Sunday 2nd September 2018 - Number 3234

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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 11.

INOVATION Part 1.

 The twenties and early thirties were a period of innovation in the home, discoveries made in earlier decades started to come to fruition as household hardware, and consumer durables started to flow into the home. It was only the first wave of course; the flood was released after the war onto the earlier infrastructure.

The first innovation in my world was the gramophone which ousted the piano-player largely on account of size, I suspect as the reproduction from the brittle single-sided records was less than good.

We must have missed a couple of stages in this development, as I did not see a cylinder playing phonograph, until friend produced one from a junk shop, a year or two later. Nor do I remember a Gramophone with a big horn on top, ours had the horn hidden away in its polished woodwork, and the only music from it which struck a chord in my memory was Toseelli’s Serenade.

The radio seems to have come at the same time as the gramophone, not true of course, but a childhood impression. The crystal set was impressive hardware then, even if the output that came through the earphones all the way from Daventry was erratic, and to me, uninteresting. Fiddling with the ‘cats whisker’ to try and coax the best reception from the as of yet, untamed crystal was much more to my taste.

The crystal set was not with us long; soon battery powered sets with varying numbers of mysterious glowing thermionic valves took over with better reception and more to go wrong. Aerial poles sprouted at the foot of most gardens, harbingers of the later ugly skyline rash of TV aerials.

Two batteries were needed to work these sets, a large HT battery which just wore out, and had to be replaced and a lead-acid accumulator which had to be recharged at the shop down the road, all this power made the use of a loudspeaker possible. It stood on top of the cabinet housing all the bits and its curly metal horn was now really audible.

For me, change began with the coming of electric light, just the tip of the innovation iceberg as the electric supply network built up. In with the electric light came the electric points as we called the outlets, only one in a room to start with just for a reading lamp perhaps. 

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 2nd SEPTEMBER

Please note spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1669 - Christen: John LAWES-1054, West Acre Norfolk England

1804 - Christen: Matthew LAWS-7283, South Shields, Durham, England

1813 - Birth: Elizabeth LAWS-23089, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1849 - Birth: David LAWS-3787, (Ag Lab)  Tivetshall St Mary Norfolk England

1857 - Christen: Isabella LAWS-6780, South Creake Norfolk England

1866 - Birth: Dudley LAWS-11359, Carroll County Tennessee United States

1874 - Birth: Maud   LAWS-47403, (Private Means) 

1881 - Birth: Edward C LAWS-44232, (Farmer) 

1882 - Birth: Emma J  LAWS-44875, 


1888 - Baptism: Alfred LAWES-28588, (Farrier) Greenwich Kent England

1893 - Birth: Margaret Lucy JURY-22563, Torquay Devonshire England

1897 - Birth: Jesse Alfred LAWS-46064, (Farmer) North Carolina United States

1897 - Birth: Ernest LAWES-16618, (PFC US Army) 

1898 - Birth: Leonard Barrow LAWS-15524, (Insurance Clerk)  

1906 - Birth: Archibald W LAWES-48890, (Farm Carter) 

1909 - Birth: Nannie E LAWS-20592, 


1911 - Birth: Matthew LAWS-28387,

1913 - Birth: Olive LAWS-25342, Malanda Queensland

MARRIAGES

1644 - Marriage: Henry LAWES-1165 (Composer) and Elizabeth DALLY-1160, St.James Clerkenwell London Middlesex England

1816 - Marriage: James LAWS-3775 (Hand Loom Weaver)  and Elizabeth CROWE-3776, Norwich Norfolk England

1874 - Marriage: Charles Nathaniel LAWS-16282 and Jane WOOD-16283, Hamilton 
County Florida United States

1889 - Marriage: Henry DENT-29602 (Coal Miner) and Annie LAWS-5637, (Scholar) Durham Durham England

1895 - Marriage: Henry Samuel LAWES-11433 (Tram Driver)  and Harriett LAWRENCE-11431, Kentish Town both resided in Westminster Middlesex England

1930 - Marriage: John MCGHIE-24530 and Marjorie Gertrude LAWES-24529, Bargoed Glamorganshire Wales

DEATHS

1839 - Death: Ann LAWS-2928 (Infant) Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1870 - Death: Joseph LAWS-3509, (Farmer 48 Acres)  Stratton Strawless Norfolk England

1894 - Death: Jane Elizabeth Fanny LAWS-25347, Laidley Queensland Australia

1896 - Death: Robert LAWS-46827, (House Painter) 

1912 - Death: Newton Colman LAWS-19796, Caldwell Idaho United States

1913 - Death: Henry LAWS-6269, (Tailor) Fincham Norfolk England

1918 - Death: Marjorie A G LAWES-31300, Auburn New South Wales Australia

1919 - Death: James LAWS-28976, (Butcher) Eugowra/Reedy Creek, New South Wales Australia

1925 - Death: Charles LAWS-5142, Pelaw Durham England

1937 - Death: James Milton LAWS-19501, (Farmer) Lebo, Coffey Kansas United States

1944 - Death: William Ronald LAWS-22359, (ARMY Driver 14404060)  

1967 - Death: Phyllis LAWS-20511, 

MISCELLANEOUS

1853 - Residence: Mary BOWERS-13793, Brandon Suffolk England

1853 - Immigration: Robert LAWS-6674, (Prisoner at Hockwold Norfolk England) 

1853 - Immigration: Mary Ann LAWS-6349,  (8 mths old) 

1912 - Admon: Sarah ROBINSON-40450, 

OTHER BIRTHS

1834 - Birth: Charles POPPY-15851, Halesworth Suffolk England

1881 - Birth: Rose Harriett FORD-13615, Bungay Suffolk England

1915 - Birth: Phyllis M BECKET-42665, 

OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1819 - Burial: Grace TYNDALL-14153, Torpenhow Cumberland England

1828 - Death: William PEEL-21433,


1928 - Death: Hugh Walter DICKSON-3649, (Engraver)  Rosemount, Osage County Kansas United States

1954 - Death: Ellen Frances Ada MOORE-39183, Southampton Hampshire England

1956 - Death: Eliza Sarah DRAY-29376, Newtown New South Wales Australia

1974 - Death: Walter WEBBER-14165, (Chemists Assistant)  Lancaster Lancashire England

2007 - Death: Francis B CRIBBETT-40498, Newton Abbot Devonshire 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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