Thursday 20 February 2020 - Number 5973

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Robert Henry Laws

1828-1881

Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' 

my paternal Great Grandfather

&

This is Robert Henry's Wife 

Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller

My paternal Great Grandmother

1846-1924

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Extracted from our database today 20th February

1718 - Birth: William LAWS-40591, Bristol Parish, Virginia British America
1747 - Marriage: Robert ADAMS-6028 and Mary (Mrs) LAWS-7378, 
           Mayfair Middlesex England
1759 - Marriage: Cuthbert LAWES-11678 and Isabel RICHARDSON-11679,                    Ryton Durham England
1806 - Death: Elizabeth PEARSON-13480, Feltwell Norfolk England
1814 - Baptism: John Summers WOODFORD-10130, Iwerne Courtney, 
           Dorset England
1833 - Christen: Thomas LAWS-19173, (Chief Steward on a ship)
1842 - Marriage: Henry SEDGWICK-13622 and Selina LAWS-4439, 
           Shoreditch Middlesex England
1845 - Baptism: Elizabeth Master LAWS-48302, Great Yarmouth Norfolk                         England

1846 - Death: Elizabeth LAWS-11192, Sutton Scotney Hampshire England
1846 - Birth: Jane A MARQUESS-5378, Hamsterley Durham England
1849 - Birth: Charles Winthrop BLISS-28896, Northampton Mississippi 
           United States
1854 - Marriage: William WALTON-23441 and Elizabeth LAWS-23440, 
1856 - Birth: James WINCHCOMBE-49616, Ogbourne St George, 
           Wiltshire England
1861 - Birth: James Milton LAWS-19078, (Farmer)  Jewett, Cumberland County,
           Illinois United States
1866 - Marriage: Ebin Taylor LAWS-45278 and Emma Dallas MARK-45055,                   Fauquier County, Virginia United States
1871 - Marriage: Charles Vincent LAWS-21130 and Mary Ann MCGARRY
           -21131, Liverpool, New South Wales Australia
1876 - Baptism: Matthew LAWS-3492 (Scholar) Bedlington Northumberland
           England
1877 - Enlistment: James (Royal Navy 99545)
1879 - Baptism: Alice Lillian LAWS-23920
1884 - Marriage: Geoffrey Cecil Twisleton Wykeham FIENNES-31254 and                       Marion Ruperta K Murray LAWES-31250, Saint Mark, 
           North Audley Street, Saint George Hanover Square Middlesex England 
1884 - Residence: Marion Ruperta K Murray LAWES-31250, Westminster                       Middlesex England
1896 - Marriage: Thomas Henry LAWS-16082 and Rosa Ella HEWETT-16083,                Mount Vernon, Franklin County, Texas United States
1896 - Death: Luella LAWS-12364, Warrenton Virginia United States
1896 - Death: Louisa LAWES-1514, (Imbecile at birth)  Homington Wiltshire                    England
1898 - Birth: Lilian LAWS-25634, West Hartlepool Durham England

1899 - Birth: Pamela LAWS-35426, Derby Derbyshire England
1902 - Miscellaneous: Annie Mary NUGENT-46577, 
1903 - Residence: Henry LAWS-37996, Maldon Essex England
1907 - Birth: Ernest Arthur LAWS-33074, (Driver Mechanic) Onehouse Suffolk               England
1908 - Birth: Robert Curtis LAWS-28273, Ashington Northumberland England
1908 - Birth: Reginald Frederick Earle LAWS-25889, Dover Kent England

1912 - Marriage: Lionel John Mingage BRIGGS-44393 (Professional Actor)  and              Isabella Christie LAWS-44088, (Professional Actress)
           Richmond on Thames Surrey England

1912 - Birth: Annie LAWES-46909, (School Teacher)
1913 - Birth: George G LAWES-46924, (Bus Conductor)
1913 - Birth: Alexander M LAWES-32662, (Inmate)
1916 - Birth: Sidney Miller LAWS-25787, (Dock Worker)  Hull East Yorkshire                 England

1917 - Birth: Alice Mary LAWS-35308, (Gents Neckwear Machinist)                                   Westminster Middlesex England
1917 - Birth: Bertie Windsor LAWS-32238, 
1918 - Death: Barrington Thomas LAWES-993, (ARMY Private G/22441)                         Treviso, Veneto, ITALY
1920 - Birth: Elsie LAWS-41442,  (Unemployed Waitress)
1920 - Death: John Simms LAWS-29549, Clarksburg Carroll Tennessee 
           United States
1922 - Death: John T LAWS-40266, 
1924 - Death: Charles Emmett ZIEGLER-49544, Kenton, Hardin County, 
           Ohio United States
1925 - Burial: Mary Ann Rowell ELL-7085, (Lodging House Keeper)  Efford                   Devonshire England
            (My paternal Great Grandmother)
1931 - Death: William James LAWES-2303, Brislington Gloucestershire England
1938 - Death: Annie LAWES-22074, Brooke Township, Lambton County,
           Ontario Canada
1942 - Death: Annie Elizabeth ELDERS-8415, Loftus West Yorkshire England
1943 - Burial: Edward Owen LAWS-38026, (Gas Company Employee)
           Hawkinge Kent England
1944 - Residence: Alfred Harry LAWS-30376, Fulham Middlesex England
1944 - Death: Jacqueline J (Civilian War Dead)  Fulham Middlesex England
1957 - Burial: Charles O LAWS-16289, (PFC US Army)  Beverley New Jersey                   United States
1976 - Burial: Jean LAWS-14235, Sydney New South Wales Australia
1993 - Death: Delphine Cherry Maitland LAWS-41606, (Builders Clerk)                           Wimborne Dorset England
1993 - Death: Rose Myrtle LAWS-24763, 
1996 - Death: Evelyn LAWS-40090, 
1997 - Death: Sylvia Sadler LAWS-40931, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland              England

1997 - Death: Norman Ian LAWS-40100, (Colliery Putter) Gateshead Durham                 England
1998 - Burial: Victor LAWS-32025, Stockton-On-Tees Durham England
2006 - Death: Tobie LAWS-13419, Saint Clair Illinois United States

MORE TOMORROW

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

Further Afield

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We spent all the family holidays on that little bit of east coast and going further afield did not arise until I could go off on my bike alone or with a friend. I had already been to scout camps, all on a shoestring. About the same time school journeys were started, only in the holidays of course not in term time like today.  The camps were for boys only. I doubt whether our devoted school staff thought they could cope with the tribulations of a mixed camp. The journeys to foreign parts however were co-ed without any problems.

I recall one school camp at St.Audries Bay, near Watchet in of course wonderful summer weather. Our site was in a field between the coast road and low cliffs above the beach. 

We must have gone to Somerset by coach, an uneventful journey of which I remember nothing except that our kit was moved by horse and cart from the road down a narrow track to the field beside the farm where a line of bell tents had already been erected for us. We had the luxury of palliases which we filled with straw from the tumbledown buildings near the farmhouse and the cooking was done by the school caretaker with a small amount of help from us on a rota basis. A few cows were kept by the farmer and we were able to see the milk he supplied to us hand milked into the pail.

Behind and above our camp on the other side of the road, rose the warm late summer colours of the Quantock hills, an almost impenetrable terrain of bracken and bilberries guaranteed to stain ones fingers and lips and scratch ones knees to ribbons. We had time to wander on our own and there were organised trips when we visited Dunster and walked to the top of Dunkery Beacon. 

The timeless stone cottages and ancient butter market of Dunster were already an attraction to visitors but as boys we were too keen on looking forward to really appreciate the glimpse back into the past that such places are able to give us later in life. Exmoor’s wide vistas and stony ground thatched with heather and berries were pure joy, the purples and crimsons of the foliage stretching out through the sunshine to a distant hazy horizon and the world at ones feet.

In our free time we wandered into the little town of Watchet  lying somnolent in the sunshine, seemingly untouched by tourism. There was a corner shop selling sweets and buns, and Cydrax to refuel the inner man for a walk into the hills.  Watchet was minding its own business around its tiny harbour where cargoes seemed to be black coal in and white china clay out. There must have been a few holidaymakers about however because one day we went by paddle steamer along the coast to Lynmouth where  we disembarked in small boats and had a day to explore and wade up the river to Watersmeet. This was decades before the catastrophic flood destroyed the town which had previously stood secure for centuries. 

Nearly everyone who holidayed around Somerset visited Lynmouth but the numbers were small and it was not crowded.

Back at St Audries Bay the beach is stony with grey rocks and flat stones ideal for skimming the waves. The most interesting find was that it abounded in fossils of spiral creatures up to a foot across, ammonites I believe, which had been preserved when their nice grey slimy mud was pressed into rock a few million years back.

Another boys only school trip took us youth hostelling to the hostel at Millersdale in Derbyshire. There were about fifteen in the group with two of three school stall including ‘Sammy’ Stewart one of the most popular masters. He taught geography and seemed to be a member of nearly all the journeys. We walked the hills and dales and went by train to Edale where the station name board said ‘HOPE for Castleton’ though we never saw Castleton as we walked away from Hope over the hills. A visit to the Blue John Mine where blue fluorspar is mined showed us something new in this glowing rock and in an underground trip by boat through a low tunnel which led us to a cave where there is a hefty waterfall from above which went down below us into the depths of that the guide told us was a bottomless pit. At least it never filled up with water.

To be continued tomorrow

  

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Sharon Nicola LAWS

2008 Olympics Cyclist

Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 

1974-2017

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