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Saturday 7th September 2019 - Number 5903

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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

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A Child of the Twenties

A suburban childhood of the Twenties 

seen from the Nineteen Nineties
by my late father

John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 6.

PEOPLE

There seemed to be a wider range of people then than there are now. There was no question or concept of equality. To me Mum was all-important but to everyone, Dad was 'The Boss'  and this nickname was used all the time between mother and her helper Lottie the maid. Lottie was a sort of auntie to me, having been part of the family longer than I had. This help was much needed by my mother not only on account of the housework but because catastrophe had struck my parents when my sister Mary had suffered brain damage as a complication of meningitis. This happened at about the age of three, after which there was no further mental progress although she grew up physically but dumb.

Standards of living then were much lower, but in this respect, we were fortunate, though everyone worked hard. It is my belief that most people were as happy then as now, except where poverty and illness coincided. It is the pressure of daily life that makes for unhappiness, and these were just different. In many ways, it is the small comforts and conveniences that we would miss if we had to step back in time.

We did not have swarms of relations, the Victorian habit of enormous families had gone just in time. There were two maiden aunts, my father's sisters, who lived together in the bottom part of a house off West Green Road (The A504 of today). They worked in garment manufacture and their smallish rooms were crammed with too large furniture inherited from my grandparents of the true Victorian era who I never knew. Some of it would be museum pieces now., including a bed with a half tester rail over occasionally they would come to tea on Sunday or to Christmas lunch. I remember a Christmas present of a little purse with two half-crowns in it, the old-age pension was then just four of these coins, and although they were still working at that time, this was soon to be their weekly income.

My mother had just one sister, Alice who lived in Manchester, where her husband Jack was a lecturer in zoology. I only met him once, he had a nasty limp as a result of RFC service in WWI and he did not make old bones. Mother went and visited Alice after he had died, and took me with her in her little car to help find the way -172 miles according to the AA route which we followed. Alice had a nice house in a pleasant suburb but before long she returned to her roots in Devon and spent the rest of her years in Kingswear.

There was also my uncle Joe, really a cousin of my father, though I think he had been brought up as a brother and was part of a trio of sailing enthusiasts with my dad, and his younger brother Albert. The three of them used to go sailing in Devon and Cornwall and my father and Albert managed to acquire wives in the process. No doubt this put an end to the sailing but my father still liked to row and after he bought his first car in 1925, he would take me over to the river Lea on a Sunday morning and row from the boathouse at one lock, up to the next lock and back. Being Sunday, the horse-drawn barges were all at rest and the locks inactive. It was already partly industrial along the river, which was a canal really, but the marshes were open and flat, crossed by the long new concrete bridge of Lea Bridge Road which led on towards Epping Forest.  

Albert and his Cornish wife Louise were in Harbin, in the wilds of Manchuria so we saw them very rarely, I only remember two occasions. A slow boat to China really was slow before the airlines and the Trans Siberian railway was not a journey for the hurried or the timid, though they went that way at least once.

Joe and his wife May lived in a 1920's new semi in Palmers Green and were the relations we saw most. He was a keen gardener, which my father certainly wasn't, but they were pretty good friends and Joe and May had Christmas lunch with us for some years. 

To a child, Christmas was important of course and the old-time way of feasting in the greatest abundance that funds permitted was still strong. there were no supermarkets and no domestic refrigerators of course, but 'nouvelle cuisine' hadn't been heard of either. 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 offsprings, 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.



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to be continued tomorrow

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Family events for today Saturday 7th September

 BIRTHS 
1694 - Christen: William LAWES-2281, Kenn Devonshire England

1755 - Baptism: Edith LAWES-23316, Bower Chalke Wiltshire England

1808 - Birth: Michael LAWES-268, Costessey Norfolk England


1828 - Christen: Jane LAWS-4674, Alverstoke Hampshire England

1853 - Birth: Marion J LAWS-42957,

1862 - Birth: Benjamin Charles LAWS-35407, (Railway Deputy Superintendent               Inspector)  Bungay Suffolk England

1874 - Birth: George William LAWS-3538, (Electricity Labourer Retired)                         Litcham Norfolk England

1876 - Birth: William A LAWS-43140 (Confectioner Shop)

1878 - Birth: William George LAWES-27662, (Railway Gatekeeper SR)

1882 - Baptism: Ada LAWES-27780, Headley Hampshire England

1896 - Birth: Walter LAWS-22677, (Rotary Kiln Greaser Cement)  Skipsea
           East Yorkshire England

1897 - Birth: Nora  C M LAWS-41275, Caterham Surrey England

1899 - Birth: Christopher LAWS-36146, (Assistant Ships Steward)
           Kilburn Middlesex England

1899 - Birth: Christopher Henry LAWS-22369,  (Rubber Milter & Vulcanizer)                 Grays Thurrock Essex England

1903 - Birth: Harold George LAWES-37331, (Fruiterer)

1908 - Birth: Alice  LAWS-43148,

1915 - Birth: Hannah LAWS-46029, (Domestic Servant)

1916 - Birth: Arthur Albert LAWS (Cable Testing & Repairer) Greenwich Kent               England

1919 - Birth: Alice Kathleen LAWS-45231, City of London, England

1919 - Birth: Alice C LAWS-42640, (Telephonist)

1919 - Birth: John Frank LAWS-36045, Colman Florida United States

 MARRIAGES
1755 - Marriage: Thomas ROWSELL-8266 and Mary LAWS-7830, 

 1889 - Marriage: William  LAWS-42640,(Coal Miner) and Jane WEEDY-21608,               Byker Northumberland England

DEATHS and BURIALS 
1774 - Death: Alexander LAWS-11119, (Died at Sea, Widow) Bath Somerset England

 1887 - Burial: Edward William LAWS-9949, (1st Mate Master Mariner)  
           Tower Hamlets Cemetery,  Middlesex England

 1902 - Death: John James Holloway LAWES-2134, (Minister/Annuitant) 

 1915 - Death: Swinburn J LAWS-21453, Hammond, Lake County Indiana                         United States

 1916 - Death: Edward Lucian LAWS 2803 (Army Officer) Mombassa Kenya
1940 - Death: William LAWS-32609, (Civilian War dead) West Ham Essex                       England

1940 - Death: Margaret LAWS-32609, (Civilian War dead) LAWS-21816, 
           West Ham Essex England

1940 - Death: Raymond W LAWS-10177, (Civilian War Dead)  West Ham Essex               England
1944 - Death: Troy W LAWS-35762, (2nd Lt US Army 0-890381)

1945 - Death: James Robert LAWS-19086, Hartford, Coffey County Kansas                     United States

1945 - Birth: Dorethia LAWS-13540, Moab, Grand Utah USA

1951 - Death: Edward Gordon LAWES-15712, Stepney Middlesex England
           and Resident at  Leyton Essex England

1957 - Death: Aaron LAWS-4113, (Train Driver)  Ryhope Durham England
           and  Resident at South Shields Durham England

1958 - Death: John Percy  (LAWS-4809, Engine Fitter)  Bexley Kent England

1990 - Death: Shannon Leray LAWS-19320, 

2001 - Death: Virginia Faye LAWS-23012, Huntsville Alabama United States

MISCELLANEOUS 
1916 - Discharged: Herbert LAWS-4212, (ARMY Private 21260 & Labourer)                   Reigate Surrey England

OTHER BIRTHS

1880 - Birth: Joseph Bird CLEGG-6982, (Hairdresser) Bradford West Yorkshire             England

 1861 - Birth: Florence Elizabeth MARTIN-37952,

 1898 - Birth: Hilda Mary WHIDDON-31112, Withycombe Raleigh Devonshire England


 OTHER MARRIAGES


OTHER DEATHS
1886 - Death: Henry ROGERS-10436, Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland

1888 - Death: Harriett LANE-9315, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England

1951 - Death: William WEBB-21864, (Engineer) Birmingham Warwickshire                     England

1966 - Burial: Benjamin JENNINGS-23052, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West                       Yorkshire England

1973 - Burial: Marie BLACK-17579, Blanding Utah United States

1978 - Birth: Phillip Edward HUNTER-21862, Wallasey Cheshire England

1981 - Death: Arthur Benjamin CULLINGFORD-26157, Harwich Essex 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.


Sharon Nicola LAWS
2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 
1974-2017
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