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Wednesday 26th August 2020 - Number 7070

WELCOME TO THE 
 LAWS FAMILY REGISTER


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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.


Henry Lawes
1595-1662

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A Child of the Twenties
A suburban childhood of the Twenties 
seen from the Nineteen Nineties
by
John Robert Laws FICA 1921-2008

Chapter 18
    
A Child of the Nineteen Twenties 
Part 18
Before the building boom Southgate was largely an area of large mansions set in their own parks among 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 has scarcely know 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 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 for ever 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 panted a darkish brown. The larder alongside it was deep, giving a lot of space difficult to access.

For the first time there was a Refrigerator, a monstrous thing on legs with a big round cooling coil on top, 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.
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 sweetshop 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 three pence. Next to that going north along Chase Side, Lees Stores survived a long time although the first moves towards supermarkets showed 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 shop front 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 four pence.

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.      



Continued tomorrow

  • To be continued tomorrow


Continued tomorrow



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Extracted from our Database today

Wednesday 26th August 2020

We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940 

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)


FAMILY EVENTS


1713 - Marriage: Henry LAWES-12500 and Elizabeth SYMONDS-12501,                         Norwich Norfolk England

1742 - Baptism: William LAWES-19899, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England

1798 - Baptism: Edward LAWS-19731, Gateshead Durham England
1809 - Baptism: Michael Harrison BIRD-6968, (Seaman) Kingston Upon Hull                   East Yorkshire England
            (My wife's 3rd Great grandfather)
1811 - Burial: A E LAWS-49267, Waltham Forest Essex England
1811 - Baptism: William LUSH-23207, (Thatcher)  Bower Chalke Wiltshire                       England

1817 - Baptism: Louisa LAWES-31281, Andover Hampshire England

1821 - Marriage: James BECKHAM-11528 (Widower)  and Sarah LAWS-11529,             (Widow)  Norwich Norfolk England
1835 - Burial: Henry LAWS-44471, Stepney Middlesex England

1838 - Marriage: Robert BRANT-20386 (Excavator Labourer) and Jane                           GLOVER-20387, Boston Lincolnshire England
            ( My mothers maternal 2nd Great Grandfather)

1838 - Baptism: Elizabeth CHARTERS-6527, Aspatria Cumberland England
My wife 2nd Great Grand Aunt)
1849 - Marriage: William LOVELL-3561 and Jane Ann LAWS-6859, 
           Portsmouth Hampshire England
1850 - Birth: John William Horton LAWS-4229,(Bricklayer)  Cheriton Kent                     England

1858 - Occupation: Francis LAWS-26611, (Steward on Ship)
1867 - Birth: Mary Anne (Cotton Winder) CLEGG-6973, Kirkcudbright                           Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland
1868 - Marriage: Thomas Cresswell LAWS-8141 (Master Mariner & Steamship               Agent)  and Hannah HARTLEY-37214, Stockton-On-Tees Durham                         England
1877 - Death: Amy Delila LAWS-22025, Union County Illinois United States
1881 - Marriage: Charles Adolphus MANGUM-10960 and Delia Ann LAWS-                   10950, Orange County North Carolina United States
1884 - Birth: John WilliamLAWS-23880, (Carpenter & Joiner at Hospital - RN               F5314 & RAF 205134)  Brixton Surrey England
1889 - Death: William LAWS-7352 (Fancy Draper) Hounslow Middlesex England
1899 - Marriage: Edward Richard (Fancy Leather Worker) LAWS-4199 and                    Elizabeth Ellen PIGGOTT-36522, Wandsworth Surrey England
1901 - Birth: Henry George (Breakdown Fitter Buses) LAWES-38135,
1904 - Birth: Rose (Laundry Worker) LAWS-27801, Wandsworth Surrey                           England
1916 - Death: Mary (Widow) LAWS-24370, Kidder, Caldwell County MO United States
1918 - Death: Elizabeth CHARTERS-13871, Blennerhasset Cumberland England
1922 - Death: Frederick Sydney LAWES-45288,
1946 - Marriage: Harry Ford (I) LAWS-13302 and Clare ARENDALE-13305, Sturgis, Saint Joseph, Michigan United Statess
1947 - Death: William (Hove Corporation Foreman Retired) LAWS-3966, Kingston on Sea, Shoreham om Sea Sussex England
1948 - Departure: Horace Harold (Steel Smelter Foreman) LAWS-3540, New York City, New York United States
1948 - Birth: Leaman Warner LAWS-18250, Harris County Texas United States
1949 - Marriage: Low Fuman LAWS-35218 and Lonnie KLUTZ-35219, Charlotte North Carolina United States
1960 - Birth: Mason Maurice LAWS-48374, Fulton Oswego New York United States
1960 - Death: Robert Frederick (Farmer) LAWS-42307, Keppel, Capriconia Queensland Australia
1960 - Death: Florence E LAWS-21223, Botany Bay New South Wales Australia
1962 - Death: George Thomas Young (Army Private RASC) GARRETT-51708, Ealing Middlesex England
1970 - Death: Robert Ley MOODY-43751, Bideford Devonshire England
1983 - Death: Amy Lenore LAWS-50498, San Bernardino, California, United States

1985 - Burial: Barbara Eleanor LAWS-51566, San Mateo California United States

1993 - Death: Daphne Ann LAWS-34854, Slough Buckinghamshire England
2004 - Death: Tony Ray LAWS-16491, Harmony North Carolina United States
2005 - Birth: Connor Terence GIBSON-22611, Southend-on-Sea Essex England
2005 - Death: Howard Sterling LAWS-11033, 
2012 - Marriage: Curtis Lee LAWS-40268 and Kimberley Tracy REINERO-40269, Pigeon Forge Tennessee United States



MORE TOMORROW

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Dear Ancestor,-
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone
The names and dates are chiselled out on polished marble stone

It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist, you died and I was born
Yet each of us are cells of you, in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own

Dear Ancestor, 
The place you filled one hundred years ago
Spreads out amongst the ones you left who would have loved you so,
I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot and come to visit you.

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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' 
my paternal Great Grandfather

Barque 'Woolhampton'

This is Robert Henry's Wife 
Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller
My paternal Great Grandmother
1846-1924

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Sharon Nicola LAWS
2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 
1974-2017
R I P







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