Saturday 22nd February 2020 - Number 5975

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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

1652 - Baptism: Bridget LAWS-13016, Ormesby Saint Michael Norfolk England
1790 - Marriage: Gabriel ELLIOTT-50409 and Mary LAWS-50410, Holborn                    Middlesex England
1804 - Baptism: William SHINGLES-21056, (Ostler)  Acle Norfolk England
1812 - Birth: Spencer Nesbit LAWS-22453, Wilkes County North Carolina
           United States
1818 - Baptism: John G  LAWS-7332, (Jobbing Gardener) Lavenham Suffolk                   England

1842 - Birth: Ann LAWS-6247, Southery Norfolk England
1843 - Marriage: Samuel RAINER-23906 (Labourer) and Rebecca LAWS-23907,             Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk, England

1844 - Marriage: Samuel LAWS-26251 (Glazier)  and Mrs RAVEN-26252,                         Southwold Suffolk England

1854 - Marriage: Joseph LAWES-181 (Miller)  and Sarah Jane COLLINS-182,                  Chippenham Wiltshire England
1855 - Birth: Patience Emily Alma TUDGAY-49485, Rochester Kent England
1860 - Marriage: John P LAWS-16867 and Mary ALEXANDER-16868, 
1861 - Birth: Phillip John LAWS-6940, (Tailor's manager) Fincham Norfolk                     England

1877 - Death: Sallie L LAWS-13601, 
1877 - Death: Sarah LAWS-13216, Bowral, New South Wales Australia
1880 - Baptism: Lewis LAWS-37939, (Railway Signalman) East Winch Norfolk               England

1882 - Birth: John W LAWS-43114, (Blacksmith General Engineer Railway                     Wagon)
1884 - Birth: Wendall Phillips LAWS-11973, Chester Township, Howard, 
           Iowa United States
1889 - Birth: Ernest E LAWES-12522, (Poultry Farm Labourer)  Bishopstoke                   Hampshire England
1889 - Birth: Mary Belle LUNSFORD-11915,
1892 - Birth: Rosa Minnie Bell LAWS-50065, 
1892 - Marriage: Frederick Charles LAWES-10437 (Commercial Traveller)  and             Margaret WILLIAMS-24008, Llantrithyd, Glamorgan, Wales
1893 - Birth: Jessie Winifred LAWES-23993, Devonport Devonshire England

1894 - Birth: Ethel May Ivy LAWS-22541, Richmond Victoria Australia
1895 - Birth: Harold Vivian LAWS-33720, Oregon United States
1897 - Marriage: Job LEWIS-24130 and Ada Mary LAWES-1428, Droxford                     Hampshire England
1898 - Marriage: Joseph Wattam MILLSON-40174 (Groom)  and Eveline                         JENNINGS-17068, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England
            (My wife's 1st cousin twice removed) 
1899 - Residence: Edward John LAWS-16916, (Clothier)  Bristol Gloucestershire             England

1900 - Birth: Thomas Henry LAWS-23893, (RN K49810) West Hartlepool                         Durham England

1901 - Death: Joseph (Coke Drawer) LAWS-6386, Bothwell Utah United States
1902 - Birth: Frederick Reginald LAWS-20410, (Night Telephonist GPO)
           Ryde Isle of Wight England

1902 - Birth: Willie WEEKLEY-18897, Akansas United States
1902 - Birth: Sarah Helena May LEACH-11308, Queensland Australia
1903 - Birth: Alice GIBSON-40316, 
1904 - Birth: Henry WALSH-47224, (Stock Maintenance & Record Clerk
           Cossier & Refactor & Dtn Tel Equipment)
1906 - Birth: Gladys Irene LAWS-23357, Wandsworth Surrey England
1906 - Death: Mary Ann LAWS-7833, (Widow) Wimbledon Surrey England
1908 - Burial: Dorothy LAWS-27550, Stockton-On-Tees Durham England
1909 - Birth: Albert Edward LAWS-41420, (Bricklayer)
1909 - Birth: Charles Benjamin LAWES-11210, (Groom in Racing Stables)                        Liverpool Lancashire England
1911 - Birth: George LAWS-42689, (Public Works labourer)
1914 - Birth: Frederick LAWS-12613, (Australian Army) Leichhardt,
            New South Wales Australia
1916 - Birth: Olive CHARTERS-13843, Wortley West Yorkshire England
            (My wife's late mother)
1916 - Enlistment: Arthur Stanley LAWS-11724, 
1916 - Residence: Hannah WATSON-2595, Viking Alberta Canada
1917 - Birth: Timothy O'SULLIVAN-35445, City of London, England
1919 - Death: Mary Ruth Ann LAWS-35501, Woodward Oklahoma United States
1921 - Residence: Frederick LAWS-22390, (Engineer & Machinist)
           Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
         

1924 - Death: John LAWS-6381, (Railway Porter)
1925 - Death: William LAWS-10478, (Ag Lab)  Peterborough Cambridgeshire                 England
1931 - Death: William Scott LAWS-7397, Twyford Lodge, Acton Lane Acton                     Middlesex England
1936 - Death: Milford Mead BROWER-18864, Seattle King Co., Washington                   United States
1938 - Marriage: Douglas Watson LAWS-40565 and Verna Vaneta HARRIS-                   19381, Portage, Box Elder County Idaho United States
1941 - Death: Francis William LAWES-38020, Handsworth Staffordshire                         England
1941 - Death: George Ditter LAWS-22515, Mount Vernon, Franklin County                     Texas United States
1956 - Death: Gaines Augusta LAWS-20059,
1959 - Death: Leah FRANKS-36371, Barnet Hertfordshire England
1971 - Death: Deliah Jane MCGEE-47832, Lawrence County.Tennessee
            United States
1974 - Cremation: Ernest Leslie LAWS-39492, Overdale Lancashire England
1980 - Death: Reuben Arthur LAWS-28229, (Egg Merchant) Folkestone Kent                   England

1982 - Death: Albert Edward LAWES-35452, (Cowman)
1985 - Death: John Ernest Arthur LAWS-41869, Dagenham Essex England
1991 - Death: Barbara LAWS-19667, Layer Breton, Colchester Essex England
1991 - Burial: Hubert LAWS-16350, (PFC US Army)  Houston, Harris County                 Texas United States
1996 - Probate: Ada May LAWS-35278, Winchester Hampshire England

2000 - Burial: Russell Gary LAWS-16423, (DC3 US Navy) Riverside California                 United States
2005 - Death: Marie FOX-20236, Burnsville, Yancey, North Carolina, 
           United States
2012 - Death: Brian Donald Percy GRAYLING-44057, Eastleigh Hampshire                     England
2015 - Death: Stanley Eric LAWS-40763, Ipswich Suffolk 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

Further Afield

The highlights of the Naples visit were the late evening view over the lights over the city, from a highpoint on the northern edge with Vesuvius in the background. The ascent of Vesuvius itself and seeing the excavated city of Herculaneum. 

The volcano was pretty well behaved at that time and having gone up by the funicular rail car we were able to descend into the enormous crater where a constant roman candle of lava blobs was building a new central cone. Intrepid Italian entrepreneurs were busy pushing coins into the little blobs before they cooled and selling the resulting souvenirs to tourists.

In contrast to the lively volcano, Herculaneum was many centuries’ dead. With its heavy shroud of volcanic ash shovelled and swept away its slab paved streets peopled with a few groups of tourists were not for me evocative of the crowds of shoving and successful citizens who thronged its streets until the Reaper came with his volcano. 

For the same reason, it was not depressing either, it was another museum with fine examples of a Roman town complete with arts and crafts collected on the spot.

Why do I not remember the long journey back, it was just unmemorable or were there too many little bottles with our packed lunches so that we dozed on the wooden seats. Perhaps we just got tired, almost unthinkable in one's teenage years.

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NORWAY 

The Journey to Norway was different. We went on an old troopship and it was boys only, a big party hundreds-strong from many schools, no hotel this time we slept in hammocks slung above the tables where we ate by day. It was hot and we had the occasional chance to sleep on deck instead of in the hammocks. The hard deck was just as impossible as the sagging hammocks. At least we learnt that a bed is a luxury.

Bergen was the first port of call. The ship tied up along the long quay where the town faces out over the water and which seemed to us to be the town centre. The funicular railway took us up to the viewpoint above the town from which the town and its harbour and the fiord running out towards the sea are laid out like a green map with blue water and red roofs with toy boats at rest in the harbour. 

We also went into the mountains by way of the railway which climbs its way over to Oslo. The railway the like of which we had never seen before, as it clambered through the steep ascent with the aid of a central rack rail and crawled through tunnels and across rock faces to take us up and out onto the high land. There we walked and saw the ski runs and the big wooden structure of the ski jump all stranded in the grass with not a flake of snow in the hot sunshine.

Despite the rocky terrain, rich grass seemed to be the predominant colour of the countryside as we sailed along the coast and into Sogne Fiord where our ship was dwarfed to a toy again between the towering mountains on either side. Here and there tiny fields of hay were patched into the forest on the mountain waterside. 

High prowed boats rowed with long oars used the water as a highway from farm to farm and field to field. At the end of the fiord, we went ashore in the ship's boats and walked up the valley beside the bubbling bouldered river to the foot of the glacier which feeds it. A mountain of rather grubby ice in the blazing hot sunshine turning into sparkling clear water with which we quenched our thirst on the walk back.

The furthest north we went was Trondheim, a little stone town on a hilly site beside the water. No doubt used to visitors, despite the infancy of tourism, the peace did not seem disturbed by the invasion of a few hundred English schoolboys. They had done their share of invading Britain a few centuries ago and were themselves to be invaded by less welcome visitors only two or three years later.

On the ship our amusements were simple, I seem to remember the old English sports day pastime of jousting astride a slippery pole over a canvas pool of water and we had a few homegrown concerts and sing-along’s to disturb the quiet of evening at sea. Not that the North Sea was quiet all the time, there were moments when we lost all interest in food and spent time admiring the view over the rail. It was certainly different from all our other trips,

The End 

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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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