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DearAncestor,-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.
IMPORTANT
We are suspending operation of the LAWS FAMILY REGISTER
from June 30, 3016
We will work on our LAWS FAMILY TREE
This Blog will continue
All LAWS Enquires arw still welcome
We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy -we are not showing births after 1920 or marriages after 1940 these are only available to members of the register
If you are interested in anyone listed here, email us with the name, date and reference number, and we will happily do a look up, you might even get a whole tree!
This blog will also appear on our Facebook page, please come visit us, We will be happy to help with your LAWS/LAWES research, and in certain instances we may be willing to undertake private research on your behalf.
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Family Events
1792 - Baptism: Robert FORSTER, Newcastle upon Tyne NBL UK
1798 - Christen: Henry LAWS (Ag Lab) Beetley NFK UK
1801 - Baptism: William LAWS (Chief Manager at Distillery),
1815 - Birth: Mary Ann LAWS, Barnsville OH USA
1821 - Birth: William LAWS, Hoxne SFK UK
1824 - Baptism: William LAWS, Welches Dam CAM UK
1843 - Birth: Catherine LAWS,
1858 - Marriage: Robert BOND (Ag Lab) and Caroline LAWS, Beccles SFK UK
1861 - Death: Alice LAWS, Escomb DUR UK
1887 - Death: Elizabeth LAWS, Whitby NRY UK
1887 - Birth: John Dore LAWES (Railway Clerk, Yaxley SFK UK
1892 - Birth: Arthur Albert LAWS (RN K12116) Finsbury MDX UK
1894 - Birth: Charles Robert LAWS (PVT US Army)
1896 - Death: Benjamin LAWS, Johnson, Kane Co. UT USA
1900 - Baptism: Richard Thomas Henry LAWS, Bexley KEN UK
1901 - Birth: Percy Stanley LAWES(Lorry Driver) Fordingbridge HAM UK
1909 - Christen: Roy Campbell LAWES, Ryde IOW UK
1916 - Discharged: George LAWS (ARMY L/Cpl 3545) Hounslow MDX UK
1919 - Birth: Harry Ford LAWS, Howell MI USA
1922 - Marriage: Edward LAWS (Miner) and Mary MILLER, Easington DUR UK
1929 - Death: Rosie LAWS
1972 - Death: May LAWS (a widow) Chichester SSX UK
1978 - Death: Mabel Jane LAWS
1985 - Burial: Samuel LAWS (S1 US Navy) Riverhead, Suffolk Co NY USA
MISC
1851 - Birth: Frances Elizabeth DYKE, Rowde WIL UK
1874 - Birth: Wilhelmina D E STULPNAGEL Mecklenburg, Meckleburg-Vorpommern, GERMANY
1877 - Birth: James HENLEY (Corporation Employee)
1881 - Burial: George HATTON, Newnham GLS UK
1884 - Birth: Dorethy Elizabeth FANTHORPE East Dereham NFK UK
1895 - Birth: David Winder SMALL, Newport MON UK
1906 - Death: Isabella Mary DREW, Newcastle, NSW AUSTRALIA
1914 - Birth: Mabel C BUCK,
1946 - Death: Amy STRINGER, Gosforth WRY UK
1955 - Death: Lilian Gertrude GARRARD, Sydney NSW AUSTRALIA
1973 - Death: Elizabeth Sarah MUIR, Padstow NSW AUSTRALIA
1994 - Death: Luther RUSHING, Carroll Co TN USA
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A CHILD OF THE 1920's
AS SEEN FROM THE 1990's
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 houswork but because catastrophe
had struck my parents when my sister Mary had suffered brain damage as a
complication of meningitus. This happened at about the age of threeafter
which there was no further mental progress although she grew up physically but
dumb.
Standards of living then were much lower then 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 presures of daily life that makes for unhappines 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
fathers sisters, who lived together in the bottom part of a house off West
Green Road. They worked in garment manufacture and their smallish rooms were
cramed with too large furniture inheritated 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 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
nastly limp as a result of FRC 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 thne way 172 miles according to the AA routewhich 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 he had been brought up as a brother 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 aquire
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 Palmers
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 some yerars. 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 thatthere was asmuch 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 a nd a few more men could be seen
carrying the mark of it in their big bellies or red noses.
Untill 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 whith whom we
became friendly. The Kembles 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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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 my father's trod
And led them through so many lands
To find our present sod.
Lord, help me find an ancient book
Or dusty manuscript,
Thats's safely hidden now away
In some forgotten crypy.
Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts
My soul, when I can't find
The missing link between some name
That ends the same as mine
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