Friday 9th October 2020 - Number 7107

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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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Extracted from our Database today

Friday 9th October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1748 - Baptism: Samuel HOBBS-370, (Wheelwright)  

           Breamore Hampshire England

1762 - Marriage: Alexander CHRISTIE-10338 and 

           Agnes LAWS-10339, Newcastle upon Tyne                                       Northumberland England

1805 - Christen: Jane LAWS-7201, Gosport Hampshire England

1816 - Birth: Janet MCMINN-21322, Kirkcudbright                                 Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland

1826 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-50385 and Elizabeth Matilda               WILLIAMS-50386, Chelsea Middlesex England

1833 - Birth: Mary LAWS-2867, (Servant) Welches Dam                         Cambridgeshire England

1839 - Marriage: Phillip LAWS-24442 (Shoemaker)  and 

           Ann BALDRY-24443, (Widow) Beccles Suffolk England

1845 - Marriage: Lewis MATHIAS-9437 (Gentleman JP & DL)               and Emily Catherine LAWES-220, 

1846 - Birth: William Rufus LAWS-10945, Orange County 

           North Carolina United States

1847 - Birth: Harriet Ann CRAW-6573, Greenbush New York                 United States

1849 - Marriage: William LAWS-14677 and Celia LIPPE-33873,             Wilkes County North Carolina United States

1850 - Birth: Emma FOWLER-48772, (Confectioner) 

            Saint Pancras Middlesex England

1855 - Marriage: James Madison LAWS-12693 and Esther                       MORMON-35216, Meade County Kentucky United States

1857 - Emigration: Charles LAWS-3118, (Farmer) Ship 'Almora'

           sailed from Liverpool as above on own account

1875 - Birth: Joseph Morris LAWS-39828, (Master Hairdresser) 

1876 - Birth: Ada LAWES-22071, (Domestic Servant) 

           Brooke Township, Lambton County, Ontario Canada

1876 - Birth: Alice Garver LAWS-12366, 

1880 - Death: Catherine Laws BURNETT-33745, 

           Prudhoe Northumberland England

1891 - Birth: Herman G LAWS-43601, 

1894 - Birth: Frederick Samuel Wallace MOUNTJOY-                             44610, (Wagon Repairer) Cardiff Glamorgan Wales

1894 - Birth: Hannah Ellen Edith LAWS-14965, (Servant) 

           West Ham Essex England

1895 - Birth: Laveta M KROESEN-51502, Warrensburg                         Missouri United States

1897 - Burial: James LAWS-22147, Sheffield West Yorkshire                   England

1905 - Birth: Doris Amelia LAWS-35828, 

1907 - Birth: Francis Alford DRAPER-50052, 

           Aubrey, Denton County, Texas, USA

1909 - Birth: Ralph LAWS-33451, (Electricians Labourer)                       Bolton Lancashire England

1909 - Birth: David Arlan LAWS-16462, Swain County 

           North Carolina United States

1910 - Death: Ann CLIFFORD-11324 (Widow) 

           Whitby North Yorkshire England

1910 - Death: William LAWS-6266, 

1911 - Birth: John Matthew LAWS-35247, 

1913 - Residence: Harry Edwin LAWS-6048, (Chemist) 

           Watford Hertfordshire England

1914 - Birth: Robert John William LAWS-12652, (Australian                   Army) Picton New South Wales Australia

1915 - Birth: Norman Ian LAWS-40100, (Colliery Putter)                          Gateshead Durham England

1919 - Birth: Joan VINE-47242, (Toy Artist) 

1925 - Residence: Sydney Gibson LAWS-33200, (Civil Servant &

           Radiographer)  Gateshead Durham England (Emigrated)

1932 - Marriage: Burl Owen LAWS-16679 & 

            Ida VANDERGRIFF-16682, 

1937 - Marriage: Robert John LAWES-17380 and Mayabelle                    Rosabelle DEVLIN-33834, Belleville Ontario Canada

1938 - Residence: Emily LAWES-640, (Linen Weaver / Spinster)             Holbeck West Yorkshire England

1940 - Death: Edith Sarah ROWELL-38457, Brighton Sussex                  England

1950 - Burial: George Thomas LAWS-30104, Wakiwi 

           New Zealand

1952 - Miscellaneous: George Seton BRISCOE-44507, 

           (Retired Army Major) Ventnor, Isle of Wight England

1954 - Death: George Washington LAWS-39051, (Tyre Clerk)                 Portland Oregon United States

1958 - Residence: Annie LAWS-38080, (Spinster)

           Catford Kent England

1959 - Marriage: General LAWS-51222 and Harriett J. GORIN-              51221, Chicago Illinois United States

1961 - Burial: George William LAWS-38323, 

            Elm Cambridgeshire England

1961 - Burial: Henry George LAWS-30419,  

           (Engineers Machinist) Bognor Regis Sussex England

1964 - Death: Hilda  LAWES-39166, (Dyers Shop Assistant &                  Neice) Leigh on Sea Essex England

1982 - Death: Leonard Otto LAWS-40659, 

1984 - Death: Holly Winifred COOTE-35162, 

           Launceston, Tasmania Australia

1985 - Death: Exle Rosa LAWS-10889, Andover Hampshire                     England

1986 - Death: Robert Harry  LAWES-39166, (Economist) 

2007 - Death: Betty ALFREY-26063, (Pappa John's Pizza)                       Topeka Kansas United States

2011 - Burial: Shannon Darnell LAWS-39678, 

            (Disabled Childcare)  Beulah, Surrey North Carolina                    United States

2013 - Burial: Christy Renee LAWS-39691, Beulah, Surrey                     North Carolina United States

2013 - Death: Mildred Leola WALL-38410, 

           Inman South Carolina United States

2014 - Death: Norman Francis LAWS-39971, 

           Washington Durham England

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A Child of the Twenties

A suburban childhood of the Twenties as seen from the Nineteen Nineties

by John Robert Laws 1921-2008                                                 

Part 4

If the cellar was inelegant, the other rooms were much better. After the kitchen, the most used room for living was the 'front room' often called the dining room. today it would be called the living room but room usage in middle-class houses was different then, mainly due to the lack of central heating. 

In cold weather, a fire would be lit in the front room in the late afternoon on weekdays or well before lunch on weekends. Its heat output could only be controlled by stoking it up or letting it burn down with a little bit of draught control at the front and the alternatives of feeding it with lumps or slack.

The tiled fireplaces of the thirties and forties had not arrived, the fire was ornamented with tiled inserts on either side, enclosed by an iron surround. Above it, the overmantle enclosed a big mirror and supported a heavy green onyx clock in a Palladium style with a gilt dial and ormolu mounts. If this were not enough, it was flanked by a pair of blue-brown Doulton glazed vases which served as spill holders.

It all belonged to a rather earlier age, even at that time, the product of a rather late marriage before WWI, of a couple raised in late Victorian times. Furniture was good and solid, even a dining chair took a bit of lifting, but there was no fear of it wearing out or falling apart and the room was big enough to hold a lot of it. 

As it was really a living room rather than a dining room, the fire had a large overstuffed armchair on either side and there was a matching sofa along the opposite wall. One recess beside the chimney breast was occupied by a tall glazed mahogany bookcase and the other held a drop-front coal-scuttle which provided a little tabletop beside the chair. An enormous mahogany sideboard sat against the wall opposite the window, the back of its tall overmantle filled by a mirror. tapered square columns supported the tester style top on which stood a reproduction bronze statue of an athlete. 

I suppose the original statue must be greek but although some thirty years or so later I spotted a full-size replica in a public park in Liege, I remain in ignorance.

Ornaments abounded and on the sideboard were an epergne for fruit and flowers and a couple of silver plate and glass urns which never contained anything. More useful was the plated silver stand to hold the soda syphon and the plated vegetable dishes sitting on the long lacey cloth. 

'Cleaning the plate' was a regular chore and but one of much labour-intensive housekeeping of those days. There was of course a heavy mahogany dining table and half a dozen chairs for the main purpose of the room. Apart from mealtimes, a dark crimson chenille tablecloth with a fancy fringe all round covered the table and in the middle stood another epergne, plated and just for flowers this time. 

Last but not least the obligatory aspidistra sat in a magnificent state of growth on an ornately carved ebony stand in the window bay, its pot enclosed by a handsome china jardiniere of deep blue and white. from this window, at dusk, the lamplighter could be seen on his rounds lighting the gas street lights one by one with a long pole he carried over his shoulder.  

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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for his permission to reproduce his photographs on this site 

see 

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