Saturday 1st September 2018 - Number 3233

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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

Part 10.

PEOPLE Part 1.

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 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 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.       

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 1st SEPTEMBER

Please note spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1687 - Christen: Elizabeth LAWS-7759, Gresham Norfolk England

1792 - Christen: Elizabeth LAWS-3083, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1817 - Baptism: Mary LAWS-12114, Roydon by Diss Norfolk England

1835 - Baptism: Emily LAWS-36592, Hemmingstone Suffolk England

1850 - Birth: Sarah Elizabeth LAWS-22467, Littleport Cambridgeshire England

1853 - Birth: William Samuel LAWS-14841, (Bookseller's Shopman) Wortley West Yorkshire England


1854 - Baptism: Rosanna Margaret LAWS-12423, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1862 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-19334, Lousianna United States

1867 - Birth: Arthur LAWS-30658, 

1872 - Birth: George H LAWS-43884, (Retired Clerk) 

1872 - Birth: Thomas LAWES-4788, (Flour Mill Engine Driver)  Whaplode Lincolnshire England

1881 - Birth: Edward LAWS-44088, (Builders Foreman)  

1891 - Birth: William Clair LAWS-33090, Pelham, Welland Ontario Canada

1895 - Birth: Ernest LAWES-24468, (Pensioner RN K28093 R N C 11731) Bishops Waltham Hampshire England

1896 - Birth: Harold B LAWS-19333, Missouri United States

1902 - Birth: Vernon E LAWS-46564, Virginia United States

1903 - Birth: Granville LAWS-36818, (Tobacconist/Newsagent)  Clayton West Yorkshire England

1908 - Birth: Robin Bollin LAWS-39647, (Poultryman) Brixton Devonshire England

1916 - Birth: Herbert M LAWES-49238, (Assistant On Poultry Farm)  

1916 - Birth: Arthur LAWES-48505,(Labourer City Engineers Dept),                     (Unemployed Railwayman) 

1916 - Birth: Arthur Ernest LAWES-35891, 

1918 - Birth: Lillian LAWS-43914, (Cigar Machinist) 


1920 - Birth: Bessie LAWS-11520, Warwick, Queensland Australia

MARRIAGES

1874 - Marriage: Peter Maitland LAWS-32182 (Photographer) and Alice Harriet BOLD-32183, South Shields, Durham, England

1886 - Marriage: Oscar Columbus LAWS-8471 and Lizzie Louisa STRIEF-8472, Lyndon, Osage County Kansas United States

1902 - Marriage: Arthur Osbourne REED-27131 (Baker) and Kate LAWS-27132, (Dressmaker) Dartford Kent England

1909 - Marriage: Henry James George LAWES-1011 (Commercial Clerk)  and Kate Louisa STEAD-20054, Rochford Essex England

1924 - Marriage: Percival George LAWS-15986 (RN J33621) and Rose A EASON-26708, Horsham Sussex England


1928 - Marriage: William James LAWS-47215 (Paperhanger & Painter) and Elsie Winifred HARRINGTON-47216, (Maid)  Stockwell Surrey England

DEATHS

1955 - Death: Robert Reginald LAWES-2501, Los Angeles California United States

1958 - Death: George Henry LAWES-37296, (Metal Worker Aircraft)  Hendon Middlesex 

Residence: Roe Green, Brent Middlesex England

1960 - Death: James Dee LAWS-22761, Huntingdon Utah United States

1939 - Death: Jerimiah LAWES-1616, (Gardener) Keighley West Yorkshire England

1947 - Residence: Batty LAWES-40487, (Stenographer) Carshalton Surrey England

1948 - Death: Helen A LAWS-19389, San Diego California United States

1968 - Death: Lonnie Charles LAWS-12606, (US Army, Selective Service)  Quang Ngai, South Vietnam

1978 - Death: Mabel Eunice LAWS-25098, East Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, United States

1986 - Cremation: Stuart Edwin LAWS-22124, (Commercial Artist) 

1988 - Death: Walter Richard LAWS-40420, (Plasterer)  Egham Surrey England

1988 - Death: Helen J LAWS-20561, 

2010 - Death: Jeffery Norman LAWS-38253, Wangi Falls, Litchfield Park Northern Territory Australia

MISCELLANEOUS

1862 - Occupation: Thomas LAWS-27163, (Steerage Steward) 

1919 - Miscellaneous: Frederick Charles Victor Killbronnau LAWS-7409,(Army Major/RAF Wg Cmdr OBE CB CBE) Residence: Kensington Middlesex England

1919 - Residence: William Roger LAWS-5844, (Head Gardener) Kelowna, British Columbia 
Canada

1928 - Residence: Elsie Winifred HARRINGTON-47216, (Maid)  Stockwell Surrey England

1928 - Residence: William James LAWS-47215, (Paperhanger & Painter) Stockwell Surrey England

OTHER BIRTHS

1843 - Birth: Margery LITTLE-5937, Chirton Northumberland England

1874 - Birth: Smythe TORRENS-36489, Kiarma New South Wales Australia

1909 - Birth: Jennie BECKSTEAD-27915, Withney, Franklin, Idaho United States

1889 - Birth: Sirlena AVERY-24869, Phillips County Arkansa United States

1889 - Birth: Albert LIVERSUTCH-24521, Bedminster Dorset England

1896 - Birth: Daisy Jessie CLARK-31805,

1914 - Birth: Grace Lily HOWLETT-48702, 

1920 - Birth: Antony Roy D ARDEN-41429, Willesden Middlesex England

OTHER MARRIAGES 

1861 - Marriage: Thomas Laws HOWE-7017 and Elizabeth Hellen FRANCIS-7018, Stepney Middlesex England

OTHER DEATHS

1878 - Death: Maria NEWELL-14823, Brentford Middlesex England

1904 - Death: Isabella STEWART-46817, Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Scotland

1908 - Burial: Alice DAKER-21436, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

1949 - Death: Charles George CUNNOLD-10470, Napier New Zealand

1960 - Death: Herbert Scott BOYERS-22581, Freedom Indiana United States

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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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