Tuesday 11th December 2010 - Number 3334

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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 8

PEOPLE 1

I do not think that there was as much obesity then as now, the ignorant did not have the means for it and most of the prosperous were working too hard to get fat. Beer was however proportionately cheaper and a few more men could be seen carrying the mark of it in their big bellies or red noses.

Until school age, there was not a lot of contact with adults outside the family. One saw the neighbours in their gardens from time to time but it was not till a little later that a family came next door with whom we became friendly. The Kemble’s had five offspring, five daughters, for starters the youngest in her late teens, and a son Harry a bit older than myself with whom I became quite friendly. For some years we were regular cycling companions.

The tradesmen were the people who are impressed on my memory. Delivery was the order of the day despite shopping on an almost daily basis.

The milkman had an open-backed float with churns in it and would dip the milk out with a long-handled measure into your jug. It was not long till he graduated to a horse and cart with four wheels, and milk in glass bottles with cardboard tops but in very hot weather, despite two deliveries a day, you still had to boil the milk soon after delivery before it went off.

My mother used to tell me that when she lived in Devon as a child they had their own cow and that after milking she would separate the cream which she loved, and churn the butter. That was all gone for town dwellers of course, but in the grocers shop the butter would still be scooped up and patted into shape instead of arriving in oblong paper packets.

The grocer delivered as well, and his man would arrive at the doorstep and jog the memory with a verbal list of commodities delivered in a rapid-fire voice rather like a market auctioneer."Salt - Pepper - Vinegar-Mustard" he would fire away and then take up his list at the same point after he had been interrupted with an item.

The baker's man pulled a two-wheeled handcart with a rounded top and a leg at the back so that it didn't tip up when he let go. He would delve into this for the loaf you wanted, warm and crusty and certainly not wrapped or sliced! The postman was distinctive in his blue uniform with red piping and his odd little flat hat, almost a helmet. He did not bring a load of junk mail for the dustman to take away again, and what he delivered today had been posted yesterday excepting that from foreign parts.

To be continued tomorrow

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               EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 11th December 

    

Family Events

BIRTHS and BAPTISMS   

1726 - Baptism: John LAWES-23468, Bishopstone Wiltshire England

1782 - Birth: Stephen LAWES-32095, 

1785 - Baptism: William LAWS-3514, Hevingham Norfolk England

1820 - Birth: Jane LAWS-31889, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1848 - Birth: Edwin Thomas LAWES-2604, Bishopstone Wiltshire England

1850 - Birth: Jane LAWS-31997 (4 mths) Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1882 - Birth: Hugh LAWES-508, (Door Keeper & Cleaner) Thruxton Hampshire England

1884 - Birth: Arthur Murray LAWS-28433, (ARMY Gunner 755846) South Shields, Durham,                       England

1888 - Birth: Frank Sydney Bruce LAWES-37982, (Export Clerk & Absent Voter 1918-19)  

           Solihull Warwickshire England

1888 - Birth: George Raymond LAWS-34323, Dynedor Herefordshire England

1890 - Birth: James LAWS-17546, (4 mth old)  Sunderland Durham England

1893 - Birth: James Edward LAWS-23920, (Gents Outfitters - Assistant Manager) Blything Suffolk               England

1912 - Birth: Lillie E LAWS-41495, Cocke County Tennessee United States

1916 - Birth: Rose Ellen LAWS-46734, (Invoice Typist)  

1919 - Birth: Frank Donald LAWS-45522, 

MARRIAGES

1717 - Marriage: Drake LAWS-1179 and Elizabeth READ-1180, Norwich Norfolk England

1736 - Marriage: David LOCKHART-10593 and Barbara LAWS-10592, Newcastle upon Tyne                       Northumberland England 

1779 - Marriage: James MOLLAND-17396 and Taylor LAWS-7392, Dover Kent England

1797 - Marriage: Thomas COCKERILL-2044 (Gentleman & Widower) and Mary LAWES-                           2045, (Spinster) at Andover Hampshire England

1836 - Marriage: Benjamin  LAWS-4645 (Labourer) and Frances Mary PALMER-4646, 
           Norwich Norfolk England

1848 - Marriage Settlement: Edward LAWS-2849 (Navy Storekeeper)  and Elizabeth GRIFFITHS-
           12030, 
1853 - Marriage: William CARTER-38229 and Susanna Frances Mary LAWS-38228, 
           Stepney Middlesex England

1880 - Marriage: Edward Robert LAWS-3639 (Sawyer / Widower)  and Rebecca SPRIGGS-7210,                 Bournemouth Hampshire England

1904 - Marriage: Arthur Frederick  LAWS-5421 (Grocers Assistant at Co-op)  and Alice EARLE-
           33385, Dover Kent England
1905 - Marriage: Thomas Percy WALKER-27572 and Caroline A LAWS-4289 (Cook) Wandsworth               Surrey England

DEATHS and BURIALS

1763 - Burial: Martha LAWS-4514, (Infant) Rackham Norfolk England

1865 - Death: Thomas LAWS-3516, (Farmer 70 acres 3 labs) Stratton Strawless Norfolk England

1873 - Death: Sarah LAWS-7387, (Widow) Charlton in Dover Kent England

1926 - Death: Robert LAWS-8081, Gateshead Durham England

1926  Death: John Warren  LAWES-1688,(Publican) Bath Somerset England but resided at                            Trowbridge Wiltshire England

1929 - Death: Henry Joseph LAWS-6696, Rogue River Oregon United States

1932 - Death: Thomas LAWES-2340, Ilford Essex England

1936 - Death: Samuel Edward LAWS-34332, Ilford Essex England

1936 - Death: William Bertram Lot LAWES-32107, Salisbury, Wiltshire England

1958 - Death: John L LAWS-16565, (PFC US Army) 

1960 - Death: Fred Karle Lethbridge LAWES-39602, (Blacksmith) Andover Hampshire England

1961 - Death: Emma LAWS-33745, Carlisle Cumberland England

1963 - Death: Daisy Rose LAWES-38999, Southampton Hampshire England

1980 - Death: Mary Jane Patterson LAWS-41409, 

1987 - Death: Allen Maurice LAWS-3293, 

1988 - Death: John Thomas LAWS-41871, (Fish Filleter) Hull East Yorkshire England

1996 - Probate: Thomas Edward LAWS-40441, City of London, England

2012 - Death: Franklin Barry LAWES-41358, Baldock Hertfordshire England

MISCELLANEOUS

1824 - Residence: Thomas CHRISTMAS-3390, (Master Mariner) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England 

1904 - Residence: Alice EARLE-33385, Dover Kent England

1904 - Residence: Arthur Frederick LAWS-5421, (Grocers Assistant at Co-op) Buckland by Dover               Kent England

1948 - Discharged: Arthur Frederick LAWS-33267, (ARMY Bandsman)  

OTHER BIRTHS

1829 - Birth: William WING-12494, 

1836 - Baptism: Emma  SILVERLOCK-1013, (Tailoress) Alverstoke Hampshire England

1850 - Birth: Thomas JAMES-19069, 

1884 - Birth: Sidney Malcolm TAYLOR-21265, (Railway Wheel Tapper) Peterborough                                   Cambridgeshire England

1889 - Birth: Rose B CHISNALL-30335, 

1902 - Birth: Gladys Mary ELEY-35359, 

1902 - Birth: Gladys M MULLETT-20731, 

1910 - Birth: Catherine E RICKER-42258, 

1919 - Birth: Eileen M FOSTER-47213, (Mental Nurse) 

OTHER MARRIAGES 

1869 - Marriage: George JENNINGS-17265 (Labourer)  and Sarah ERRINGTON-17266, 
           Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS

1885 - Death: Sarah CLEGG-25511, Chorlton Lancashire England
1935 - Death: Jane JOLLIFFE-711, (Cook) 

1967 - Death: John WEBB-27874, Stalybridge Cheshire England

1977 - Death: Louis STEVENS-41716, (Farm Hand) Dartford Kent England

1982 - Death: Giovanni CHIARELOTTO-12489 (Labourer) Kamloops British Columbia Canada

1984 - Death: Victor George BUTT-12737, Southampton Hampshire England

1994 - Death: Stella Catherine COOPER-3409, 

2010 - Death: Janie ROBINSON-5859, 

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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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