Monday 12th October 2010 - Number 7110

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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

Monday 12th October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1602 - Marriage: Robert ROYSE-22330 and Mary LAWES-                    22331, Exning Suffolk England

1749 - Baptism: Lydia LAWS-16816, Stepney Middlesex England

1759 - Marriage: Austin LAWS-5703 and Sarah HINSBY-21458, 

1777 - Christen: Frances LAWS-3946, Ryton Durham England

1804 - Birth: William LAWS-1179, Costessey Norfolk England

1815 - Marriage: Phillip LAWS-13066 (Shepherd) and Jemima               WALDEN-13067, Fincham Norfolk England

1823 - Marriage: James MENELAUS-17306 and Elizabeth                     LAWS-17305, Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland

1828 - Marriage: James WOOLISTON-11524 (Widower)  and                 Maria LAWS-11525, (Widow) Norwich Norfolk England

1828 - Marriage: Henry STODGELL-3826 and Isabella Eleanor             LAWS-3823, Portsmouth Hampshire England

1837 - Marriage: William LAWS-11799 (Labourer)  and Harriet             COOPER-11800, Diss Norfolk England

1840 - Marriage: William ROLFE-27520 and Mary LAWS-                      27521, Methwold Norfolk England

1842 - Marriage: William PATERSON-30974 (Carpenter)  and               Ann LAWS-23342, Litcham Norfolk England

1842 - Death: Joseph DODDS-20894, West Auckland Durham                 England

1845 - Burial: Thomas LAWES-31837, (Miller) Stapleton                         Gloucestershire England

1845 - Burial: Thomas LAWES-50198, 

1846 - Marriage: William LAWS-39420 (Ag Lab)  and Sarah

           GRAVENELL-39422, Ludham Norfolk England

1851 - Baptism: William Henry LAWS-14841, 

            (House Builder/Decorator)  Chelsea Middlesex England

1856 - Birth: Albert Gideon LAWS-32588, East Fork,                               Montgomery, Illinois United States

1856 - Baptism: Cuthbert Turner LAWS-3670, 

           (Railway Locomotive Driver)  Whitby North Yorkshire                 England

1864 - Burial: Susan Mary LAWS-26638, 

1879 - Baptism: Bathsheba Amelia FOSKER-15525, 

            Little Waldingfield Suffolk England

1881 - Birth: Harriet PARTON-45840, Sunningdale Berkshire                 England

1882 - Birth: Ellen E L LAWES-47508, (Domestic Cook)  

1882 - Birth: Annie LAWS-43200, (in Service)  

1885 - Marriage: Edward Knox RUTLEDGE-34573 and 

           Alice Maria LAWS-21314, Petersham, New South Wales,

           Australia

1887 - Baptism: Annie Elizabeth LAWS-41652, Paddington                     Middlesex England

1888 - Burial: Florence Annie LAWS-30896, Battersea Surrey                 England

1888 - Death: Horace LAWS-3341, (Retired Druggist) Strand,

           Middlesex England

1892 - Birth: Charles Eldred LAWS-21423, (Soldier Royal Horse

           Artillery) Sproughton Suffolk England

1894 - Birth: Tom Little LAWS-29871, Weakley County,                           Tennessee United States

1895 - Marriage: George LAWS-26481 and Frances Dora                         COOK-26480, Crundale Kent England

1896 - Birth: William LAWS-43345, (Railway Guard on London

            & North Eastern Railway) 

1896 - Birth: George Carl LAWES-28018, (Turner & Scientific

           Engineer)  Leeds West Yorkshire England

1907 - Birth: Dorothy Randall EALES-42345, 

            Coventry Warwickshire England

1907 - Birth: Dorothy R LAWS-38443, 

1908 - Death: James Lawes PERRIN-13223, Cotham Bristol                    Gloucestershire England

1908 - Death: Charles Edward Rose LAWS-7734, Doom Dooma              Near DeCrugara, Assam India

1912 - Marriage: James Austen LAWES-39442 of Battersea 

            Surrey (Chemist) and Annie Edwards BOUSQUET-                      39443, of Balham Surrey (Manufacturing Chemist's                      Clerk) at Streatham Surrey England

1912 - Birth: Joseph LAWES-46885, (Pneumatic Driller on 

           Armaments) 

1912 - Birth: Harold Clifford LAWS-24584, (Foreman General               Electrical Co)  Camillus, New York United States

1913 - Birth: Eleanor LAWS-43351, (Waitress Incapacitated) 

1914 - Birth: Ivan Roger WATKINS-28504, Grayson, Blanding

            Utah United States

1914 - Birth: William Allan LAWS-12661, (Australian Army)                 Balaclava Victoria Australia

1916 - Marriage: Robert Edward LAWS-19404 and 

           Orpha Elzetta MCALLISTER-19405, Salt Lake City 

           Utah United States

1916 - Birth: Thomas A LAWS-43598, (Engineer Inspectors 

           Assistant) 

1916 - Birth: Harold Stanley LAWES-259, Clapham 

            North Yorkshire England

1918 - Birth: Doris A WARREN-42853, (Trade Union Clerk)  

1918 - Death: Jefferson Davis LAWS-24997 (Mining Engineer), 

           Green Mountain North Carolina United States

1924 - Death: Sara Alice HARRISON-49546, Lawrenceburg,                   Dearborn County, Indiana United States

1932 - Burial: Sarah Ann Heyden HEYLETT-5945, 

           Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1940 - Marriage: Leonard James Francis MCGRATH-34358 and

            Gweneth May LAWS-34357, Burwood, New South Wales              Australia

1941 - Residence: Lily SKEELS-11721 Chatteris Cambridgeshire

           England

1941 - Death: Douglas Charles LAWS-2783, (RAFVR Sergeant 

           /Pilot 1260997) Felthorpe Norfolk England

1959 - Death: Emily Charlotte LAWS-15592, Surrey 

            Northern East England

1960 - Death: May Emily LAWS-45809, Chatham Kent England

1969 - Burial: John Franklin LAWS-19119, (Carpenter)  

           Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas United States

1984 - Death: William Herbert James  LAWES-46815, 

            (Builders Foreman) Stowmarket Suffolk England

1984 - Death: George Eldon LAWS-29848, Modesto, Stanislaus

           California United States

1984 - Burial: Alice Mabel TRIMMER-27306, Worthing Sussex              England

1987 - Death: Donna L SMITH-50564, Los Angeles, California               United States

1987 - Death: Ollie Madie LAWS-16092, Midland, 

           Midland County Texas United States

1995 - Death: James Orval LAWS-14159, 

2003 - Death: Buck Joseph LAWS-12694, Denver Texas 

           United States

2003 - Death: Robert M LAWS-12439, Newark Delaware 

            United States

2008 - Death: Buford Harold LAWS-45022, (Cpl US Marine Corps) 

      

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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 7

 The tradesmen were the people who are impressed on my memory. Delivery was the order of the day despite shopping on an almost daily basis. The milkman had an open-backed float with churns in it and would dip the milk out with a long-handled measure into your jug. It was not long till he graduated to a horse and cart with four wheels and milk in glass bottles with cardboard tops but in very hot weather, despite two deliveries a day, you still had to boil the milk soon after delivery before it went off. 

My mother used to tell me that when she lived in Devon as a child they had their own cow and that after milking she would separate the cream which she loved and churn the butter. That was all gone for town dwellers of course, but in the grocers shop the butter would still be scooped up and patted into shape instead of arriving in oblong paper packets. 

The grocer delivered as well and his man would arrive at the doorstep and jog the memory with a verbal list of commodities delivered in a rapid-fire voice rather like a market auctioneer." Salt - Pepper - Vinegar-Mustard" he would fire away and then take up his list at the same point after he had been interrupted with an item. The baker's man pulled a two-wheeled handcart with a rounded top and a leg at the back so that it didn't tip up when he let go. He would delve into this for the loaf you wanted, warm and crusty and certainly not wrapped or sliced! 

The postman was distinctive in his blue uniform with red piping and his odd little flat hat, almost a helmet. He did not bring a load of junk mail for the dustman to take away again, and what he delivered today had been posted yesterday except that from foreign parts. It is odd to have no memory of a butcher delivering at that time, perhaps my mother preferred to select our meat in the shop. There were certainly butchers boys to be seen on their delivery bicycles with a basket on the front, whistling their way around the streets. 

Later, in the thirties, we had a butcher who would call early and then would come back with the meat in time for lunch. Going by the name of Sam Collins he was a big beefy fellow with a perpetual grin who was everybody’s friend. There were street traders in the twenties as throughout the ages. A muffin man came along the street at weekends ringing his handball with a cloth covering a tray of muffins and crumpets on his head. 

From time to time a knife grinder would come along with a grinding wheel attached to the front of his bicycle and worked in some mysterious way from the pedals. He called as he came, offering his services and out would come the women with their carvers and kitchen knives to sharpen. Most doorsteps were sandstone anyway so there were plenty who managed well without him. 

In the High Street, there were those who offered oddments from doorways, matches and lemons spring to mind. Along the gutters the sandwich board men, walked, enclosed in their advertising matter or calls to repentance, sometimes singly sometimes in threes or fours in a straggling crocodile. Occasionally there was an organ grinder on the corner of a side street, winding his handle and his mechanical music would add to the general street noise. 

There is an impression of noisiness in the High Street. Apart from the street traders, there were trams clattering on their steel rails, horses were iron-shod and so were the wheels of most of the carts. Lorries vans and cars were less well silenced and there was even the occasional Steam traction engine. However, there were no motor scooters and the few motorbikes did not roar around.  

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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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2008 Olympics Cyclist

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