Tuesday 11th September 2018 - Number 3243

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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 19.

 SCHOOLS & EDUCATION 2

Within the schools, competition and achievement were what mattered and although the arts and manual skills were not ignored any more than games, there was never a thought that these had in any way the importance of the academic subjects.

The Grammar school was based on a large house, or small mansion set in substantial grounds converted to playing fields. A purpose built extension doubled the number of rooms and included proper lab facilities. This also provided a large assembly hall with a good stage as well as a separate gymnasium and woodwork and domestic science rooms.

The ‘old building’ as it was known would have been a wonderful home in its day, it dated from the early nineteenth century, and sat in a high position looking out over the lower land of the Lea Valley, a sea of houses by the thirties but a green and pleasant land in earlier days.

It was basically a two storey house but with a complete basement half sunk in the ground below it, and an attic storey half in the roof above.

The grand front door led into a circular foyer before giving access to the central hallway where the circular theme continued with a grand staircase to the first floor.  This did not go on up to the servants quarters above, which were served by a small spiral stone stairway which went from the basement to attics. There were perhaps ten rooms large enough to serve as main classrooms with a number of others used as a library, staff rooms, studies etc.

The basement still contained a kitchen and its main area was used as a dining room for the twenty or thirty pupils who lived some miles away and were allowed the privilege of school dinners.

This part of the basement also served as a music room if the main hall or stage were unavailable. A separate building near the main gate which had probably served as a stable block had been made into two physics labs with an art room above. There was no sign of the stables or coach house; their site may have been covered by the ample bike sheds, the school bus not having been invented. Alongside the bike sheds was a dovecot up on staddle stones, no longer the home of doves, it was probably used as a store by the two groundsmen who kept the playing field as immaculate as the gardens, which no doubt kept by a team of gardeners before them.

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 11th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1664 - Christen: Elizabeth LAWES-400, Upwell Norfolk England

1808 - Baptism: Michael LAWES-273, Costessey Norfolk England

1825 - Baptism: Sophia LAWS-6214, Stratton Strawless Norfolk England

1835 - Baptism: George Henry LAWS-4559, Southwark Surrey England

1847 - Birth: John William LAWS-26480, (Turncock)  St GHS Middlesex England

1856 - Birth: William John Munday LAWS-19599, Chertsey Surrey England

1862 - Birth: John LAWS-45785, (Shipwright)

1862 - Birth: Frederick LAWS-4321, (Brickworks Labourer) Sproughton Suffolk England

1877 - Birth: Annie LAWS-44426,


1877 - Birth: William Edward LAWS-5651, (Railway Signalman)  Chilton Durham England

1889 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-3994, (Miner) Murton Durham England

1895 - Birth: Arthur Henry LAWES-22253, (Royal Navy Able Seaman SS/4964) Salisbury, Wiltshire England

1896 - Birth: Rosa Helen Bullard LAWS-38943, Sydenham Kent England

1901 - Birth: James A LAWES-48592

1903 - Birth: Archibald LAWES-32009, (Transport Manager Furniture Removals) Lambeth Surrey England

1904 - Birth: Ethel LAWS-37163, Texas, United States

1906 - Birth: Edwin Kingsley LAWS-17292, (Reverend) Penarth Glamorgan Wales

1909 - Birth: Una Maude LAWS-37208, Calcutta INDIA

1914 - Birth: Olive A C LAWES-45101, (Private Secretary - Co-op)  

1916 - Birth: Phyllis LAWS-20511,

MARRIAGES

1580 - Marriage: Anthony LAWES-2764 and Katherine RIDDELL-2765, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1794 - Marriage: William LAWS-40340 and Sarah BARNES-40341, Lambeth Surrey England

1808 - Marriage: John LAWES-326 and Mary OLIVER-336, Breamore Hampshire England

1811 - Marriage: William LAWS-36546 and Sarah WRAIGHT-9486, Goodnestone Kent England

1879 - Marriage: John BRAWLEY-38383 and Martha LAWS-38382, Parker County Texas United States

1879 - Marriage: John A LAWS-19373 and Carrie A FLACK-19374, Shelby Missouri United States

1912 - Marriage: Frederick Alfred LAWES-36051 and Rose Etta Lucy JAMES-29873, 

1929 - Marriage: Edward Victor LAWS-20139 (Housing Managing Clerk)  and Edith CHITTY-40401, Bramley Surrey England

DEATHS 

1853 - Burial: George LAWS-43141, Walcot, Bath Somerset England

1870 - Death: John Graves LAWES-2174,  (Boot & Shoe Maker)

1907 - Death: Ida May LAWS-20564,


1907 - Burial: Edith Hannah LAWS-7553, Dutton Park, Brisbane Queensland Australia

1919 - Death: Ann LAWS-6714, (Spinster) Walthamstow Essex England

1939 - Death: Nathan LAWS-20593,

1971 - Death: Myrtie Asbury LAWS-22506, Carroll County Massachusetts United States

1982 - Death: Johanna LAWS-17052, Drummoyne, New South Wales Australia

2006 - Death: Norma LAWS-35685,


2006 - Death: Stephen Dexter LAWS-23298, Stanley North Carolina United States

MISCELLANEOUS

1914 - Enlistment: Matthew Smith LAWS-28859, (ARMY 16658)  Wallsend Northumberland England

1914 - Enlistment: John LAWS-28836, (ARMY Private 12401) North Shields Northumberland England

OTHER BIRTHS

1817 - Baptism: Robert CHARTERS-14187,  (Joiner & Innkeeper) Torpenhow Cumberland England

1856 - Birth: Edwin George WEBBER-30889, (House Furnisher's Manager) Sion Road, Bristol Gloucestershire England

1895 - Birth: George SKINN-28676, (Miner)  Leeds West Yorkshire England

1901 - Birth: Rhoda HAMILTON-28345, Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire England

1913 - Birth: Doris Kathleen SILK-45429, (Provisions Saleswoman) Peckham Surrey England

 OTHER MARRIAGES 

1795 - Marriage: John MCMINN-12430 (Mill Mechanic)  and Mary LAPHROAIG-21792, Muirkirk Ayrshire Scotland

OTHER DEATHS

1895 - Death: Jannet KENNEDY-38633, Lower Stewiacke, Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada

1920 - Death: Sarah E HOLMES-25085, Syracuse New York United States

1963 - Death: Roy McIntosh BENSTED-11536,

1972 - Death: Rachel Emeline MILLER-36114, Graham, Alamance Co North Carolina United States

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

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