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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1891
My paternal great-grandfather
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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)
IN THE BEGINNING
PART 6
Ornaments abounded and on the sideboard were an Epergne for fruit and flowers and a couple of silver plate and glass urns which never contained anything. More useful was the plated silver stand to hold the soda syphon and the plated vegetable dishes sitting on the long lace cloth. 'Cleaning the plate' was a regular chore, and but one of many labour intensive housekeeping of those days. There was, of course, a heavy mahogany dining table and half a dozen chairs for the main purpose of the room. Apart from mealtimes, a dark crimson Chenille tablecloth with a fancy fringe all round covered the table and in the middle stood another Epergne, plated and just for flowers this time.
Last, but not least, the obligatory aspidistra sat in a magnificent state of growth on ornately carved ebony stand in the window bay, its pot enclosed by a handsome china jardinière of deep blue and white. From this window, at dusk, the lamplighter could be seen on his rounds lighting the gas street lights one by one with a long pole he carried over his shoulder.
There seemed to be a wider range of people then than there are now. There was no question of or concept of equality. To me, my Mum was all important but to everyone, Dad was 'The Boss’ and this nickname was used all the time between mother and her helper Lottie the maid.
Lottie was a sort of auntie to me, having been part of the family longer than I had. This help was much needed by my mother not only, on account of the housework but because catastrophe had struck my parents when my sister Mary had suffered brain damage, as a complication of meningitis. This happened at about the age, of three, after which there was no further mental progress although she grew up physically but totally dumb.
Standards of living then were much lower, but in this respect, we were fortunate, though everyone worked hard. It is my belief that most people were as happy then as now, except where poverty and illness coincided.
It is the pressures of daily life that makes for unhappiness, and these were just different. In many ways, it is the small comforts and conveniences that we would miss if we had to step back in time.
We did not have swarms of relations; the Victorian habit of enormous families had gone just in time. There were two maiden aunts, my father’s sisters, who lived together in the bottom part of a house off West Green Road. They worked in garment manufacture and their smallish rooms were crammed with too large furniture inherited from my grandparents of the true Victorian era, who I never knew. Some of it would be museum pieces now.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 9th December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1770 - Birth: William LAWS-29313, Necton Norfolk England
1804 - Baptism: John LAWS-19952,
1817 - Birth: Robert LAWS-26450, (Stone Mason) Egton North Yorkshire England
1827 - Birth: Rebecca LAWS-22897, Whitechapel Middlesex England
1827 - Birth: John Anderson LAWS-20341, (Farmer) Monroe Co. Tennessee United States
1857 - Birth: Richard LAWES-22962,
1867 - Birth: Albert LAWS-8979, (Errand Boy) Gloucester Gloucestershire England
1880 - Birth: Edmund Percival LAWES-9472, (Grandson RN 192153) Donhead St Mary Wiltshire England
1888 - Birth: Arthur Stanley LAWS-11909, Croydon Surrey England
1890 - Birth: Hector Leslie Gunton LAWS-48864, (Australian ARMY V364820) Prahran Victoria Australia
1892 - Birth: Gerald LAWS-43346, (Carpenter)
1892 - Birth: David LAWES-31982, (Farm Foreman) Sutton St James Lincolnshire England
1892 - Birth: Christian George William LAWS-29787, Welney Cambridgeshire England
1892 - Birth: Gerald LAWS-3005, (Farmer & Canadia Army Private 106358) Ebchester Durham England
1893 - Birth: Albert Clifford LAWS-34200, (RNSailor, Chef, Bell Telephone) Leytonstone Essex England
1896 - Birth: Ethel LAWES-35266,
1896 - Birth: John William LAWS-17302, Penshaw Durham England
1899 - Birth: Charles Henry Wickham LAWES-11608, (New South Wales Cricket Team) Cobar,
New South Wales Australia
1913 - Birth: Georgina LAWS-21290, Hull East Yorkshire England
1916 - Birth: Doris E LAWS-46764, (Fancy Leather Worker)
1916 - Birth: Frank Ernest LAWS-35546, (Printers Labourer)
1920 - Birth: Arthur LAWS-3828, (Van Driver) Anlaby East Yorkshire England
MARRIAGES
1802 - Marriage: Thomas LAWS- (Farmer) 22890 and Ann FROST-22924, Hainford Norfolk England
1805 - Marriage: John LAWS-38700 and Isobella FEWSTER-38701, Ryton Durham England
1854 - Marriage: George PENNY-9808 (Ag Lab) and Prudence Anne LAWES-9809, Telfont Magna Wiltshire England
1871 - Marriage: John Henry LAWES-178 (Shepherd) and Maria FRANCIS-179,
1872 - Marriage: Joseph LAWS-44432 (Dealer) and Elizabeth GEORGE-44434, (Spinster)
Canning Town Essex England
1911 - Marriage: William Alfred Henry MARSH-22937 (Carpenter) resident of Dover Kent, and Elizabeth Mary Kate LAWS-22938, (Spinster) River Kent England
1940 - Marriage: Harry Boyd LAWS-13716 and Marva JONES-28745,
1882 - Death: William LAWS-7395, (Innkeeper) Darlinghurst New South Wales Australia
1925 - Death: Adelaide Thurza LAWS-27114, Rookwood New South Wales Australia
1932 - Death: Frederick Charles LAWES-10621, (Commercial Traveller) Cardiff Glamorgan WALES
1939 - Death: Isaac Hudson LAWS-18063, Ontario, San Bernardino California, United States
1947 - Death: William V LAWS-20252,
1964 - Death: Horace LAWS-16547, (PVT US Army)
1976 - Death: Forest D LAWS-38809, Los Angeles California, United States
1979 - Death: John Claude Bennett LAWES-229, St Peter in the Wood GUERNSEY
1982 - Death: Albert Davison LAWS-31079, (Newsagent & Tobacconist) Northam, Bideford Devonshire England
1984 - Death: Vincent John LAWS-14459, Leichhardt, New South Wales Australia
1985 - Death: Jack Clifford LAWS-42244, (Head Provision Hand Grocery & Provision Stores)
North Walsham Norfolk England
MISCELLANEOUS
1836 - Residence: William CLARKE-22950, (Painter) Pailton Warwickshire England
1919 - Discharged: George Ernest LAWES-28429, (ARMY Corporal 1721) Winchester Hampshire England
1941 - Residence: Kevin LAWS-12824, (Sapper Australian Army NX77684) Surrey Hills New South Wales Australia
1942 - Residence: Martha Ann COUPLAND-33069, Gedney Lincolnshire England
1942 - Residence: Martha Ann COUPLAND-33069, Gedney Lincolnshire England
1952 - Miscellaneous: Letitia LAWES-755, (Assists in a Boarding House)
OTHER BIRTHS
1835 - Birth: Mary Ann ALLAWAY-6494, South Cerney Gloucestershire England
1845 - Birth: Jane HOLLIS-23764, Wingate Durham England
1870 - Birth: Emily Laura SLATTER-15391, Kensington Middlesex England
1875 - Birth: Mary Jane BELL-28652, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1888 - Birth: Thomas William SEELEY-21660, Brumby Lincolnshire England
1908 - Birth: Edna MOORE-41567, (Shorthand Typist) Edmonton Middlesex England
1920 - Birth: Dorothy BROWN-47461, (Domestic Servant)
1870 - Birth: Emily Laura SLATTER-15391, Kensington Middlesex England
1875 - Birth: Mary Jane BELL-28652, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1908 - Birth: Edna MOORE-41567, (Shorthand Typist) Edmonton Middlesex England
1920 - Birth: Dorothy BROWN-47461, (Domestic Servant)
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1836 - Death: Frances GUESS-11077, North Carolina United States
1848 - Death: Mary GATEHOUSE-20065, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England
1870 - Death: Elizabeth HALL-23645,
1942 - Death: Martha Ann COUPLAND-33069, Kings Lynn Norfolk England
1848 - Death: Mary GATEHOUSE-20065, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England
1942 - Death: Martha Ann COUPLAND-33069, Kings Lynn Norfolk England
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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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