Wednesday 5th December 2018 - Number 3328

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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 2

We looked out that way one sunlit evening and saw the majestic airship the R101 floating gently south towards London, France and their appointment in Samarkand.

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.

Our garden was not very large, a rectangle with a concrete path around the patch of grass to leave a border for plants and little trees. A little extra bit was squeezed in at the side of the back of the house before the narrow side-way out to the front. Inside the rectangle of the path, the grass had half a dozen little apple trees around the edge. The plants elude my memory, only the laburnums stand out clearly always in flower, with a prickly rose bush under one of them.

One went into the garden at the side of the back door from the scullery down a couple of sandstone steps. Only in very warm weather was the double back door of the bay window in the kitchen opened for regular use. It opened onto a paved area across the garden which caught the afternoon sun. For some time I had a white albino rabbit in a hutch in the garden. It had a wire netting run from which it would burrow out if not carefully supervised.

Our house was a semi, built of London stocks in the late 1800s, one of the better houses almost at the top of the hill. We lived there till I was ten, so being an inquisitive child; I learned to know the area better than the palm of my hand.

As an infant the day was spent in the kitchen, a pleasant enough room lit by a bay window with a half glazed double door to the garden. It was heated by a black-leaded built-in kitchen range with an oven to the side and a back boiler to heat the water. This had to be lit every morning if the weather was cold, and if it were lit it would be used for some cooking. The kitchen was lit at night by a single central gaslight, a soft sympathetic light without the brilliance of the electricity which came later. Candlesticks were on the mantlepiece for bedtime. Mine was enamel but my mother had a more elegant one, once silver plated but already polished down to the brass, I still have it.

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

We are happy to help you with your Laws or Lawes research, and in certain instances, we may be willing to undertake private research on your behalf.  We will be happy to publish in this blog the stories of your Laws or Lawes research, and also to list members of the Laws or Lawes family you are searching for. (Subject to the rule above.)

(Please note all spelling is British English)

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Please also note we have several hundred LAWS & LAWES who were alive 29 September 1939, so mail us with your inquiries

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               EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 5th December 

    

Family Events

BIRTHS and BAPTISMS   

1792 - Christen: John LAWS-6308, (Mole Catcher) Sedgeford Norfolk England

1811 - Birth: John LAWES-1218, 

1819 - Baptism: Joshua Hoole LAWS-27392, Gateshead Durham England

1828 - Christen: Emma Josephine LAWS-2830, Saint Dunstan's Stepney Middlesex England

1834 - Birth: William LAWS-10738, 

1847 - Christen: James LAWS-6451, (Painter) Mitcham Surrey England

1865 - Birth: Mary LAWS-20739, 

1880 - Baptism: Jane Elizabeth LAWS-5156, (Housemaid) Lambeth Surrey England

1885 - Birth: Alice Maud Mary HARDING-7232, (Boarding House Keeper) East Dulwich 

           Surrey England

           (My Paternal grandmother's sister) 

1886 - Birth: Robert LAWS-17796, Heddon on the Wall Northumberland England

1886 - Birth: Ellen LAWS-17795, Heddon on the Wall Northumberland England

1887 - Birth: Daisy Millicent Hilda LAWES-39106, (Spinster & Needlewoman at Hospital                       (Formerly Dressmaker)  Plumstead Kent England

1888 - Birth: Bernard Francis LAWES-17721, (Auctioneers Clerk) Croydon Surrey England

1888 - Birth: Alice Maud LAWS-15388, Canning Town Essex England

1889 - Birth: John B LAWS-43564 (Railway Signalman LNER)  

1894 - Birth: William G LAWES-49049, (Ship Boiler Maker) 

1894 - Birth: Anthony LAWS-42628, (Stillman at Beanpole Distillery) 

1896 - Birth: Ellen Louise LAWS-3451, 

1898 - Birth: Beatrice Florence LAWS-40193, 

1908 - Birth: Harry Charles LAWES-35742, (Warehouseman) 

1912 - Birth: Marion Cruikshank LAWS-41386, 

1915 - Birth: Leah LAWS-25438, 

MARRIAGES

1805 - Marriage: John LAWES-20283 and Mary GATEHOUSE-20284, Coombe Bissett                         Wiltshire England

1839 - Marriage: William BARNES-1993 and Hannah LAWES-1994, Portsmouth Hampshire               England

1931 - Marriage: Leon H LAWS-25102 and Anastasia SWIFT-25103, 

DEATHS and BURIALS

1883 - Death: James LAWS-6570, (Homoeopathic Chemist) Croydon Surrey England

1898 - Death: Sarah Ann LAWS-22520, 
1913 - Death: William LAWS-12448, (Tobacconist & Newsagent) South Shields, 
           Durham, England
1921 - Death: Dock I LAWS-19775, Bell County, Kentucky, United States

1948 - Death: Ella M LAWS-43518, (Laundress) Brixton Surrey England

1962 - Death: Victor George LAWS-20772,  (Labourer) Acton Middlesex England

1971 - Death: Robert Currie LAWS-16794,  (SP/4 US Army) 

1973 - Death: Frederick William LAWS-27537, Timaru New Zealand

1980 - Death: Claude Victor LAWS-12507, Rosemead, Los Angeles, California, United States

1983 - Burial: Bernard Oswald (Farmer) LAWS-3261, Shepparton Victoria Australia

1985 - Death: William Robert LAWS-49782, Columbus, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States

2001 - Death: Floy Lucinda LAWS-30152, Selmer, McNairy Tennessee United States

2006 - Death: George LAWS-23538, (Rish Lumber) (114 Spring Park Road) Marietta, South 

           Carolina United States 

2015 - Death: Charles Christopher LAWS-43051, Leyburn North Yorkshire England

MISCELLANEOUS

OTHER BIRTHS
1730 - Baptism: Mary Anne or Anne EASTMURE-3384, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1825 - Christen: Alice HARPER-6698, Feltwell Norfolk England

1835 - Birth: Henry Booth HOHLER-31964, (Merchant)  Cambridge Cambridgeshire England

1846 - Birth: Ellen HERCOCK-45462, Oakham Rutland England
1869 - Baptism: Edward THEOBALD-46200, (Dyers & Cleaners Manager) Hackney,                             Middlesex England
1876 - Birth: Frances Elizabeth SHARPE-42679, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland,
           England

1906 - Birth: Samuel JENNINGS-23305, Wakefield West Yorkshire England
1915 - Birth: Florence JENNINGS-23303, Wakefield West Yorkshire England

OTHER MARRIAGES 

1854 - Marriage: William (Miner) JENNINGS-41192 and Betsy SAND-41193, Stanley cum 
            Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England

OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS,

1840 - Death: Alice ALLEN-21351, Rickleton House, Chester le Street Durham England

1942 - Death: Webster George HAYNES-49771, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada

2001 - Death: Demitri James GEORGIO-32738, 

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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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