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DearAncestor,-
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone
The names and dates are chiselled out on polished marble stone
It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist, you died and I was born
Yet each of us are cells of you, in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor,
The place you filled one hundred years ago
Spreads out amongst the ones you left who would have loved you so,
I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot, and come to visit you.
IMPORTANT
We suspended operation of the LAWS FAMILY REGISTER
from June 30, 3016
We will work on our LAWS FAMILY TREE
This Blog will continue
All LAWS Enquires arw still welcome
We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy -we are not showing births after 1920 or marriages after 1940 these are only available to members of the register
If you are interested in anyone listed here, email us with the name, date and reference number, and we will happily do a look up, you might even get a whole tree!
This blog will also appear on our Facebook page, please come visit us, We will be happy to help with your LAWS/LAWES research, and in certain instances we may be willing to undertake private research on your behalf.
Family Events
1716 - Birth: Thomas LAWES-20334, Coombe Bissett WIL UK
1775 - Birth: Jenny LAWS-24110, Feltwell NFK UK
1783 - Marriage: Thomas LAWS-17772 and Susannah COOPER-17773, Cambridge CAM UK
1790 - Death: Jane LAWES-20328, Coombe Bissett WIL UK
1837 - Marriage: James LAWS-27035 and Jane LINDREDGE-27034, Appledore KEN UK
1843 - Birth: Alexander E LAWS-11208,
1844 - Birth: John P LAWS-13912,
1844 - Birth: George Washington LAWS-11234, NC United States
1849 - Marriage: John SEWELL-29826 and Audrey LAWS-29827,
1865 - Christen: George Stephenson LAWS (Grocer / Managing Director Fruit Preserve Company) 4243, Newcastle upon Tyne NBL UK
1865 - Birth: Martha LAWS-3792, Tivetshall St Mary NFK UK
1887 - Death: James Guess LAWS-11159, Marshall Calhoun MS United States
1889 - Marriage: R H LAWS-40047 and Lizzie LOFT-40048, Grayson Co TX USA
1893 - Birth: Martha LAWS-38277, Johnson, Kane Co. UT United States
1897 - Burial: Sarah LAWES-36655, Lyndoch South Australia
1897 - Birth: Matthew LAWS (PVT US Army) -16613,
1897 - Death: William LAWS (Brewer Retired) -8312, Tynemouth NBL UK
1901 - Birth: John Herbert LAWS-31891, West Hartlepool DUR UK
1907 - Death: Charlotte May LAWS-40370,
1910 - Birth: Ada B LAWS (Office Cleaner) -42480,
1913 - Marriage: William Austin LAWES-486 and Anne Janette FORREST OR HYNDMAN- 12525, Agassiz BC CANADA
1931 - Death: Charles Henry LAWS (Police Constable) -5137, Ealing MIDX UK
1947 - Death: Dora E LAWS-19778, Harlan Co KY USA
1955 - Death: Cecil John William LAWS-38002, Chatteris CAM UK
1963 - Death: Victor William George LAWS-20784, Hillingdon MDX UK
1965 - Death: Walter Clifton LAWS (Railway Ticket Collector) -5513, York NRY UK
1970 - Death: Walter Gordon LAWES (Australian Army) -12983,
1974 - Death: Horace Kenneth LAWS-14563, Norfolk Island, late of Revesby NSW AUSTRALIA
1980 - Death: Walter Harry LAWES-23076, Penticton BC CANADA
1987 - Death: Dorethy Alma Lucy LAWES-14530, Penrith NSW AUSTRALIA
1994 - Death: John Harold James LAWS (Australian Army) -12571, Wauchope NSW AUSTRALIA
2002 - Death: Jean Norma LAWS-12569, Guildford NSW AUSTRALIA
2003 - Death: C Lawson LAWS-18246,
2009 - Death: Bryan Reginald LAWS-13223, Leigh on Sea ESS UK
2010 - Cremation: Cyril Nicholas Bulman LAWS (Postman) -33253, West Bromwich STS UK
2011 - Death: Charles Robert LAWS-41164, Orilla, Simcoe Co ONT CANADA
2014 - Death: David LAWS-40981, Newcastle upon Tyne NBL UK
MISC
1798 - Marriage: John LUTTRELL-4609 and Maria MORGAN-38336,
1865 - Birth: Sarah CLEGG (Woollen Spinner) -14161, Liverpool LAN UK
1897 - Estate Value £: Sarah Lacey ALLEN-9208,
1900 - Birth: William James NEWELL-36349, LONDON1906 - Birth: Edward STURCH-42358,
1909 - Birth: Sylvia Ann PRIBBLE-20549, Georgetown IL USA
1974 - Burial: Margaret Mary DONOVAN-16779, Baltimore MD USA
1987 - Death: Dorethy SUTTON-24571, Penrith NSW AUSTRALIA
A CHILD OF THE 1920's
AS SEEN FROM THE 1990's
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 18
He was the up-market brother , whereas my dad was the up-to-date brother and had a little folding roll film camera just for holiday snaps.
Before the building boom Southgate was largely an area of
large mansions set in their own parks among farmland with a village of cottages
and small shops where the new Underground station was now inserted.
There was a little farm in a small gentle valley opposite
our new house, but within months the farm had become a large housing estate
and, passing through the stages of a sea of mud became quite a pleasant
suburban area.
A house got put up about one every three weeks with very
little mechanical assistance, those houses were sold for about five or six
hundred pounds, not cheap. A new house could be bought for a little as three
hundred and seventy five pounds all around London.
Most houses were being built without garages but ours was
one of a small development of half a dozen with a garage built in. Builders had
not yet really decided that, a garage was an integral part of a house, so there
was no upper storey over it.
Our enterprising builder had even put a radiator in the
garage and this, together with a radiator in the hall and a towel rail in the
bathroom made up his attempt at central heating. It was too bad that his
knowledge of gravity circulation was weak and the garage was a bit lower than
the rest of the house, so that its radiator was below the level of the ‘Ideal’
boiler in the kitchen and remained for ever stone cold.
The kitchen in the new house was a real update on what had
gone before. There was still a built in dresser for the china with upper
grooved shelves to stand up the dinner plates but the top was enclosed by
doors, albeit panted a darkish brown. The larder alongside it was deep, giving
a lot of space difficult to access.
For the first time there was a Refrigerator, a monstrous
thing on legs with a big round cooling coil on top, to collect the dust where
you could see it. It was however finished in white enamel and built like a
tank. The black iron gas cooker was left behind and the new one was finished in
mottled green vitreous enamel, all very solid.
We still had a deep white stoneware sink with a wooden
draining board. The kitchen was of course a lot smaller than before and the old
deal table used up a lot of the space so that there was little room to eat
there.
A breakfast room lay alongside to eat in and this
arrangement was a bit of a curate’s egg, handy when you needed an extra room
but not so handy at breakfast time.
We were about half a mile from the new underground railway
station, our move to the new house had been held back until it was completed. A
bus route with single-decker buses ran down the road as far as the Chase Side
Tavern. The bus stopped within a few yards of us on its way back and it cost a
penny for the ride up the easy slope half a mile to the station. I had to be
very late and actually see the bus coming, before money could be wasted in this
profligate way.
The shops in Southgate were at that time in course of
changing over from village to suburbia, a change which had been made in nearby
Palmers Green a generation earlier probably when the railway arrived. The new
tube station had a few new shops built around it but the old ones survived just
a little longer, a tiny sweetshop run by a tiny old lady on the corner of Chase
Side opposite the ‘Bell’ Public House, and a barbers beside the Bell, where boys
got their hair cut for three pence. Next to that going north along Chase Side,
Lees Stores survived a long time although the first moves towards supermarkets
showed themselves in shops where you had to go from one counter to another to
get your various goods instead of shop assistant fetching it all from far of
places and piling it on the counter in front of you, before asking whether you
would like it delivered.
Next to Lee’s was the paper shop and then an ancient toy
shop which didn’t last long. The bike, and perhaps motorbike, repair shop was a
hundred yards further on , more a single storey brick shed with a shop front
than anything, but it survived some years standing well proud of the new
parade of shops built beside it which was set well back from the road with a
very wide pavement.
Opposite was Collins the butchers, a purveyor of choice
meat, complete with a slaughterhouse in the rear. Here Sam and his dad presided
with straw hats and blue and white aprons and would chop away on their big
wooden block to produce the chump chop you wanted out of half a sheep. They too
would deliver if you liked in a little brown van, well known in the Southgate
streets. No doubt you paid for the service in the prices but you still could
buy a nice pork chop for four pence.
There were two garages locally, petrol cost the equivalent
of six or seven new pence a gallon and you could buy a brand new Austin Seven
for one hundred and five pounds if you were lucky enough to scrape that much
together.
My dad got a Chrysler saloon in place of the old bull-nosed
Morris but didn’t have it long as he was neither the first, or the last, to
drive straight on at one of the right-angled Essex lanes. I didn’t ride in it
much anyway as he had given me a new bike which I liked much better. After the
demise of the Chrysler came, a much more sedate Hillman which I feel nobody
loved very much.
Part 20
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 my father's trod
And led them through so many lands
To find our present sod.
Lord, help me find an ancient book
Or dusty manuscript,
Thats's safely hidden now away
In some forgotten crypy.
Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts
My soul, when I can't find
The missing link between some name
That ends the same as mine
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