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Lord, help me dig into the past and sift the sands of timethat I might find the roots that madethis family tree of mine
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 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 Lawes1595-1662
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One Man’s War – A bit about the RAF
Henry Lawes
1595-1662
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One Man’s War – A bit about the RAF
by John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 3.On New Year’s Day 1942 I made my first flight as an instructor at Elmdon (Now Birmingham Airport) located between Birmingham and Coventry, you had to turn smartly left on takeoff to avoid running into cables of the Barrage Balloons flying over the city to prevent low-level air attack.
My stay at Elmdon lasted just six weeks during which time I did eighty-six hours as a Sergeant instructor before I promoted from Sergeant to Pilot Officer and had to be posted since you were not allowed to remain on the same unit as an officer where you had served as a NCO. This move was to Desford near Leicester where I stayed for the rest of my time as an instructor.
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Desford was a good airfield for the job. It was on high ground north of the valley that lies between Leicester and Hinckley and there were no surrounding obstructions. There was a small factory alongside belonging to Reid & Sigrest making aircraft components and the field had been a flying club before the war.
We had some forty of fifty Tiger Moths which flew most of the daylight hours and stood out in the open in all weather.
There were a couple of hangers for maintenance and repairs and mechanical failure was virtually unknown. Accidents were rare and usually due to heavy landings when an instructor allowed a pupil to go too far before taking control. We normally flew the same aircraft and there would be minor variations between the behaviour of one to another.
I got caught out on one occasion when not using my regular aircraft, I allowed a pupil to land from a long gliding approach on a cold day. When he bounced it high in the air I opened the throttle wide to catch it, and nothing happened.
Except that is we dropped like a brick, the undercarriage gave up and we slid along on our nose with the prop shattering in all directions till we turned over forwards and landed upside down hanging in our harness. I hadn’t realised that the fuel mixture was set a fraction weaker than my usual machine and that the engine needed to be warmed up after the descent before landing. Black Mark!
By March 1944 the need for training more pilots was diminishing (having been involved in the training of up to 400 pilots,) instructors were being moved over to operational flying. I was posted to an Advanced Flying Unit at Banff where we flew Airspeed Oxfords a twin engine low wing monoplane trainer. I did about sixty hours day flying and twenty hours night flying on this course, about half under instruction and half solo, finishing the course in the middle of May.
There was now a gap in flying from 15th May to 15th June. Sometime and somewhere in this gap crews were put together. A crowd of pilots, navigators, bomb aimers and wireless ops were got together for a few days and had to sort out fellow crew members with whom they could and would work and fly a tour of operations, somehow or other the gunners got tacked on later.
Then it was on to Lossiemouth where we flew old Vickers Wellingtons from the satellite field at Elgin. It was a lovely setting with the field almost ringed with mountains but not close enough to be threatening in the summer weather. Now that crews had been formed I spent the major part of my time in the company of Cliff and Frank and we shared a room at Blackfriars Haugh in Elgin. The house had been taken over as an annexe of the Lossiemouth officers mess. We had a large bedroom which had at some time earlier been made over to a bathroom which now contained three beds. Blackfriars was a large stone-built house set in a garden beside the river Lossie.I revisited Elgin some fifty years later and Blackfriars looked just the same though the town of Elgin was unrecognisable.
The Wellington was one of the great aircraft of the RAF’s history. By this time they were pretty well out of operational service and those we flew were far from new. With their two big Pegasus engines giving their all they lumbered off the grass field but once airborne they wanted to fly and handled nicely, without bomb load of course.
The big props whirled away a foot or two from one's left ear and the wingtips could be seen to flap as the flexible geodetic construction took up the strain. Night flying was a farce in the Highland summer, it never got really dark but there is some thirty-seven hours night flying shown in my logbook in the seventy-seven hours flying time at Elgin.
Our cross country flying included a trip to Rockall out in the Atlantic; we didn’t spot it but couldn’t have been far out as out landfall on return was spot on.More tomorrow
Part 3.
On New Year’s Day 1942 I made my first flight as an instructor at Elmdon (Now Birmingham Airport) located between Birmingham and Coventry, you had to turn smartly left on takeoff to avoid running into cables of the Barrage Balloons flying over the city to prevent low-level air attack.
My stay at Elmdon lasted just six weeks during which time I did eighty-six hours as a Sergeant instructor before I promoted from Sergeant to Pilot Officer and had to be posted since you were not allowed to remain on the same unit as an officer where you had served as a NCO. This move was to Desford near Leicester where I stayed for the rest of my time as an instructor.
Desford was a good airfield for the job. It was on high ground north of the valley that lies between Leicester and Hinckley and there were no surrounding obstructions. There was a small factory alongside belonging to Reid & Sigrest making aircraft components and the field had been a flying club before the war.
We had some forty of fifty Tiger Moths which flew most of the daylight hours and stood out in the open in all weather.
There were a couple of hangers for maintenance and repairs and mechanical failure was virtually unknown. Accidents were rare and usually due to heavy landings when an instructor allowed a pupil to go too far before taking control. We normally flew the same aircraft and there would be minor variations between the behaviour of one to another.
I got caught out on one occasion when not using my regular aircraft, I allowed a pupil to land from a long gliding approach on a cold day. When he bounced it high in the air I opened the throttle wide to catch it, and nothing happened.
Except that is we dropped like a brick, the undercarriage gave up and we slid along on our nose with the prop shattering in all directions till we turned over forwards and landed upside down hanging in our harness. I hadn’t realised that the fuel mixture was set a fraction weaker than my usual machine and that the engine needed to be warmed up after the descent before landing. Black Mark!
By March 1944 the need for training more pilots was diminishing (having been involved in the training of up to 400 pilots,) instructors were being moved over to operational flying. I was posted to an Advanced Flying Unit at Banff where we flew Airspeed Oxfords a twin engine low wing monoplane trainer. I did about sixty hours day flying and twenty hours night flying on this course, about half under instruction and half solo, finishing the course in the middle of May.
There was now a gap in flying from 15th May to 15th June. Sometime and somewhere in this gap crews were put together. A crowd of pilots, navigators, bomb aimers and wireless ops were got together for a few days and had to sort out fellow crew members with whom they could and would work and fly a tour of operations, somehow or other the gunners got tacked on later.
Then it was on to Lossiemouth where we flew old Vickers Wellingtons from the satellite field at Elgin. It was a lovely setting with the field almost ringed with mountains but not close enough to be threatening in the summer weather. Now that crews had been formed I spent the major part of my time in the company of Cliff and Frank and we shared a room at Blackfriars Haugh in Elgin. The house had been taken over as an annexe of the Lossiemouth officers mess. We had a large bedroom which had at some time earlier been made over to a bathroom which now contained three beds. Blackfriars was a large stone-built house set in a garden beside the river Lossie.
I revisited Elgin some fifty years later and Blackfriars looked just the same though the town of Elgin was unrecognisable.
The Wellington was one of the great aircraft of the RAF’s history. By this time they were pretty well out of operational service and those we flew were far from new. With their two big Pegasus engines giving their all they lumbered off the grass field but once airborne they wanted to fly and handled nicely, without bomb load of course.
The big props whirled away a foot or two from one's left ear and the wingtips could be seen to flap as the flexible geodetic construction took up the strain. Night flying was a farce in the Highland summer, it never got really dark but there is some thirty-seven hours night flying shown in my logbook in the seventy-seven hours flying time at Elgin.
Our cross country flying included a trip to Rockall out in the Atlantic; we didn’t spot it but couldn’t have been far out as out landfall on return was spot on.
More tomorrow
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Extracted from our Database today
Extracted from our Database today
Monday 7th September 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1796 - Birth: William Robert LAWS-36803, 1811 - Baptism: Edward LAWS-36657, Hilgay Norfolk England
1814 - Death: Isaac GREEDUS-47935, Bethnal Green Middlesex England My paternal 4th Great grandfather
1822 - Baptism: Elizabeth THOMPSON-8540, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1829 - Baptism: Lucinda Ann LAWS-7024, Stepney Middlesex England
1833 - Christen: Sarah LAWS-19582, Saint Botolphs, without Aldgate Middlesex England1833 - Birth: Sarah LAWS-19582, Minories City of London1833 - Baptism: Caroline Ann LAWS-16048, Southwark Surrey England1839 - Christen: John LAWES-1096, Holbeach Lincolnshire England
1849 - Birth: Sarah Jane FRENCH-4088, (Mariners Wife) Limehouse Middlesex England (My paternal Great Grand Uncles wife)1851 - Occupation: John Henry LAWS-7876, (Master Mariner)of Schooner 'Bailey' Sydney - Hobart 1852 - Christen: Katherine E LAWS-3345, Saint John Horsley Downs Bermondsey 1856 - Birth: Mary Ann Eliza LAWS-10507, Westminster Middlesex England1858 - Marriage: Charles BUTLER-26130 and Elizabeth LAWS-26128, Whittlesey Cambridgeshire England
1858 - Marriage: Samuel Harper RICHES-13960 (Law Stationer) and Emily Jane LAWS-13959, (Dressmaker) Stepney Middlesex England My Paternal Great Grand Aunt
1860 - Death: Margaret LAWS-21144, (Servant) 1860 - Birth: Rosetta LAWES-2461,(Housemaid) Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England
1861 - Birth: Helen DOW-3194, Maffia Victoria Australia1863 - Birth: John POFFENBERGER-12046, Chewsville, Washington County Maryland United States1866 - Birth: Eva Louisa HEDGES-24100, Ashbury Berkshire England1869 - Birth: Alice Anne HOLMAN-22596, Stratford Essex England1878 - Birth: William Willoughby LAWS-2776, Calcutta Bengal India (Stockbroker) 1882 - Birth: John T LAWS-43720, (Motor Driver) 1883 - Birth: George LAWS-43770, (Colliery Stoneworker) 1883 - Birth: Annie DOBSON-31559, Gateshead Durham England1885 - Birth: Herbert John LAWS-15331, (Master Carpenter & shopkeeper) Litcham Norfolk England1886 - Birth: George E LAWS-43112, (Builders Labourer) 1889 - Marriage: Francis Samuel HORROCKS-27994 (Waiter) and Alice LAWES- 908, (Nurse / Spinster) Greenwich Kent England
1891 - Death: Sarah LAWS-33766, Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland
1891 - Death: Sarah LAWS-8052, Bombay India1895 - Birth: Ethel D STAFFORD-22622, City of London, England1897 - Birth: Leonard Syme LAWS-45799, Connecticut, United States1900 - Marriage: Edgar Percy Cecil LAWS-4924 (Printers Reader) and Sarah Charlotte BARRATT-30684, City of London, England1900 - Birth: Nancy M R (Maria) WILEMAN-46465, 1903 - Birth: Spencer N LAWS-44861, Texas United States1905 - Baptism: Elizabeth (Twin with John) LAWS-23856, Ryhope Durham England1905 - Birth: John (Twin with Elizabeth) LAWS-23855, 1910 - Birth: Nora Lilian DICKENS-41946, (Filing Clerk) 1910 - Birth: Reuben W FLETCHER-27024, Granville New South Wales Australia1913 - Birth: Harold S LAWES-47602, (Night Dispatch Clerk (Bakery) 1914 - Birth: Sidney LAWES-47500, (Bench Fitter) 1914 - Death: James Henry LAWS-40634, St Kitts & Nevis My paternal Grand Uncle1915 - Birth: Beryl M FRYER-46330, 1920 - Birth: John SEWELL-29222, Sunderland Durham England
1930 - Burial: Charles Watson LAWS-2913, (Fancy Draper) Stockton-On-Tees Durham England1935 - Arrival: Leonard John (Army Private 17731 7 Sig Coy RE - Aircraft Assembler) Montreal Quebec Canada 1944 - Death: Norman Alexander (ARMY Trooper 7915590) , 1944 - Burial: Laura Harriett SMITH-15448, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England1946 - Death: Caroline LAWES-223, 1962 - Death: Florence Mary Whittaker LAWES-38067, Eccles Lancashire England1963 - Death: Myrtle Annie LAWS-48150, Edmonton Alberta Canada1965 - Death: Sidney Thomas LAWES-31238, (Bricklayer) Newport Isle of Wight England11966 - Death: Albert Charles (Australian Army) LAWS-12583, Rochester Victoria Australia1969 - Burial: Frederick JENNINGS-23053, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England1978 - Birth: Andrew Thomas DUDLEY-24203, Armadale Victoria Australia(Retail Sales) 2009 - Death: Peggie Jean ALLEN-40652, 2014 - Death: Edmund Max LAWS-40410, Lexington North Carolina United States2014 - Death: Maurice Frederick LAWS-26974, Timaru New Zealand
MORE TOMORROW
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Dear Ancestor,-Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and aloneThe names and dates are chiselled out on polished marble stone
Monday 7th September 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1796 - Birth: William Robert LAWS-36803,
1811 - Baptism: Edward LAWS-36657, Hilgay Norfolk England
1814 - Death: Isaac GREEDUS-47935, Bethnal Green Middlesex England
My paternal 4th Great grandfather
1829 - Baptism: Lucinda Ann LAWS-7024, Stepney Middlesex England
1833 - Christen: Sarah LAWS-19582, Saint Botolphs, without Aldgate Middlesex England
1833 - Birth: Sarah LAWS-19582, Minories City of London
1833 - Baptism: Caroline Ann LAWS-16048, Southwark Surrey England
1839 - Christen: John LAWES-1096, Holbeach Lincolnshire England
1849 - Birth: Sarah Jane FRENCH-4088, (Mariners Wife) Limehouse Middlesex England
(My paternal Great Grand Uncles wife)
1851 - Occupation: John Henry LAWS-7876, (Master Mariner)of Schooner 'Bailey' Sydney - Hobart
1852 - Christen: Katherine E LAWS-3345, Saint John Horsley Downs Bermondsey
1856 - Birth: Mary Ann Eliza LAWS-10507, Westminster Middlesex England
1858 - Marriage: Charles BUTLER-26130 and Elizabeth LAWS-26128, Whittlesey Cambridgeshire England
1858 - Marriage: Samuel Harper RICHES-13960 (Law Stationer) and Emily Jane LAWS-13959, (Dressmaker) Stepney Middlesex England
My Paternal Great Grand Aunt
1860 - Death: Margaret LAWS-21144, (Servant)
1860 - Birth: Rosetta LAWES-2461,(Housemaid) Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England
1861 - Birth: Helen DOW-3194, Maffia Victoria Australia
1863 - Birth: John POFFENBERGER-12046, Chewsville, Washington County Maryland United States
1866 - Birth: Eva Louisa HEDGES-24100, Ashbury Berkshire England
1869 - Birth: Alice Anne HOLMAN-22596, Stratford Essex England
1878 - Birth: William Willoughby LAWS-2776, Calcutta Bengal India (Stockbroker)
1882 - Birth: John T LAWS-43720, (Motor Driver)
1883 - Birth: George LAWS-43770, (Colliery Stoneworker)
1883 - Birth: Annie DOBSON-31559, Gateshead Durham England
1885 - Birth: Herbert John LAWS-15331, (Master Carpenter & shopkeeper) Litcham Norfolk England
1886 - Birth: George E LAWS-43112, (Builders Labourer)
1889 - Marriage: Francis Samuel HORROCKS-27994 (Waiter) and Alice LAWES-
908, (Nurse / Spinster) Greenwich Kent England
1891 - Death: Sarah LAWS-33766, Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland
1891 - Death: Sarah LAWS-8052, Bombay India
1895 - Birth: Ethel D STAFFORD-22622, City of London, England
1897 - Birth: Leonard Syme LAWS-45799, Connecticut, United States
1900 - Marriage: Edgar Percy Cecil LAWS-4924 (Printers Reader) and Sarah Charlotte BARRATT-30684, City of London, England
1900 - Birth: Nancy M R (Maria) WILEMAN-46465,
1903 - Birth: Spencer N LAWS-44861, Texas United States
1905 - Baptism: Elizabeth (Twin with John) LAWS-23856, Ryhope Durham England
1905 - Birth: John (Twin with Elizabeth) LAWS-23855,
1910 - Birth: Nora Lilian DICKENS-41946, (Filing Clerk)
1910 - Birth: Reuben W FLETCHER-27024, Granville New South Wales Australia
1913 - Birth: Harold S LAWES-47602, (Night Dispatch Clerk (Bakery)
1914 - Birth: Sidney LAWES-47500, (Bench Fitter)
1914 - Death: James Henry LAWS-40634, St Kitts & Nevis
My paternal Grand Uncle
1915 - Birth: Beryl M FRYER-46330,
1920 - Birth: John SEWELL-29222, Sunderland Durham England
1930 - Burial: Charles Watson LAWS-2913, (Fancy Draper) Stockton-On-Tees Durham England
1935 - Arrival: Leonard John (Army Private 17731 7 Sig Coy RE - Aircraft Assembler) Montreal Quebec Canada
1944 - Death: Norman Alexander (ARMY Trooper 7915590) ,
1944 - Burial: Laura Harriett SMITH-15448, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1946 - Death: Caroline LAWES-223,
1962 - Death: Florence Mary Whittaker LAWES-38067, Eccles Lancashire England
1963 - Death: Myrtle Annie LAWS-48150, Edmonton Alberta Canada
1965 - Death: Sidney Thomas LAWES-31238, (Bricklayer) Newport Isle of Wight England
11966 - Death: Albert Charles (Australian Army) LAWS-12583, Rochester Victoria Australia
1969 - Burial: Frederick JENNINGS-23053, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England
1978 - Birth: Andrew Thomas DUDLEY-24203, Armadale Victoria Australia(Retail Sales)
2009 - Death: Peggie Jean ALLEN-40652,
2014 - Death: Edmund Max LAWS-40410, Lexington North Carolina United States
2014 - Death: Maurice Frederick LAWS-26974, Timaru New Zealand
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Dear Ancestor,-
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone
It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mournYou did not know that I exist, you died and I was bornYet 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 agoSpreads out amongst the ones you left who would have loved you so,I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knewThat someday I would find this spot and come to visit you.
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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
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Barque 'Woolhampton'
This is Robert Henry's Wife Sarah Ann Laws, formerly FullerMy paternal Great Grandmother1846-1924
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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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2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc
1974-2017
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