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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)
SCHOOL 2
PART 18
Running was never a favourite pastime for me it was only done when unavoidable. Swimming was another matter however and we were lucky in that there was a swimming pool in the basement of the grammar school next door. Here we were permitted a Saturday morning class, for a dozen or so and I achieved the great heights of a certificate to say I could swim fifty yards.
Generally, in the elementary school, we did all our lessons in the same room, but we did have a purpose-built room for woodwork. This was well equipped with benches and hand tools and we got a useful grounding in using them. For me, it was one of the most enjoyable lessons.
The other children at the elementary school were a very normal mix and a reasonable standard of behaviour was enforced anyway. In the playground, our play was, of course, rowdy but there was little real fighting, there was more interest in playing ‘Flickhams’ with cigarette cards. These were in good supply as most men smoked and every packet had a card in it. Later the interest changed to collecting the sets of cards and swapping them to make up sets which are now almost antiques.
Most of my classmates were friendly but although we visited each other’s houses to play, few friendships were long-term, because of the need to change schools and move house. Just before I had to take the Grammar school entrance exam we moved house from Harringay to Winchmore Hill, so I had to take the exam in the new area, so until my time at elementary school ran out a few months after we had moved, mother ferried me to and fro, daily in her little car to carry on in the same school, till the term was finished and the exams completed.
The move to Grammar school was a move to another world. After all, we were in the thirties and 1929 and all that was slipping back behind us. The move to Southgate was a move into another world and meant that none of my friends moved on with me to the same school.
It was, of course, an elitist world and the Grammar schools were reckoned next in line after the ‘Public’ schools, though there was no guarantee that the boy who left the elementary school at the age of fourteen, would not become a millionaire quicker than any of them.
He would not become a bank clerk or a civil servant however he was saved from being a fighter pilot in the forties.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 20th December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1696 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWS-13853, Mildenhall Suffolk England
1818 - Christen: Susannah LAWS-3175, Ramsgate Kent England
1820 - Birth: Elizabeth LAWS-3657, (Twin) Franklin County, Ohio United States
1820 - Birth: James LAWS-3646, (Army Nurse (Twin)) LAWS-3646, Franklin County, Ohio United States
1841 - Baptism: James Robert LAWES-1135, Coslany Norfolk England
1842 - Birth: Thomas Robert LAWS-12418,
1852 - Baptism: George LAWS-36352, Bungay Suffolk England
1859 - Birth: William Thomas LAWS-7152, Leichhardt, New South Wales Australia
1872 - Birth: Annie Eliza LAWES-1471, Basingstoke Hampshire England
1875 - Birth: Alexander George LAWS-4216,(Chief Mechanical Engineer - Printing Works)
Poplar Middlesex England
1879 - Birth: William LAWS-3863, (Freelance Fitter in Iron Works) Port Clarence Durham England
1887 - Birth: Jenny LAWS-35921,
1888 - Birth: John Nelson (Licensed Victualler) LAWS-43074, Bexley Kent England
1891 - Birth: Emily Mary LAWS-28980, Cowra New South Wales Australia
1894 - Birth: William James LAWS-31040, (Surveyor) Chelsea Middlesex England
1894 - Birth: Olive Agnes LAWS-24656, (Chambermaid) Hull East Yorkshire England
1896 - Birth: William James LAWS-27941, Southwark Surrey England
1906 - Birth: Bertram LAWS-36961,
1909 - Birth: Alice Marguerita LAWS-12882, (Royal Australian Air Force) Northumberland England
1910 - Birth: Matthew William LAWS-37950,
1912 - Birth: Percival William Thomas LAWS-7121,
1915 - Birth: Ada Mabel LAWS-42155,
1919 - Birth: Leslie Howard LAWES-38040, Greenwich Kent England
1919 - Birth: Mabel Mary LAWS-3879,
1920 - Birth: John LAWS-16739, (Cpl US Army)
MARRIAGES
1770 - Marriage: George ANSTY-11678 and Susannah LAWS-11677, Tarrant Keynston Dorset England
1810 - Marriage: Shadrach LAWS-14114 and Frances WHITE-14119, Fauquier Virginia United States
1862 - Marriage: Thomas Charles LAWES-20291 and Elizabeth Ann PENNY-20292, Telfont Evias Wiltshire England
1874 - Marriage: George John LAWS-34989 (Brush Finnisher) and Mary A HAZELTINE-5889,
(Brush Drawer) Walworth Surrey England
1892 - Marriage: William Edward LAWS-42354 (Carpenter) and Caroline Ellen SIMMONS-42355,
West Hoathly Sussex England
1893 - Marriage: Milford Mead BROWER-19287 and Isabel Ann LAWS-19286, (Teacher) Fauquier County, Virginia United States
1898 - Marriage: Alexander George LAWS-4216 (Chief Mechanical Engineer - Printing) and
Lillie Maud POPPY-15848, (Dressmaker) East Ham Essex England
1909 - Marriage: William Catcheside LAWS-7487 and Ellen ADAMS-29452,
1875 - Death: Thomas LAWS-11659,
1883 - Death: Aaron LAWES-619, (Tea Dealer)
1899 - Death: James Marion LAWS-30471, Weakley County, Tennessee United States
1906 - Death: William John LAWS-7920, (Sailmaker & Smack Owner) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1942 - Death: Ruth LAWS-33893, Chatham Kent England
1951 - Death: Lyla LAWS-16539,
1983 - Burial: Marie Therese LAWS-27487, Timaru New Zealand
1996 - Burial: Frank Edwin LAWS-46457, Shillingstone Dorset England
2003 - Death: Gerald Jerome LAWS-13491, Olathe Medical Center, Kansas United States
2004 - Death: Catherine Bain LAWS-41387, Strathavon Lanarkshire Scotland
1703 - Will Dated: Henry LAWS-36874, (Master Mariner)
1801 - Ordination: James Townsend LAWES-1973, (Reverend)
1850 - Occupation: Robert LAWS-2851, (Navy Storekeeper)
1860 - Occupation: Joseph CHARTERS-14157, (Farmer 107 acres)
1942 - Adoption: Patrick LAWS-44498,
OTHER BIRTHS
1822 - Baptism: Margaret CHARTERS-21838, Torpenhow Cumberland England
1836 - Birth: Mary STENNING-38886, (Grocer) Ripley Surrey England
1889 - Baptism: Edith Maud ALLEN-37202, Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu, India
1889 - Baptism: Edith Maud ALLEN-37202, Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu, India
1896 - Birth: Violet Pearl WHITE-38333, (School Cleaner) West Ham Essex England
1897 - Birth: Emily Elizabeth TINCOMBE-42415, Wandsworth Surrey England
1905 - Baptism: Doris BLANCHARD-37088, Scunthorpe Lincolnshire England
1911 - Birth: Gladys M CRAMPTON-50238,
OTHER MARRIAGES
1841 - Marriage: William AIREY-43478 and Emily LOTHERINGTON-39436, Poplar Middlesex England
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1828 - Death: Charlotte Priscilla SMITH-33165, Romford Essex England
1863 - Death: Sarah OXLEY-41251, Peckham Surrey England
1868 - Death: Robert MOONEY-24995, (Grocer / Oil Colour Merchant) Islington Middlesex England
(My maternal G- G- Grandfather)
1925 - Death: James Davies TILLEY-41470, Rougemont, Durham County North Carolina United States
1950 - Death: Lucy BOYCE-32446, Romford Essex England
1957 - Death: Mary Theresa CISSELL-27859, Perry County Missouri United States
1997 - Death: Doreen Ivy Mavis CATT-14632, Wentworthville New South Wales Australia
2002 - Burial: Eva RICHARDSON-12172, Utah Veterans Cemetery, Bluffdale, Utah 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.
Privacy.
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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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