Friday 24th August 2018 - Number 3225

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Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone, 

The names and dates are chiseled 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 not entirely 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. 

Dear Reader, we are happy to work on your 

LAWS FAMILY TREE

(maybe we already have)

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Starting today

A child of the 1920's as seen from the 1990's

by

My late father, John Robert Laws 1921-2008

IN THE BEGINNING

Part 2.

We looked out that way one sunlit evening and saw the majestic airship the R101 floating gently south towards London, France and their appointment in Samarkand.

The land rose on the other side of the tracks, a steep tall grassy bank with a proper footpath along the top beyond the fence and even seats along the top. In the afternoon sun-shine, these would be occupied by mums and nannies with prams while the trains amused the vociferous offspring. It was not till later that I explored these distant parts, a sprawl of suburbia from the late nineteenth century broken here and there by parks and sports grounds.

Our garden was not very large, a rectangle with a concrete path, round 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 side-way out to the front. Inside the rectangle of the path the grass had half a dozen little apple trees round 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. I 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 1800's, 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 a 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.

To be continued tomorrow

EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 24th AUGUST

BIRTHS 

1807 - Birth: Jane LAWS-7324, (Spinster)  Cambo Northumberland England

1828 - Baptism: Ellen Mary LAWS-24268, Portsmouth Hampshire England

1828 - Baptism: Elijah John LAWS-3909, (Labourer)  Portsmouth Hampshire England

1869 - Birth: Harriett LAWES-48541,  (Domestic Service) 

1878 - Birth: James LAWS-43484, (Park Ranger) Jordans Castle Nottinghamshire England

1882 - Baptism: Amy Wilkinson LAWS-15267, (Teacher of Physical Culture) Melcombe Regis Dorset England

1885 - Birth: Albert James LAWS-7167, (Tobacco Agent) Wood Green Middlesex England

1892 - Birth: Marjorie LAWS-47404,  (Insurance Clerk) 

1899 - Birth: Edward Arthur LAWS-46996, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England

1899 - Birth: Arthur Lionel LAWS-43229, St Kitts

1902 - Birth: Rosie May LAWS-34290, Derby Derbyshire England

1905 - Birth: Edith M LAWES-47471, 

1906 - Birth: Edith LAWES-28570, Ealing Middlesex England

1907 - Birth: Percy Maitland LAWS-32324, (Book-keeper) Gateshead Durham England

1907 - Birth: Bernard Oswald LAWS-3261, (Farmer)  Shepparton Victoria Australia

1914 - Birth: Herbert Frederick Kitchener LAWS-34031, Greenwich Kent England

1916 - Birth: Henry Partridge LAWS-18339, (Coal Miner) Seaham Durham England

1919 - Birth: Alan LAWS-44745, (Apprentice Colliery Electrician) 

MARRIAGES
1797 - Marriage: William LAWS-31133 and Mary Ann PALMER-31134, (former Widow) Deptford Kent England

1819 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-5162 and Sarah CHURCH-5163, Whitchurch Hampshire England

1828 - Marriage: Thomas TYLER-43099 (Master Bootmaker) and Phoebe White LAWS-43100, Rochester Kent England

1862 - Marriage: Benjamin LAWS-4439 (Moulder in Foundry)  and Eleanor BACON-4440, Bungay Suffolk England

1928 - Marriage: Sydney George Edward LAWS-14721 (Australian Army)  and Norah Daphne QUIGLEY-14577, Leichhardt, New South Wales Australia

DEATHS

1734 - Burial: Richard LAWS-7529, St.James Clerkenwell Middlesex England

1859 - Burial: James LAWES-3632, (Ag Lab) Canford Magna Dorset England

1861 - Death: Mary LAWES-20132, 

1865 - Death: Thomas LAWS-2955, (Bricklayer / Coachman / Groom) Dorchester Dorset England

1928 - Death: Ronald LAWS-20789, Kensington Middlesex England

1936 - Death: Donald R LAWS-19776, Harlan Co KY United States

1938 - Death: Owen Henry Charles LAWES-41411, Cambridge Cambridgeshire England

1940 - Death: Percy Frederick LAWS-8577, (Builder & Decorator)  Chatham Kent England

1957 - Death: James Holland LAWS-26054, Bryan Texas United States

1972 - Death: Elsie Myrtle LAWS-3260, (Nurse)  Shepparton Victoria Australia

2004 - Death: Lloyd Clinton LAWS-16833, (YN3 U.S. Navy / Korea)Hospice House in Topeka Kansas United States

MISCELLANEOUS

1924 - Residence: Bolitha James LAWS-10981, (Lawyer / Judge) Washington, District of Columbia United States

1929 - Arrival: Dulcie Isabel LAWS-37815, Montreal Canada

1938 - Residence: Owen Henry Charles LAWES-41411, Witcham Cambridgeshire England

1944 - Military: Maurice Edward Seymour LAWS-17221, Order of the British Empire

OTHER BIRTHS
1882 - Birth: Bertha Mae FRY-30455, Maine United States

1894 - Birth: Maye Strickler ROTHGEB-46418, Page, Virginia United States

1895 - Birth: Charlotte Maud WINZAR-40826, St Pancras Middlesex England

1901 - Birth: Maud POYNTER-3462, 

1908 - Birth: Dorothy LINSDELL-32325, Whitley Bay Northumberland England

1912 - Birth: Percy Edward DEAL-29639, 

1914 - Birth: Elsaie C SMITH-44849, 

OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1886 - Death: Thomas CHARTERS-14238,  (Draper) 

1918 - Burial: William George SPENDIFF-38846, (Cellarman) Meaulte FRANCE

1929 - Death: Adeline Annie BETTIS-20560, Piper, Wyandotte Co. Kansas United States

1977 - Death: Mary Ann Frances STEEL-21330, Dagenham  Essex England

1989 - Death: Henry Michael HIGGINS-28972, Belmont New South Wales Australia

Did you find anyone? whether it's yes or no, we'd still love to hear from you, we've got  48,276 records, Mail us at

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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.

that missing link between some name that ends the same as mine

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.

Sharon Nicola LAWS

2008 Olympics Cyclist

Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 

1974-2017

R I P

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