Sunday 27 November 2016 - Number 1067

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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. 

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 LAWS FAMILY REGISTER

We are happy to work on your 

LAWS FAMILY TREE

(maybe we already have)

All LAWS Enquires are still welcome

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   EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE

PLEASE NOTE

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 on request

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! 

We will be happy to publish within this blog Your stories of your LAWS research and also members of the LAWS and LAWES family you are searching for like your greart grandfathers uncle Charlie or aunt Maud.

We will be happy to help with you with your LAWS/LAWES research, and in certain instances we may be willing to undertake private research on your behalf.

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Family Events from our database, for today 27th November

BIRTHS baptisms etc

1814 - Baptism: Susan LAWS (Hand Loom Weaver) -8606, Norwich NFK UK

1846 - Birth: Claudius Francis Clement LAWES (Solictor) -806, Bracondale NFK UK

1854 - Birth: Harry Augustus LAWES (Commercial traveller)-250, White Lion Street,                         Shoreditch MDX UK


1898 - Birth: Percival George LAWS (RN J33621) -15986, East Preston SSX UK

1898 - Baptism: Bertram John Southgate LAWS-13346, Bexley KEN UK

1899 - Birth: Mary E LAWS (MOMM1, US NAVY) -20628,

1905 - Birth: William Bernard LAWES (Farmer) -33563, Sutton St James LIN UK

1912 - Birth: Maud LAWS-35711, 

MARRIAGES

1831 - Marriage: John ROBERTS-11806 and Sarah LAWS -11807, Norwich NFK UK

DEATHS

1826 - Burial: John LAWES-31678, Fincham NFK UK

1893 - Death: William LAWS Engineer) -7276, South Shields DUR UK

1916 - Death: Henry James George LAWES (Commercial Clerk)1011, St Marylebone MDX 

1918 - Burial: Henry John LAWS (Private 584283) -15549, Harlington MDX UK

1943 - Death: Reginald Walter  LAWS (RAFVR Sergeant 1431816)-22330, 

1946 - Death: Elizabeth Adelaide LAWS-19361, Los Angeles CA United States

1951 - Death: Frederick George LAWS (ARMY RE 185860/87546) -26559, 
          Bournemouth DOR UK

1957 - Death: Muriel Doris LAWS-3262, 

1960 - Death: Edwin J LAWES-31911, Bristol GLS UK

1961 - Death: William Henry LAWES-40274, Portsmouth HAM UK

1963 - Death: Sara Nelson LAWS-19745, 

1972 - Death: Jewel A LAWS (PFC - US ARMY WWII) -20440, 

2002 - Death: James William LAWS-12566, Port Macquare NSW AUSTRALIA

2007 - Death: Brenda Margaret LAWS-20791, Boldre HAM UK

2009 - Death: Molly Georgia Lindsay LAWES-38578, Auckland NZ

MISC & OTHER INFOMATION

1914 - Enlistment: Herbert Joseph LAWS (ARMY Private 23/375)-20041,

1944 - Residence: Thomas Campbell LAWS (Fireman and Trimmer Merchant Marine) -22340,           South Shields DUR UK

1951 - Residence: L G ROBERTS-17396, Rushden NTH UK

1951 - Residence: Maurice Edward Seymour LAWS-17221, Kensington MDX UK

OTHER BIRTHS Etc

1847 - Birth: Edward Brown CHAPMAN-40373, 

1905 - Birth: Gladys May SAVILLE-14299, Brockley KEN UK
          My 2nd Cousin once removed


1881 - Birth: Rosella BRINKLEY-43043, Hoborn MDX UK

OTHER  MARRIAGES

OTHER DEATHS & Burials


1887 - Death: Hannah Maria HARVEY-5191, East Ham ESS UK

1923 - Death: Louise O HALL-11222, Orange co.NC United States

1943 - Birth: Paul Scott LOGAN-12111, Walthamstow ESS UK

1951 - Death: Clarence A DENT-30481, Craighead AK United States

1990 - Death: Gwennyth May BENNETT-12559, Naremburn NSW AUSTRALIA



1998 - Burial: Elsie Doris  HILLER (Milliner)-40599, Bexley Heath KEN UK

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A suburban childhood of the Twenties 

Seen from the Nineteen Nineties

By John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 20

Food was important. For some it was in short supply; for all it was seasonal and generally less wide ranging than it is now. Until the coming of the fridge, for us in the early thirties, keeping food fresh in summer was a problem and a variety of methods were used, The larder was mandatory in all houses built from the nineteenth century until quite recently, in large houses it became a small walk in room.

Meat was often given special accommodation in a small ‘meat safe’ with perforated zinc sides to keep out the flies. This stood outside the house in the shade often near the back door. In hot weather milk would be boiled as soon as it was delivered and in summer generally it was stood in a shallow tray of water with a cover of muslin or terra cotta to soak up the water and keep it cool. These methods must still be in use in a few households but they are bygones for most of us.

It was not always summer however and in winter it was normal to eat, more as well as to wear more cloths, to keep out the cold of poorly heated houses and workplaces. Quantity was of more importance than quality, not that wives and mothers were less interested in quality, simply which standards were lower and money went further if you only cut away the inedible rather than all the rough bits. It was widely recognized that if bread was a bit hard it would be ‘harder where there’s none’.

Our household was fortunate that ‘pater familias’ was ‘a good provider’ in the language of the day. Moreover, my mother was a good cook though she would have turned her nose up at squid or octopus and olives or wine vinegar were never seen in our larder.

Even the slightly exotic like sweetbreads or whitebait were reserved for father on his evening return from work, probably being reckoned ‘not good for children’ quite apart from the cost. The roast joint was the important mainstay of diet, more often than not, a sirloin of beef which turned up for Sunday lunch with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, greens and, a nice rich gravy. The joint would sometimes be mutton , it was not called lamb till much later. Pork was much less frequent, being reckoned to be  somewhat hazardous, though with how much reason I don’t know. It seems an oddity that on the other hand pork sausages were esteemed above beef which were considered in today’s parlance a bit down market.

Sunday’s joint turned up as cold meat on Monday, and would be used as hash or mince the next day or two depending on how much was left. Cold meat would be served up with hot vegetables. I do not remember any salad in my diet as a child.

Season controlled the selection of vegetables, fresh from the greengrocer not frozen from the supermarket, Cabbage was the standby; peas, runner beans, carrots sprouts and spinach came in their turn though I didn’t learn to like spinach till many years later.

There were also unidentified greens or the like, Very occasionally asparagus appeared on the Sunday table pandering to father’s fancy taste. I do not think it really belonged the Devon cuisine, that was my mother’s mainstay. Later in the week, when the joint was gone, there might be stew or sausages and occasionally fish until  Saturday when it was invariably steak and kidney pudding, a good winter warmer if ever there was one.

‘Afters’ too were often good sustaining stuff, stewed fruit and custard were popular in season and sometimes dried apricots or prunes at other times. The real favourites however were the apple puddings or blackcurrant puddings closely followed in popularity by Apple Charlotte or bread and butter pudding with a good leavening of raisins.

Suet puddings with dried fruit such as plum duff or roly-poly of the standby syrup  pudding came along from time to time but were not quite a regular feature. Pastry was popular and fruit would more often be served in a pie than on its own. There was of course no ice cream at home as there were no domestic freezers. Tinned fruit was a special but was readily available. Cream was brought round by the milkman once the changeover to bottled milk had taken place and sometimes took the place of custard to everyone’s delight.  

Even father, who was a good trencherman, did not feel the need of cheese and biscuits at the end of Sunday lunch.

Continued tomorrow 

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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 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 crypt

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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