Sunday 9th September 2018 - Number 3241

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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 17.

 SCHOOLS & EDUCATION

Before long we graduated to pen and ink writing in exercise books with inky fingers, scratchy pens and ink blots. Ink was still king, and the ballpoint easy scribble pen was still twenty years ahead.

School dinners were also twenty years in the future. All kids walked home for their dinners and back for the afternoon school. School milk started however in my first year or two at school. The little third of a pint bottle turned up in the morning break and there was much bubbling noise as the last drop was sucked up through the straws.

On the other side of the road from school was the Primitive Methodist church where I went, reluctantly and intermittently, to Sunday school. Mum and Dad did not go to church, but Sunday school was the thing in those days, so I went for a while though they did not insist when I opted out.

All that sticks in my mind is a Harvest Festival where I had been inveigled into reading a poem about a windmill. It was the only time I saw my mother in a church until I got married.

When we moved into junior section of the Elementary School, the horizons of our lessons broadened to include history, geography & some science. There was now an objective in front of us, the entrance exam for the Grammar school, which were themselves the first step towards better paid jobs further ahead.

Classes were now divided by ability into A, B and C and school reports began to arrive, largely designed I suspect simply to prod all and sundry to greater effort. I believe the teaching must have been good though it was a bit double edged for me. The first year in Grammar school had nearly all been done before and the need to work faded.

At the elementary school there was no sports field but we managed to have a Sports Day at a ground near Muswell Hill. How everyone got there remains a mystery, but the sun shone, there were sack races, egg and spoon races, and a mums races and a good time was had by all.

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 9th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1716 - Christen: James LAWES-2052, Portsmouth Hampshire England

1837 - Birth: Benjamin Palmer LAWS-3373,(Coachmaker)  Costessey Norfolk England

1838 - Birth: Louis LAWS-40674, North Carolina United States

1855 - Baptism: George Charles LAWS-8668, Norwich Norfolk England

1871 - Birth: Treen Hunt LAWES-3170, (Cab Driver & Furniture Dealer)

1872 - Birth: Frederick W LAWES-464, (Bricklayer) Chertsey Surrey England

1881 - Birth: Aaron LAWS-4300, (Ag Lab)  Littleport Cambridgeshire England

1887 - Birth: Hyden Mary Sophia LAWS-30147, Welney Cambridgeshire England

1888 - Birth: Herbert Miller LAWS-11927, (Dock Lab & ARMY Private 4348537 former Ag Lab) Hull East Yorkshire England

1890 - Birth: Eva Emily LAWS-13929 (Seamstress) Hilgay Norfolk England

1896 - Birth: Gordon William LAWES-38468,

1906 - Birth: Colin Chamberlain LAWS-12898, (Australian Army)  Brisbane Queensland Australia

1909 - Birth: Leslie Charles LAWS-34891,  (Milkman) Chelsea Middlesex England

1901 - Birth: Elsie LAWES-48740, (Cafe Manageress)

1898 - Birth: John Claude Bennett LAWES-229, Magill, Norwood South Australia Australia

1911 - Birth: Leo Vernon LAWS-16758, (PVT US Army)

1912 - Birth: Arthur Robert LAWS-42672, (Ag Lab)

1914 - Birth: Edward G LAWS-44696, (Brewery Fermentor)

1914 - Birth: Robert William LAWS-31883,

1917 - Birth: Evelyn H LAWS-43879, (Shorthand Typist)

MARRIAGES

1793 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-5572 and Ann FOX-5573, Norwich Norfolk England

1846 - Marriage: Alfred (Shopkeeper & Beerhouse) LAWS-4263 and Sarah WILSON-4264, Stradbroke Suffolk England

1929 - Marriage: Ernest William LAWS-15899 (Fireman NFS) and Maud Kathleen WATTS-17214, Ipswich Suffolk England

1939 - Marriage: Edwin Kingsley LAWS-17292 (Reverend)  and Kirstie DUNDAS-31460,

DEATHS 

1891 - Death: John Williams LAWS-4566, (Retired Grocer/Esq)  Brixton Surrey England

1899 - Burial: Samuel LAWS-24141, (Lab/Widower) Litcham Norfolk England

1921 - Death: Fremont LAWS-25130, Hammond, Lake County. Indiana  United States

1936 - Death: Ralph LAWS-20542,

1937 - Death: Percy Robert George LAWES-1238 (RN 168394 CPO / Coastguard), Clifton North Yorkshire buried Scarborough North Yorkshire England

1950 - Death: Tom LAWS-36631 (Railway Platelayer) Yaxley Huntingdonshire England

1958 - Death: Meda LAWS-30376,

1959 - Death: Gilbert P LAWS-16709, (Sgt US Army) 

1976 - Death: Miriam LAWES-45933, Cardiff Glamorgan Wales

1977 - Death: Steven Ray LAWS-30422, Lake Cumberland, Pulaski County, Kentucky United States

1982 - Death: Lily Maria LAWES-1272, Ingestre Staffordshire England

1985 - Death: Elizabeth Mary LAWS-14555, Croydon Park, New South Wales Australia

1991 - Death: Betty Jean LAWS-43028,

1996 - Death: Duane Monroe LAWS-47181, (PFC US Army Korea)  Reno, Washoe County Nevada United States but burial Fernley, Lyon County, Nevada United States

2003 - Residence: Judy LAWS-13090, Pennsylvania United States

2016 - Cremation: Henry Freeman LAWS-43294, Milngarvie Dunbartonshire Scotland

MISCELLANEOUS

1856 - Occupation: Edward LAWS-27165,  (Steward on Ship "TELEGRAPH"

1939 - Residence: Olive Mary BROTHERTON-48849, Darley North Yorkshire England

1942 - Military: Jake M LAWS-16688, (PVT US Army)

OTHER BIRTHS

1804 - Birth: Catherine BLENKINSOPP-32658,

1869 - Birth: Edmund GRIMANI-32374 (Scenic Artist) , Deptford Kent England

1890 - Birth: Elsie Louisa BENNETT-40855, Pancras Middlesex England

1892 - Birth: Mahala F GENTRY-49653, Armada, Crawford Arkansas United States

1896 - Birth: Ivy B BARNET-33429, Greenwich Kent England

1904 - Birth: Stanley F BRIGHAM-48100, (TGWU Trade Union Officer)

1911 - Birth: Jacob Albie SIMMONS-33292,

OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1787 - Death: Mary Anne or Anne EASTMURE-3384, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1875 - Death: William WESTLAKE-23176, Mile End Middlesex England

1882 - Death: William BOGGAN-8078, (Miner)  Ballarat Victoria Australia

1951 - Death: Annie DOBSON-32271, Ponteland Northumberland England

1955 - Death: Alma Amelia KIPLING-38989, Rochford Essex resided at Hadleigh Essex 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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