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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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A child of the 1920's a from the 1990's
by
My late father, John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 30
We spent all the family holidays on that little bit of east
coast and going further afield did not arise, until I could go off on my bike
alone, or with a friend. I had already been to scout camps, all on a shoestring.
About the same time school journeys were started, only in the holidays of
course not in term time like today. The camps were for boys only. I doubt
whether our devoted school staff thought they could cope with the tribulations
of a mixed camp. The journeys to foreign parts however were co-ed without
any problems.
I recall one school camp at St.Audries Bay, near Watchet in
of course wonderful summer weather. Our site was in a field between the coast
road and low cliffs above the beach.
We must have gone to Somerset by coach, an uneventful
journey of which I remember nothing except that our kit was moved by horse and
cart from the road down a narrow track to the field beside the farm where a
line of bell tents had already been erected for us.
We had the luxury of palliases which we filled with straw
from the tumbledown buildings near the farmhouse and the cooking was done by
the school caretaker with a small amount of help from us on a rota basis. A few
cows were kept by the farmer and we were able to see the milk he supplied to us
hand milked into the pail.
Behind and above our camp on the other side of the road,
rose the warm late summer colours of the Quantock hills, an almost impenetrable
terrain of bracken and bilberries guaranteed to stain ones fingers and lips and
scratch ones knees to ribbons. We had time to wander on our own and there were
organised trips when we visited Dunster and walked to the top of Dunkery
Beacon.
The timeless stone cottages and ancient butter market of
Dunster were already an attraction to visitors but as boys we were too keen on
looking forward to really appreciate the glimpse back into the past that such
places are able to give us later in life. Exmoor’s wide vistas and stony ground
thatched with heather and berries were pure joy, the purples and crimsons of
the foliage stretching out through the sunshine to a distant hazy horizon and
the world at ones feet.
In our free time we wandered into the little town of
Watchet lying somnolent in the sunshine, seemingly untouched by tourism.
There was a corner shop selling sweets and buns, and Cydrax to refuel the inner
man for a walk into the hills. Watchet was minding its own business
around its tiny harbour where cargoes seemed to be black coal in and white
china clay out. There must have been a few holidaymakers about however because
one day we went by paddle steamer along the coast to Lynmouth where we
disembarked in small boats and had a day to explore and wade up the river
to Watersmeet. This was decades before the catastrophic flood destroyed
the town which had previously stood secure for centuries.
Nearly everyone who holidayed around Somerset visited
Lynmouth but the numbers were small and it was not crowded.
Back at St Audries Bay the beach is stony with grey rocks
and flat stones ideal for skimming the waves. The most interesting find was
that it abounded in fossils of spiral creatures up to a foot across, ammonites
I believe, which had been preserved when their nice grey slimy mud was pressed
into rock a few million years back.
Another boys only school trip took us youth hostelling to
the hostel at Millersdale in Derbyshire. There were about fifteen in the group
with two of three school stall including ‘Sammy’ Stewart one of the most
popular masters. He taught geography and seemed to be a member of nearly all
the journeys. We walked the hills and dales and went by train to Edale where
the station name board said ‘HOPE for Castleton’ though we never saw Castleton
as we walked away from Hope over the hills.
A visit to the Blue John Mine where blue fluorspar is mined
showed us something new in this glowing rock and in an underground trip by boat
through a low tunnel which led us to a cave where there is a hefty waterfall
from above which went down below us into the depths of that the guide told us
was a bottomless pit. At least it never filled up with water.
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 22nd SEPTEMBER
(Please note all spelling is British English)
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1737 - Birth: Edmund LAWS-13847, Lakenheath Norfolk England
1843 - Christen: Alice LAWES-13928, Kennington Surrey England
1843 - Christen: Alice LAWES-13928, Kennington Surrey England
1850 - Baptism: Sarah A LAWS-6550, Cawston Norfolk England
1888 - Birth: Maud Frances LAWS-19559,
1889 - Christen: Lily Maria LAWES-1272, Felthorpe Norfolk England
1900 - Birth: Barton B LAWS-13857, Carroll County Tennessee United States
1901 - Birth: Vera Alice May LAWS-3731, Ulmarra, New South Wales, Australia
1913 - Birth: Cora Louisa LAWS-24875,
1915 - Birth: Gladys Ivy Louvain LAWES-20983, Newport Isle of Wight England
1917 - Birth: Ludvick V LAWES-48756, (Printer)
1919 - Birth: Vera Ellen LAWS-36734,
MARRIAGES & Divorce
1817 - Marriage: Byham LAWS-10539 Gardener) and Martha BUSH-10540, Bucklesham Suffolk England
1839 - Marriage: James LAWS-6316 (Sailmaker) and Ann BESFORD-6317, (Gentlewoman) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1893 - Marriage: Augustus Alfred William LAWS-41660 (Stenographer, Canadian Army Private 42003) and Edith STATHER-41661, Islington Middlesex England
1923 - Marriage: William Frederick BARKSFIELD-21978 (Civil Servant) and Lily LAWS-21347, Walthamstow Essex England
1926 - Marriage: Harold Franklin LAIDLAW-43467 and Edith Hannah LAWS-7553, Brisbane Queensland Australia
DEATHSand Burials
1895 - Death: George Percival LAWES-21192, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England
1921 - Death: Loucetta J LAWS-30161, Carroll County Tennessee United States
1921 - Death: Loucetta J LAWS-30161, Carroll County Tennessee United States
1922 - Death: Minnie LAWS-19561, Osawatomie, Miami, Kansas United States
1922 - Death: Edward William LAWS-5438, (Postman) Middlesex England (St Bartholomew Hospital)
1927 - Death: Albert Worth LAWS (Letter Sorter G C Dug PO) -7356, South Tottenham Middlesex but burial East Winch Norfolk England
1957 - Death: Arthur LAWS-39286, Barnsley West Yorkshire England
1966 - Burial: Albert Leslie LAWES-27145,(Shipping Agent) Rawdon, Lanaudiere Region, Quebec, Canada
1971 - Death: Reginald Charles T LAWS-12940, (Australian Army & Sawmill Manager) Kempsey, Bundara New South Wales Australia
1975 - Burial: Matthew LAWS-16613 (PVT US Army), Houston, Harris County Texas United States
1982 - Death: Ulysses L LAWS-41798,
1992 - Death: Sandra LAWS-42147, Wellington New Zealand
1998 - Death: Kenneth Frederick LAWES-11869, Croydon Surrey England
2011 - Death: Bruce Alan LAWS-37680, Kalispell Arizona United States
2013 - Death: Buddy D LAWS-39434, Sterling Heights Michigan United States
2013 - Death: Portia E LAWS-39194, Bellview Illinois United States
1916 - Residence: Edwin Lawson LAWS-17319, (Wholesale Grocer & Provisions Merchant) City of London, England
1922 - Naturalization: Mary SWOFORD-41568, (Hardware Saleslady) Los Angeles California United States
1922 - Residence: Robert George LAWS-32463, (Stockbroker) Weston Super Mare Somerset England
1939 - Residence: Ann A SIM-48706, Ryde Isle of Wight England
1939 - Residence: Jean S ETTRIDGE-43165, Stepney Middlesex England
1939 - Residence: Dorothy A DEIGHTON-48617, Kingsland Middlesex England
1939 - Residence: Fred LAWS-15453, (Railway Shunter 5713 LNER) Peterborough Cambridgeshire England
1939 - Residence: George E LAWS-44335, (Builders Labourer) Peterborough Cambridgeshire England
1939 - Residence: Fred LAWS-36816, (Bricklayers Labourer & NewsAgent) Bradford West Yorkshire England
1939 - Residence: Albert Edward LAWS-38189, Slough Buckinghamshire England
1942 - Residence: Ada Louisa BENNETT-32466, Weston Super Mare Somerset England
1952 - Residence: Enid Mary LAWS-45830, Ventnor, Isle of Wight England
1957 - Residence: Arthur LAWS-39286, Wombwell West Yorkshire England
OTHER BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1876 - Birth: Emily Elizabeth KINGSHOTT-32787, St Pancras Middlesex England
1878 - Birth: Rose Anne CHAPMAN-20357, West Norwood Surrey England
1898 - Birth: Ethel Kate BROWN-33434,
1890 - Birth: John E KANE-12313,
1903 - Birth: Mary Elizabeth JACKSON-37716,
1917 - Birth: Vera E HEALEY-48626,
1913 - Marriage: Spalding NASSAN-21923 and Laura SEELEY-21917,
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1824 - Death: Elizabeth WILLIAMS-35876, Elizabeth City Virginia United States
1844 - Death: David CHARTERS-22011, Liverpool Lancashire England
1888 - Death: Ellen BATEMAN-9216, (Widow MORRISS)
1966 - Death: James Earl EVANS-38401, Chicago Illinois United States
1989 - Death: Bettina Mary CRANFIELD-20785, Ealing Middlesex England
1844 - Death: David CHARTERS-22011, Liverpool Lancashire England
1888 - Death: Ellen BATEMAN-9216, (Widow MORRISS)
1966 - Death: James Earl EVANS-38401, Chicago Illinois United States
1989 - Death: Bettina Mary CRANFIELD-20785, Ealing Middlesex England
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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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