Tuesday 25th February 2020 - Number 5978

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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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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.

Extracted from our database today 25th February

1699 - Birth: Temple LAWES-4528, (Planter of Jamaica)
1753 - Christen: George LAWS-6482, Portsmouth Hampshire England

1805 - Marriage: Greenberry MCGUINNESS-29697 and Sarah LAWS-29696,                     Mercer County Kentucky United States
1812 - Christen: Sarah LAWS-7950, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1813 - Marriage: John LAWES-12399 and Kitty Butters KNIGHT-12400,                         Bedminster Dorset England
1818 - Marriage: James LAWS-22961 (Butcher) and Harriet SNOAD-22962,                     Brookland Kent England
1825 - Birth: William LAWS-22664, (Tailor) Whitechapel Middlesex England
1835 - Death: Elizabeth WARREN-20735, Homington Wiltshire England
1835 - Baptism: Ellen LAWS-19171, (Servant)
1856 - Military: William LAWS-6848,  (Grocer / Licensed Victualler / Coal                       Merchant)
1857 - Birth: Elizabeth Polliard BROWN-1492, South Shields Durham England
1865 - Birth: Kate SLATTER-29819, 
1865 - Death: Jane Loudon LAWS-2956, Prudhoe Northumberland England

1869 - Birth: Arthur John LAWES-1293, (Schoolmaster) Calne Wiltshire                           England
1873 - Birth: Mary Alice LAWS-8578, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland                   England

1875 - Birth: Kate Elizabeth LAWS-5411, (Ladies Maid)  Haveringland Norfolk               England
1881 - Birth: Paulina Grace LAWES-2668, (Housemaid) Chatham Kent England
1881 - Death: Hephzibah TAYLOR-144, Basingstoke Hampshire England

1887 - Birth: Beecher MORGAN-29809, Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee,               United States
1890 - Birth: Edith Ellen G LAWES-47362, (Sick Visitor National Health                           Service)  Derby Derbyshire England
1890 - Birth: Edith Ellen LAWS-15680, Derby Derbyshire England
1894 - Marriage: Daniel Percy JONES-28682 (Warehouse Assistant) and
            Isabella Catherine LAWS-28683, Southwark Surrey England
1897 - Birth: Exle Rosa LAWS-10889, Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas 
           United States
1899 - Birth: Walter George LAWS-15514, (Boiler Maker) Ipswich Suffolk                       England

1903 - Birth: Elsie E LAWES-46824, (Patient Incapacitated)
1903 - Baptism: Herbert James LAWES-2724, (Stoker) Poplar Middlesex                         England
1904 - Miscellaneous: Katherine J LAWS-50335, (Spinster & Clerk)  Washington              District of Columbia United States
1906 - Birth: Elsie R A LAWS-42561, (Tailoress)
1911 - Birth: Fred Mclean LAWS-35314, (Railway Signalman) Peterborough                     Cambridgeshire England

1912 - Birth: Wilfred T LAWS-43239, (Clerk Manufacture & Erection Of                         Asbestos Products Government Department)
1912 - Birth: Gladys Rose ARKLE-13993, Edmonton Middlesex England
            (My first Cousin Once Removed)
1913 - Birth: Thomas William LAWS-46552, (Foreman Plumber)
1915 - Birth: Arthur William LAWS-12594, (Australian Army) Leichhardt,
           New South Wales Australia
1916 - Burial: Noah Madison LAWS-13553, (Farmer)  Pine Cemetery
1917 - Birth: Frances Edna LAWS-42998, (Biscuit factory operative)
1917 - Birth: Anthony Michael LAWS-12590, (Australian Army)  Dandenong                   Victoria Australia
1920 - Marriage: Lawrence Alfred BIRD-41963 and Annie Elizabeth LAWS-                   41652, Bethnal Green Middlesex England
1920 - Death: Isabel LAWS-29757, 
1925 - Marriage: Ivan Horace LAWS-39630 and Gilda Rhoda COTTLE-48774,               Plain City, Weber Utah United States
1927 - Death: Charles George JACKSON-35652, (Butcher) Ealing Middlesex                   England
1930 - Occupation: David Hugh LAWS-29624, (Clerk Cashier of Beach Cafe for               Bournemouth Corporation)  Bournemouth Hampshire England

1931 - Marriage: Raymond George LAWES-24398 and Isabel KNIGHTS-24399,             Martham Norfolk England
1932 - Occupation: Robert Turner LAWS-16902, (Chauffeur & Omnibus Driver             for a hotel)
1933 - Burial: Samuel LAWS-8169, (Gamekeeper)  Sea Palling Norfolk England
1940 - Death: Florence Lily TAYLOR-26198, Sheffield West Yorkshire England
1942 - Miscellaneous: Elsie Caroline LAWES-44542, 
1952 - Death: Mary Jane PARKER-15560, Copdock Suffolk England
1953 - Residence: Dennis Micheal LAWS-39469, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England
1953 - Residence: Penelope Ann LAWS-39468, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England

1963 - Death: Mabel Hilda LAWES-32636, (Biscuit Factory Worker                                    (Unemployed) Cardiff Glamorgan Wales
1966 - Death: Edith Annie RUSS-38281, Rochford Essex England
            but Resided Canvey Island Essex England
1981 - Death: Robert LAWS-42305, Rockhampton Queensland Australia
1982 - Death: Cyril Francis LAWS-3655, Newcastle, New South Wales Australia
1993 - Death: EvaW ATKINS-38331,(Typist)  Stanmore Middlesex England
1994 - Death: Leo Vernon LAWS-16381,  (PVT US Army) 
1995 - Death: Alfie Agnes JOHNSON-11003, Lockhart, Caldwell, Texas 
           United States
2000 - Death: Ralph Spencer LAWS-19318, 
2007 - Death: Aloysius Desmond LAWS-27001, (Railwayman) Christchurch
New Zealand

MORE TOMORROW

One Man’s War – A bit about the RAF

by

John Robert Laws 

1921-2008

Part 2

One Man's War - A bit more about the RAF

It was only a few weeks before I was posted to the EFTS at Peterborough to get my feet off the ground. It was an intensive course of lectures and flying and we had half a day a week of free time. 

Flying was exhilarating but learning was not easy and it took a few hours in the air to get over the problem of airsickness. There was no time to spare as unless one went solo in seven or eight hours one was out of flying training. 

Fortunately, the Tiger Moths which were the standard trainer of the day was a very safe aircraft and stood up to much abuse. Even so, I saw one pilot foolish enough to pull the wings off one, and have to join the Caterpillar Club. 

(The Caterpillar Club is an informal association of people who have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft. After authentication by the parachute maker, applicants receive a membership certificate and a distinctive lapel pin. The nationality of the person saving his life by parachute and ownership of the aircraft are not factors in determining qualification for membership; anybody who has saved his life by using a parachute after bailing out of a disabled aircraft is eligible).

I think the second solo flight was the most difficult, perhaps the lessons have been forgotten or perhaps they had never been really learnt. In all, we did about fifty hours at the EFTS. The system was overloaded of course. There weren’t even enough flying log books to go round and loose sheets had to be used. My elementary training lasted from 4th August 1941 till 12 September 1941. How lucky it was summer.

Ten days later I was at the little airfield at Scone near Perth in Scotland doing my first flight on a course to become a flying instructor. One’s feet had hardly had time to touch the ground so to speak. Now we flew Magisters as well as Tiger Moths 

These were a more modern low wing monoplane but still quite well behaved though perhaps just a little less forgiving. We learnt the beginnings of aerobatics, though it was distinctly not encouraged, to come into land from an inverted approach, as one instructor, I flew with did. The Tiger had a gravity feed fuel system so the engine cut out if you stayed inverted. 

One of the more amusing exercises was restarting the engine in flight. Having stopped the prop by cutting off the fuel and going nose up to a stall one had to put the fuel on again and go into a vertical dive till the slipstream made the prop spin again and started the engine. Methods of instruction had been wholly standardised and one learned the standard ‘patter’ and suited actions to words.

Scone was a pleasant airfield for this course. It was not too close to the mountains and there were plenty of easily recognisable natural features to help you find your way. Although it was approaching winter, it was not too cold and the main hazard was fog which could slide in quickly and cover the field. 

It was sometimes quite shallow with the trees sticking up through it would give you the shape of the field so that you knew where to go down through it to land. There was, of course, no radio in those aircraft and only a limited instrument panel, certainly not the standard blind flying panel. 

We didn’t do any instrument flying on this course, We had however done half a dozen hours on the Link trainer on the ab initio course, and did a further eight hours at Scone. The link was an elementary flight simulator for instrument flying training. We did not do any night flying but we did the standard aerobatics of loops and rolls and became reasonably competent on the elementary aircraft with just another hundred hours of flying time done to finish the course just before Christmas 1941. 

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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