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Wednesday 4th September 2019 - Number 5900

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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 3
HOME 2
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.
The kitchen was decorated in the deco of the period. The matchboarding of the
lower part of the walls was painted a light brown like the dresser, and the upper
walls were done in a strong cream gloss. I'm pretty sure there were lace curtains
the same as the rest of the house. Just a touch of an earlier period was the fringe
to the mantlepiece where the tea caddy (an ornamental tin), the candlesticks and
the spill jar stood. The fireguard had a nice brass rim at the top, well polished by
the constant touching of hands and glistened from the fire and the gaslight.
Behind it was the black kitchen range, a solid fuel stove with two ovens and a
back boiler for hot water. Much of the cooking was done on it in the winter using
heavy old iron cooking pots which must have been heirlooms. It the only heating
in the house till late afternoon unless the bedroom gas fires were used to dress by.
The kitchen stove was lit at six in the morning normally by Lottie, though I
remember my dad doing it on one occasion with me looking on.
Everyone else must have been out of action I reckon.
The scullery next to the kitchen saved the yellowish shallow sink and the black
iron gas cooker with its brass taps from spoiling the kitchen. It was definitely a
workplace. the built-in copper had a fire below it to boil the wash. the mangle
was enormous with big wooden rollers to get the water out before and after
rinsing. the corrugated washboard had not yet been passed on to the skiffle group.
Clothing must have been tough to withstand the battering. It all had to be ironed
of course which was done on the kitchen table on the ironing cloth conveniently
kept in its end drawer. Two heavy flat-irons were used one in use while the other
was reheated on the gas cooker. No thermostats on these, a drop of spit on the
finger applied to the hot iron would tell whether the sizzle was about right.
The one convenience, so to speak, about the scullery was the downstairs loo was
entered from it. At that time they were normally out in the garden waiting for the
first hard frost to put them out of action. Indeed so were most of those of the
houses built in the later building boom of the early thirties.
There was one other work area, the coal cellar, prohibited to the infant population.
This too was better than the thirties houses which had coal bunkers in the garden
from which the fuel must be fetched come rain snow or shine. The descent to the
cellar, through a door in the hall passage, was steep to go down and perhaps
steeper to climb up laden with a bucket of coal, so some may dispute my feeling
that it was better than going out in the rain.
The coal came into the cellar through the coal-hole in the top front step which was
recessed into the house to give a small porch with the iron cover of the coal-hole
in the centre. Four of five sandstone steps led up from street level and the
coalman would carry his enormous sack up and upend it over the hole.
Needless to say, this spoiled the pristine cleanliness of the whitened step and
was not a popular event. Personally, I liked to see the patient carthorse observing
the proceedings while digging into his nosebag and enjoying the enforced rest.
Having delivered his orders, the coalman would patrol the streets calling 'Coal' at
intervals in the hope of casual customers.
Much the same perhaps as the 'butanero' delivering gas in today's Spain, though
he needs no call, the clatter of his lorry enough to rouse the customers.

As well as the coal store there was plenty of space in the cellar with a sort of
second room into which a feeble light filtered bt a small window below the
'front room' bay. I remember it as a junk store but maybe it was just things
one couldn't throw away. Perhaps the most valuable thing in the cellar was the
cold tap which didn't freeze even in the coldest snap when everybody's pipes
were frozen and standpipes had to be put up in the streets.


to be continued tomorrow

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Family events for today Wednesday 4th September

 BIRTHS 
1640 - Christen: Elizabeth LAWES-1684, Benets Wharf Middlesex England

 1748 - Christen: Ann  LAWS-8068, (base born dau)  Stourton Wiltshire England
1825 - Baptism: Harry James  LAWES-254, (Commercial Traveller)

1865 - Birth: John Edward  LAWS-5336, (Ag Lab)  South Creake Norfolk                         England

1884 - Birth: Nellie Edith LAWS-8473, Weasenham All Saints Norfolk England

1885 - Birth: Clifton F LAWS-16294, (PVT US Army 182241)
  
1887 - Birth: Elizabeth Emily (Dressmaker) LAWES-15687, Edmondsham Dorset England

1889 - Birth: William Frederick John Littleton LAWS-18121 (RN Rigger  AB)                 233462 Saltash Cornwall England

1891 - Birth: Ada LAWS-15344, West Walton Norfolk England

1896 - Birth: Archie Bishop LAWS-47826, Lawrence County Tennessee
           United States

1897 - Birth: Fred LAWS-41302,  (Farmer)

1898 - Birth: Alice May LAWES-23234, Old Alresford Hampshire England

1899 - Birth: Norman LAWS-17300, (Ships Platers Assistant) West Hartlepool                 Durham England

1900 - Birth: Harry Eustace LAWS-18051, (Insurance Claims Superintendent)                 Fulham Middlesex England

1905 - Birth: James Medlin LAWS-50025, Trail, Dewey County, Oklahoma, USA


1908 - Birth: Helen E LAWS-47709, 


1908 - Birth: Reginald LAWS-46617,  N W (Decorator)

1917 - Birth: Florence LAWES-16249, 

MARRIAGES

 1738 - Marriage: John LAWS-5280 and Janet CHESSING-5281, Weeting                         Norfolk  England (St Mary All Saints)


1785 - Marriage: Thomas POST-26458 and Anne LAWS-26459, Ly mpne Castle               Kent England

1787 - Marriage: John CLARKE-22325 (widower)  and Ann LAWS-Strumpshaw             Norfolk England(Widow)

1869 - Marriage: George LAWS-4730  (Coachman Dom) and Catherine Jane                   MERRITT-4725, Shedfield Hampshire England
1887 - Marriage: James Lawn  LAWS-12144 (Waiter in City)  and Alice BUTT-                15164, Saint Pancras Middlesex England

1906 - Marriage: Robert James LAWES-21059 and Beatrice Maud EWLES-                     21060, Norwich Norfolk England
          Norfolk England

 1910 - Marriage: Joseph WHITMORE-40057 (Motor Conductor)  and Elizabeth             Jane LAWS-40058, Pimlico Middlesex England

 1920 - Marriage: James CUMMINGS-20610 and Mary Lizzie LAWS-20609,

 1938 - Marriage: Howard Leslie BARRATT-11818 and Janet Alma Scott  LAWS-             11816, (Shop assistant)Walthamstow Essex England

DEATHS and BURIALS 
1887 - Residence: Alice BUTT-15164, Saint Pancras Middlesex England


1887 - Residence: James Lawn LAWS-12144, (Waiter in City) Saint Pancras                     Middlesex England

1808 - Burial: Alexander LAWS-34696, South Shields Durham England


1856 - Death & burial John LAWES-33850, Montevideo Uraguay

1862 - Burial: Elizabeth LAWS-5610,  (Widow) Egham Surrey England

1900 - Burial: John Bennett LAWES-215, Harpenden Hertfordshire England

1904 - Death: Francis LAWES-12302, Michel, British Columbia Canada


1906 - Death: Charlotte E LAWS-39864,

1917 - Death: Albert Geoffrey LAWES-28062 (Army Private 41865 5th battalion             Royal Eniskilling Fusiliers), France & Flanders

1922 - Death: George Richard  LA WES-475,(Master Miller)  Vernon British                   Columbia Canada

1928 - Death: Henry LAWS-31394, (Chalk Quarry Labourer)  Tilbury Essex                     England


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

1985 - Admon: Frederic Patrick LAWS-33949, LAWES-14214, (Barrister at Law) Brighton   Sussex England

2000 - Death: Richard Bernard LAWES-14214, (Cost Accountant (retired)  Galston, Terry Hills New South Wales (Glenorie) Australia


2000 - Death: Lillian LAWS-12287, Campleltown New South Wales Australia

2009 - Death: Elsie Caroline LAWES-44542, Newbury Berkshire England

MISCELLANEOUS 1803 - Christen: Charlotte Lucy SEPPINGS-37714, Chatham Kent England
1759 -1945 - Death: William Henry Bateman (Mech Eng Apprentice) LAWES-191, Milford Hampshire England
1945 - Residence: William Henry Bateman (Mech Eng Apprentice) LAWES-191, New Milton on Sea Hampshire England
1960 - Burial: James Dee LAWS-22255, Huntingdon Utah United States
1970 - Burial: Ann LAWS-29196, Mere Knolls Cemetary, Sunderland (Fullwell) DUR
1980 - Death: Harry Percival James (Capstan Turner) LAWS-37253, Reading Berkshire England
 Death: Elizabeth  Caroline HANOVER-22102, Kew Palace SRY England

1871 - Occupation: David C (Master Mariner) LAWS-16790, Mauritius - Sydney
OTHER BIRTHS

1803 - Christen: Charlotte Lucy SEPPINGS-37714, Chatham Kent England

1843 - Birth: Samantha HOPPER-13554, Ruswarp North Yorkshire England
1904 - Birth: Samuel Harry HAMMERSLEY-35430, Stoke on Trent Staffordshire England

OTHER MARRIAGES
1915 - Marriage: Thomas R SMITH-6525 and Catherine Charlesworth (Weaver Cloth) CHARTERS-13852, Bramley West Yorkshire England


OTHER DEATHS
1908 - Burial: Jessie CLEGG-25290, Outwood West Yorkshire England
1934 - Death: Mary Therasa (Widow) FORESTER-9788, Le Zoutle BELGIUM
1985 - Death: Martha Ann JOHNSON-34912, Lenoir North Carolina United States
2003 - Death: Mary E VANMILLER-12434, The Laurels, Sandy Creek, Wayland MI

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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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