Sunday 25th October 2020 - Number 7123

 LAWS FAMILY REGISTER  

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

Saturday 24th October 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

Family Events

1741 - Burial: Hannah LAWS-4856, Richmond on Thames Surrey England

1797 - Marriage: James LAWS-3288 and Mary CARR-3289, East Dereham Norfolk England

1799 - Birth: Robert (Butcher & Publican) LAWS-3281, East Dereham Norfolk England

1816 - Birth: John (Mining Engineer & Agent) LAWS-8424, Prudhoe Northumberland England

1824 - Birth: Mary Ann MOONEY-50877, Marylebone Middlesex England

1843 - Baptism: Margaret HEWSON-25977, Tanfield Durham England

1851 - Marriage: Benjamin (Labourer) LAWS-6230 and Mary HART-13483, 

1862 - Marriage: Henry HOLAX-20879 and Mary LAWS-20878, 

1862 - Death: George (Mineral Water Manufacturer) LAWS-31399, West Winch Norfolk England

1866 - Birth: Charlotte May LAWS-39347, Jersey City Heights New Jersey United States

1869 - Birth: Kate Jane SHARPE-39405, Fulham Middlesex England

1869 - Death: Susy (Widow) LAWS-7307, Walesden Lancashire England

1870 - Occupation: Margaret (Stewardess on Steamship) LAWS-16798, 

1872 - Birth: Harry ( Character Comedian) LAWES-46752, 

1877 - Birth: Frederic William WERSEBE-39339, NYC NY United States

1877 - Birth: Harry Augustus LAWES-34542, Camberwell Surrey England

1879 - Birth: Harry James (Architect) LAWS-7372, Hackney Middlesex England

1879 - Birth: Harry James (Architect) LAWS-7372, Stamford Hill Middlesex England

1881 - Marriage: Richard MAYNARD-17433 and Jane (Servant) LAWS-8240, Hackney Middlesex England

1884 - Birth: Sylvia LAWS-16938, 

1886 - Birth: William (Moulders Labourer in Engine Works) LAWES-46897, 

1886 - Birth: Ernest (HGV Driver) LAWS-46579, 

1888 - Marriage: Adam PREHLER-24606 and Viola LAWS-24605, Crown Point, Lake County Indiana United States

1890 - Birth: Fanny V (Daily Domestic Servant) LAWES-43831, 

1890 - Birth: Ellen Elizabeth LAWS-31180, 

1892 - Birth: Nellie WARE-20408, Isle of Wight Hampshire England

1893 - Birth: Thomas (Labourer) LAWS-46308, 

1893 - Death: Alexander (Newspaper Editor) LAWS-4135, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1893 - Death: Alexander (Newspaper Editor) LAWS-4135, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1894 - Birth: Sophia Virgie CRIDER-32540, Carroll County Tennessee United States

1894 - Birth: Edith LAWS-23790, Haswell Durham England

1895 - Birth: William George Lockey (Steel Worker) LAWS-38007, 

1896 - Birth: Charles (Machine Shop Inspector Motor & Fire Engineers) LAWES-47391, 

1896 - Birth: Maria ???-41522, 

1898 - Birth: Bertram John Southgate (Boilerman in Plasterboard Works) LAWS-13037, Bexley Kent England

1900 - Birth: Walter Henry Marsden LAWS-15819, Rogue River, Oregon United States

1906 - Marriage: Edward (Maltster) LANE-32271 and Georgina (Servant) LAWS-15167, Highgate Middlesex England

1908 - Birth: Elsie M YORK-41164, 

1909 - Birth: Mary Jane (Nurse Probationer) ROBERTS-32807, South Shields Durham England

1909 - Birth: Mary Jane (Nurse Probationer) ROBERTS-32807, South Shields Durham England

1911 - Birth: Annie MIDDLEMAS-32888, Whitby North Yorkshire England

1913 - Death: James Ernest (Cement Worker) LAWS-33096, Dartford Kent England

1914 - Birth: Herbert Miles (Fishworker) LAWS-46505, 

1914 - Birth: Alice Gray SIMMONS-35260, 

1915 - Marriage: Harold John (Metal Electron Foundry Mould & RN K27313 & ARMY 68170)) LAWS-23875 and Maud Rose BROWN-32262, Bermondsey Surrey England

1915 - Baptism: Margaret Agnes LAWES-47924, Broome Norfolk England

1917 - Burial: N (ARMY Private 19063) LAWS-21818, West-Vlaanderen BELGIUM

1917 - Death: N (ARMY Private 19063) LAWS-21818, 

1918 - Burial: Charlotte Emma FERNEAUX-17414, Longfleet Dorset England

1918 - Death: Elizabeth Fuller (drapers Assistant) LAWS-7262, Burwood, New South Wales Australia

1921 - Birth: Ruth Eleanor GREENLEAF-51491, Kingston Tuscola Michigan United States

1924 - Birth: Bertha Burton LAWS-15974, Burton Lazars Leicestershire England

1926 - Birth: Roy T (PFC US Army) LAWS-16420, 

1928 - Birth: Ernest A LAWS-46313, 

1930 - Marriage: Tracy Porterfield STOREY-22493 and Laura Maud LAWS-22491, Ballinger, Runnels County Texas United States

1931 - Marriage: Harry George (Railway Guard) SAUNDERS-51757 and Helen Winifred LAWES-51754, Kensington & Chelsea Middlesex England

1932 - Birth: Corine Elizabeth OLD-35368, New Plymouth New Zealand

1932 - Birth: John Michael Bennet (5th Baronet) LAWES-224, Guernsey Channel Islands England

1940 - Birth: Helen LAWS-33688, Tanganyika EAST AFRICA

1942 - Arrival: George (AB Seaman, Survivor of the Harborough) LAWS-50847, New York City, New York United States

1943 - Birth: Jennifer Ann LAWS-34936, 

1948 - Death: Mary Matilda WHITE-4338, Ilford Essex England

1948 - Residence: Mary Matilda WHITE-4338, Goodmayes Essex England

1950 - Death: Charles John (Church Cleaner) LAWES-20726, Salisbury, Wiltshire England

1962 - Death: Ernest F  (Lt Col US Air Force) LAWES-16247, 

1963 - Birth: Harold Paul LAWS-28128, Oxfordshire England

1964 - Birth: Jeffery Donald MOSHER-42072, Rock WI United States

1967 - Death: Joseph (French Polisher) DEPLEDGE-27030, 

1970 - Marriage: Mervyn ANTHONY-32722 and Maureen Elaine LAWS-32721, Chester le Street Durham England

1974 - Death: Mabel N LAWS-49549, Greendale, Dearborn County Indiana United States

1979 - Burial: Arthur F (Carton Maker) TRUDGETT-34755, Talbot Dorset England

1988 - Death: Zola M CUNNINGHAM-45181, New Jersey United States

1989 - Burial: Elsie LAWS-27563, Billingham Durham England

1989 - Burial: Gilbert James (RNVR MB.B.Chr.FRC(Path)) LAWS-17365, Andover Hampshire England

1993 - Death: Norman Harry LAWES-51874, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1993 - Death: Norman H (90th Fid. Bty. G4109) LAWS-27039, 

2003 - Cremation: Sydney Thomas LAWS-25782, Great Grimsby Lincolnshire England

2003 - Cremation: David Alan (Nurse) LAWS-12328, Winfield Kansas United States

2014 - Burial: Joseph Francis (PFC Tech 4 US Army WWII) LAWS-16373, San Diego California United States

2014 - Death: Joseph Francis (PFC Tech 4 US Army WWII) LAWS-16373, 

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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 20

Food was important. For some it was in short supply; for all, it was seasonal and generally less wide-ranging than it is now. Until the coming of the fridge, for us in the early thirties, keeping food fresh in summer was a problem and a variety of methods were used, The larder was mandatory in all houses built from the nineteenth century until quite recently, in large houses it became a small walk-in room.

The meat was often given special accommodation in a small ‘meat safe’ with perforated zinc sides to keep out the flies. This stood outside the house in the shade often near the back door. In hot weather, milk would be boiled as soon as it was delivered and in summer generally, it was stood in a shallow tray of water with a cover of muslin or terracotta, to soak up the water and keep it cool. These methods must still be in use in a few households but they are bygones for most of us.

It was not always summer, however, and in winter it was normal to eat more, as well as to wear more clothes, to keep out the cold of poorly heated houses and workplaces. Quantity was of more importance than quality, not that wives and mothers were less interested in quality, simply which standards were lower and money went further if you only cut away the inedible rather than all the rough bits. It was widely recognized that if bread was a bit hard it would be ‘harder where there’s none’.

Our household was fortunate that ‘pater familias’ was ‘a good provider’ in the language of the day. Moreover, my mother was a good cook though she would have turned her nose up at squid or octopus and olives or wine vinegar were never seen in our larder.

Even the slightly exotic like sweetbreads or whitebait were reserved for father on his evening return from work, probably being reckoned ‘not good for children’ quite apart from the cost. The roast joint was the important mainstay of the diet, more often than not, a sirloin of beef which turned up for Sunday lunch with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, greens and, a nice rich gravy. 

The joint would sometimes be mutton, it was not called lamb till much later. Pork was much less frequent, being reckoned to be somewhat hazardous, though with how much reason I don’t know. It seems an oddity that on the other hand pork sausages were esteemed above beef which were considered in today’s parlance a bit down market.

Sunday’s joint turned up as cold meat on Monday and would be used as a hash or mince the next day or two depending on how much was left. Cold meat would be served up with hot vegetables. I do not remember any salad in my diet as a child.

Season controlled the selection of vegetables, fresh from the greengrocer not frozen from the supermarket, Cabbage was the standby; peas, runner beans, carrots sprouts and spinach came in their turn though I didn’t learn to like spinach till many years later.

There were also unidentified greens or the like, Very occasionally asparagus appeared on the Sunday table pandering to father’s fancy taste. I do not think it really belonged the Devon cuisine, that was my mother’s mainstay. 

Later in the week, when the joint was gone, there might be stew or sausages and occasionally fish until  Saturday when it was invariably steak and kidney pudding, a good winter warmer if ever there was one.

‘Afters’ too were often good sustaining stuff, stewed fruit and custard were popular in season and sometimes dried apricots or prunes at other times. The real favourites, however, were the apple puddings or blackcurrant puddings closely followed in popularity by Apple Charlotte or bread and butter pudding with a good leavening of raisins.

Suet puddings with dried fruit such as plum duff or roly-poly of the standby syrup pudding came along from time to time but were not quite a regular feature. Pastry was popular and fruit would more often be served in a pie than on its own. There was of course no ice cream at home as there were no domestic freezers. 

Tinned fruit was special but was readily available. Cream was brought around by the milkman once the changeover to bottled milk had taken place and sometimes took the place of custard to everyone’s delight.  

Even father, who was a good trencherman, did not feel the need for cheese and biscuits at the end of Sunday lunch.

We spent all the family holidays on that little bit of east coast and going further afield did not arise until I could go off on my bike alone or with a friend. I had already been to scout camps, all on a shoestring. About the same time school journeys were started, only in the holidays of course not in term time as today. 

The camps were for boys only. I doubt whether our devoted school staff thought they could cope with the tribulations of a mixed camp. The journeys to foreign parts  however were co-ed without any problems.

I recall one school camp at St.Audries Bay, near Watchet in of course wonderful summer weather. Our site was in a field between the coast road and low cliffs above the beach. 

We must have gone to Somerset by coach, an uneventful journey of which I remember nothing except that our kit was moved by horse and cart from the road down a narrow track to the field beside the farm where a line of bell tents had already been erected for us.

We had the luxury of palliasses which we filled with straw from the tumbledown buildings near the farmhouse and the cooking was done by the school caretaker with a small amount of help from us on a rota basis. A few cows were kept by the farmer and we were able to see the milk he supplied to us hand-milked into the pail.

Behind and above our camp on the other side of the road, rose the warm late summer colours of the Quantock Hills, an almost impenetrable terrain of bracken and bilberries guaranteed to stain one's fingers and lips and scratch one's knees to ribbons. We had time to wander on our own and there were organised trips when we visited Dunster and walked to the top of Dunkery Beacon. 

The timeless stone cottages and ancient butter market of Dunster were already an attraction to visitors but as boys, we were too keen on looking forward to really appreciate the glimpse back into the past that such places are able to give us later in life. Exmoor’s wide vistas and stony ground thatched with heather and berries were pure joy, the purples and crimsons of the foliage stretching out through the sunshine to a distant hazy horizon and the world at one's feet.

In our free time, we wandered into the little town of Watchet lying somnolent in the sunshine, seemingly untouched by tourism. There was a corner shop selling sweets and buns, and Cydrax to refuel the inner man for a walk into the hills.  Watchet was minding its own business around its tiny harbour where cargoes seemed to be black coal in and white china clay out. 

There must have been a few holidaymakers about however because one day we went by paddle steamer along the coast to Lynmouth where we disembarked in small boats and had a day to explore and wade up the river to Watersmeet. This was decades before the catastrophic flood destroyed the town which had previously stood secure for centuries. 

Nearly everyone who holidayed around Somerset visited Lynmouth but the numbers were small and it was not crowded.

Back at St Audrie's Bay, the beach is stony with grey rocks and flat stones ideal for skimming the waves. The most interesting find was that it abounded in fossils of spiral creatures up to a foot across, ammonites I believe, which had been preserved when their nice grey slimy mud was pressed into the rock a few million years back.

Another boys-only school trip took us youth hostelling to the hostel at Millersdale in Derbyshire. There were about fifteen in the group with two of three school staff including ‘Sammy’ Stewart one of the most popular masters. He taught geography and seemed to be a member of nearly all the journeys. We walked the hills and dales and went by train to Edale where the station name board said ‘HOPE for Castleton’ though we never saw Castleton as we walked away from Hope over the hills.

A visit to the Blue John Mine where blue fluorspar is mined showed us something new in this glowing rock and in an underground trip by boat through a low tunnel which led us to a cave where there is a hefty waterfall from above which went down below us into the depths of that the guide told us was a bottomless pit. At least it never filled up with water.

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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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1974 -2017

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