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Friday 28 February 2020 - Number 5981

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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' 
my paternal Great Grandfather
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This is Robert Henry's Wife 
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.

Extracted from our database today 28th February

1813 - Baptism: Mary LAWS-24397, Hilgay Norfolk England

1837 - Baptism: Frederick MOONEY-50879, Marylebone Middlesex England
1847 - Christen: Mary Ann SMITH-16840, Wollombi, New South Wales Australia
1851 - Birth: John William LAWS-23882, (RN 162348)
1858 - Birth: Rosie LAWS-40739, 
1864 - Birth: John George LAWS-8595, (Labourer/Grocer Warehouseman)                       Haswell Durham England
1869 - Marriage: George Francis HAMMOND-36029 (Mariner)  and
            Elizabeth LAWS-4222, Folkestone Kent England

1870 - Marriage: William Alexander DICK-29046 (Brickmaker) and
           Eliza LAWS-29045, Gateshead Durham England
1870 - Marriage: Frederick John GUYTON-2830 and Rose Ann LAWS-4819, 
1872 - Death: John LAWS-3718, (Shoemaker employing 4 men) Kings Lynn                     Norfolk England

1874 - Birth: William Frederick LAWES-2590, (Ag Lab) Ringland Norfolk                       England

1875 - Birth: Fred LAWS-31638, (Baker & Confectioner) Chatteris                                     Cambridgeshire England

1880 - Birth: George LAWS-42688, (Fishmongers Assistant retired)
1884 - Birth: Sarah DELLOW-41529, 
1886 - Marriage: James William Colville LAWS-10476 (Chemist) and Ellen                       TRINDER-37622, Tasmania, Australia
1888 - Birth: Gertrude Annie LAWS-3095, Folkestone Kent England
1891 - Birth: Alice Lockwood LAWS-38311, (Widow)
1894 - Birth: James A H LAWS (Radio Shopkeeper) -41207, 
1894 - Death: William LAWS-14149, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County Iowa
           United States
1895 - Birth: William A LAWES-29509,
1895 - Miscellaneous: Elizabeth LAWS-5987, (Servant)
1899 - Birth: Frederick George LAWS-15550, (Production Engineer,
           Qualified in Charge of Engineering Works) Ipswich Suffolk England

1900 - Death: Henry LAWS-22132, Sheffield West Yorkshire England
1902 - Miscellaneous: William Thomas LAWS-46576, (Wine Merchant)
1906 - Birth: Gwendoline Amy NOBLE-24198, Wood Green Hampshire England
1907 - Birth: Derek Douglas WILLIAMSON-31999, Eastbourne Sussex England
1911 - Marriage: Charles Frederick LAWES-25309 (Disabled War Pensioner)
           and Dora SONES-25310, Broome Norfolk England

1911 - Burial: David C LAWS-24326, (Retired Bookeeper) Nashville Tennessee                 United States
1914 - Birth: Kenneth N LAWS-46158, (Bricklayer)
1916 - Marriage: George LAWES-46662 (Threshing Machine Proprieter) and                   Dulcie Amanda SANSOM-46663, Donhead Saint Mary Wiltshire England
1916 - Birth: Ray Handy FOX-45473, Yancy County North Carolina
           United States
1916 - Birth: Frank George LAWS-34021, 
1916 - Birth: Stanley Frederick LAWS-13301, Toledo Ohio United States
1918 - Birth: Horace LAWS-46192 (Indentured Electrical Instrument                                 Assembler)
1919 - Discharged Charles LAWS-32041, (ARMY Private 60409)  Thetford                       Norfolk England
1922 - Marriage: Andrew Charles DUNCAN-28945 (Railwayman)  and
           Amelia Royal LAWS-28944, West Hartlepool Durham England

1923 - Death: Salley Clementine JOHNSON-34908, Wilkes County
            North Carolina United States
1925 - Burial: Arthur James LAWS-8482, (Ag Lab) Bawdell Norfolk England
1926 - Death: Florence Jessie LAWES-11620, 
1928 - Death: Alice BEWICK-44992, Whitley Bay Northumberland England
1928 - Death: Alice QUINN-31452, Whitly Bay Northumberland England
1931 - Marriage: John Webster LAWES-30712 (Company Secretery Accountant             & Office Manager)  and Alice Elizabeth PETTY-30713, Kensington                         Middlesex England
1939 - Residence: Winifred Amelia LAWS-15179, (Black & White Artist)                           Finchingfield Essex England
1941 - Death: Augustus A GODFREY-18871, Alberta Canada
1942 - Death: Joan Virginia LAWS-18889, Los Angeles California United States
1947 - Death: Ada THOMPSON LAWS-50066,
1949 - Burial: Edwin Vincent LAWS-10222, (Builder) Wanganui, Rangitikei,
           New Zealand
1951 - Burial: John Wilfred LEROY-19954, (Railway Carpenter)  Liverpool,
           New South Wales Australia
1968 - Death: Frederick Joseph (Australian Army Private) LAWS-20170,
1975 - Death: Alfred LAWS-44333, Ashington Northumberland England
1977 - Death: Lucious Cubye LAWS-19986, Texarkana, Bowie County Texas                     United States
1983 - Death: Walter Ernest LAWES-35916, (Railway Maintenance Repairer)                   Eastleigh Hampshire England
1994 - Burial: Leo Vernon LAWS-16381, (PVT US Army)  Houston,
           Harris County Texas United States
1998 - Death: Bertram William George LAWS-39486, Gravesend Kent England

2004 - Death: Curtis Euell LAWS-36216, Berryville Arkasas United States
2004 - Death: Clinton Roy LAWS-13640, (Supervisor)  Lenoir North Carolina                   United States
2007 - Burial: Aloysuis Desmond LAWS-27001, (Railwayman)  Christchurch
           New Zealand
2018 - Death: Robert Anthony LAWES-45861, 



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One Man’s War – A bit about the RAF


by
John Robert Laws 


1921-2008
Part 5
Now the squadron was to go on Transport and by 2nd July I had done a course at Bramcote on using radio beacons for navigation, with just ten hours flying in Oxfords. On 3rd July the crew and I had two and a half hours instruction on converting to the Short Stirling; we then had another four hours on our own getting used to them and doing circuits and bumps including three engine landings and flapless landings. Next day we had an hour and a half flight, again landing on three engines. 


Presumably, we were now reckoned to be competent on Stirlings as our next flight a few days later was to Brackla where we picked up twenty-three passengers and brought them back to base. 


The Stirling Mark V was an odd beast, sitting on a tall under-carriage, it had been lengthened by about five feet to give more load space. This had not improved the stability on take-off and landing and at touch down the pilot’s line of vision was fifteen feet or more above the ground making a good three-point landing more difficult. 


We no longer carried parachutes on transport work, which felt a bit strange at first. However, I got an unexpected bonus as I had been using an experimental backpack parachute in the Halifax. No one realised that this moved you forward about three inches in the seat thus impending the final three-point landing movement and resulting in too many poor landings. Now I was able to get the column right back and land a few times that you didn’t feel the touchdown. We had not yet moved into the era of tricycle under-carriages so keeping off the deck until the point of the stall, was essential.


The squadron was being used to fly freight and troops out to India and back. Our normal Route was via Castel Benito Libya, in North Africa; Lydda (Palestine) and Shaiba at the top of the Persian Gulf to Mauripur (Karachi).


We had to do a freight run before we could be trusted with passengers, this was a bit more leisurely than the passenger trips, and we found time to visit Jerusalem and see the sights. We engaged a guide who was standing by looking for tourists even in those days, and he took us around all the bits you are supposed to see. It was all very ancient but the tales and myths are strictly for believers and the guide finished up by taking us into a souvenir shop. 


Here they offered us little cups of sweet tea, locked the door behind us and showed us their wares. Cliff bought a little bible bound in olive wood to send to Louis in the States, but we were not very good customers and went on our way.


In Karachi, we had a day mostly to do a bit of shopping for a few things that were unobtainable in the UK. This, of course, included carpets. The exotic world of India was a revelation to us. Sacred cows wandered in the streets and lay down in the middle of the road if so inclined. They scarcely impeded the traffic, the few carts were drawn by oxen and there were very few motor vehicles. 


On a building site, women in colourful saris were carrying blocks on their heads to the bricklayers, whereas the hod carriers in the UK, carried the bricks in a hod on his shoulder.


One time we had to land at Cairo West, instead of Lydda, and visited the Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza, though Cairo was out of bounds. Dave our flight engineer, climbed about half way up the great pyramid but Cliff and I were content to stay at the bottom and watch. We entered into the spirit of the thing enough to have our photos taken sitting on a camel but that was our lot.


On the hot airfields in the Middle East, the longitudinal instability of the lengthened Stirling came into its own, and it was said that you could find your way to India by following the trail of burnt out Stirlings. 


I knew one pilot who’d crashed two and got away with it. The heat also reduced their engine power, and take-offs from Shaiba had to be done before dawn, even then power was reduced. I remember getting to the end of the flare path on the oiled and sanded runway with barely enough speed to pull the undercarriage up and hold off the deck, let alone climb until the reduced drag let us lift a little.


We got away with all these hazards except a little 'contretemps’ when we were diverted to Brussels on our way home, here the marshaller guiding us to a hard standing led us into an unlit barrel of tar which bent our tail wheel doors. There was no one here to repair this but there was a derelict Stirling standing at the edge of the airfield so we set to and acquired its tail wheel doors and replaced our damaged ones with them. 


This must have impressed the local CO as a congratulatory message was received back at the squadron. We managed to find time for a quick look at Brussels and the most impressive thing was the magnificent fruit on sale in the shops. It was less pleasing to see the profusion of harlots on display everywhere, even four playing cards at a little table in a shop window.


Our trips to the east came to an end when the squadron came down from Stradishall and converted to Avro Yorks. We brought the old Stirlings down, loaded up to the eyebrows with furniture and other squadron equipment and of course our old kite decided to lose an engine as soon as we got off the deck, We crawled around the circuit, and everyone turned out to watch us come in on three engines with our load of junk. All the practice we had done on three engines paid off however and I got her down gently in one piece.


Only those who were prepared to sign on again, when their turn for demobilisation came up were allowed to convert onto Yorks, and this was really only for those who hoped to make flying their career. It seemed to me to have too many snags, and I opted to get out as soon as possible. 


Till then I had become, a sort of officers mess treasurer, based on my alleged accounting know-how. It was quite nice at Stradishall and it was within cycling distance of Southgate so I got home frequently.


In due course, I collected my demob suit at Wembley and was back in Civvy Street.

The End  
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Sharon Nicola LAWS
2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 
1974-2017
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