Tuesday 28th November 2017

Tuesday 28th November 2017 - Number 2966

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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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SURNAMES IN MY TREE INCLUDE LAWS & LAWES, HARDING ELL ROWELL FULLER LOTHERINGTON BRANT MOONEY

EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE

BUT PLEASE NOTE

We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy -therefore we are not showing births after 1920 or marriages after 1940 these are only available on request

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!

We will be happy to publish within this blog Your stories of your LAWS research and also members of the LAWS and LAWES family you are searching for.

We will be happy to help with you with your LAWS/LAWES research, and in certain instances we may be willing to undertake private research on your behalf.

The content provided on this site is not guaranteed to be error free - It is always advised that you consult original records.

Contact me via email at registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk

Family Events from our database for today 25th November

Family Event

BIRTHS baptisms etc

1816 - Birth: Thomas LAWS (Ag Lab) -32344, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1841 - Baptism: Charles LAWS (Roadman) -957, Bungay Norfolk England
1878 - Birth: Harry W LAWS (Gas Company Stores Retired Superintendent) -43741,
1883 - Birth: Mabel Jane LAWS-3196, Kialla VIC AUSTRALIA
1898 - Birth: Cyril Henry LAWS-35782,
1909 - Birth: Violet Hilda LAWES-24506, Norwich Norfolk England

1910 - Birth: Arthur LAWS-36119,
1915 - Birth: Vera Ethel LAWS-3142, Kent, England, United Kingdom
1916 - Birth: Douglas Frank LAWS-36522, Croydon Surrey England
1916 - Birth: Ellen Lily LAWS-35157, Edmonton Middlesex England
1919 - Birth: Arthur LAWS (Chauffeur Mechanic) -42653,

1920 - Birth: Alan LAWS (Apprentice Dental Mechanic) LAWS-42508,

MARRIAGES

1844 - Marriage: Thomas DURFEE-5299 and Adah C LAWS-5298, Killingley Hampshire England CT United States
1869 - Marriage: Charles GRIMANI (Scenic Artist) 14269 and Henrietta LAWS-14253,
Regent Square Middlesex England

1874 - Marriage: John MORGAN (Coal Miner) -25559 and Jane LAWS-12342, Tynemouth Northumberland England

1878 - Marriage: George LAWS-6145 and Rosa FOY-6146, Issaquena MS United States
1908 - Marriage: Joseph THOMPSON-24560 and Elsie Louisa LAWES-24559, Petersham
NSW AUSTRALIA

DEATHS burials etc

1756 - Burial: James LAWS-6592, Felthorpe Norfolk England

1875 - Death: William LAWS- (Master Mariner) 7305, South Kilvington, Thirsk
North Yorkshire England
1917 - Death: Gladys LAWS-20586,
1918 - Death: Matthew LAWS (Mustard Miller) -22343, Fletton Huntingdonshire England
1923 - Death: Thomas Clifford LAWES-2347, Memorial Hospital, Cirencester Gloucestershire
England
1926 - Death: Alma J LAWS-33302,
1944 - Death: Thomas LAWS Campbell (Fireman and Trimmer Merchant Marine) -22340,
SS "Stronsa Firth"
1970 - Death: Anderson LAWS-19751, Jefferson Co KY United States
1981 - Birth: Tandy Renea LAWS-37106, Georgetown, Williamson Co, Texas United States
1984 - Death: James H LAWES-36651,
2002 - Death: Graham James LAWS (Australian Army) -12558,
Wahroonga NSW AUSTRALIA

2009 - Death: Roy Bunnett LAWS-16336, Sheffield West Yorkshire England

MISC

1921 - Residence: Henry William LAWS- (Consultant Mining Engineer)18360,
Shanghai CHINA
1936 - Residence: Kathleen Marjorie Livingstone HODGSON-231, Saxmundham Suffolk England
1937 - Residence: Alfred James Charles LAWES (Post Office) -34949, Post Office, Shorncliffe Kent England
1944 - Residence: Annie Stott RIVERS-40873, South Shields Durham England
1955 - Residence: Geoffrey Brian LAWS (Toolmaker) -45416, Bowes Park Middlesex England

OTHER BIRTHS

1882 - Birth: Emily Kate GEORGE-36629, Yaxley Huntingdonshire England
1914 - Birth: Ruby Georgina COBBETT-265, Hamilton ONT CANADA

1920 - Birth: Emanuel SHOOLHEIFER-41432, Hackney Middlesex England

OTHER MARRIAGES

OTHER DEATHS & Burial

1920 - Death: Eliza WARD (Dressmaker) -13607, Bungay Norfolk England

1926 - Death: Emma GOWLER (Servant) -10724, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England
1983 - Death: John DICKINSON-37215, Canberra ACT AUSTRALIA

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A CHILD OF THE 1920's

AS SEEN FROM THE 1990's

John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 9

In the High Street there were those who offered oddments from doorways, matches and lemons spring to mind. Along the gutters the sandwich board men, walked, enclosed in their advertising matter or calls to repentance, sometimes singly sometimes in threes or fours in a straggling crocodile. Occasionally there was an organ grinder on the corner of a side street, winding his handle and his mechanical music would add to the general street noise.

There is an impression of noisiness in the High Street. Apart from the street traders there were trams clattering on their steel rails, horses were iron shod and so were the wheels of most of the carts. Lorries vans and cars were less well silenced and there was even the occasional Steam traction engine. However there were no motor scooters and the few motorbikes did not roar around.

One faint memory of Green Lanes is of the buses with their cabs shrouded in wire netting to protect the volunteer drivers during the National Strike of 1926. What a good job there were no television cameras to encourage the attackers.

As well as the main shopping area in Green Lanes there were a few little shops around the railway station. The sweet shop was to me the most important and in those impecunious days many sweet shops kept a halfpenny and farthing box with a selection of sweets at those prices for kids with pocket money. It is a sign of of changing times that as I type this computer throws out the word Farthing as not being in the dictionary.

The dress of the period is familiar from photographs but the black and white of these photos does not tell us how much to colours changed. These monochrome photos are perhaps appropriate to the rather drab colours of every day wear. Grey, black and white was definitely favourites except for special occasions. Green was thought unlucky by some though my mother had a brilliant green evening dress for one special occasion.

Red tended to be associated with the immoral so one was left with brown and blue and usually dark at that. Even holiday wear was much less colourful, white flannels and a navy blue blazer being about the height of seaside fashion for Pater families. The ladies did much better with flower patterned fabrics. For better or for worse the mini skirt hadn't been invented and bikini was still the name of an unknown Pacific island.

Among the street people with distinctive dress the policeman stood out. A big man in his navy blue tunic and trousers, a leather belt around his middle with a bull’s-eye torch at the rear and his outfit completed with a proper Bobbies helmet on his head and big black boots on his feet for pavement pounding. Just occasionally his whistle might be heard shrilling as he chased some malefactor down the road. More often he was seen but not heard as he came by on foot or on his bike with his rain cape neatly folded over the handlebars.

Our family doctor lived just across the way in a sizable corner house. I saw him from time to time when I had various childhood ailments but his likeness escapes me. My mother always thought me thin and needing fattening up but rather doubting when the doctor included pork in his dietary recommendations. Anyway I ate like a horse the only dislike I can remember was the kidney in steak and kidney pudding.

The doctor had installed a machine for 'sun-ray treatment' and my mother took me over to him several times for a dose of the beneficial light. It was some sort of ultra violet light emission which would no frighten a quack silly today but in small doses probably did neither good or harm.

Part 10

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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,

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

The missing link between some name

That ends the same as mine

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