Tuesday 3rd September 2019 - Number 5899

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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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16,602 Families  +3

120,219 Events  + 24

All in 10,478 Places +2

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A CHILD OF THE 1920's

AS SEEN FROM THE 1990's

by

John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 2

HOME

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.

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.

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 sideway 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 path 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.

The kitchen furnishings were plain and useful. A large deal table with an end drawer and covered with a tablecloth. one leg very tatty from being used as a scratching post by the cat. Bentwood chairs, comfortable enough but a little creaky, one an elbow chair the rest plain but with the usual pressed pattern on the seat. A built-in brown painted dresser with drawers and cupboards below and a slightly mixed collection of plates on edge on the shelves with the cups hanging from hooks on the front. Meals were usually taken in the kitchen except at weekends when lunch (called dinner) and tea were taken in the dining room. fortunately the kitchen was a good-sized room and a child could run about and play on the floor with little impediment.

The cat which had used the table leg as a scratching post was known by the unlikely name of Ma. It appears that I christened it with the only word in my vocabulary at a very early age. It was an undistinguished tabby which would catch the occasional unwary mouse but would spend more time snoozing in front of the fire. It seemed that every house had mice at that time. Food was more accessible before fridges and freezers.

to be continued tomorrow

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Family events for today Tuesday 4th September

 BIRTHS 

1815 - Baptism: Henry LAWS-6206 (Carpenter)  Norwich Norfolk England

1837 - Birth: Ann LAWS-3883, Bethnal Green Middlesex England

1872 - Death: Arthur George LAWS-3623, Cowra New South Wales Australia

1877 - Death: William LAWS-6897, (Farmer/Grazier) Holbeach Drove Lincolnshire England

1872 - Birth: William LAWS-37046, (Joiner) 

1885 - Birth: Myrtle D LAWS-6580, 

1902 - Birth: John Thomas LAWES-46862, (Grocer Employed now as an Ag Lab) 
           Whaplode Lincolnshire England

1902 - Birth: Edwin Lawson LAWS-33671, (Insurance Official)  Brixton Surrey England

1907 - Birth: Bertram T LAWES-47373, (Press Tool Setter)  

1911 - Birth: Edward Martin LAWS-16310, 

1913 - Birth: Doris Lena LAWES-30968, 

1915 - Birth: Grace E L LAWES-48635, (Telephone Operator) 

1916 - Birth: Nancy LAWS-43490, (Assistant Colliery Wages Clerk)  Ashington                                       Northumberland England

MARRIAGES

1622 - Marriage: Thomas CLARKE-9609 and Anne LAWS-22324, Strumpshaw Norfolk                       England

1659 - Marriage: Anthony LAWES-2707 and Margaret HUNTER-2708, 
           Tynemouth Northumberland England

1761 - Marriage: Richard ARGAR-17197 and Ann LAWS-17196, Stelling Kent England or                    Canterbury Kent England (St Martin)

1772 - Marriage: Jonathan ALLEN-12091 and Jane LAWS-12090, Hillingdon Middlesex                       England

1808 - Marriage: William LAWES-322 and Barbara CHASE-332, Bosham Sussex England

1837 - Marriage: Richard HEWITSON-19444 and Mary Ann LAWS-19445, 
           Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1840 - Marriage: William LUCKMAN-30548 and Margaret LAWS-30549, Bloomsbury                         Middlesex England

1847 - Marriage: John LAWS-43490, (Mining Engineer & Agent) x and 
           Isabella JOHNSTONE- 31527, 

1910 - Marriage: Augustus 1918 - Marriage: Albert LAWS-3728 and Harriet May ANSON-                   3729, Anlaby East Yorkshire England

1919 - Marriage: Philip Sidney PALMER-44087 and Marian Louise LAWS-21050, 
           Buckhurst Hill ESS England

1922 - Marriage: Georges Edouard Marie Claude PETITPIERRE-32464 and Mary Mack                     ANDERSON-36315, (Nurse)  Belford Northumberland England

1932 - Marriage: Fred Preston LAWS-11022 and Margaret NELSON-18209, 

DEATHS and BURIALS 

1905 Death: Sarah (Spinster) Chelsea Middlesex England

1919 - Burial: James LAWS-28381, (Butcher) Cargo New South Wales Australia

1948 - Death: LAWS-21848, Henry (Painter House Repairer) LAWS-34736, Lanbeth 
           Surrey England

1952 - Death: Arthur Edward LAWS-23890, (RN M5611) Shrewsbury Shropshire England

1958 - Burial: Basil W LAWS-16276, (MUSC2C US Army)  Eagle Point Oregon United States

1968 - Burial: John Shields LAWS-16368,(Lt Col US Air Force)  New Bern North Carolina                    United States  

1990 - Death: Frederick LAWS-48746, Billingham Durham England

1993 - Death: Hilton Joseph LAWS-12274, Beecroft New South Wales Australia

1996 - Probate: Richard Ernest George LAWS-35272, City of London, England

2016 - Death: Henry Freeman LAWS-42143, Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland

2017 - Death: Marion LAWS-45480, 

MISCELLANEOUS 

1914 - Enlistment: George Robert LAWS-28219, (ARMY Driver 26387)  Newcastle upon Tyne               Northumberland England

OTHER BIRTHS

1848 - Birth: Thomas B MILLER-11997, Mercersburg Maryland USA

1855 - Birth: Elizabeth Margaret TABRAR-38849, Hatton Garden Middlesex England

1869 - Birth: Rosa Ella HEWETT-16083, 

1878 - Birth: Jane Annie Marion SCOUSE-39839, Henley on Thames Oxfordshire England

1880 - Baptism: Joseph William TURNER-44963, (Plasterer) Hackney Middlesex England

1899 - Baptism: Alice Mabel TRIMMER-27306, Petworth Sussex England

1919 - Birth: Robert Shaftoe TURNER-41513, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

OTHER MARRIAGES

OTHER DEATHS

1893 - Death: James Loudon GORDON-33806 (Town Clerk), Brechin Angus Scotland

1954 - Death: William Andrew MACILLWRAITH-24829, Southall Middlesex England

1964 - Cremation: Maud Elizabeth WOODS-29326, 

1964 - Death: Maud Elizabeth WOODS-29326, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England but resided               at Enfield Middlesex England

1973 - Death: Marie BLACK-17579, 

2004 - Death: James LeRoy MATTHEWS-41756, 

2006 - Death: Thomas Burnard DUTTON-49966, Tulsa Oklahoma United States

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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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