Monday 10th September 2018 - Number 3242

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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 18.

 SCHOOLS & EDUCATION 2

Running was never a favourite pastime for me it was only done when unavoidable. Swimming was another matter however and we were lucky in that there was a swimming pool in the basement of the grammar school next door. Here we were permitted a Saturday morning class, for a dozen or so and I achieved the great heights of a certificate to say I could swim fifty yards.   

Generally, in the elementary school, we did all our lessons in the same room, but we did have a purpose-built room for woodwork. This was well equipped with benches and hand tools and we got a useful grounding in using them. For me, it was one of the most enjoyable lessons.

The other children at the elementary school were a very normal mix and a reasonable standard of behaviour was enforced anyway. In the playground, our play was, of course, rowdy but there was little real fighting, there was more interest in playing ‘Flickhams’ with cigarette cards. These were in good supply as most men smoked and every packet had a card in it. Later the interest changed to collecting the sets of cards and swapping them to make up sets which are now almost antiques.

Most of my classmates were friendly but although we visited each other’s houses to play, few friendships were long-term, because of the need to change schools and move house. Just before I had to take the Grammar school entrance exam we moved house from Harringay to Winchmore Hill, so I had to take the exam in the new area, so until my time at elementary school ran out a few months after we had moved, mother ferried me to and fro, daily in her little car to carry on in the same school, till the term was finished and the exam done.

The move to Grammar school was a move to another world. After all, we were in the thirties and 1929 and all that, was slipping back behind us. The move to Southgate was a move into another world and meant that none of my friends moved on with me to the same school.

It was, of course, an elitist world and the Grammar schools were reckoned next in line after the ‘Public’ schools, though there was no guarantee that the boy who left the elementary school at the age of fourteen, would not become a millionaire quicker than any of them.

He would not become a bank clerk or a civil servant however, he was saved from being a fighter pilot in the forties.

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 10th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1860 - Birth: James LAWS-11662, South Hetton Durham England

1860 - Birth: Joseph Frank LAWES-541, (Coachman)  Upton Lovell Wiltshire England

1871 - Baptism: Charlotte Maria LAWS-3331, (Laundry)  Acton Middlesex England

1876 - Baptism: Thirza Peninnah Arabella LAWS-4239, East Stoke Dorset England

1878 - Birth: John William LAWS-5894, (Wagonette Driver) Hingham Norfolk England

1889 - Birth: William LAWS-44308,  (Smallholder) 

1889 - Birth: Bertie James LAWES-12965, (Australian Army) Leichhardt, New South Wales Australia

1899 - Birth: Robert W LAWES-49028, (Electrical Fitter) 

1902 - Birth: Brian LAWES-34940, (Ships Steward)  Southampton Hampshire England

1903 - Birth: Margaret LAWS-40945, Gateshead Durham England

1905 - Birth: Wilber H LAWS-42000, Crawford County, Akansas United States

1907 - Birth: Frank Kenneth LAWES-46746, (Bakers Roundsman) Putney Surrey England

1912 - Birth: Elsie LAWS-38204, 

1914 - Birth: Robert Fruen LAWES-37373, 

1921 - Birth: William G LAWES-49208, (Carpenter Theatre)  

1923 - Birth: Gerald Henry LAWES-35940, Uxbridge Middlesex England

1930 - Birth: Bronte Cynthia LAWS-23436, (Company Director) 

1931 - Birth: Bill LAWS-46898, 

MARRIAGES

1866 - Marriage: William Bennett LAWS-30490 and Louisa WEBB-30491, Weakley County, Tennesee United States

1881 - Marriage: John ELDRID-17642 (Leather Merchant)  and Emily A LAWS-5804 (Spinster), Hampstead Middlesex England

1905 - Marriage: Arthur James JONES-23021 and Minnie Dora LAWS-23020, Mt Vernon, Franklin County Texas United States

DEATHS 

1721 - Baptism: Elinor LAWS-5004, Exeter Devonshire England

1820 - Burial: Thomas LAWS-2962, Wareham Dorset England 

1900 - Death: Mary Ann LAWS-30314, 

1906 - Death: Margaret Elizabeth LAWS-30392, Chanute Kansas United States

1941 - Death: Thomas LAWS-38376, St Louis Missouri United States

1944 - Death: William Henry LAWS-19335, Los Angeles California United States

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

1952 - Death: Oliver Alfred LAWS-12531, Salmon Arm British Columbia Canada

1966 - Death: Martha Ann LAWS-39266, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1970 - Death: Alicia Mary LAWS-38125, Castle Hill New South Wales Australia

1979 - Death: Howard LAWS-30646, Franklin County Ohio United States

1984 - Death: Jake M LAWS-16688,  (PVT US Army) Los Angeles California United States

2003 - Death: Edward George LAWS-12630, (Turbine Engineer) St Johns Hospital, Springfield Illinois United States

2004 - Death: Charles Richard LAWS-19731, 

2007 - Death: Lorraine Doris LAWS-3277, Shepparton Victoria Australia

MISCELLANEOUS

1914 - Emigration: Alfred William LAWS (Reverend) -10980, Buenos Aires ARGENTINA

1914 - Enlistment: John William LAWS-26088, (ARMY Acting Sergeant  2767)  Portsmouth Hampshire England

1967 - Discharged: Murray Barry Milton LAWES-33779, (CPO Writer Royal Australian Navy)  

OTHER BIRTHS

1871 - Birth: Ellen BATTY-4, North Kensington Middlesex England

1874 - Birth: Elizabeth Emily Bessie SAVILLE-39191, Camberwell Surrey England

1877 - Birth: Martha Hannah SAGE-38913, (Housemaid)  Layham Suffolk England

 OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1909 - Death: Stiles Mounterville TAYLOR-23015, Franklin County Texas United States

1943 - Death: George CROSS-16521, Goodna, Brisbane Queensland Australia

1970 - Death: Alicia M JAMISON-14725, Sydney New South Wales Australia

2001 - Death: Joan Doreen MARCHANT-35156, Norwich Norfolk England

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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