: Frederick Shenley LAWS, 28 Avondale Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England

1923 - Residence: Kenneth LAWS, (Chartered Accountant)  Lincoln, Lincolnshire England

1923 - Arrival: Basil Derwin  LAWS, (Missionary) 

1923 - Residence: Frederick Stanley LAWS, (RAFVR 41431 Pilot Officer 142 Sqdn) Lincoln, Lincolnshire                 England

1958 - Miscellaneous: Caroline E LAWS, 

OTHER BIRTHS
1694 - Baptism: William LAWS Mildenhall Suffolk England
1811 - Baptism: Ann LOTHERINGTON, Woolwich Kent England

1833 - Birth: Harriet Maria STRATFORD, 
1842 - Baptism: Edgar WHITTON (Tailor & Shopkeeper) Denham Suffolk England

1872 - Birth: Andrew O'NEILL Lismore New South Wales Australia

1874 - Birth: Walter (Operative Brewer (Retired) 

1883 - Birth: Florence Sarah CHILSON, Islington Middlesex England

1900 - Birth: Ida May DELAPP Jackson Mississippi United States
1912 - Birth: Lillian HAMON  (Manageress Cinema Café) 

OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS

1934 - Death: John POFFENBERGER, Cavetown Maryland United States
1941 - Death: J Newton HOOVER, (Butcher) Rouzerville Pennsylvania United States
1957 - Death: Richard James  KEELING, (Office Boy) Sidcup Kent England
1959 - Death: Phyllis Bertha MULVEY, Shirley Surrey England
1982 - Death: Wanda Faye WILSON, Bruceton Tennessee United States

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We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy. 

We only show births before 1920 and marriages before 1940.  

If you are interested in anyone listed here, email us with the name, dates and reference number, and we will happily do a lookup. 

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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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