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Friday 14th February 2020 - Number 5967

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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' 
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Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller
My paternal Great Grandmother
1846-1924

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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. 

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.

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A CHILD OF THE 1920s, 
AS SEEN FROM THE 1990s
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Generally in the elementary school, we did all our lessons in the same room but we did have a purpose-built room for woodwork. This was well equipped with benches and hand tools and we got a useful grounding in using them. For me, it was one of the most enjoyable lessons.
The other children at the elementary school were a very normal mix and a reasonable standard of behaviour was enforced anyway. In the playground, our play was, of course, rowdy but there was little real fighting, there was more interest in playing ‘Flickhams’ with cigarette cards. These were in good supply as most men smoked and every packet of fags had a card in it. Later the interest changed to collecting the sets of cards and swapping them to make up sets which are now almost antiques.
Most of my classmates were friendly but although we visited each other’s houses to play, few friendships were long term, because of the need to change schools and move house. Just before I had to take the grammar school entrance exam we moved house, from Harringay to Winchmore Hill, so I had to take the exam in the new area. Until my time at elementary school ran out a few months after we had moved, mother ferried me to and fro, daily in her little car to carry on in the same school till the term was finished and the exam done.

The move to grammar school was a move to another world. After all, we were in the thirties and 1929 and all that, was slipping back behind us. The move to Southgate was a move into another world and meant that none of my friends moved on with me to the same school.

It was, of course, an elitist world and the grammar schools were reckoned next in line after the ‘Public’ schools though there was no guarantee that the boy who left the elementary school at the age of fourteen would not become a millionaire quicker than any of them. He would not become a bank clerk or a civil servant, however, he was saved from being a fighter pilot in the forties.

Within the schools, competition and achievement were what mattered and although the arts and manual skills were not ignored any more than games, there was never a thought that these had in any way the importance of the academic subjects.
The grammar school was based on a large house, or small mansion set in substantial grounds converted to playing fields. A purpose-built extension doubled the number of rooms and included proper lab facilities. This also provided a large assembly hall with a good stage as well as a separate gymnasium and woodwork and domestic science rooms. The ‘old building’ as it was known would have been a wonderful home in its day. It dated from the early nineteenth century and sat in a high position looking out over the lower land of the Lea valley, a sea of houses by the thirties, but a green and pleasant land in earlier days.
It was basically a two-storey house but with a complete basement half sunk in the ground below it and an attic storey half in the roof above. The grand front door led into a circular foyer before giving access to the central hallway where the circular theme continued with a grand staircase to the first floor.  This did not go on up to the servants quarters above, which were served by a small spiral stone stairway which went from the basement to attics. There were perhaps ten rooms large enough to serve as main classrooms with a number of others used as a library, staff rooms, studies etc. The basement still contained a kitchen and its main area was used as a dining room for the twenty or thirty pupils who lived some miles away and were allowed the privilege of school dinners. This part of the basement also served as a music room if the main hall or stage were unavailable. A separate building near the main gate which had probably served as a stable block had been made into two physics labs with an art room above. There was no sign of the stables or coach house; their site may have been covered by the ample bike sheds, the school bus not having been invented. Alongside the bike sheds was a dovecot up on saddle stones, no longer the home of doves, it was probably used as a store by the two groundsmen who kept the playing field as immaculate as the gardens, which no doubt kept by a team of gardeners before them. There was a walled large kitchen garden which had one wall removed and then had been desecrated with asphalt to provide a playground and tennis courts. Around its walls, the beautifully trained espalier apple and pear trees had survived to bloom in the spring without the hope of ripening fruit in the autumn.
In those days one paid fees for attendance at grammar schools though these could be waived if a family income was a bit tight. At fifteen guineas a term, or was it a year, it seems chicken feed now but for many, the amount was a big lump to find. The school uniform was obligatory of course and included caps for boys and hats for girls – to hide their pretty curls.
Minchenden was, like the elementary school, one of the schools which were co-educational probably about half and half, and one soon found out that boys and girls were pretty equal at academic subjects and that some of the girls tended to work harder, There was a theory that boys worked harder in separate schools without the girls to distract them, but I doubt the truth of it, indeed it seems possible that the boys in the boys-only schools had to put more time and effort into finding and meeting girls instead of working.
We were in general, fortunate with the school staff, a mix of types and personalities like any group, but as competent as any and better than a lot. They too must have been influenced by the pleasant working conditions and relaxed but disciplined mood of the unit. It was small by present-day standards, some four hundred pupils, quite enough to my mind even if it can be done more cheaply with twice as many. George Bernard Shaws’s comments about doing and teaching are very true so often, but we had both, Art and Music teachers about whom the reverse was true. - They could do but not teach. It must have been frustrating in the extreme for them. 
The rest of the staff must have had their frustrations too with the need to produce exam results from pupils with their normal share of laziness and only interested in only a few subjects. However produce results they did, by dint of much note scribbling and even the unorthodox use of a French text of the New Testament for religious instruction.
Not all the education was in the classroom, there were occasional outside visits, two very contrasting ones spring to mind. The first to the Roman remains of Verulamium at St.Albans and the other to the Ford Car factory at Dagenham. I think I was more impressed with the factory where it seemed to me that they made everything except the tyres, perhaps there was not a lot of sub-contracting then. The molten metal being poured into sand moulds for the cylinder blocks was a wonderful bit of knowhow even if its roots went back as far as Verulamium.
Although education was fairly broad it became exam orientated as the time went by. The General Schools Certificate with Matriculation exemption was the objective for most of us and there was plenty of homework to be done in the evenings and holidays. I fear we skimped on a lot of it. Only a few went to University in those days but the Matric served as an exemption from the preliminary exams of a number of professional bodies as well as being needed before doing the Inter for University entrance.
There were other activities outside school hours and one of my interests was the Astronomical Society. Under the guidance apparently of the woodwork master a good observatory with a revolving dome was built by the boys and was equipped with an excellent five-inch refracting telescope which had at one time belonged to King George the Fifth. 
How it came to us I have no idea, there must have been some sort of tie-up between one of the science masters and the powers that be who arranged it well in advance as the observatory was built to fit it. Apart from the idle curiosity of looking at the moon and planets, a good deal of useful work was keeping records of sunspots movements and timings of the occultation of stars by the moon. 
We visited the Greenwich Observatory which was still one of the great observatories of the world although beginning to be out-classed by the hundred-inch reflector at Mount Wilson in the United States. The big two hundred reflectors and the radio telescopes were not even on the drawing board.
There was at that time, already speculation about the possibility of space travel and my friend Stan Law and I gave a lecture to our group about it, all carefully mugged up from a book of course. I doubt whether at that time we believed a word of it. 
We were kindred spirits with common interests in mathematics and woodwork. The maths did not get that far as the ‘mathematics’ – more advanced, which a few of us did as an extra subject for Matric, was only on the fringes. The woodwork turned out more useful and the final exams we spent all our time in the woodwork room making equipment for the physics lab.
 Continued tomorrow       
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Extracted from our database today 14th February

1747 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-50383 and Elizabeth COLLET-50384,
           (a former widow)  Tower Hamlets Middlesex England
1748 - Birth: Edward LAWS-5361, Feltwell Norfolk England
1770 - Birth: Lucy LAWS-3602, Worcester Massachusetts United States
1799 - Birth: John Milligen LAWS-2794,  (Navy Rear Admiral)
           Watlington Norfolk England
1813 - Birth: Mager LAWS-6123, (Ag Lab) Hilgay Norfolk England

1821 - Baptism: Henry CLEVELEY-23205, Fyfield Wiltshire England
1827 - Birth: Elizabeth FLETCHER-3894, (Widow) Cowpen Bewley
           Durham England
1830 - Birth: Charlotte E LAWS-39864, 
1832 - Birth: Thomas Roger LAWS-4232, (Ag Lab) Washbrook Suffolk England
1836 - Marriage: Henry LAWES-585  (Shoemaker) and Mary Ann HEYWOOD-             589, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England
1836 - Baptism: Charles Henry LAWS-3973, (Pewterer)  Southwark Surrey                        England
1839 - Baptism: Caroline LAWS-11801, Diss Norfolk England
1841 - Death: Ann BONE-10660, 
1842 - Birth: Marion Merideth HOPPER-50059, Kentucky United States
1854 - Birth: Ann Margaret FURZE-4650, Saint Lukes Middlesex England
1857 - Death: Charles O LAWS-16289, (PFC US Army)
1859 - Birth: Joseph W LAWS-24928, North Carolina United States
1865 - Birth: Louis Luke (Woodman) LAWES-38624, Upham Hampshire England
1865 - Birth: Frank LAWES-23958, (RN 114879) Chapeltown, Leeds
           West Yorkshire England
1868 - Birth: Arthur Fairbank LAWS-28585, (Medical Practitioner Retired)                     Hackney Middlesex England
1868 - Birth: Dora Norval LAWS-12363, 
1870 - Birth: William Henry LAWS-33895, (Tool Maker)  Droylsden Lancashire               England
1873 - Birth: Thomas Elijah LAWS-8459, (Ag Lab Shepherd Farm Foreman)                    Hainford Norfolk England
1875 - Birth: Arthur LAWES-523, (Engineer) Birmingham Warwickshire                         England
1876 - Birth: Thomas E LAWS-46545, (Farm Foreman)
1879 - Birth: Terrance Stanley LAWS-45438, Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio                       United States
1884 - Birth: Vincent John LAWS-27021, Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
1886 - Birth: Albert William LAWS-43091, (Farm Foreman)
1886 - Birth: Frank LAWES-704, Dean Wiltshire England
1887 - Birth: Maud Elizabeth WOODS-29326, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England


1887 - Birth: Frances Emma KING-10772, 
1889 - Birth: John Edward LAWES- 38137, (Printing Wire Engineering                             Transport)
1891 - Marriage: William Thackham LAWS-21315 and Alice J KITCHEN-46215,
           Sydney New South Wales Australia
1893 - Birth: Frederick LAWS-23941, (RN K37426)  Athelington Suffolk England
1893 - Birth: Charles E LAWS-16287, 
1894 - Death: Althea MATTHEWS-24375, Callaway County Missouri
           United States
1896 - Birth: Margaret MURRAY-39261, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland             England


1896 - Birth: Muriel Alice COURANT-30624, 
1897 - Birth: Catherine V LAWS-16244, 
1899 - Birth: Mary V COLDREN-13561, Henry County, Ohio United States
1900 - Birth: Herbert Walter LAWS-15534, (Night Patrol in HM Prison)
            Beccles Suffolk England

1900 - Birth: Ernest LAWS-5830, Earsdon Northumberland England
1901 - Birth: James R LAWES-46916,  (Colliery Timber Drawer)
1902 - Birth: Elizabeth Ann JONES-34680, 
1905 - Marriage: Hans OHLSSON-28345 (Farmer or Furrier) and Ellen Selina               LAWES-28344, Datchet Buckinghamshire England
1905 - Birth: Mamie Ann LAWS-24759, Madison County, Kentucky United States
1905 - Birth: Malcolm Montrose LAWS-16401, (MOMM1 US Navy)
            Illinois United States
1906 - Birth: Gertrude Valentine LAWS-36543, Leicester Leicestershire England
1907 - Burial: Mary Esther LAWS-50374, Mile End Middlesex England
1907 - Baptism: Ida Maud KIRCHEN-21561, Eye Green Northamptonshire                      England
1907 - Birth: Alma Elaine LAWS-13546, Carroll County, Tennessee United States
1910 - Birth: Mark Graham LAWS-30726, Wallsend Northumberland England

1910 - Occupation: Edwin Francis JohnLAWS-10794, (Railwayman)
1912 - Death: George Elliott LAWES-1700, (Railway Mechanical Engineer)                        Fortaleza, Ceara Brazil
1913 - Birth: Colin D LAWS-43337, (Joiner in Building Trade)
1913 - Birth: Addie Lee LAWS-24904,                   
1914 - Death: Isaac LAWS-32921, Butler, Johnson County, Tennessee 
           United States
1914 - Birth: Leslie Michael IRWIN-3224, 
1915 - Residence: Barbara May Muriel LAWES-22442, New York City, 
            New York United States
1915 - Residence: Muriel McNiel MOORE-22441, New York City, New York                     United States
1915 - Residence: Charles Ambrose Edward LAWES-17319,
           (Stock Exchange Clerk) New York City, New York United States
1916 - Death: Henry Booth HOHLER-31257, (Merchant)
1916 - Death: Matthew Henry Bernard LAWES-21729, (ARMY Private 14132)
1917 - Birth: Arthur T V LAWES-47328, (Steel Contractor)
1917 - Birth: Albert Valentine LAWES-27398, (Furniture Remover)  Paddington              Middlesex England
1918 - Birth: John Cranston LAWS-45422, Wooler Northumberland England
1918 - Birth: Stanley Valentine LAWES-40393, Crediton Surrey England
1918 - Birth: Frederick Valentine LAWES-37106, (Insurance Agent)           
           Portsmouth Hampshire England

1920 - Marriage: William Wilbur LAWS-18913 and Lucille Trevette                                   BROCKMAN-47753, Denver Colorado United States
1920 - Residence: Claudius Francis Clement LAWES-791, (Solictor)  
           Croydon Surrey England
1922 - Marriage: Curtis Lee LAWS-22371 (President of a Newspaper) and
            Susan B TYLER-22372, Baltimore Maryland United States
1925 - Marriage: William J LAWS-23352 and Agnes HARRIS-42405, York, 
           York County Pennsylvania United States
1926 - Death: Emma Mary LAWS-34359, Leichhardt, New South Wales Australia
1927 - Death: Edward Shearing LAWS-7667, (Butler)  Earls Court Middlesex                   England
1931 - Marriage: Alfred LAWS-41485 (Metropolitan Police Constable) and                       Lillian May CHILDERHOUSE-23403, Bedfont Middlesex England
1932 - Death: Aurelie Emilie S BONARME-8394, Pau FRANCE
1936 - Death: Edward William LAWS-4090, (Electrical Engineer)
           Highbury Middlesex England
1942 - Death: Frank LAWES-46666, (Garage Proprieter)  Wimbourne Minster                 Dorset England residence Ferndown Dorset England
1943 - Death: Ira Eugene LAWS-12367, Catlett, Fauquier County, Virginia                       United States
1944 - Miscellaneous: Winifred Mary LAWS-26683, (Spinster)
1944 - Miscellaneous: Jane Dixon LAWS-25353, (Drapers Assistant)
1948 - Death: Rex William LAWS-18960, Los Angeles, California United States
1958 - Death: James T LAWS-16359, (PVT US Army)
1963 - Death: Herbert Ben HORNIGOLD-49580, Terrington Saint Clement                     Norfolk England
1966 - Emigration: Ernest David LAWS-28127,
1967 - Death: GeorgeLAWS-10503 (Metropolitan Police Probationer), Brighton               Sussex England

1969 - Cremation: Annie E HAMMANT-36175, Greenwich Kent England

1978 - Death: Claude LAWS-19985, 
1982 - Death: Martha Olga BRUYCKER-50507, San Francisco California 
           United States
1998 - Death: Violet Doris LAWS-10525, Bristol Gloucestershire England

2001 - Burial: Sylia May LAWS-43186, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
2003 - Death: Margaret NELSON-18209, Mustang Ridge, Travis County 
           Texas United States
2004 - Burial: Dewey Edward LAWS-13736, Zion Hill Cemetery
2008 - Cremation: John Robert LAWS-7040,(Accountant Rtd)  Ipswich Suffolk               England
           (My late father)


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