Wednesday 7th October 2020 - Number 7105

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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 27th September 2020

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

(GDPR 2018)

(After these dates apply to the registrar)

1550 - Burial: Joane LAWSE-7373, Saint Peters Cornhill Middlesex England

1752   Marriage: Michael TROT-50377 and Ann LAWS-50378, 

           Whitechapel Middlesex England

1764 - Burial: Joseph LAWS-25209, Tarrant Hinton Dorset England

1848 - Birth: Anne LAWS-10495, Belgravia Middlesex England

1848 - Birth: Hannah Maria YALLOP-5408, Framlingham Pigot Suffolk England

1855 - Baptism: Richard Joseph LAWES-25165, Kirby Bedon Norfolk England

1855 - Baptism: Frederic  LAWES-12483 (Ag Lab), Kirby Bedon Norfolk England

1862 - Baptism: Frederick Charles LAWES-27982, (Box Maker) Wiltshire England

1862 - Death: William LAWS-16663, (Horse Driver) Trimdon Grange Colliery                            Durham England

1874 - Birth: William Clay LAWS-10973, Anderson, Grimes Texas United States

1877 - Baptism: Horace LAWS-34005,(Caretaker in Spinning Mill)  

           East Winch Norfolk England

1880 - Death: Alice Maria LAWS-21221, Kent Street, Sydney New South Wales

1884 - Death: Edward LAWS-9328, Canterbury Kent England

1888 - Birth: Henry LAWS-8506, (Dairyman) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland               England

1889 - Birth: Lucy Ellen IBBOTSON-31359, Sheffield West Yorkshire England

1897 - Birth: Thomas George LAWS-19675, (Warehouse Porter) Bromley Middlesex                 England

1897 - Birth: Agnes Emily LAWS-19673, Bromley Middlesex England

1898 - Birth: Lilian Rose STEVENS-41504, 

1902 - Death: George Thomas LAWS-22270, Utah United States

1905 - Birth: Cybil I LAWS-43348, (House Parlourmaid)  

1906 - Birth: Morgan G (JONES-47576, Cleaner in Police Section House) 

1907  Marriage: Charles George JACKSON-35652 (Butcher)  and Ellen Maria LAWS-

          14985, (Servant)  Romford Essex England

1908 - Birth: William LAWES-43814, (Forestry) 

1910 - Marriage: William DARLAND-19139 and Myrtle LAWS-19112, 

1911 - Birth: Violet I C MONKS-47881, 

1915 - Birth: Hannah LAWS-35438, Stoke on Trent Staffordshire England

1915 - Birth: Cyril Nicholas Bulman LAWS-32513, (Postman)  Walthamstow Essex                    England

1915 - Birth: Anastasia SWIFT-24571, Haverstraw New York United States

1916- Marriage: Harold Henry ROBERTS-10521 (Motorbus Driver)  and Dorothy                   Hetty LAWS-10502, Brighton Sussex England

1916 - Birth: Albert Arthur K LAWES-37082, Wilton Wiltshire England

1917 - Death: J W LAWS-21801, 

1918 - Death: LAWS-21759, (ARMY Private 16613) 

            resided Harringey Middlesex England

1919 - Birth: Clementina Ivy FRESHWATER-32965, 

1922 - Death: Allan LAWS-44808,(Colliery Lampman)  Bedlington Northumberland                England

1936 - Death: Eleanor Stokes SANDERS-2582, Salisbury, Wiltshire England

1939 - Death: James LAWES-20539, (Clerk & Police Pensioner) Winchester  S-38192,             Southampton Hampshire England

1973 - Death: Tracy Abigail EMPSON-8930, Margate Kent England

1985 - Death: Percy Murray LAWS-11303, Brisbane, Queensland Australia

1986 - Death: Albert Charles LAWS-33313, Chichester Sussex England

2003 - Burial: Charlotte Baxter ???-25876, Fareham Hampshire England

2004 - Burial: Claudine A LAWS-25024, Mason MI United States

2004 - Death: Kathleen Mary SQUIRES-11211, Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk England

2007 - Burial: Sammye Carol LAWS-26050, Stanton Texas United States

2014 - Burial: Lillian HANNAFORD-40128, Orilla, Simcoe County Ontario Canada

A Child of the Twenties

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

by John Robert Laws 1921-2008                                                 

Part 2. Home.

Our garden was not very large, a rectangle with a concrete path around the patch of grass to leave a border for plants and little trees. A little extra bit was squeezed in at the side of the back of the house before the narrow sideway out to the front. Inside the rectangle of the path, the grass had half a dozen little apple trees around the edge. The plants elude my memory, only the laburnums stand out clearly always in flower with a prickly rose bush under one of them.

One went into the garden at the side of the back door from the scullery down a couple of sandstone steps. Only in very warm weather was the double back door of the bay window in the kitchen opened for regular use. It opened onto a paved path across the garden which caught the afternoon sun. For some time I had a white albino rabbit in a hutch in the garden. It had a wire netting run from which it would burrow out if not carefully supervised.

Our house was a semi, built of London stocks in the late 1800s, one of the better houses almost at the top of the hill. We lived there till I was ten, so being an inquisitive child, I learned to know the area better than the palm of my hand.

As an infant the day was spent in the kitchen, a pleasant enough room lit by a bay window with a half-glazed double door to the garden. It was heated by a black-leaded built-in kitchen range with an oven to the side and a back boiler to heat the water. This had to be lit every morning if the weather was cold and if it were lit it would be used for some cooking. the kitchen was lit at night by single central gaslight, a soft sympathetic light without the brilliance of the electricity which came later. candlesticks were on the mantlepiece for bedtime. Mine was enamel but my mother had a more elegant one, once silver plated but already polished down to the brass, I still have it.

The kitchen furnishings were plain and useful. A large deal table with an end drawer and covered with a tablecloth. one leg very tatty from being used as a scratching post by the cat. Bentwood chairs, comfortable enough but a little creaky, one an elbow chair the rest plain but with the usual pressed pattern on the seat. A built-in brown painted dresser with drawers and cupboards below and a slightly mixed collection of plates on edge on the shelves with the cups hanging from hooks on the front. Meals were usually taken in the kitchen except at weekends when lunch (called dinner) and tea were taken in the dining room. fortunately, the kitchen was a good-sized room and a child could run about and play on the floor with little impediment.

The cat which had used the table leg as a scratching post was known by the unlikely name of Ma. It appears that I christened it with the only word in my vocabulary at a very early age. It was an undistinguished tabby which would catch the occasional unwary mouse but would spend more time snoozing in front of the fire. It seemed that every house had mice at that time. Food was more accessible before fridges and freezers.

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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