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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)
INNOVATION 1
PART 17
Before long we graduated to pen and ink writing in exercise books with inky fingers, scratchy pens and ink blots. Ink was still king, and the ballpoint easy scribble still twenty years ahead.
School dinners were also twenty years in the future. All the kids walked home for their dinners and back for the afternoon school. School milk started however in my first year or two at school. The little third of a pint, bottles, turned up in the morning break and there was much bubbling noise as the last drop was sucked up through the straws.
On the other side of the road from school was the Primitive Methodist church where I went, reluctantly and intermittently, to Sunday school. Mum and Dad did not go to church, but Sunday school was the thing in those days, so I went for a while though they did not insist when I opted out.
All that sticks in my mind is a Harvest Festival where I had been inveigled into reading a poem about a windmill. It was the only time I saw my mother in a church until I got married.
When we moved into the junior section of the Elementary School, the horizons of our lessons broadened to include history, geography & some science. There was now an objective in front of us, the entrance exam for the Grammar school, which were themselves the first step towards better-paid jobs further ahead.
Classes were now divided by ability into A, B and C and school reports began to arrive, largely designed I suspect simply to prod all and sundry to greater effort. I believe the teaching must have been good though it was a bit double edged for me. The first year in Grammar school had nearly all been done before and the need to work faded.
At the elementary school, there was no sports field but we managed to have a Sports Day at a ground near Muswell Hill. How everyone got there remains a mystery, but the sun shone, there were sack races, egg and spoon races, and a mums races and a good time was had by all.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 16th December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1819 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-6674, (Prisoner at Hockwold NFK) Hockwold Cum Wilton Norfolk England
1824 - Christen: Caroline LAWS-7636, (Silk Winder) Norwich Norfolk England
1882 - Birth: George Ernest LAWS-17654, (Bootmaker & Sales) Battersea Surrey England
1886 - Baptism: Alice Mary LAWES-28364, Headley Hampshire England
1887 - Birth: Thomas F LAWS-41131, (Engineer Mechanic Road Transport) Woodford Green Essex England
1888 - Birth: Arnold Alfred LAWS-10890, (Stores Clerk & Workhouse Officer) Litcham Norfolk England
1891 - Birth: Reuben William Henry LAWS-34071, (Gas Rental Clerk - ARMY Private 3253) Kensington Middlesex England
1893 - Birth: George William LAWS-39318,
1894 - Birth: Adam LAWS-26839, (Coal Miner) Hylton Durham England
1899 - Birth: Henry J LAWES-45118, (Sorting Clerk Telegraphic GPO)
1910 - Birth: James W LAWS-44645, (Shipyard Labourer)
1910 - Birth: Gill LAWES-35941,
1911 - Birth: Doris Louisa LAWS-43990, (Laundry Worker)
1919 - Birth: Olga Edith LAWES-38338,
MARRIAGES
1878 - Marriage: William HARPLEY-38621 and Sarah LAWS-30769, Gundagai, New South Wales Australia
1887 - Marriage: Otis Allen BROACH-23023 and Ruthie Lee LAWS-23022, Franklin County, Texas
United States
United States
1893 - Marriage: Cyril JOYCE-12527 and Grace Ethel LAWES-487, Vernon British Columbia Canada
1893 - Marriage: Francis Walter COLLIN-12526 and Frances Elizabeth LAWES-483, Vernon
British Columbia Canada
1893 - Marriage: William LAWS-3888 (Woodman/ Widower) and Susannah WATSON-3889, (Widow) Aylsham Norfolk England
1914 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-39706 (Bricklayer) and Mary Ann COPSEY-39707, Mildenhall Suffolk England
1914 - Marriage: Homer Elmer LAWS-19526 and Sarah Blanche SMITH-19527,
1936 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-22444 (Railway Maintenance) and Emma Hilda TRAFFORD-22445,
Southall Middlesex England
1819 - Death: Sarah LAWES-21193, Homington Wiltshire England (St Michaels)
1832 - Burial: Jane Elizabeth LAWS-12118, Diss Norfolk England
1832 - Burial: Jane Elizabeth LAWS-12118, Diss Norfolk England
1874 - Death: Edward Horace LAWS-33906, (War Department Messenger) Darlington Durham England
1915 - Death: William Phillip LAWS-30215, (Engineer Iron Turner) Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire England
1917 - Death: Henry Edward LAWES-22209, (ARMY Private 268124)
1926 - Death: Robert Cuthbert LAWS-6556, (Farmer 196 Acres) Hunwick Durham England
1927 - Death: George LAWS-8065, Low Willington Durham England
1929 - Death: Arthur Frederick LAWS-3362, (Marine Engineer) Queensland Australia
1935 - Death: Mollie B LAWS-30641, Jackson, Jasper County Missouri United States
1935 - Death: Elizabeth LAWS-10737,
1936 - Death: Alice Rose LAWS-34841, (Spinster) Paddington Middlesex England
1941 - Burial: William Jones LAWS-22125, Dunedin New Zealand
1941 - Death: Isabel Ann LAWS-19286, (Teacher) Alameda California United States
1954 - Death: David LAWES-26587, (NAVY AA4 FX 855599 RNAS Lossiemouth) Mountaineering Accident.
1954 - Death: Henry William LAWS-18360, (Consultant Mining Engineer) Victoria British Columbia Canada
a resident of Saanich British Columbia Canada
1967 - Death: Frederick Claude LAWES-11432, (RN K36805)
1972 - Burial: Alfred John LAWES-16615, (CPL US Army) Long Island New York United States
1973 - Death: Eric Archibald LAWS-12903, (Australian Army NX202736) Newtown New South Wales Australia
2003 - Death: Lawrence David LAWS-13481,
2005 - Death: Denise LAWS-20679, Hendersonville North Carolina United States
1863 - Residence: Margaret LAWS-30354, Bishopwearmouth Durham England
1863 - Residence: Joseph James LEITHEAD-30353, (Shipwright) Bishopwearmouth Durham England
1914 - Residence: Mary Ann COPSEY-39707, Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk England
1969 - Naturalization: Lionel William LAWES-41579, Los Angeles, California United States
a resident of Palm Desert, California United States
OTHER BIRTHS
1785 - Baptism: Joseph CHARTERS-14185, (Innkeeper & Master Joiner) Torpenhow Cumberland England
1867 - Birth: John Jeremiah HOWARD-24055, (Coal Hewer) Shotton Durham England
1871 - Birth: Elizabeth Sarah ALP-37788, Gateshead Durham England
1920 - Birth: Reginald George WEEKS-37331,
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1890 - Death: Jane CHARTERS-14193, (Innkeeper Grey Goat Public House, Baggrow Cumberland England) Blennerhassett Cumberland England
1943 - Death: Elizabeth BOWMAKER-36784, Sunderland Durham England
1977 - Death: William M YELTON-25532, Washington County, Tennessee United States
1979 - Death: Thomas Richard TREWIN-3321,
2005 - Death: Olive Nellie JACKSON-26740,
2009 - Death: Harley ARMITSTEAD-11530, Warwick, Queensland Australia
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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
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