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Tuesday 18th February 2020 - Number 5971

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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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1606 - Death: unbaptized LAWS-33730, 
1722 - Marriage: John DAY-1833 and Elizabeth LAWES-1834, Wymondham Norfolk England
1799 - Marriage: Matthew LAWS-39944 and Providence NOBBS-39945, Norwich Norfolk                     England
1802 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-48439, Saint Ives Huntingdonshire England

1803 - Birth: Leah LAWES-581, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England
1840 - Death: John LAWS-13792, Brownsville, Licking County, Ohio United States
1847 - Burial: Thomas LAWES-50205, Bristol Gloucestershire England
1850 - Baptism: Sarah Jane FRENCH-4088, (Mariners Wife) Stepney Middlesex England
            (My Great Grand Aunt)

1854 - Birth: John D LAWS-42630, (Power Station Engineer now Cellulose Sprayer) 
1855 - Marriage: James LAWES-591 (Ag Lab)  and Ellen ENSELL-592, Headley Hampshire                 England
1855 - Death: Rebecca BROWN-3350, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1864 - Birth: Sarah Mahala LAWS-19158, 
1871 - Birth: William John LAWS-34747, 
1872 - Death: Calvin A LAWS-7800, 
1873 - Birth: Mary Elizabeth PURDUE-32928, Tennessee United States
1874 - Birth: Gordon LAWS-46028, (Journalist Sub) 
1876 - Marriage: Shadrack JACKSON-30504 (Coal Miner) and Anna Hill LAWS-30505, 
           Friern Barnet Middlesex England
1877 - Death: John H LAWS-27223, 
1878 - Birth: Isabella Mary DREW-3652, Grafton New South Wales Australia
1880 - Birth: Walter Ernest LAWES-3107, (Cab Driver)  Margate Kent England
1882 - Birth: John Edward LAWS-9366, (Bricklayer) Folkestone Kent England

1885 - Marriage: Edward George LAWES-48591 (Carpenter) and Mary GLENCOCK-48593,               Parkstone Dorset England
1892 - Birth: William H LAWES-46095,  (Production Control Supervisor) 
1895 - Birth: Doris LAWS-40204, 
1895 - Birth: Madelaine Grace MathewsWITHERS-16940, (Examiner - Postal Censor)                            Shrewsbury Shropshire England
1896 - Christen: John Charles LAWS-4478, Southwark Surrey England
1898 - Birth: Oregan C LAWS-16271, (PVT US Army)  
1901 - Marriage: William SEAGO-21476 (Cooper) and Maud Ethel LAWS-8294, 
           Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1901 - Birth: Eley L LAWS-40144, Sunnidale. Simcoe Ontario Canada
1901 - Birth: Dorothy LAWS-17218, (Clerk L.G.O)  Haswell Durham England
1907 - Birth: Frederick LAWS-22154, (Plasterer)  Sheffield West Yorkshire England
1907 - Birth: Hilda Irene LAWS-16130, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1909 - Birth: John Edgar LAWS-12627, (QX5922 Private in Australian Army) 
            Warwick, Queensland Australia
1911 - Birth: Emily M MOUSLEY-40210, 
1911 - Death: Jessie May LAWS-20321, Fulham Middlesex England
1912 - Marriage: Wilfred AUSTEN-49437 and Elfrida Jean LAWS-37965, (Leger Clerk)                        Beckenham Kent England
1914 - Death: Ellen Maria LAWS-14985, (Servant)  Hounslow Middlesex England
1915 - Birth: Alice K A LAWS-47877, (House Maid)  
1918 - Birth: Elizabeth Jane TOLLEY-48573, (Jam Factory Worker) Paddington Middlesex                  England
1918 - Birth: Violette Milicent Rogerson THOMAS-27922, Kensington Middlesex England
1918 - Burial: Elizabeth Ann LAWS-24386, (Widow) Columbia Missouri United States
1922 - Death: Lucy WELLS-7079, (Barmaid) Edmonton Middlesex England
            (My Great grandmother)
1923 - Marriage: William Russell MOONEY-7080 (Post Office Pensioner)  
           and May Ann BRANT-7083 (Supervisor), Edmonton Middlesex England
           Lucy's son & my maternal Grandparents)
1936 - Death: Henrietta STEWART-29759, 
1938 - Death: Frederick John LAWES-10059 (Commercial Traveller) Reading Berkshire                       England
1941 - Immigration: Ethel Annie Louise MYER-8356, Buffalo New York United States
           (My paternal Great Aunt)
1944 - Death: John Edward  LAWS-9366, (Bricklayer) Folkestone Kent England
1945 - Burial: Rose Evelyn FREEMAN-29364, Christchurch New Zealand
1950 - Burial: Irene Alice LAWS-20341, Ealing Middlesex England
1958 - Death: John Dennis LAWS-42381, (Electrical Engineer) Westcliff on Sea Essex England
1960 - Residence: Archibald Sidney LAWES-871 (Ag Lab) Winchester Hampshire England

1964 - Death: Thomas Henry TULLETT-48787, Sidcup Kent England
1966 - Death: Harriett Lucy LAWS-5409, (Cook) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1974 - Death: Charlie FRAZIER-40714, Bell County, Kentucky, United States
1988 - Burial: John Edwin LAWES-35743, Loxton Waikerie, South Australia
1989 - Death: Lawrence Douglas LAWS-39792, Strood Kent England
1989 - Death: Rose JUDD-14358, 
1989 - Death: Rosie LAWS-14251, Victoria Australia
1991 - Death: Margaret Ellen LAWS-33380, Leicestershire England
1991 - Death: Hubert LAWS-16350, (PFC US Army) 
1993 - Burial: Francis Henry LAWS-27564, (Railway Platelayer) Billingham Durham England
1994 - Death: Kenneth Gordon DAVIS-28157, 
2011 - Death: Lucille FRESQUEZ-41760, Murrieta, California United States 
2011 - Death: Richard Albert LAWS-27807, Darwin Northern Territory Australia



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

part 18

SOUTHGATE
Before the building boom, Southgate was largely an area of large mansions set in their own parks amongst farmland with a village of cottages and small shops where the new Underground station was now inserted.
                                       Southgate Underground Station

It has been well documented by local historians and was in the final stages of suburbanisation when we moved there. I scarcely knew the area before moving there, but on at least one occasion had investigated the blackberries growing in the hedges of Osidge Lane at the bottom of which Pymmes brook was still a little stream edged with overgrown hawthorn.

There was a little farm in a small gentle valley opposite our new house, but within months the farm had become a large housing estate and, passing through the stages of a sea of mud became quite a pleasant suburban area.
A house got put up at about one every three weeks, with very little mechanical assistance, those houses were sold for about five or six hundred pounds, not cheap.
A new house could be bought for a little as three hundred and seventy-five pounds all around London.

Most houses were being built without garages but ours was one of a small development of half a dozen with a garage built-in.    Builders had not yet really
decided that a garage was an integral part of a house, so there was no upper storey over it. Our enterprising builder had even put a radiator in the garage and this, together with a radiator in the hall and a towel rail in the bathroom made up his attempt at central heating. It was too bad that his knowledge of gravity circulation was weak and the garage was a bit lower than the rest of the house, so that its radiator was below the level of the ‘Ideal’ boiler in the kitchen and remained forever stone cold.

The kitchen in the new house was a real update on what had gone before. There was still a built-in dresser for the china with upper grooved shelves to stand up the dinner plates but the top was enclosed by doors, albeit painted a darkish brown. The larder alongside it, was deep, giving a lot of space but difficult to access. 

For the first time, there was a refrigerator, a monstrous thing on legs with a big round cooling coil on top designed to collect the dust where you could see it. It was however finished in white enamel and built like a tank.
The black iron gas cooker was left behind and the new one was finished in mottled green vitreous enamel, all very solid. We still had a deep white stoneware sink with a wooden draining board. The kitchen was, of course, a lot smaller than before and the old deal table used up a lot of the space so that there was little room to eat there. but a breakfast room lay alongside to eat in and this arrangement was a bit of a curate’s egg, handy when you needed an extra room but not so handy at breakfast time.

We were about half a mile from the new underground railway station, our move to the new house had been held back until it was completed. A bus route with single-decker buses ran down the road as far as the Chase Side Tavern. The bus stopped within a few yards of us on its way back and it cost a penny for the ride up the easy slope half a mile to the station. I had to be very late and actually see the bus coming before money could be wasted in this profligate way.

The shops in Southgate were at that time in course of changing over from village to suburbia, a change which had been made in nearby Palmers Green a generation earlier probably when the railway arrived. The new tube station had a few new shops built around it but the old ones survived just a little longer, a tiny sweet shop run by a tiny old lady on the corner of Chase Side opposite the ‘Bell’ Public House and a barbers beside the Bell, where boys got their hair cut for threepence. 

Next to that going north along Chase Side, Lees Stores survived a long time although the first moves towards supermarkets shoed themselves in shops where you had to go from one counter to another to get your various goods instead of shop assistant fetching it all from far of places and piling it on the counter in front of you, before asking whether you would like it delivered. Next to Lee’s was the paper shop and then an ancient toy shop which didn’t last long. 

The bike, and perhaps motorbike, repair shop was a hundred yards further on, more a single storey brick shed with a shopfront than anything, but it survived some years standing well proud of the new parade of shops built beside it which was set well back from the road with a very wide pavement.
Opposite was Collins the butchers, a purveyor of choice meat, complete with a slaughterhouse in the rear. Here Sam and his dad presided, with straw hats and blue and white aprons and, would chop away on their big wooden block to produce the chump chop you wanted out of half a sheep. 

They too would deliver if you liked in a little brown van, well known in the Southgate streets. No doubt you paid for the service in the prices but you still could buy a nice pork chop for fourpence.

There were two garages locally, petrol cost the equivalent of six or seven new pence a gallon and you could buy a brand new Austin Seven for one hundred and five pounds if you were lucky enough to scrape that much together. 
                                                                Austin 7

My dad got a Chrysler saloon in place of the old bull-nosed Morris but didn’t have it long as he was neither the first or the last to drive straight on at one of the right-angled Essex lanes. I didn’t ride in it much anyway as he had given me a new bike which I liked much better. After the demise of the Chrysler came a much more sedate Hillman which I feel nobody loved very much.
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Extracted from our database today 18th February

1768 - Birth: Anna LAWS-27648, 
1780 - Birth: John LAWS-39515,(Master Mariner 43280)  Marsham Norfolk                     England
1813 - Marriage: James LAWS-4313 (Reverend) and Rebecca SPAHR-4314,
           Ohio County Virginia United States
1814 - Marriage: James LAWES-1976 and Sophia SMALL-1977, 
           Headley Hampshire England
1851 - Marriage: Thomas LAWS-5221(Mariner & General Dealer)  and
           Sarah Elvira WORMOLD-5749, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1852 - Marriage: William John ELL-7086 (Accountant's Clerk)  and Mary                       Elizabeth ROWELL-7087, (Lace Milliner)  Old Street, Finsbury
           Middlesex England
           (My paternal Great Grandparents)
1855 - Birth: Lydia LAWS-35441, Bungay Suffolk England

1857 - Marriage: Joseph HEWER-25714 (Shoemaker)  and Grace CHARTERS-              25713,
            (Grace was my wife's 1st cousin 5 times removed) 
1872 - Marriage: Jerimiah CARNEY-36997 and Mary A LAWS-27055, (Servant)              Sunderland Durham England

1873 - Occupation: James LAWS-16799, (A B Seaman)
1876 - Birth: William LAWES-9942, (Farmer) Sutton Saint James Lincolnshire               England
1882 - Birth: Beatrice Selina LAWS-41101, (Spinster)  Shoreditch Middlesex                     England
1882 - Birth: Thomas Burnett LAWS-26681, (Farmer)  Pittingdon                                       Northumberland England
1885 - Birth: Florence M COMER-35867, Middleton Tyas, North Yorkshire                     England
1886 - Birth: Gertrude Helen LAWS-50336, Norwich Norfolk England

1887 - Death: Hosea LAWS-39762, Somerville Massachusetts United States
1888 - Marriage: James BLANEY-27730 (Miner)  and Ruth LAWS-3488,
1888 - Birth: Joseph LAWS-43703, (Coal Miner - Stoneman)
1890 - Marriage: James Horatio LAWS-5088 (Colour Seargent in Royal                             Glamorgan Militia)  and Sarah Elizabeth MUNRO-36356, Walthamstow               Essex England
1891 - Birth: Edward Tipton SPACKMAN-47815, South Yarra Victoria Australia
1892 - Death: Charlotte LAWS-5207, (Spinster) Stamford Lincolnshire England
1893 - Birth: Bernard CLEETON-21612, Lower Bebington Suffolk England
1893 - Birth: Arthur George LAWS-8445, Bowen, Queensland Australia
1894 - Birth: Amy Mary MOONEY-13932, (Cartridge Case Maker)  Edmonton               Middlesex England
           (My Grand Aunt) 
1895 - Birth: Gertrude May LAWS-36119, (WWI Airwomen 21855)
           West Lexham Norfolk England
1906 - Birth: Margaret Elizabeth Grace SALT-38276, Lewisham Kent England
1913 - Birth: William James HAMILTON-11301, Queensland Australia
1915 - Death: Gertrude LAWS-3533, (Infant 4 mth old) St. Pancras Middlesex                  England
1916 - Birth: Charles Buford LAWS-16286, (T5 US Army) Lawrenceburg                         Tennessee United States
1918 - Marriage: Ernest LAWS-33846 (Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant)
           and Ada Mary FORSTER-33845, Portsmouth Hampshire England

1929 - Death: Emily Elizabeth LAWES-9410, (Widow) Strand on the Green                       Middlesex England
1931 - Birth: Dulcie Ivy WALL-3159, 
1933 - Marriage: James Frederick LAWS-16299 (TEC5 US Army)  and
           Daphna May PEPPLE-16300, Brighton, Adams County County
           United States
1936 - Burial: Clarence LAWS-16292, (PVT US Army) Philadelphia,                                  Pennsylvania, United States
1944 - Death: William Wilbur LAWS-18913, Los Angeles California United States
1950 - Birth: Allen Wesley LAWS-23067, Gaston County North Carolina 
           United States
1951 - Residence: Lilly CHILDS-5079, Winchmore Hill Middlesex England
1951 - Death: James Henry LAWS-5078, (Railway Clerk)  Southgate Middlesex                England
1960 - Death: Archibald Sidney LAWES-871, (Ag Lab)  Winchester Hampshire               England
1963 - Miscellaneous: Samuel T LAWS-4687, (Blacksmith)
1964 - Death: George Seton BRISCOE-44507,(Retired Army Major) Hennock
           Devon England
1974 - Death: Ernest Leslie LAWS-39492, Chorley Lancashire England
1985 - Death: Sophia Virgie CRIDER-32540, Carroll County, Tennessee
           United States
1987 - Death: Wilbur Francis LAWS-22290, Monticello San Juan Utah 
           United States
2001 - Death: George Kenneth LAWS-50602, 
2002 - Death: Ruby Jo LAWS-50023, Maplewood, St. Louis City, Missouri,                        United States
2004 - Burial: Lois LAWS-13255, Tuscola Cemetery Illinois United States
2013 - Death: Margaret Jeanette WORRAL-38226, 


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2008 Olympics Cyclist
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1974-2017
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