Friday 7th September 2018 - Number 3239

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

by

My late father, John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 15.

 PEOPLE  Innovations 3.

Although the early thirties were just crawling out of depression there were more large houses being built than cheap semis. The extension to the Piccadilly Line of the Underground railway to Enfield West now called Oakwood, and then to Cockfosters which influenced our move to Southgate was an important event.

Free tickets to try it out were given out to all households in the catchment area. A building project which interested me more was, however, the new ice rink at Harringay. It was after we had moved to Southgate when I was able to get there, but my pal Harry and I became regulars. Being already able to roller skate made it much easier to get going on ice though not without a few tumbles.

At one of our first visits, we were offered free admission to the evening ice hockey if we would take part in a farcical match with brooms and a football in the interval of the ice hockey. We accepted of course and I seem to remember it brought the house down. Next Monday at school, I found that I had been observed and was asked why I had been acting the clown.

Innovations in materials were less noticeable than other major changes but nonetheless on the way with enormous potential. Plywood soon replaced solid panels in all but the most expensive furniture, after a brief reign of a few decades chipboard came, bringing back the use of veneering which had existed a couple of hundred years earlier.

In our old-fashioned furniture. the wood was solid and in our kitchen the knives were sharp, made before the new stainless steel became de-rigour for cutlery, they had to be cleaned of course and the knife cleaner, a wooden machine with rotary brushes turned with a cast iron handle stood in the kitchen with its tin of abrasive powder nearby.

There was no plastic except celluloid which was highly inflammable and used for little except toys, and ebonite which was used for a while in electrical goods. Even the plug tops for our new electric points were ceramic. Cooking pots and saucepans were iron, vitreous enamel or copper, aluminium came a few years later and stainless-steel way in the future.

Plastic bags were a blessing yet to come, this meant that few groceries were pre-packed, the grocer weighed out your biscuits from a large tin, into a paper bag and the broken ones were sold off cheap.

To be continued tomorrow

There's a family who misses you dearly, 

In a home where you used to be; 

There's a family who wanted to keep you, 

But God willed it not to be. 

You left many happy memories, 

And a sorrow too great to be told; 

But to us who loved and lost you, 

Your memory will never grow old.

EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 7th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1694 - Christen: William LAWES-2327, Kenn Devonshire England

1755 - Baptism: Edith LAWES-23833, Bower Chalke Wiltshire England

1808 - Birth: Michael LAWES-273, Costessey Norfolk England

1828 - Christen: Jane LAWS-4766, Alverstoke Hampshire England

1853 - Birth: Marion J LAWS-44167, 

1862 - Birth: Benjamin C LAWES-48938, (Life Assurance Official, retired) 

1874 - Birth: George William LAWS-3610, (Electricity Labourer Retired) Litcham Norfolk England

1876 - Birth: William A LAWS-44365, (Confectioner Shop)


1878 - Birth: William George LAWES-28243, (Railway Gatekeeper, Southern Railway)

1882 - Baptism: Ada LAWES-28363, Headley Hampshire England

1896 - Birth: Walter LAWS-23190, (Rotary Kiln Greaser Cement) Skipsea East Yorkshire England

1897 - Birth: Nora C M LAWS-42356, Caterham Surrey England

1899 - Birth: Christopher LAWS-37067, (Assistant Ships Steward)  Kilburn, London Middlesex England

1899 - Birth: Christopher A LAWS -22876, (Rubber Milter & Vulcanizer) Grays Thurrock Essex England

1902 - Birth: Doris Olive LAWS-36863,

1903 - Birth: Harold George LAWES-38287, (Fruiterer)

1908 - Birth: Alice LAWS-44373, (Married)

1914 - Birth: Lionel Mayman LAWS-12485, Perth, WA Australia

1915 - Birth: Hannah LAWS-47529, (Domestic Servant)

1916 - Birth: Arthur Albert LAWES-37313, (Cable Testing & Repairer) Greenwich Kent England

1919 - Birth: Alice Kathleen LAWS-46617, City of London, England

1919 - Birth: Alice C LAWS-43824, (Telephonist) 

1919 - Birth: John Frank LAWS-36964, Colman Florida United States

MARRIAGES

1755 - Marriage: Thomas ROWSELL-8434 and Mary LAWS-7987,

1889 - Marriage: William LAWS-4653 (Coal Miner)  and Jane WEEDY-22095, Byker Northumberland England

1903 - Marriage: Joseph William LAWS-17504 (Clothiers Shop assistant)  and Frances Elizabeth SHARPE-42679, Elswick Northumberland England

1905 - Marriage: George Richard LAWES-481 (Master Miller) and Eva CLARKE-12537, Armstrong British Columbia Canada

DEATHS

1774 - Death: Alexander LAWS-11384, (Died at Sea)

1860 - Death: Maria Jones LAWES-10067, (Widow)  Bath Somerset England

1902 - Death: John James Holloway LAWES-2175,  (Annuitant)

1915 - Death: Swinburn J LAWS-21935, Hammond, Lake Co. Indiana United States

1916 - Death: Edward Lucian LAWS-2861, (Army Officer)  Mombassa Kenya

1923 - Death: John Joseph Michael LAWES-1975, (Master Mariner/Royal Navy 185088)  Dartmouth Devonshire England

1940 - Death: William LAWS-33353, (Civilian War dead) West Ham Essex England

1940 - Death: Margaret LAWS-22313, (Civilian War dead)  West Ham Essex England

1940 - Death: Raymond W LAWS-10421, (Civilian War dead) West Ham Essex England

1944 - Death: Troy W LAWS-36672,  (2nd Lt US Army 0-890381)

1945 - Death: James Robert LAWS-19509, Hartford, Coffey County Kansas United States

1951 - Death: Edward Gordon LAWES-16078, Leyton Essex England

1957 - Death: Aaron LAWS-4196,v(Train Driver)  Ryhope Durham England resided in South Shields, Durham, England

1958 - Death: John Percy LAWS (Engine Fitter) -4906, Bexley Kent England

MISCELLANEOUS

1916 - Discharged: Herbert LAWS-4298, (Herbert (ARMY Private 21260 & Labourer)  Reigate Surrey England

OTHER BIRTHS

1861 - Birth: Florence Elizabeth MARTIN-38926,

1880 - Birth: Joseph Bird CLEGG-7113, (Hairdresser)  Bradford West Yorkshire England

1898 - Birth: Hilda Mary WHIDDON-31806, Withycombe Raleigh Devonshire England

1911 - Birth: Gladys Hilda HENLEY-11098, (Spinster)  

1915 - Birth: Clara A OLDFIELD-48573, 

OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1886 - Death: Henry ROGERS-10682, Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland

1888 - Death: Harriett LANE-9518, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England

1951 - Death: William WEBB-22363 (Engineer) Birmingham Warwickshire England

1966 - Burial: Benjamin JENNINGS-23567, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

1973 - Burial: Marie BLACK-17982, Blanding Utah United States

1981 - Death: Arthur Benjamin CULLINGFORD-26715, Harwich Essex England

1990 - Death: Shannon Leray LAWS-19746, 

2001 - Death: Virginia Faye LAWS-23527, Huntsville Alabama United States

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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