Tuesday 18th September 2018 - Number 3249

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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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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 26.


Wanderers

Here we would have some rooms or latterly a house and we would stay for a month, though my father had only a fortnight of holiday and was only with us at weekends the rest of the time. We used to have a beach hut near the pier and would swim in the icy North Sea in blazing sunshine. It must have been here that I learnt to swim, taught by my mother, tuition later reinforced and widened by lessons at school. 

There was a stone-built breakwater in front of the beach huts and with the run of the tide along the coast, there was deep water on one side and sand at the water’s edge on the other.  Facing the deep side was a platform diving board and a springboard where one could display a considerable lack of skill combined with great enjoyment.

The deep water was only there at the high tide of course, and so the tides controlled the way the day was spent. In the youngest bucket and spade days low water was in demand but once I could swim strongly it had to be high tide. Not far from the diving boards, rafts were anchored to give a point to swim to and even sit on, The young cannot sit still however and so it was climb out and dive back in again and swim back to base to start again.

It was never crowded at Walton. Holidaymakers were squeezed off most of the beaches at high tide but there were soon big stretches of smooth virgin sand again and on one of these, a beach artist would claim a large pitch well overlooked from the promenade.    He would draw his pictures on the hard damp sand and set his hat to catch the pennies thrown from the prom. Perhaps he doubled as a pavement artist in the winter. 

The un-crowded beaches were ideal for flying kites and even permitted the continuous swinging of a tethered tennis ball hung on long elastic between a pair of poles. On one holiday I remember a less space consuming toy was rampant, the yoyo, and these spinning discs on strings were in every hand rising and falling, spinning and circling to show off the skill of the owner.

South of the pier was the sunniest part of the cliffs and here and there, were tiers of beach huts rising behind the prom from which one could watch the world go by or change for a swim. The beach hut was not only for swimming from but also for sitting in the sun sheltered from the east coast wind, very rarely for sheltering from the rain, and for making tea and eating snacks and ice cream. 

I was much better at eating than the sitting but would sometimes stay and watch the sailing barges gliding serenely along the coast, their big red sails filled with the east wind. It was not so funny for them when it really blew hard. Distress flares would go up with a noisy boom and the lifeboat went out from its anchorage by the end of the pier. Even in the summer of holiday time, this was not all that unusual.

                                     

As well as sailing barges there were paddle steamers which called at the end of the pier. These came from Tower Bridge by way of Southend on Sea, and then sailed away into the far distance north to unknown Yarmouth perhaps. These were best watched from the end of the pier itself where the bump could be felt as ropes were thrown and contact made with the big paddle wheels churning in reverse. On the pier too, there was entertainment. The man who rode a bike off the high diving board was always worth watching, but the children’s concerts were pretty corny, even for kids. 

                                           

As well as sailing barges there were paddle steamers which called at the end of the pier. These came from Tower Bridge by way of Southend-on-Sea and then sailed away into the far distance north to unknown Yarmouth perhaps.                                        

These were best watched from the end of the pier itself where the bump could be felt as ropes were thrown and contact made with the big paddle wheels churning in reverse. On the pier too there was entertainment. The man who rode a bike off the high diving board was always worth watching, but the children’s concerts were pretty corny, even for kids.

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 17th SEPTEMBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

BIRTHS 

1760 - Christen: Stephen LAWES-30, Knights Enham Hampshire England

1764 - Baptism: Joseph LAWS-25749, Tarrant Hinton Dorset England

1814 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-6554, (Farmer 196 acres & 3 men)  Tanfield Durham England

1827 - Christen: Sarah LAWS-3480, Folkestone Kent England

1831 - Baptism: Edward Kent LAWS-14273, Clapham Surrey England

1849 - Birth: George Robert  LAWS-5883, (Grocer) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1853 - Baptism: Elizabeth Susannah LAWS-4577, Norwich Norfolk England

1857 - Birth: Margaret LAWS-3790, Tivetshall St Mary Norfolk England

1858 - Birth: William C LAWS-47725,(Monument Attendant Retired/Widower) 

1859 - Birth: William Charles LAWS-7880, (Library Attendant) 

1861 - Birth: Harry LAWES-48718, (Single OAP)

1881 - Baptism: Frederick Harry LAWS-16358, (Ag Lab) Litcham Norfolk England

1882 - Birth: Reuben William LAWS-4489, (Warehouseman)  South Shields, Durham, England

1884 - Birth: William Robert LAWS-49780,

1893 - Birth: Thomas E LAWS-44930 (Iron Works Labourer)

1898 - Birth: John Frederick LAWES-14517, (Labourer) (Mayor of Bath?)  Cardiff Glamorgan Wales
1904 - Birth: Alexander Trevor LAWS-10490, New Zealand

1915 - Birth: Grace J LAWS-44325, (Shop Assistant)

1919 - Birth: Francis Jack LAWS-44998, (Apprentice Constructional Engineering Draughtsman)

MARRIAGES

1636 - Marriage: Edward LAWES-1578 and Ellen BETTS-1579, Ranworth Norfolk England

1764 - Marriage: James LAWS-3383 (Innkeeper & Agent for London Trades) and Mary Anne or Anne EASTMURE-3384, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1807 - Marriage: Samuel HATSELL-8101 and Elizabeth LAWS-7369, Dymchurch Kent England

1851 - Marriage: John A LAWS-23273 and Eliza MORRISSEY-25131, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Michigan United States

1887 - Marriage: William LAWS-11707 (Grocer & General Labourer)  and Eliza Jane GRUNDY-11706, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1931 - Marriage: Ashley LEONARD-8156 (Brickyard Labourer)  and Ivy Frances LAWS-5465, Pluckley Kent England

DEATHS 

1611 - Death: William LAWS-34567,

1857 - Death: John Henry LAWS-8034, (Master Mariner)

1889 - Death: Jane LAWS-31567, (Laundress)  Lambeth Surrey England

1918 - Death: A C LAWES-22159, (ARMY Private 205237) 

1931 - Death: Charles Henry LAWES-955, Hersham Surrey England

 1932 - Death: Reva Merle LAWS-46230, Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, USA

1935 - Death: Minnie LAWES-731, Orsett Essex England

1940 - Death: William LAWS-34921, Whitley Bay Northumberland England

1944 - Death: Albert William LAWES-39032, Mauchline Ayrshire Scotland but Residence: Wallingford Berkshire England

1944 - Death: Caroline Gowler LAWS-10726, Peterborough Cambridgeshire England

1948 - Death: Julia Jane LAWS-49485, Croydon, New South Wales Australia

1957 - Death: Edgar Horace LAWS-25048, Sydney New South Wales Australia

1966 - Death: Albert Leslie LAWES-27145, (Shipping Agent)

1975 - Death: Charles William Griffiths LAWS-3709, (Teacher)  Hurlstone Park, Belmore
New South Wales Australia

1990 - Burial: Vaughn David LAWS-16810, (S1C US Navy) Salisbury South Australia Australia

1998 - Death: Adele Marie LAWES-24924, Napoleonville, Assumption County, LO United States

1998 - Death: Sidney Francis H LAWS-14589, Erskineville New South Wales Australia

2003 - Death: Ronald Jack LAWES-46693,

2007 - Death: Billie Reeves LAWS-26611, (SFC Ret) Newport VA United States

2014 - Cremation: Frederick S LAWS-40235, (Apprenticed Fitter)  Ipswich Suffolk England

MISCELLANEOUS

1914 - Enlistment: Benjamin LAWS-22180, (ARMY Private 16569) 

OTHER BIRTHS

1803 - Birth: Mary DOUGLAS-37802, Scotland

1845 - Birth: Harriet WALES-5662, Middlesex England (St George in the East)

1891 - Birth: Lucy Cordelia JOHNSON-13805, Diaz, Galeana, Chihuahua Mexico

1892 - Birth: Mary GOLDING-36020, Whitchurch Hampshire England

1905 - Birth: Catherine S HOWARD-42449 (Married Hop-Picker)

 OTHER MARRIAGES 

OTHER DEATHS

1790 - Death: Henry Frederick DUKE OF CUMBERLAND AND STRATHEARN-4631, 
Kent England

1819 - Death: Cassandra JAY-20326, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England

1859 - Burial: Julianna Alexandriana MCMINN-22006, Torpenhow Cumberland England

1882 - Death: Elizabeth WHYMENT-9217, Lutterworth Leicestershire England (St Mary the Virgin)

1937 - Death: Sarah Margaret TIPTON-25470, Yancy Co North Carolina United States

1995 - Death: Augusta KING-26926, Burnsville, Yancy Co, North Carolina United States

2003 - Death: Mary Frances Katherine PHILLIPS-12645, Birch Run Mississippi 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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