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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
Seen from the Nineteen Nineties
By John Robert Laws 1921-2008
IN THE BEGINNING
PART 1
The war had been over three years, the Kaiser's War that is. It was late afternoon on Christmas Eve and the sun had gone down for the day, the gaslight on and the fires lit, but of course I don't remember as, I was the early Christmas present for my Mum.
When memory reaches back to its furthest it is summer, there is a lot of summer in the early years, or so it seems. There are laburnums in flower in the garden and wooden toys with nodding heads, a swan and a rhino to be pulled along on wheels and always the sound of trains with smoke and steam.
Every morning just after ten there was the Flying Scotsman to watch go by and then there was shunting and banging all day and night that one slept soundly through, just as one now sleeps through the noise of the television. The smoke and soot annoyed my mum, but to an infant, it was just an interesting smell which came and went, perhaps a little stronger when one climbed the railway fence to get a better view. A few missing palings made this easy even for the smallest child.
Over the fence was a narrow strip of unkempt grass often burnt in summer when a spark from a passing locomotive set it alight, at other times an unofficial path for railwaymen, children and burglars. The tracks lay about fifteen feet down from the grass, the land held up by a hefty retaining wall. Lots of tracks, maybe a dozen, with another track on a long bridge crossing them at an acute angle and takings trains from one side to the other without touching the fast line.
The land rose on the other side of the tracks, a steep tall grassy bank with a proper footpath along the top beyond the fence and even seats along the top. In the afternoon sunshine, these would be occupied by mums and nannies with prams while the trains amused the vociferous offspring. It was not till later that I explored these distant parts, a sprawl of suburbia from the late nineteenth century broken here and there by parks and sports grounds
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 4th December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1833 - Birth: Elizabeth LAWS-10737,
1836 - Baptism: William Henry LAWS-25755, Preston with Sutton Dorset England
1851 - Birth: Edward T LAWS-38631, (Coach Driver)
1866 - Birth: Rebecca LAWS-39016,
1877 - Birth: George Mervyn LAWS-3706, (Butcher) Cowra New South Wales Australia
1881 - Baptism: Charles William LAWS-16203, Bolam Northumberland England
1895 - Birth: Edith D LAWS-48000,
1898 - Birth: William Gerald LAWES-5, Fulham Middlesex England
1899 - Birth: Duncan Henry LAWES-12967, (Australian Army) Adelaide South Australia, Australia
1909 - Birth: Nancy LAWS-28852, Blyth Northumberland England
1910 - Birth: Rosina L LAWS-48181,
1919 - Birth: Eric Herbert LAWS-36131, Edmonton Middlesex England(Clerical Officer at
Air Ministry)
MARRIAGES
1826 - Marriage: John BALLARD-5060 and Elizabeth LAWS-5061, Litcham Norfolk England
1855 - Marriage: John LAWS-6217 (Gardener & Innkeeper) and Hannah HEWITT-3589, Stratton Strawless Norfolk England
1897 - Marriage: Joseph Aldham KIRKPATRICK-33836 (Police Officer) and
Hannah L LAWS-21500, Fulham Middlesex England
Hannah L LAWS-21500, Fulham Middlesex England
DEATHS and BURIALS
1610 - Burial: John LAWS-7518, (Scrivener) Foster Lane London Middlesex England
1768 - Burial: Thomas LAWS-16965, Newton Flotman Norfolk England
1849 - Burial: Mary Ann LAWS-8006, (Free Emigree) Parramatta, Australia
1889 - Burial: Charles Percy LAWS-5023, Kensington Middlesex England
1899 - Death: Barbara LAWS-23573, Gateshead Durham England
1920 - Death: Louisa Atherton LAWS-38275, Tooele, Tooele, Utah United States
1920 - Death: Louisa Atherton LAWS-38275, Tooele, Tooele, Utah United States
1931 - Death: Jane Elizabeth LAWS-10111, (Spinster) Surbiton Surrey England
1940 - Death: George LAWS-21040, (Steel Work Labourer) West Hartlepool Durham England
1947 - Death: Henry William LAWS-39061, Catford Kent England
1949 - Death: George LAWES-39082, (Garden Foreman) Cromer Norfolk England
1957 - Death: James Austen LAWES-40467, (Chemist) Sanderstead Surrey England
1962 - Death: Leslie Winter LAWS-39331, (Retired Postman) Hackney Middlesex England
1964 - Death: Frances R LAWES-31082,
1964 - Burial: Charles Robert LAWS-16663, (PVT US Army) Mountain Home National Cemetery, Johnson City, Tennessee United States
1975 - Death: Molly LAWS-46881, Mombassa, Coast Province, Kenya
1990 - Death: Betty LAWS-41805,
1992 - Death: Mamie Ann LAWS-25294, Indianapolis Indiana United States
MISCELLANEOUS
1855 - Occupation: W LAWS-27170, (Seaman)
1859 - Occupation: Thomas LAWS-27163, (Steerage Steward)
1962 - Residence: Victor George LAWS-20772, (Labourer) Acton Middlesex England
1996 - Probate: Barbara Joan LAWS-41120, Brighton Sussex England
1853 - Birth: Mary Jane HENRY-8753, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1877 - Birth: Kate PAGEANT-48172
1892 - Birth: William Frederick BAKERSFIELD-21978,(Civil Servant) Walthamstow Essex England
1894 - Birth: Hannah M THEOBALD-28985, West Hartlepool Durham England
1900 - Birth: Vivia Paternoster WHITE-29477, Para Plains SA Australia1913 - Birth: Mary I YOUNG-48611, (Wrapping Machine Operator)
OTHER MARRIAGES
1839 - Marriage: Thomas B HOLLIDAY-25091 and Harriett Hannah HALL-25092,
Onondaga County New York, United States
Onondaga County New York, United States
1845 - Death: Fanny SMITH-20316, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England
1927 - Death: Sarah Emily STOREY-6979, Barnard Castle Durham England
1936 - Death: Harold Franklin LAIDLAW-43467, Brisbane Queensland Australia
1957 - Death: Ada M FOARD-21141, Mayfield Sussex England
1964 - Death: Daisey Agnes PITMAN-18078, Rogue River, Oregon United States
1997 - Burial: Gladys A HEAD-14450, Mountain Home National Cemetery, Johnson City, Tennessee United States
2004 - Death: Mary Josephine LAWS-27556, Timaru New Zealand
2010 - Death: Alan LAWS-23310, (Company Director) Broadstairs Kent England
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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
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