Saturday 15th December 2018 - Number 3338

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Robert Henry Laws

1828-1891

My paternal great-grandfather

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All in 10,975 Places

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'A Child of the Twenties'

A suburban childhood of the Twenties 

As seen from the Nineteen Nineties

By 

John Robert Laws (1921-2008)

INNOVATION 1

PART 12

  The radio, which we called the wireless with a wry smile, it had more wires than any other previous domestic item, was now released from the tyranny of the accumulator as mains powered sets arrived. The voice from the trumpet of your loud speaker no longer started to fade as the battery power ran down. It is odd to think that a considerably later innovation the replacement of the valve by the transistor, brought back the rechargeable battery but in a small and convenient form.

With the plugging in of the new radios, the electric supply had started on its trail of removing chores from the household. The next arrival after the radio was the electric fire which rapidly penetrated into every home with electric supply and brought quick warmth. More flexible than the older gas fire was, it was even more useful before central heating became commonplace.

Following it up the front steps came the vacuum cleaner salesman, the first and probable the greatest beneficiary of the small electric motor in the domestic field, except the housewife of course. No longer were the clouds of dust raised as the bass broom worked its way down the stairs and through the hall to the back door. The volume of dirt in the house was reduced but the battle could not be won until the open coal fire was on the way out.

Somehow progress was slow with the electric cooker which did not really become controllable until my childhood was well into double figures. Gas and solid fuel cookers continued to spread dirt in the home but were the easiest and cheapest stoves to use and even now hold a material portion of the market.

The only other innovation to compare with electricity was the motor vehicle. It had been invented some thirty odd years before, but development and cost reduction took time, and I was about four years old when my father bought his first car, a bull nosed Morris, built like a tank but a troublesome beast.

It was 1925 and there were not a lot of cars on the road, the speed limit was 20 mph and although this lasted very little longer my dad managed to get fined for exceeding it before it was changed    

To be continued tomorrow

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               EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 15th December 

    

Family Events

BIRTHS and BAPTISMS   

1768 - Baptism: William LAWS-3387, (Master Mariner)  Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1801 - Birth: Jemima LAWS-40976, Norwich Norfolk England

1815 - Baptism: John  LAWS-13797, (Ag Lab) Hockwold Cum Wilton Norfolk England

1833 - Birth: Rachael LAWS-24910, (Widow) Ohio United States

1833 - Christen: Mary LAWS-2925, (Servant) Welches Dam Cambridgeshire England

1850 - Birth: Elizabeth LAWS-20749, (Widow) 

1858 - Birth: William Henry LAWS-33088, Cayuga, Haldimand Monk, Ontario Canada

1859 - Birth: James Edgar LAWS-40376, Jersey City Heights, New Jersey United States

1870 - Birth: Henry LAWES-49223, (Smallholder) Boreham Overton Wiltshire England

1874 - Birth: Sarah Helon LAWS-41471, 

1878 - Baptism: Henrietta Lisette Amelia Verity LAWS-46011, Stockwell Surrey England

1883 - Birth: Albert LAWES-45130, (Finnisher at Paper Mill) Fordingbridge Hampshire                       England

1891 - Birth: Roswell LAWS-16796, (PVT US Army) 

1899 - Birth: Richard LAWS-49288, (Coal Miner / Coal Sorter)

1900 - Birth: William LAWS-44711, (Meat Carrier in Meat Market)  

1904 - Birth: Benjamin LAWS-42729, (Docker)  

1906 - Birth: Cecil John William LAWS-38002, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1910 - Birth: William G LAWS-47711, (Coal Porter) 

1910 - Birth: George Arthur Miller LAWS-23981,  (Dock Labourer) Hull East Yorkshire                       England

1912 - Birth: Septimus LAWS-38483, 

1917 - Birth: John Raymond LAWS-49662, Chester, Crawford Arkansas United States

1919 - Birth: George LAWS-45069, (Builders Labourer) 

MARRIAGES

1788 - Marriage: William LAWS-11189 and Darkis BAILEY-11194, 

1850 - Marriage: John James MILLINGTON-18045 and Jane LAWS-18044, City of London,               England

1851 - Marriage: Robert Green Edward LAWES-1001 (Hackney Cab Driver) and 
           Eliza NASH-1002, Saint Pancras Middlesex England

1885 - Marriage: William Henry LAWS-33088 and Annie Fannie CLAUS-33089, 
           Louth Township, Lincoln County, Ontario

1892 - Marriage: James Marion LAWS-30471 and Effie PRINCE-30482, Weakley County,                    Tennessee United States

1918 - Marriage: Ernest Alfred LAWS-21518 (Foreman Sawyer)  and Ivy Victoria JENKIN-                 49446, London England

1923 - Marriage: Emil J DITTMER-40419 and Penelope E LAWS-40418, El Paso Texas 
           United States

DEATHS and BURIALS

1866 - Burial: Stephen Thomas LAWS-35092, Hornsey Middlesex England

1878 - Burial: Albert Victor Emanuel LAWS-35559, Middlesbrough North Yorkshire England

1904 - Burial: William Henry LAWS-35093, Lambeth Surrey England

1908 - Death: Martina Catherine LAWES-2251, (Widow) Hellington Norfolk England

1916 - Death: Percy Fleming  (Blacksmiths Striker) Mesopotania (Iraq)

1918 - Death: Minnie Dora LAWS-23020, Greyrock Community, Franklin county, Texas 

           United States

1925 - Burial: Mary Ann LAWS-36419, Wareham Dorset England

1931 - Death: Francis LAWES-180, (Carman) Frilford Berkshire England

1932 - Death: Thomas William LAWS-7975, Aston Warwickshire England

1936 - Death: Walter LAWS-5412, (Sweeper/Labourer) Plaistow Essex England

1943 - Death: Ronald K LAWS-43084, Greene County, Tennessee United States

1945 - Death: William Guy LAWS-19353, Boulder Colorao United States

1951 - Death: Ivy May LAWS-16097 (Spinster), Saint Marylebone Middlesex England but                     resided at Ilford Essex England

1972 - Burial: Henry Alfred Lloyd LAWES-20976, (Insurance Clerk) Worthing Sussex England

1980 - Death: John Burnett LAWS-10955, (Company Director) Truro Cornwall England

1986 - Death: William Mason LAWS-42119, 

2009 - Cremation: Paul LAWS-33130, Weston Super Mare Somerset England

2010 - Death: John Robert LAWS-45264, Ballymena Antrim Northern Ireland

OTHER BIRTHS

1818 - Birth: Frances Vanessa SMITH-22342, (Silk Weaver)  Norwich Norfolk England

1867 - Birth: Thomas William KNOWLER-25325, Staple Kent England

1895 - Birth: Rose Catherine Alice JAMES-38209, Wokingham Berkshire England

1897 - Birth: Annie WATSON-31232, 

1912 - Birth: Albert Edward WARWICK-41324, Saint Pancras Middlesex England

1915 - Birth: Grace ALDOUS-21946, Norwich Norfolk England

1918 - Birth: Ellen Alice PARKER-36719, 

OTHER MARRIAGES 

1888 - Marriage: William HAWKINS-23852 (Widowed Paper Maker) and Madeline                               ORMSTON-21065, Sunderland Durham England

OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS

1684 - Will Proved: Leonard MATON-12064,(Reverend Vicar of Durrington 
           Wiltshire England)  

1861 - Death: Maria MCMINN-7092, Kirkmabreck Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland

1951 - Death: Lillian WILLIAMSON-36037, Manchester Lancashire England

1954 - Death: William A FICKLIN-46575, 

1964 - Death: Elizabeth Leah TORR-8624, Townsville Queensland Australia

1989 - Death: May Louise COOPER-BLOOM-10777, Stockton-On-Tees Durham England

1998 - Death: Theodore Melton LUND-49413, Stanwood, Snohomish County, Washington.                     United States

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 PLEASE NOTE  GDPR (2018) PRIVACY TERMS

We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy. 

We only show births before 1920 and marriages before 1940. 

If you are interested in anyone listed here, email us with the name, dates and reference number, and we will happily do a lookup. 

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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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