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Farewell 2018 -- Greetings 2019
Gone but not forgotten, this blog is dedicated
to all those who have borne our illustrious
surnames LAWS and LAWES Worldwide
Gremlins in the woodwork, elves, fairies and nature spirits and all manner of wee folk, are abroad at the end of one year and the beginning of the next, so genealogists should beware of disturbing those who are but sleeping, and treat the past with respect
Robert Henry Laws
1828-1891
My paternal great-grandfather
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'A Child of the Twenties'
A suburban childhood of the Twenties
MORE TRAVEL
PART 32
The highlights of the Naples visit were the late evening view over the lights over the city, from a highpoint on the northern edge with Vesuvius in the background. The ascent of Vesuvius itself, and seeing the excavated city of Herculaneum.
The volcano was pretty well behaved at that time and having gone up by the funicular rail car we were able to descend into the enormous crater where a constant roman candle of lava blobs was building a new central cone. Intrepid Italian entrepreneurs were busy pushing coins into the little blobs before they cooled and selling the resulting souvenirs to tourists.
In contrast to the lively volcano, Herculaneum was many centuries’ dead. With its heavy shroud of volcanic ash shovelled and swept away, its slab paved streets peopled with a few groups of tourists were not for me, evocative of the crowds of shoving and successful citizens who thronged its streets until the Reaper came with his volcano.
For the same reason it was not depressing either, it was another museum with fine examples of a Roman town complete with arts and crafts collected on the spot.
Why do I not remember the long journey back, it was just un-memorable or were there too many little bottles with our packed lunches so that we dozed on the wooden seats. Perhaps we just got tired, almost unthinkable in ones teenage years.
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NORWAY
The Journey to Norway was different. We went on an old troopship and it was boys only, a big party hundreds strong from many schools, no hotel this time we slept in hammocks slung above the tables where we ate by day. It was hot and we had the occasional chance to sleep on deck instead of in the hammocks. The hard deck was just as impossible as the sagging hammocks. At least we learnt that a bed is a luxury.
Bergen was the first port of call. The ship tied up along the long quay where the town faces out over the water and which seemed to us to be the town centre. The funicular railway took us up to the view point above the town from which the town and its harbour and the fiord running out towards the sea are laid out like a green map with blue water and red roofs with toy boats at rest in the harbour.
We also went into the mountains by way of the railway which climbs its way over to Oslo. The railway the like of which we had never seen before, as it clambered through the steep ascent with the aid of a central rack rail and crawled through tunnels and across rock faces to take us up and out onto the high land. There we walked and saw the ski runs and the big wooden structure of the ski jump all stranded in grass with not a flake of snow in the hot sunshine.
Despite the rocky terrain, rich grass seemed to be the predominant colour of the countryside as we sailed along the coast and into Sogne Fiord where our ship was dwarfed to a toy again between the towering mountains on either side. Here and there tiny fields of hay were patched into the forest on the mountain waterside.
High prowed boats rowed with long oars used the water as a highway from farm to farm and field to field. At the end of the fiord we went ashore in the ships boats and walked up the valley beside the bubbling bouldered river to the foot of the glacier which feeds it. A mountain of rather grubby ice in the blazing hot sunshine turning into sparkling clear water with which we quenched our thirst on the walk back.
The furthest North we went was Trondheim, a little stone town on a hilly site beside the water. No doubt used to visitors, despite the infancy of tourism, the peace did not seem disturbed by the invasion of a few hundred English schoolboys. They had done their share of invading Britain a few centuries ago and were themselves to be invaded by less welcome visitors only two or three years later.
On the ship our amusements were simple, I seem to remember the old English sports day pastime of jousting astride a slippery pole over a canvas pool of water and we had a few home grown concerts and sing-along’s to disturb the quiet of evening at sea. Not that the North Sea was quiet all the time, there were moments when we lost all interest in food and spent time admiring the view over the rail. It was certainly different from all our other trips,
The End
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 1st January
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1809 - Baptism: Daniel LAWES-20285, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England
1821 - Birth: Honor LAWS-21576, Shadwell Middlesex England
1821 - Birth: Honor LAWS-21576, Shadwell Middlesex England
1835 - Baptism: William LAWS-10738, London Middlesex England (St GHS)
1835 - Baptism: Helen LAWS-10542, Hemmingstone Suffolk England
1837 - Baptism: Charlotte LAWS-5284, Littleport Cambridgeshire England
1859 - Birth: Peter C LAWS-8729, (Waterman) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1860 - Birth: Alice Sophia LAWES-28563,
1864 - Birth: George Charles Alfred LAWS-7273, RN PO 144371 Stoker - Pensioner & Widower) Saltash Cornwall England
1865 - Christen: James LAWS-5612, (Ag Lab) Headley Hampshire England
1866 - Birth: George Hamilton LAWES-648, (Brass Moulder) Holbeck West Yorkshire England
1868 - Birth: Robert LAWS-44954, (Schoolmaster)
1883 - Birth: Polly LAWS-25475,
1884 - Birth: Margaret Emily LAWS-16356, (Parlour Maid) West Lexham Norfolk England
1889 - Birth: John C LAWS-27049, (Railway checker) Cardiff Glamorgan Wales
1891 - Birth: Charles LAWS-15422, Winkton Common Hampshire England
1896 - Birth: Edith LAWS-24371,
1898 - Birth: James Frederick LAWS-32789, (Manager Fruit & Veg) Bermondsey Surrey England
1899 - Birth: Thomas T LAWS-42287,
1901 - Birth: Maurice William Parry LAWS-37203, (Tea Planter circa 1949) Calcutta Bengal India
1905 - Birth: Elsie Myrtle LAWS-3260, (Nurse) Shepparton Victoria Australia
1907 - Birth: Phyllis Mary LAWS-23875,
1909 - Birth: Leslie Leonard LAWES-41415, (Market Gardener) Droxford Hampshire England
1909 - Birth: Rosemary Annie Caroline LAWS-33901, Waunarlwydd Glamorgan Wales
1912 - Birth: Florence E LAWS-44969, (Assistant To Matron)
1912 - Birth: Aldon Charles LAWS-36986,
1912 - Birth: Reginald Frank LAWS-27333 (Railway Signalman) Epping Essex England
1919 - Birth: Mona Winifred LAWES-29621, (Household Stores Assistant) Uxbridge Middlesex England
MARRIAGES
1776 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-27012 and Hannah PARSONS-27013, Hollingbourne Kent England
1833 - Marriage: William HERBERT-8418 and Maria LAWS-7983, Walworth Surrey England
1850 - Marriage: Andrew HANSLER-33085 and Esther LAWS-33084,
1855 - Marriage: Daniel BAKER-8102 (Iron Founder) and Elizabeth LAWS-4456, Deptford Kent England
1871 - Marriage: William HOOKER-13119 (Cab Driver) and Ann Martha LAWS-2960, Battersea Surrey England
1872 - Marriage: James LAWS-46818 (Paper Mill Worker) and Jessie SYME-47280, Lanark, Ontario, Canada
1872 - Marriage: William Bennett LAWS-30490 and Priscilla H WINSTEAD-30494, Weakley County, Tennessee United States
1878 - Marriage: Edward T LAWS-38631 (Coach Driver) and Alice M LANGILLE-38634, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada
1891 - Marriage: George LAWS-3561 (Coal Miner) and Emma Jane Carr BERNIE-29040, Bedlington Northumberland England
1898 - Marriage: Percy Murray LAWS-11499 and May Emily Jane Eliza ROBERTS-11571, Cowra
New South Wales Australia
1899 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-32106 (Chalk Quarry Labourer) and Rachel BOOTHER-32108,
Chadwell Saint Mary Essex England
1902 - Marriage: Henry William COCK-37262 (Labourer) and Dora LAWS-6126, (Housemaid)
Canning Town Essex England
1903 - Marriage: Cuthbert LAWS-5819 (Railway Clerk) and Evangeline Olivia RAKE-18375, (Governess)
1909 - Marriage: Issac COX-17173 and Nancy LAWS-17172, Carroll County Arkansas United States
1922 - Marriage: James Francis LAWS-23000 and Katherine Laura GULLEY-23001,
1896 - Death: Robert LAWES-97, (Wheelwright) Aldershot Hampshire England
1899 - Death: William LAWS-4842, (Labourer)
1914 - Death: Henry Joseph LAWS-6267, (Master Mariner 20643) At Sea
1915 - Death: Reginald Alfred LAWS-15407, (RN Steward M6882) HMS Formidable
1929 - Death: Jessie Marion LAWES-184, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading Berkshire England
1937 - Death: William LAWS-19705, (Snr) Boone West Virginia United States
1967 - Death: George Taylor LAWS-17498, (Ag Lab)
1969 - Cremation: Emily Mary Blanche LAWS-25553, Gornal, Dudley Worcestershire England
1970 - Cremation: Dora Elsie LAWS-25554, Gornal, Dudley Worcestershire England
1990 - Death: Robert Earl LAWS-24389, (US ARMY Staff Sergeant)
1991 - Death: Patrick LAWS-7386,
1995 - Burial: Alan Kenneth LAWS-11547, Toowoomba, Warwick Queensland Australia
1995 - Death: Clyde C LAWS-32844, (SM2 US NAVY)
1995 - Death: Alan Kenneth LAWS-11547,
2000 - Death: Ivy Gloria LAWS-25715, (Cashier) New Zealand
1821 - Residence: Alice HOLT-5880, Peckham Surrey England
1916 - Enlistment: Herbert Arthur LAWS-8598, (Bookkeeper RAF Service Number: 17132)
1925 - Emigration: Isabella LAWS-40239, (Cerebos Worker) City of London, England
1929 - Residence: William Eden LAWS-4694, (Dock Labourer) West Hartlepool Durham England
1959 - Residence: Evelyn Louisa MOULD-46552, Dover Kent England
OTHER BIRTHS
1813 - Baptism: Joseph CHARTERS-14157, (Farmer 107 acres) Sebergham Cumberland England
1841 - Birth: Mary Pandora MAKEPEACE-25769, At sea (aboard Pandora, Sulawesi Tengah, Indonesia)
1864 - Birth: Henry DENT-29602, (Coal Miner) West Auckland Durham England
1855 - Birth: Henrietta STEWART-30370, Ontario Canada
1889 - Birth: Helena MARSDEN-22645, Ecclesall Bierlow West Yorkshire England
1890 - Birth: Beatrice M DIMMER-39637, (Parlourmaid) Broad Chalke Wiltshire England
1903 - Birth: Florence Daisy BRANT-14281, Edmonton Middlesex England
OTHER MARRIAGES
1873 - Marriage: John NIXON-21845 (Schoolmaster) and Annie CHARTERS-14239,
All Hallows Cumberland England
1902 - Marriage: Albert BRANT-46309 (Gun Smith) and Jane MARTIN-46311, Tottenham Middlesex England
1908 - Marriage: David Coultart MCMINN-26271 and Jean Bell LITTLE-26272, Kirkcudbright Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
All Hallows Cumberland England
1902 - Marriage: Albert BRANT-46309 (Gun Smith) and Jane MARTIN-46311, Tottenham Middlesex England
1908 - Marriage: David Coultart MCMINN-26271 and Jean Bell LITTLE-26272, Kirkcudbright Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1864 - Burial: Julianna DAWSON-22004, (Ship Owner) Torpenhow Cumberland England
1868 - Burial: Sarah DOBSON formerly DANIELS-7077, (Dressmaker / Widow) Ashwellthorpe Norfolk England
1900 - Death: Henry Ernest HURLOCK-45488, Leytonstone Essex England
1906 - Death: Dorothy Ann ANDERSON-4197, Sunderland Durham England
1942 - Death: Emma Frances Loretta WATERS-20720, Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania United States
1868 - Burial: Sarah DOBSON formerly DANIELS-7077, (Dressmaker / Widow) Ashwellthorpe Norfolk England
1900 - Death: Henry Ernest HURLOCK-45488, Leytonstone Essex England
1906 - Death: Dorothy Ann ANDERSON-4197, Sunderland Durham England
1942 - Death: Emma Frances Loretta WATERS-20720, Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania United States
1956 - Death: Effie Jane FENTRESS-41772,
1959 - Death: Evelyn Louisa MOULD-46552, Saint Marys Hospital, Lyminge Kent England
2009 - Death: Pauline AMBLER-30628, Malton North Yorkshire 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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