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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.
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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
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.
IN THE BEGINNING
Part 7.
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 nasty limp, as a result of Royal Flying Corps service, in WWI. sadly he did not make old bones.
Mother went and visited Alice after he had died, she took me with her, in her little car to help find the way, 172 miles according to the AA route which 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 and Brixham.
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 acquire 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 (Where is that? I hear you ask) 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 was not, but they were pretty good friends, and Joe and May had Christmas lunch with us some years.
To be continued tomorrow
EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 29th AUGUST
(Please note spelling is British English)
(Please note spelling is British English)
BIRTHS
1849 - Birth: Frederic (Ag Lab) LAWES-12777, Brampton Norfolk England
1863 - Birth: Lucinda LAWS-30159, Carroll County Tennessee United States
1869 - Christen: Mary Magdalene Robinson LAWS-4246, (Scholar) Newcastle-upon-Tyne Northumberland England
1869 - Birth: Rosa LAWES-2558, (Domestic Help) Putney Surrey England
1875 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-13959, Lewis Fork North Carolina United States
1876 - Birth: Blanche LAWS-7227, (Underclothing Cutter) Leytonstone Essex England
(My paternal grandfather's sister, one of my father's maiden aunts.)
1882 - Birth: Tom LAWS-44019, (Farmer)
1882 - Birth: William Alfred LAWS-4201, (Engineer's Turner, Toolmaker & Newsagent) Wolverhampton Staffordshire England
1885 - Birth & Death: Dora Elizabeth LAWS-38274, Johnson, Kane Co. Utah United States
1893 - Birth: Benjamin Charles LAWS-8220, (ARMY Acting Sgt 7228) Ardsley West Yorkshire England
1895 - Birth: Alfred E LAWS-42608, (Farmer)
1895 - Birth: Harold LAWS-26075, (Post Office Engineer & Linesman) Widnes Lancashire England
1895 - Birth: Ernest Alfred LAWS-3450, (Motor Cleaner) Horsford Norfolk England
1899 - Birth: Constance Marion LAWES-17726, Croydon Surrey England
1900 - Birth: Lucille L LAWS-20538,
1901 - Birth: Albert LAWES-24471, (Royal Navy J62997) Gen Labourer) Southampton Hampshire England
1904 - Birth: Walter Fred LAWS-35843, (Manager Motor & Radio)
1906 - Birth: Elsie Maria LAWES-39122, Reading Berkshire England
1909 - Birth: John William LAWS-44302, (Horseman on Farm)
1909 - Birth: Lillian May LAWS-35827,
1914 - Birth: Dorothy E LAWES-48893, (Machinist Milliner)
MARRIAGES
1819 - Marriage: James Garner LAWS-11748 and Mary Ann FIDDLEMAN-11747, Norwich Norfolk England
1833 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-24232 and Ann SCOTT-24233, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1839 - Marriage: Robert Arnold LAMB-10731 (Master Mariner) and Harriett LAWS-10730, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1849 - Marriage: George Calvin LAWS-10848 and Francois Livingston BARNES-10849,
St. Francois, Missouri, United States
1899 - Marriage: William Andrews Hume SHARP-43314 (Commercial Clerk) and Louisa LAWS-3131, Little Ilford Essex England
1914 - Marriage: Frank B WHEELER-40043 and H Louise LAWS-40044, Bexar Texas United States
1925 - Marriage: Hugh Stanley LAWS-24435 (RN F52205) and May ROWCROFT-45527, Montreal CANADA
1925 - Marriage: William H LAWS-33236 (Fitters Mate Steel Plate) and Louisa Ruth OWEN-33235, (Civilian War Dead) Yiewsley, Hillingdon, Middlesex England
1925 - Marriage: Reginald Charles T LAWS-12940 (Australian Army & Sawmill Manager) and Nolah Evelyn Pearl LOGAN-14576, Taree New South Wales Australia
1936 - Marriage: Samuel Gray NIVEN-21281 and Elizabeth LAWS-21280,
DEATHS
1708 - Burial: Burton LAWS-41097, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England
1826 - Burial: Ann LAWES-29572, Figheldean Wiltshire England
1885 - Death: Mary Ellen LAWS-38273, Johnson, Kane County Utah United States
1901 - Burial: Elizabeth Ann LAWES-28144, (less than 1 yr old) Stockton-On-Tees Durham England
1826 - Burial: Ann LAWES-29572, Figheldean Wiltshire England
1885 - Death: Mary Ellen LAWS-38273, Johnson, Kane County Utah United States
1901 - Burial: Elizabeth Ann LAWES-28144, (less than 1 yr old) Stockton-On-Tees Durham England
1918 - Death: Francis Edwin LAWES-199, (Reverend) was it West Ealing Middlesex or
Wandsworth Surrey England?
1926 - Death: Leonard Matthew LAWS-17622 (Clerk) , Hampstead Middlesex England
1931 - Death: Jason L LAWS-19692, Raleigh West Virginia United States
1948 - Death: Joseph Smith LAWS-19380, Kern California United States
1961 - Death: Lawrence LAWS-29354, Nambucca Heads New South Wales Australia
1980 - Burial: Ronald D LAWS-16795, (MSgt US Air Force) Augusta Michigan United States
1981 - Death: Ivy Winifred (Book-keeper) Taunton Somersetshire England
1998 - Death: James Maxwell LAWS-37076, Tamborine Queensland Australia
2003 - Death: Lovancy LAWS-12311, Rehabilitation and Health of Gastonia. North Carolina
United States
2006 - Death: Derek Ernest LAWS-25959,
MISCELLANEOUS
1893 - Immigration: Edward Ernest LAWS-41806, (Resturant Proprietor) of Birmingham Warwickshire England to Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States
1899 - Residence: Alfred LAWS-3127, (House Owner & Agent) Forest Gate Essex England
1899 - Residence: Louisa LAWS-3131, Forest Gate Essex England
1924 - Residence: Alfred James CLEMENTS-47285,(Gentleman) East Molesey Surrey England
1928 - Emigration: Henrietta Lisette Amelia Verity LAWS-46011, of Bournemouth Hampshire England to SOUTH AFRICA
1944 - Miscellaneous: Charles LAWS-4555, (Surveyor)
1851 - Birth: Walter Ezra BUNN-3439, Horsford Norfolk England
1853 - Baptism: John CHARTERS-21851, (Joiner Apprentice) Torpenhow Cumberland England
1871 - Birth: John James BEZZANT-19891, Bristol Gloucestershire England
1888 - Birth: Edith Jane SHANKS-25411, Rockhampton Queensland Australia
1911 - Birth: Ruth Elizabeth SCHOW-18084, Flandreau South Dakota United States
OTHER DEATHS
1893 - Burial: Jane KETTLE-745, (Widow - Laundress) West Molesey Surrey England
1916 - Death: Sarah Sophia GOODALL-8603, Brisbane Queensland Australia
1916 - Death: Sarah Sophia GOODALL-8603, Brisbane Queensland Australia
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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.
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