Friday 21st February 2020 - Number 5974

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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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We only show births before 1920 and marriages before 1940.

(If you are seeking to find folk after these years you should contact the registrar.)

Extracted from our database today 21st February

1695 - Baptism: Ann LAWS-10372, Bywell Northumberland England
1773 - Baptism: Ann LAWS-10366, Heddon-on-the-Wall Northumberland England
1773 - Burial: Mary LAWES-2151, Ketteringham Norfolk England
1773 - Burial: William HUGGINS-2150, Ketteringham Norfolk England
1800 - Birth: Henry LAWS-7036, (Master Mariner) Walworth Surrey England
            (My paternal 2nd Great grandfather)
1802 - Baptism: Hanna LAWES-20741, Homington Wiltshire England
1813 - Baptism: Jonah LAWS-6797, (Glassworks Foreman) Whickham Durham                England
1819 - Christen: Mary Ann LAWS-7832, Croydon Surrey England
1828 - Marriage: George HERRINGTON-19695 (Woodman)  and Mary Ann                    LAWES-19694, Bower Chalke Wiltshire England

1828 - Baptism: Sarah HARRIS-544, Martin Wiltshire England
1842 - Birth: Charles SMITH-9598, Hurstbourne Tarrant Hampshire England
1848 - Birth: Hannah B LAWS-21589, Heworth Durham England
1849 - Birth: Robert Cuthbert LAWS-6433, (Farmer 196 Acres)  Lamesley                       Durham England
1856 - Marriage: Henry Finch  (Butcher) and Louisa Anne LAWS-26414, 
           Saint Pancras Middlesex England, Henry Finch  HILL-30557,
           of Harrow on the Hill Middlesex England & Louisa Anne LAWS-26414,
           of Saint Pancras Middlesex England
1861 - Occupation: Thomas Francis Cresswell LAWS-26602,
           (Ships Steerage Steward)
1865 - Marriage: William Charles HARDING-16839 and Mary Ann SMITH-                   16840, Wollombi, New South Wales Australia
1867 - Marriage: William Francis BRANT-13936 (Gun Sight Maker)  and Mary                Ann POSTON-13937, Birmingham Warwickshire England
             (My Maternal Second Great Grandfather)
1869 - Birth: Statie LAWS-16744,
1869 - Birth: William James  LAWES-10115, (Millers Traveller &
            Auctioneers Clerk) West Lavington Wiltshire England
1876 - Burial: Richard LAWS-44590, Egham Surrey England
1877 - Birth: Minnie S RICHARDS-19854, Bristol Gloucestershire England

1877 - Death: Edgar S LAWS-13599, 
1883 - Birth: Charles LAWS-43295, (Electric Supply fitter)
1888 - Burial: Charles William LAWS-31352, (Merchants Clerk/Ship Agent)                     Stoke Newington Middlesex England
1889 - Birth: Clare Cecil LAWS-15990, Great Massingham Norfolk England
1892 - Marriage: Washington L LAWS-49379 and Mary Ann STOCKTON-                     49381, Jenkins, Barry, Missouri, United States
1892 - Birth: Mary Frances PEDERSON-27344, Colonia Diaz, Galeana,                             Chihuahua MEXICO
1895 - Marriage: Hermann Edmund SCHLEICHER-36030 and Elizabeth Jane               LAWS-3476, Sydney New South Wales Australia
1897 - Birth: Ernest Vincent LAWES-1267, (Publicist Editor & Journalist) 
           South Norwood Surrey England
1898 - Death: Henry LAWES-13039, Brooke Township, Lambton County,                         Ontario Canada
1899 - Marriage: Issac HALL-16619 (Farmer) and Olive LAWS-16618,                              Sunnidale. Simcoe County Ontario
1902 - Birth: Margaret L B Stuart-40923, 
1903 - Death: Henry LAWS-37996, Brentwood Essex England
1903 - Birth: Fred LAWS-3733, Anlaby East Yorkshire England
1908 - Death: Eliza LAWS-8074, (Widow) Epsom Surrey England
1909 - Baptism: Kathleen Violet BROWN-45315, Hersham Surrey England
1910 - Birth: Alfred Charles LAWES-37491,  (Groom Handyman)
1912 - Birth: Elsie M LAWES-43992, (Domestic Servant) 
1913 - Death: Thomas LAWS-5524, (Baker) Darlington Durham England
1915 - Marriage: William Louis Conrad NAVIER-42227 and Alice Marie LAWS-             11653, Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire England

1915 - Birth: Barbara Gertrude LAWS-40307, 
1916 - Birth: Sydney Miller LAWS-50823, 
1917 - Birth: Alice HODDER-21070, Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire                           England
1919 - Birth: Arthur V R LAWES-47345, (Builders Labourer)
1919 - Death: Martha SMITH-8495, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1922 - Death: Rosa Ella HEWETT-16083, Franklin County Texas United States
1923 - Death: Charles Westley LAWS-39335, Park Ridge New Jersey 
           United States
1924 - Death: Jane Jennifer LAWS-8717, Middlesbrough North Yorkshire                         England
1925 - Marriage: Francis ANNETT'S-35321 and Alice Mary LAWES-35320,                     Carlton Wiltshire England
1938 - Death: Arthur WOKES-19215, Leeds West Yorkshire England
1945 - Death: D W LAWS-32831, (RCAF Sergeant Aircrew)  Helenaveen,
           Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
1945 - Burial: D W LAWS-32831, (RCAF Sergeant Aircrew)  Nijmegan Holland
1947 - Departure: Daisy Emily WRATH-42298, Southampton Hampshire                         England
1947 - Departure: Ronald C LIVERSUTCH-42297, (Engineer) Southampton                    Hampshire England
1947 - Residence: Ronald CLIVERSUTCH-42297,  (Engineer) Cantwell, Cardiff              Glamorgan Wales
1952 - Death: Thomas William Edward (Bootmaker/Repairer) & LAWES-6340,               Hastings Sussex England
1958 - Burial: Norah Kathleen LANPHIER-2058, Redcomb Cirencester                              Gloucestershire England
1958 - Burial: James T LAWS-16359, (PVT US Army)  Long Island New York                  United States
1960 - Death: George Henry SCHOFIELD-13393, Manchester Lancashire                         England
1961 - Death: Maxwell Vaughan LAWS-12638, (Royal Australian Navy)                             Glenferrie Victoria Australia
1964 - Death: Athol Robinson LAWS-3136, (Australian Army) Tatura, Victoria               Australia
1964 - Death: Arthur LAWS  Shepparton Victoria Australia
1969 - Death: Annie Maria LAWES-702, Montrose Angus Scotland
1978 - Death: Vera Nellie Irene LAWS-34184, Ipswich Suffolk England

1978 - Death: Alice Grace LAWS-14269, 
1979 - Admon: Alfred John (Farmer) (Tool-Turner Aero &  (RN F26329) )                        LAWS-41503, Birmingham Warwickshire England
1987 - Burial: Wilbur Francis LAWS-22290, Blanding Utah United States
1995 - Death: George Edward LAWS-24577, (Machinist) Utica New York
            United States
1997 - Death: Doreen ESPONISA-50539, Monterey California United States
2003 - Death: Bonnie LAWS-11445, 
2006 - Death: Verna Lucille TIPTON-35357, 
2008 - Death: John Brian LAWS-40882, 
2011 - Death: Sylvia CARD-20319, Salisbury Wiltshire England

MORE TOMORROW

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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A CHILD OF THE 1920s, 

AS SEEN FROM THE 1990s

by

John Robert Laws 1921-2008

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Further Afield

The school journeys abroad were more of a revelation than the camps. Package holidays had not yet been dreamed up and although the wealthy might holiday in the South of France or, you could ‘Join the Army and see the world’, the general urge to travel was only just beginning. 

I recall a book called  ‘France on ten pounds’ but only a few had the inclination, the time and the ten pounds, to follow its inviting advice. Trips by school parties must have whetted the appetite of many in the latter part of the years between the wars.

We went to Paris in 1937, the year of the big Paris Exhibition. It was immediately evident that our French was not their French, understanding some of the written signs seemed to be our limit. As well as the historic buildings of the city which are compulsory viewing for all visitors we were able to visit the exhibition, grandiosely laid out with a long vista of lakes and fountains down a slope towards the Eiffel Tower. The contents of the impressive pavilions seemed insignificant compared to the buildings particularly the Soviet building surmounted by enormous figures of a man and a woman holding aloft a hammer and a sickle.  

What we really enjoyed, however, was the roller coaster ride which must have made tame all previous efforts in this direction. This and the ascent of the Eiffel Tower, which laid out a map of Paris below us were the highlights of the day of sunshine and unnoticed footslogging.

Of the conventional sights of Paris, the stained glass impressed me most and then the white mass of Sacre’ Coeur on its hill looking down on the city, where the ever-present taxis hurtled around corners blaring on their horns. The traffic must have been light or they could not have done it.   

Our few days of cultural duty in Paris done, we had a day or two at Wimereau on the channel coast, lazing, swimming and sitting on the beach. The beach was vast and flat with a good stiff breeze for the sand yachts which trundled along and across at a fair pace. A new sight for me then and one which I have never seen since. 

Even now there seems to be an air of the past, over the French channel coast resorts, even those destroyed in the war and have been since rebuilt, it would have been impossible to have imagined one to be on the English side of the channel.  

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In 1938 the school trip was to Italy, this was much more adventurous even apart from the political troubles which led to the war a year later.  We left Southgate tube station in the late afternoon to get the train from London and crossed the channel overnight to get to another train to trundle across France and through the fantastic alpine scenery to Milan in Northern Italy. 

Milan was just hot. We duly admired the thousand or so little spires of the enormous cathedral but saw very little or the ornate interior because we were shooed out on account of our short sleeves, 

Florence and Verona were different, they still are, despite the ravages of the motor car, and even as teenagers, I think we appreciated their beauty and agelessness despite our considerable interest in ice cream and fizzy bottled orangeade which we had discovered. You see little in a couple of days but these visits like the Italian ice cream awakened a  taste for more.

No loitering, however, on to Venice which was busy being itself, more quietly than it does now. We duly traversed the Grand Canal by Vaporetto, under the Rialto Bridge and on to St Marks Square and the pigeons. It was memorable and it all matched the guide books so we went on to the Lido for a swim in the Med. This was a real revelation. 

The water was warm not like the sea we knew at home. You could stay in without getting cold. The discovery of the journey.

More trains, wooden seats, all tracks lead to Rome, a quick glimpse really, a full week spent wandering around Rome in later life only scratched the surface.

More trains, more wooden seats down south to Napoli. This was before the motor car engulfed Italy and I have photos to prove it showing the Naples seafront with nothing more than a couple of policemen and a tricycle ice cream vendor. 

We did not see the slums of Naples, but we did visit a home, a hutted camp that is, for orphans who were at least fed and clothed while they learned to shout for 'Il Duce’. 

We were treated to a glass of sweet wine and a speech in Italian pledging friendship from a uniformed gentleman who presumably ran the place. Back at the hotel that evening we ate at tables set in the open air under a lemon tree from which I had to pick a small souvenir.   

To be continued tomorrow

  

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Sharon Nicola LAWS

2008 Olympics Cyclist

Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 

1974-2017

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