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Monday 2nd September 2018 - Number 5898

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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' 
my paternal Great Grandfather
This is Robert Henry's Wife 

Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller

My paternal Great Grandmother
1846-1924

R I P

Gone but not forgotten, this blog is dedicated 
to all those who have borne our illustrious
surnames LAWS and LAWES Worldwide

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50,053 Folks +4

16,602 Families  +3

120,219 Events  + 24

All in 10,478 Places +2

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Please note all spelling is British English)



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A CHILD OF THE 1920's
AS SEEN FROM THE 1990's
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 1

IN THE BEGINING

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 it's 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.
to be continued tomorrow

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Family events for today Monday 2nd September

 BIRTHS 
1669 - Christen: John LAWES-1034, West Acre Norfolk England

1804 - Christen: Matthew LAWS-7146, South Shields Durham England

1813 - Birth: Elizabeth LAWS-22577, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1849 - Birth: David LAWS-3709, (Ag Lab) Tivetshall Saint Mary Norfolk England

1857 - Christen: Isabella LAWS-6653, South Creake Norfolk England

1866 - Birth: Dudley LAWS-11094, Carroll County Tennessee United States

1874 - Birth: Maud LAWS-45909, (Private Means) 

1881 - Birth: Edward C LAWS-43016, (Farmer) 

1882 - Birth: Emma J  (Married) 

1888 - Baptism: Alfred LAWS-43614,  LAWES-28005, (Farrier) Greenwich Kent England

1897 - Birth: Jesse Alfred LAWS-44730, (Farmer) North Carolina United States

1897 - Birth: Ernest LAWES-16246, (PFC US Army) 

1898 - Birth: Leonard Barrow LAWS-15173, (Insurance Clerk) 

1904 - Birth: Phillip Richard LAWES-38056, (Statistician) 

1906 - Birth: Archibald W LAWES-47316, (Farm Carter) 

1909 - Birth: Nannie E LAWS -20146,

1911 - Birth: Matthew LAWS-27804, 

1913 - Birth: Olive LAWS-24807, Malanda Queensland Australia

1920 - Birth: Betty LAWES-46888, 
MARRIAGES

1644 - Marriage: Henry LAWES-1143 (Composer)  and Elizabeth DALLY-1138, Saint James                 Clerkenwell Middlesex England

 1816 - Marriage: James LAWS-3697 (Hand Loom Weaver)  and Elizabeth CROWE-3698,                     Norwich Norfolk England
1874 - Marriage: Charles Nathaniel LAWS-15913 and Jane WOOD-15914, Hamilton County               Florida United States

 1889 - Marriage: Henry DENT-29000 (Coal Miner)  and Annie LAWS-5530, Durham Durham             England

 1895 - Marriage: Henry Samuel  LAWES-11166 (Tram & Omnibus Driver) and Harriett                       LAWRENCE-11164, Kentish Town Middlesex England

 1930 - Marriage: John MCGHIE-24003 and Marjorie Gertrude LAWES-24002, Bargoed                       Glamorganshire Wales
DEATHS and BURIALS 
1839 - Death: Ann (Infant) LAWS-2870, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1870 - Death: Joseph LAWS-3438, (Farmer 48 Acres) Stratton Strawless Norfolk England

1894 - Death: Jane Elizabeth Fanny LAWS-24812, Laidley Queensland Australia

 1896 - Death: Robert LAWS-45406,  (House Painter) 
1912 - Death: Newton Colman LAWS-19367, Caldwell Idaho United States

1913 - Death: Henry LAWS-6149, (Tailor) Fincham Norfolk England

1918 - Death: Marjorie A G LAWES-30660, Auburn New South Wales Australia

1919 - Death: James LAWS-28381, (Butcher) Eugowra Reedy Creek, New South Wales                           Australia

1925 - Death: Charles LAWS-5042, Pelaw Durham England

1934 - Death: Leon James LAWS-50125, 

1937 - Death: James Milton LAWS-19078, (Farmer) Lebo, Coffey Kansas United States

1944 - Death: William Ronald LAWS-21860, (ARMY Driver 14404060)  

1967 - Death: Phyllis LAWS-20067, 

MISCELLANEOUS 
1853 - Residence: Mary BOWERS-13478, Brandon Suffolk England

1853 - Immigration: Robert LAWS-6548, Prisoner at Hockwold Norfolk) 

1853 - Immigration: Mary Ann LAWS-6229 (8 mths old) 

1895 - Residence: Henry Samuel LAWES-11166, (Tram & Omnibus Driver) Westminster                       Middlesex England

1895 - Residence: Harriett LAWRENCE-11164, Westminster Middlesex England

OTHER BIRTHS
1834 - Birth: Charles POPPY-15493, Halesworth Suffolk England

1881 - Birth: Rose Harriett FORD-13300, Bungay Suffolk England
1893 - Birth: Margaret Lucy JURY-22061, Torquay Devonshire England

 1915 - Birth: Phyllis M BECKET-41552, 

OTHER MARRIAGES


OTHER DEATHS
1819 - Burial: Grace TYNDALL-13832, Torpenhow Cumberland England

1828 - Death: William PEEL-20969, 

1912 - Admon: Sarah ROBINSON-39425, 

1928 - Death: Hugh Walter  DICKSON-3577, (Engraver)  Rosemount, Osage County, 
            Kansas USA

1954 - Death: Ellen Frances Ada MOORE-38193, Southampton Hampshire England

1695 - Death: Eliza Sarah DRAY-28775, Newtown New South Wales Australia

1974 - Death: Walter WEBBER-13844, (Chemists Assistant)  Lancaster Lancashire England
            (My late father-in-law)

2007 - Death: Francis B CRIBBETT-39473, Newton Abbot Devonshire 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.

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.


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