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Sunday 8th September 2019 - Number 5904

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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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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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16,619 Families  +17

120,273 Events  + 54

All in 10,486 Places +8

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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 7
PEOPLE

The tradesmen were the people who are impressed on my memory. Delivery was the order of the day despite shopping on an almost daily basis. The milkman had an open-backed float with churns in it and would dip the milk out with a long-handled measure into your jug. It was not long till he graduated to a horse and cart with four wheels and milk in glass bottles with cardboard tops but in very hot weather, despite two deliveries a day, you still had to boil the milk soon after delivery before it went off. 

My mother used to tell me that when she lived in Devon as a child they had their own cow and that after milking she would separate the cream which she loved and churn the butter. That was all gone for town dwellers of course, but in the grocers shop the butter would still be scooped up and patted into shape instead of arriving in oblong paper packets.

The grocer delivered as well and his man would arrive at the doorstep and jog the memory with a verbal list of commodities delivered in a rapid-fire voice rather like a market auctioneer."Salt - Pepper - Vinegar-Mustard" he would fire away and then take up his list at the same point after he had been interrupted with an item. 

The baker's man pulled a two-wheeled handcart with a rounded top and a leg at the back so that it didn't tip up when he let go. He would delve into this for the loaf you wanted, warm and crusty and certainly not wrapped or sliced! The postman was distinctive in his blue uniform with red piping and his odd little flat hat, almost a helmet. He did not bring a load of junk mail for the dustman to take away again, and what he delivered today had been posted yesterday except from, foreign parts.

It is odd to have no memory of a butcher delivering at that time, perhaps my mother preferred to select our meat in the shop. There were certainly butchers boys to be seen on their delivery bicycles with a basket on the front, whistling their way around the streets. Later, in the thirties, we had a butcher who would call early and then would come back with the meat in time for lunch. Going by the name of Sam Collins he was a big beefy fellow with a perpetual grin who was everybody’s friend.

There were street traders in the twenties as throughout the ages. A muffin man came along the street at weekends ringing his handball with a cloth covering a tray of muffins and crumpets on his head. From time to time a knife grinder would come along with a grinding wheel attached to the front of his bicycle and worked in some mysterious way from the pedals. He called as he came, offering his services and out would come the women with their carvers and kitchen knives to sharpen. Most doorsteps were sandstone anyway so there were plenty who managed well without him.

In the High Street, there were those who offered oddments from doorways, matches and lemons spring to mind. Along the gutters the sandwich board men, walked, enclosed in their advertising matter or calls to repentance, sometimes singly sometimes in threes or fours in a straggling crocodile. Occasionally there was an organ grinder on the corner of a side street, winding his handle and his mechanical music would add to the general street noise. 

There is an impression of noisiness in the High Street. Apart from the street traders, there were trams clattering on their steel rails, horses were iron-shod and so were the wheels of most of the carts. Lorries vans and cars were less well silenced and there was even the occasional Steam traction engine. However, there were no motor scooters and the few motorbikes did not roar around.    


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to be continued tomorrow

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Family events for today Saturday 8th September

 BIRTHS 
1796 - Birth: William Robert LAWS-36803, (10 weeks old)

1811 - Baptism: Edward LAWS-36657, Hilgay Norfolk England

1829 - Baptism: Lucinda Ann LAWS-7024, Stepney Middlesex England

1833 - Christen: Sarah LAWS-19582, Saint Botolphs, without Aldgate Middlesex             England

1833 - Birth: Sarah LAWS-19582, Minories City of London

1833 - Baptism: Caroline Ann LAWS-16048, Southwark Surrey England

1839 - Christen: John LAWES-1096, Holbeach Lincolnshire England

1852 - Christen: Katherine E LAWS-3345, Saint John' Horsley Downs                               Bermondsey Surrey England

1856 - Birth: Mary Ann Eliza LAWS-10507, Westminster Middlesex England

1860 - Birth: Rosetta LAWES-2461, (Housemaid) Coombe Bissett Wiltshire                       England

1878 - Birth: William Willoughby LAWS-2776, (Stockbroker) Calcutta Bengal                 India

1882 - Birth: John T LAWS-43720, (Motor Driver)

1883 - Birth: George LAWS-43770,  (Colliery Stoneworker)

1885 - Birth: Herbert John LAWS-15331, (Master Carpenter & shopkeeper)                     Litcham Norfolk England

1886 - Birth: George E LAWS-43112, (Builders Labourer)

1897 - Birth: Leonard Syme LAWS-45799, Connecticut, United States

1903 - Birth: Spencer N LAWS-44861, Texas United States

1905 - Baptism: Elizabeth (Twin with John) LAWS-23856, Ryhope Durham                       England

 MARRIAGES

1889 - Marriage: Francis Samuel  HORROCKS-27994 (Waiter) and                                   Alice LAWES-908, (Nurse / Spinster)  Greenwich Kent England

1900 - Marriage: Edgar Percy Cecil LAWS-4924 (Printers Reader) and                   Sarah Charlotte BARRATT-30684, City of London, England

DEATHS and BURIALS 
1860 - Death: Margaret (Servant) LAWS-21144, 

1930 - Burial: Charles Watson LAWS-2913, (Fancy Draper) Stockton-On-Tees                 Durham England

1944 - Death: Norman Alexander LAWS-2913, (ARMY Trooper 7915590) 

1946 - Death: Caroline LAWES-223, 

1962 - Death: Florence Mary Whittaker LAWES-38067, Eccles Lancashire                       England

1963 - Death: Myrtle Annie LAWS-48150, Edmonton Alberta Canada

1965 - Death: Sidney Thomas (Bricklayer)  Newport Isle of Wight England
           but Resided at Saint Helens Isle of Wight.

1966 - Death Albert Charles LAWS-12583 (Australian Army) Rochester Victoria             Australia

2014 - Death: Edmund Max LAWS-40410, Lexington North Carolina 
           United States


2014 - Death: Maurice Frederick LAWS-26974, Timaru New Zealand

MISCELLANEOUS 

1851 - Occupation: John Henry  LAWS-7876, (Master Mariner)  

 1935 - Arrival: Leonard John LAWES-25598, ( Army Private 17731, 7 Sig Coy,                 Royal Engineers - Aircraft Assembler)  Quebec Canada

OTHER BIRTHS
1822 - Baptism: Elizabeth THOMPSON-8540, Newcastle upon Tyne                                   Northumberland England

1849 - Birth: Sarah Jane FRENCH-4088, (Mariners Wife) Limehouse Middlesex              England

1861 - Birth: Helen DOW-3194, Maffia Victoria Australia

1863 - Birth: John POFFENBERGER-12046, Chewsville, Washington County                 Maryland United States

1866 - Birth: Eva Louisa HEDGES-24100, Ashbury Berkshire England

1869 - Birth: Alice Anne HOLMAN-22596, Stratford Essex England

1883 - Birth: Annie DOBSON-31559, Gateshead Durham England

OTHER MARRIAGES


OTHER DEATHS
1814 - Death: Isaac GREEDUS-47935, Bethnal Green Middlesex England

1944 - Burial: Laura Harriett SMITH-15448, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England

1969 - Burial: Frederick JENNINGS-23053, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe, 
            West Yorkshire England


2009 - Death: Peggie Jean ALLEN-40652, 


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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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2008 Olympics Cyclist
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1974-2017
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