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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.
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE
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Family Events from our database, for today 29th November
BIRTHS baptisms etc
1733 - Baptism: John LAWS-25752, Shapwick DOR UK
1798 - Birth: Alice LAWS-21353, Rickleton House, Chester le Street DUR UK
1847 - Birth: James Malcolm LAWS (Carriage maker)-11655,
1852 - Birth: Alfred LAWES (Soldier & former Policeman) -2719, Stockbridge HAM UK
1869 - Birth: Mary Ledoska LAWS-3648, Jewett, Cumberland Co IL USA
1875 - Birth: William D LAWS-19364, NY USA
1887 - Birth: Frederick Charles Victor Killbronnau LAWS- (Army Major/RAF Wg Cmdr OBE CB CBE) 7409, Thetford NFK UK
1896 - Birth: Edward Cecil LAWS-13157, East Dereham NFK UK
1899 - Birth: Charles Edward LAWS-41990,
1918 - Birth: John Robert LAWS (S2 US Navy)-16743, Limestone, Washington Co
TN United States
1920 - Birth: Ernest Arthur LAWS-37549,
TN United States
1920 - Birth: Ernest Arthur LAWS-37549,
MARRIAGES
1770 - Marriage: Stephen LAWES-31983 and Mary ROWELL (2nd Wife) -154,
Cliddesden HAM UK
1798 - Marriage: John LAWS-21350 and Alice ALLEN-21351, Chester le Street DUR UK
1829 - Marriage: William NICHOLLS-11804 and Sarah LAWS-11805, Norwich NFK UK
1840 - Marriage: Frederick HAZELTON-31182 and Martha LAWS-31183,
St Pancras MDX UK
1860 - Marriage: Robert LAWS (Stone Mason)-26773 and Mary Ann BAILEY (Laundress) - 8546, Bristol GLS UK
1875 - Marriage: William Hart LAWS-13799 and Jennie Ann JOHNSON-13800,
Salt Lake City UT United States
1770 - Marriage: Stephen LAWES-31983 and Mary ROWELL (2nd Wife) -154,
Cliddesden HAM UK
1798 - Marriage: John LAWS-21350 and Alice ALLEN-21351, Chester le Street DUR UK
1829 - Marriage: William NICHOLLS-11804 and Sarah LAWS-11805, Norwich NFK UK
St Pancras MDX UK
Salt Lake City UT United States
1885 - Marriage: William Henry LAWS Colibe (Silver Cutler)-8957
and Florence Lily TAYLOR-26757, Sheffield WRY UK
DEATHS
1823 - Burial: John Peter LAWS-37539, Shoreditch MDX UK
1870 - Burial: George LAWS-2968, Wareham DOR UK
1898 - Death: Robert LAWS (Innkeeper) -7910, Horstead NFK UK
1910 - Burial: Cyril George LAWS- (Infant 4 mths old) 36409, Tarrant Crawford DOR UK
1910 - Burial: Augustus LAWS (Saloon Porter) -24852, St Lousis MO United States
1922 - Death: Herbert LAWES-181, The Royal Exchange Hotel, Aldershot HAM UK
1925 - Death: Sarah E LAWS-32120, Southwark SRY UK
1933 - Death: Bernard 'Frederick' Treen LAWES (Cab Proprieter) -3165, Folkestone KEN UK
1937 - Death: Alfred James Charles LAWES (Post Office) -34949, Royal Berkshire Hospital Reading BRK UK
1943 - Death: Neville James Alfred LAWES (RAFVR Leading Aircraftman 1250653)-22220, Singapore (on Suez Maru a japanese ship moving prisioners sunk by USS Submarine "Swordfish" prisoners in water machine guned by japanese on escort ship just one survivor) an unpunished warcrime.
1953 - Death: Alice Jane LAWS-39136, Terrington St.Clement NFK UK
1963 - Death: Stephen James LAWES (Reverend) -40243, Harrow MDX UK
1964 - Death: James Arthur Bloy LAWS (Schoolmaster)-13378, Trowse Newton NFK UK
Resideed at Hellington NFK UK
1985 - Death: Carrie LAWS-19759, Bell County KY United States
1990 - Burial: Darrell B LAWS (RM3 US Navy) -16674, Williamette National Cemetery, Portland OR United States
1823 - Burial: John Peter LAWS-37539, Shoreditch MDX UK
1910 - Burial: Cyril George LAWS- (Infant 4 mths old) 36409, Tarrant Crawford DOR UK
1910 - Burial: Augustus LAWS (Saloon Porter) -24852, St Lousis MO United States
1925 - Death: Sarah E LAWS-32120, Southwark SRY UK
1939 - Death: Alice Matilda LAWS-11142, Hopewell Community, Frankin Co TX USA
1953 - Death: Alice Jane LAWS-39136, Terrington St.Clement NFK UK
1963 - Death: Stephen James LAWES (Reverend) -40243, Harrow MDX UK
1964 - Death: James Arthur Bloy LAWS (Schoolmaster)-13378, Trowse Newton NFK UK
Resideed at Hellington NFK UK
1985 - Death: Carrie LAWS-19759, Bell County KY United States
1990 - Burial: Darrell B LAWS (RM3 US Navy) -16674, Williamette National Cemetery, Portland OR United States
1999 - Cremation: Peter James LAWS (Machinist) -22123,
2004 - Burial: Billy Reid LAWS-16876, Mebane NC United States
2004 - Burial: Billy Reid LAWS-16876, Mebane NC United States
MISC & OTHER INFOMATION
1898 - Residence: Thomas Frederick PRIEST (Labourer) -41156, Earlsfield SRY UK
1898 - Residence: Thomas Frederick PRIEST (Labourer) -41156, Earlsfield SRY UK
OTHER BIRTHS Etc
1745 - Christen: Jane HOLLAND-14011, Padiham LAN UK
1883 - Birth: Edith STANLEY-37089, Broughton LIN UK
1893 - Birth: Florence Louisa POWELL-12402, Dover KEN UK
1910 - Birth: Doris ELLICK-14722, Paddington MDX UK
1910 - Birth: Norah Daphne QUIGLEY-14577, Sydney NSW AUSTRALIA
1745 - Christen: Jane HOLLAND-14011, Padiham LAN UK
1910 - Birth: Doris ELLICK-14722, Paddington MDX UK
1910 - Birth: Norah Daphne QUIGLEY-14577, Sydney NSW AUSTRALIA
1918 - Birth: Francis CLEGG-28213, Stalybridge CHS UK
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS & Burials
1895 - Death: Caroline FOUNTAINE-220, Taynuit, ARL UK
1919 - Burial: Isabella Agnes VINCENT-10471, Wanganui, Rangitikei NZ
1991 - Death: Annie LEGGOTT-4304, Gedling NTT UK - Cremation: West Bromwich STS UK
A suburban childhood of the Twenties
Seen from the Nineteen Nineties
By John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 22
The school
journeys abroad were more of a revelation than the camps. Package holidays had
not yet been dreamed up and although the wealthy might holiday in the South of
France or you could ‘Join the Army and see the world’, the general urge to
travel was only just beginning.
I recall a
book called ‘France on ten pounds’ but only a few had the inclination,
the time and the ten pounds to follow its inviting advice. Trips by
school parties must have whetted the appetite of many in the later part of the
years between the wars.
We went to
Paris in 1937, the year of the big Paris Exhibition. It was immediately evident
that our French was not their French, understanding some of the written signs
seemed to be out limit. As well as the historic buildings of the city which are
compulsory viewing for all visitors we were able to visit the exhibition,
grandiosely laid out with a long vista of lakes and fountains down a slope
towards the Eiffel Tower. The contents of the impressive pavilions seemed
insignificant compared to the buildings particularly the Soviet building
surmounted by enormous figures of a man and a woman holding aloft a hammer and
a sickle.
What we
really enjoyed however was the roller coaster ride which must have made tame
all previous efforts in this direction. This and the ascent of the Eiffel
Tower, which laid out a map of Paris below us were the highlights of the day of
sunshine and unnoticed footslogging.
Of the
conventional sights of Paris, the stained glass impressed me most and then the
white mass of Scare’ Coeur on its hill looking down on the city where
the ever present taxis hurtled round corners blaring on their horns. The
traffic must have been light or they could not have done it.
Our few days
of cultural duty in Paris done, we had a day or two at Wimereau on the
channel coast, lazing, swimming and sitting on the beach. The beach was vast
and flat with a good stiff breeze for the sand yachts which trundled along and
across at a fair pace. A new sight for me then, and one which I have never seen
since.
Even now
there seems to be an air of the past, over the French channel coast resorts,
even those destroyed in the war and have been since rebuilt, it would have been
impossible to have imagined one to be on the English side of the channel.
In 1938 the
school trip was to Italy, this was much more adventurous even apart from the
political troubles which led to the war a year later. We left Southgate
tube station in the late afternoon to get the train from London, and crossed
the channel over night to get to another train to trundle across France
and through the fantastic alpine scenery to Milan in Northern
Italy.
Milan was
just hot. We duly admired the thousand or so little spires of the enormous
cathedral but saw very little or the ornate interior because we were shooed out
on account of our short sleeves,
Florence and
Verona were different, they still are, despite the ravages of the motor car,
and even as teenagers I think we appreciated their beauty and agelessness
despite our considerable interest in ice cream and fizzy bottled orangeade
which we had discovered. You see little in a couple of days but these visits
like the Italian ice cream awakened a taste for more.
No loitering
however, on to Venice which was busy being itself, more quietly than it does
now. We duly traversed the Grand Canal by vaporetta, under the Rialto Bridge and
on to St Marks Square and the pigeons. It was memorable and it all matched the
guide books so we went on to the Lido for a swim in the Med. This was a real
revelation.
The water
was warm not like the sea we knew at home. You could stay in without getting
cold. This was the discovery of the journey.
More trains,
wooden seats, all tracks lead to Rome, a quick glimpse really, a full week
spent wandering round Rome in later life only scratched the surface.
More trains,
more wooden seats down south to Napoli. This was before the motor car engulfed
Italy and I have photos to prove it showing the Naples seafront with nothing
more than a couple of policemen and a tricycle ice cream vender.
We did not
see the slums of Naples, but we did visit a home , hutted camp that is, for
orphans who were at least fed and clothed while they learned to shout for ‘Il Duce’
.
We were
treated to a glass of sweet wine and a speech in Italian pledging friendship
from a uniformed gent who presumably ran the place. Back at the hotel that
evening we ate at tables set in the open air under a lemon tree from which I
had to pick a small souvenir.
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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 crypt
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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