Sunday 11th October 2020 - Number 7109

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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

Sunday 11th October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1604 - Marriage: John FAULX-9714 and Elen LAWS-22329,                   Narborough Norfolk England

1721 - Burial: Ino LAWS-4855, Richmond on Thames Surrey                 England

1754 - Marriage: James LAWS-6469 and Martha UTTING-6470,

           Felthorpe Norfolk England

1762 - Marriage: William LAWS-11563 and Elizabeth DYBALL

           11564, Costessey Norfolk England

1772 - Marriage: John HALLS-29061 and Elizabeth LAWS-

           29060, Lakenheath Suffolk England

1782 - Marriage: Joseph LAWS-3440 and Elizabeth                                   RICHMOND - SMITH-3441, Heigham Norfolk England

1792 - Death: James LAWS-25301, 

1808 - Marriage: Robert LOTHERINGTON-36655 

           (Master Mariner)  and Mary Ann  FORREST-7092,                       (Widow)  Rotherhithe Surrey England

1813 - Birth: John LAWS-13316, Ditchingham Norfolk England

1818 - Baptism: Luke LAWES-875, (Ag Lab) Coombe Bissett                   Wiltshire England

1819 - Birth: William LAWS-35638, Dover Kent England

1829 - Christen: George Lewis LAWES-1652, Folkestone Kent               England

1835 - Burial: Edmund LAWS-31010, Fincham Norfolk England

1837 - Marriage: John LAWES-25155 (Labourer) and Mary Ann BALAAM-25156, Northampton Northamptonshire England

1847 - Birth: Isabella LAWS-7344, Cramlington                                         Northumberland England

1852 - Marriage: James KNIGHTS-25957 (Waterman)  and                      Isabella LAWS-25958, Beccles Suffolk England

1854 - Birth: George LAWS-5756, (Farmer 175 Acres)  

            Black Heddon Northumberland England

1855 - Death: Shadrach LAWS-13794, Paris Virginia 

           United States

1858 - Marriage: Phillip HATTON-24165 and Mary WOOLES

          -26709, Newnham Gloucestershire England

1860 - Birth: Aaron Cornelius LAWS-24537, Avery County,                     North Carolina United States

1865 - Death: Robert LAWS-41984, (Dissington Old Hall)  

1869 - Birth: Elizabeth Jane LAWS-3476, Bedlington                                Northumberland England

1874 - Birth: William Crosby LAWS-49960, 

            (Plumbing Merchant)  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 

            United States

1876 - Birth: William Roger LAWS-5737, (Head Gardener)                      Beeston Norfolk England

1876 - Birth: William George LAWES-2444, (Chief Liftman)                   Kings Sombourne Hampshire England

1880 - Birth: Daisey Agnes PITMAN-17672, Corvallis Oregon                 United States

1881 - Birth: Herbert LAWS-17334, (Iron Moulders Apprentice)             Liversedge West Yorkshire England

1885 - Birth: George S WOOD-40391, Stepney Middlesex                         England

1886 - Birth: Jessie HAY-26910, Timaru New Zealand

1888 - Birth: William A LAWS-46298, 

1889 - Death: William HERCOCK-44181, Ketton, Rutland,                      Leicestershire England

1893 - Birth: Ernest LAWS-43627, (Traffic Foreman on Colliery

           Railway) 

1895 - Birth: William LAWES-46700, (Ship Steward 

           Royal Mail Ship 'Windsor Castle') 

1895 - Birth: William Henry LAWS-33271, (Retort Setter Gas 

           Company) Wandsworth Surrey England

1896 - Baptism: Victor Percival LAWS-3812, Haveringland                     Norfolk England

1900 - Enlistment: Bertram LAWS-RANDALL-25564, (Canteen             Manager & Army 5895)  Maidstone Kent England

1901 - Birth: Francis E R LAWES-43808, (General Building                   Labourer  

1904 - Death: Tabitha SNELLING-8719, Roos East Yorkshire                 England

1904 - Death: Joseph LAWES-2687, Caversham Berkshire                       England

1906 - Birth: Violet Irene LAWES-37518, 

1909 - Birth: Harry LAWS-46032, (Electrical Engineer) 

1909 - Death: Thomas LAWS-9370, Widnes Lancashire England

1910 - Birth: William R LAWS-42772, (Porter in private Flats)  

1910 - Birth: Reuben William LAWS-28490, Mortlake Surrey                  England

1911 - Baptism: Margaret Leonora HEARN-52058, 

            Bristol Gloucestershire England

1912 - Birth: Mayabelle Rosabelle DEVLIN-33834, 

           Brandon Manitoba Canada

1912 - Birth: James Frederick LAWS-24805, Cowra 

            New South Wales Australia

1915 - Residence: William Richard LAWS-40639, (Butler-                        Canadian Army Private) Windsor Ontario Canada

1915 - Death: Francis LAWS-21776, (Army Private 19389) 

1917 - Birth: Harley ARMISTEAD-11261, Warwick, 

           Queensland Australia

1918 - Death: Francis LAWS-8622, (Coal Miner / Army Private               19389)  France & Flanders

1918 - Death: Herbert LAWS-7275, (Army Rifleman 8780)                        Killed in Action

1920 - Birth: Disis M PHIPPS-47077, (Shop Assistant Dyer)  

1921 - Death: Herbert LAWS-6304, Ilford Essex England

1928 - Marriage: Walter Oliver FOSTER-40495 and Mabel                     Vivian LAWS-11240, 

1930 - Birth: Pamela Coralie BEWLEY-27283, Kensington                       Middlesex England

1930 - Death: William Austin LAWES-480, Vancouver 

           British Columbia Canada

1936 - Death: Henry LAWS-8612, (Driller & Miner) Seaham                   Durham England

1951 - Death: Martha Matilda LAWS-40427, Caudwell County               North Carolina United States

1951 - Death: Hattie EBERLY-30034, Louisville, Jefferson,                       Kentucky, United States

1953 - Death: Edward Walter MARTIN-50959, Bedmond                         Hertfordshire England

1954 - Burial: Eliza Watts LAWS-11768, Fawkner Victoria                        Australia

1961 - Death: Kathleen Mary BELSON-21191, Upper Barron                 Atherton Queensland Australia

1966 - Death: Ivy SURMAN-38642, (Private Secretary)  

            Witney Oxfordshire England

1966 - Burial: Billy Wayne LAWS-12312, (US Marine)  

            Kansas United States

1972 - Death: Francis Joseph O'NEILL-26993, Timaru 

            New Zealand

1972 - Burial: Leonard Samuel LAWS-6976, Lowestoft Suffolk                England

1973 - Death: Hector Leslie Gunton LAWS-12618, (Australian                  Army V364820) Maffia Victoria Australia

1975 - Death: James Parley LAWS-13519, Blanding Utah 

           United States

1976 - Death: Scott L LAWS-16427,  (PFC US Army) 

1986 - Marriage: David COCKS-23385 and Susan Elaine                         CANEY-23386, (Lab Technician)  Basingstoke 

            Hampshire England

1991 - Death: Clayton Laws KIRBY-35724, (Baseball Player)  

1993 - Death: Eunice Olivia LAWS-41312, Cranleigh Surrey                    England

1997 - Death: Charles Ernest Leo LAWS-14298, Wentworthville             New South Wales Australia

1998 - Death: Mary Graham A LEASK-51463, Bedlington                        Northumberland England

2013 - Death: Evelyn Alberta Shipley TITUS-34425,  

           (School Teacher)  Calgary Alberta Canada

2013 - Burial: Mildred Leola WALL-38410, Boiling Springs                      South Carolina United States

2015 - Death: Elsie HUNT-41920, 

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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 6

There seemed to be a wider range of people then than there are now. There was no question or concept of equality. To me, Mum was all-important but to everyone, Dad was 'The Boss'  and this nickname was used all the time between mother and her helper Lottie the maid. 

Lottie was a sort of auntie to me, having been part of the family longer than I had. This help was much needed by my mother not only on account of the housework but because a 'catastrophe' had struck my sister. Mary had suffered brain damage as a complication of Meningitis, which had happened at about the age of three, after which there was no further mental progress although she grew up physically, but dumb.

Standards of living then were much lower, but in this respect, we were fortunate, though everyone worked hard. It is my belief that most people were as happy then as now, except where poverty and illness coincided. It is the pressures of daily life, that makes for unhappiness and these were just different. In many ways, it is the small comforts and conveniences that we would miss if we had to step back in time.

We did not have swarms of relations, the Victorian habit of enormous families had gone just in time. There were two maiden aunts, my father's sisters, who lived together in the bottom part of a house in a street, off West Green Road. They worked in garment manufacture and their smallish rooms were crammed with too large furniture inherited, from my grandparents of the true Victorian era who I never knew. 

Some of it would be museum pieces now. There was a bed with a half tester rail over it and time to time they would occasionally come to tea on a Sunday or to Christmas lunch. I remember a Christmas present of a little purse with two half-crowns in it, the old-age pension was then just four of these coins, and although they were still working at that time, this was soon to be their weekly income.

My mother had just one sister, Alice who lived in Manchester, where her husband Jack was a lecturer in zoology. I only met him once, he had a nasty limp as a result of Royal Flying Corps service in WWI and he did not make old bones. 

Mother went and visited Alice after he had died and took me with her in her little car to help find the way, 172 miles according to the AA route which we followed. Alice had a nice house in a pleasant suburb but before long she returned to her roots in Devon and spent the rest of her years in Kingswear.

There was also my uncle Joe, really a cousin of my father though I think they had been brought up as brothers and was part of a trio of sailing enthusiasts with my dad and his younger brother Albert. The three of them used to go sailing in Devon and Cornwall and my father and Albert managed to acquire wives in the process. 

No doubt this put an end to the sailing but my father still liked to row and after he bought his first car in 1925 he would take me over to the river Lea on a Sunday morning and row from the boathouse at one lock, up to the next lock and back. Being Sunday, the horse-drawn barges were all at rest and the locks inactive. It was already partly industrial along the river, (the canal really,) but the marshes were open and flat, crossed by the long new concrete bridge of Lea Bridge Road which led on towards Epping Forest.  

Albert and his Cornish wife Louise were in Harbin, in the wilds of Manchuria  so we saw them very rarely, I only remember two occasions. A slow boat to China really was slow before the airlines and the Trans Siberian railway not a journey for the hurried or the timid though they went that way at least once.

Joe and his wife May lived in a 1920's new semi in Palmer's Green and were the relations we saw most. He was a keen gardener, which my father certainly wasn't but they were pretty good friends and Joe and May had Christmas lunch with us for some years. 

To a child, Christmas was important of course and the old-time way of feasting in the greatest abundance that funds permitted was still strong. there were no supermarkets and no domestic refrigerators of course but 'nouvelle cuisine' hadn't been heard of either. I do not think that there was as much obesity then as now, the ignorant did not have the means for it and most of the prosperous were working too hard to get fat. 

Beer was however proportionately cheaper and a few more men could be seen carrying the mark of it in their big bellies or red noses.

Until school age, there was not a lot of contact with adults outside the family. One saw the neighbours in their gardens from time to time but it was not till a little later that a family came next door with whom we became friendly. The Kemble's had five offspring, five daughters for starters the youngest in her late teens, and a son Harry a bit older than myself, with whom I became quite friendly. For some years we were regular cycling companions.

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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

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