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ID:1011 William Shaw 1863-1937
1st cousin 4x removed

Birth	1863		Cannock, Staffordshire
Death	July1937		Cannock, Staffordshire
Mother		Letitia Craddock (b.1837) /ID:180
Father		Henry Shaw (b.1834) /ID:1010

Siblings	William Shaw (b.1863) /ID:1011
	John Shaw (b.1865) /ID:1012
	Jane Shaw (b.1867) /ID:1013
	Amy Shaw (b.1869) /ID:1016
	Annie Shaw (b.1870) /ID:1014
	Sarah Shaw (b.1871) /ID:1015
	Bertha Shaw (b.1878) /ID:1017
	Sidney Shaw (b.1880) /ID:1018
Spouse	Mary Ellen Hartley (Shaw/Brookes) (b.1877)
Children	Possible? – William Thomas Shaw (b.1900)

1863
16^th August 1863 – Baptism of William Shaw at Cannock, Staffordshire.

1871

1871 Census for ‘Hednesford, Staffordshire' 

Name	Relationship	Condition			Age		Est YOB	Gender		Birth County	Occupation
Henry Shaw	Head		Married	36		1835		Male	Cannock, Staffs		Agricultural Labourer
Letitia Shaw	Wife		Married	34		1837		Female	Norton Canes, Staffs
William Shaw	Son			7		1864		Male	Cannock, Staffs		Scholar
John Shaw	Son			5		1866		Male	Cannock Staffs		Scholar
Jane Shaw	Daughter			4		1867		Female	Cannock, Staffs		Scholar
Amy Shaw	Daughter			2		1869		Female	Cannock, Staffs

1881

1881 Census for ‘West Cannock, Staffordshire' 

Name	Relationship	Condition			Age		Est YOB	Gender		Birth County	Occupation
Henry Shaw	Head		Married	46		1835		Male	Cannock, Staffs		Labourer at Colliery
Letitia Shaw	Wife		Married	44		1837		Female	Norton Canes, Staffs
William Shaw	Son			17		1864		Male	Cannock, Staffs		Coal Miner
John Shaw	Son			15		1866		Male	Cannock Staffs		Coal Horse Driver
Jane Shaw	Daughter			13		1868		Female	Cannock, Staffs		Scholar
Amy Shaw	Daughter			11		1870		Female	Cannock, Staffs		Scholar
Sarah Shaw	Daughter			10		1871		Female	Cannock, Staffs		Scholar
Annie Shaw	Daughter			6		1875		Female	Cannock, Staffs
Bertha Shaw	Daughter			3		1878		Female	Cannock, Staffs
Sidney Shaw	Son			1		1880		Male	Cannock, Staffs

1891

1891 Census for ‘Crab Lane, Chadsmoor, Staffordshire' 

Name	Relationship	Condition			Age		Est YOB	Gender		Birth County	Occupation
Henry Shaw	Head		Married	56		1835		Male	Cannock, Staffs		Coal Miner
Letitia Shaw	Wife		Married	54		1837		Female	Norton Canes, Staffs
William Shaw	Son			27		1864		Male	Cannock, Staffs		Coal Miner
Sarah Shaw	Daughter			20		1871		Female	Cannock, Staffs
Bertha Shaw	Daughter			13		1878		Female	Cannock, Staffs
Sidney Shaw	Son			11		1880		Male	Cannock, Staffs

1897

25^th January 1897 – Marriage of William Shaw & Mary Ellen Hartley at St Lukes Church, Cannock, Staffordshire

1897-1901

We are not sure on the circumstances of the marriage/separation but Mary Ellen was living with a Thomas Brookes as his ‘wife’ by 1901 in Catshill, Shire Oak, Brownhills, (although they did not marry until 1938, after William’s death) with a son, William, born in 1900.William is living back at home. In the 1911 census she is still living back in the Cannock area , in Abbey St, Green Heath, with Thomas Brookes as his ‘housekeeper’ but using her married name Shaw with 4 children, William Thomas Shaw (b.1900), Thomas Shaw (b.1904), Percy Shaw (b.1906) and Bertie Shaw (b.1909). We are not sure whether William Thomas Shaws father was William Shaw or Thomas Brookes, but it appears the couple separated before 1901.

1901

1901 Census for ‘Burns Buildings, Chadsmoor, Staffordshire' 

Name	Relationship	Condition			Age		Est YOB	Gender		Birth County	Occupation
Henry Shaw	Head		Married	66		1835		Male	Cannock, Staffs		Horse Farrier in Coal Mine
Letitia Shaw	Wife		Married	64		1837		Female	Norton Canes, Staffs
William Shaw	Son		Married	37		1864		Male	Cannock, Staffs		Coal Miner Hewer
Sidney Shaw	Son			21		1880		Male	Cannock, Staffs		Coal Miner Rope Rider

1911

1911 Census for ’31, Goldthorne, Blackfords, Cannock, Staffordshire' 

Name	Relationship	Condition			Age		Est YOB	Gender		Birth County	Occupation
Thomas Hood	Head		Married	39		1872		Male	Bednall, Staffs		Porter for Wholesale Food/Confectionary Co.
Sarah Hood	Wife		Married	39		1872		Female	Cannock, Staffs
Jane Brindley	Servant			17		1894		Female	Cannock, Staffs		Servant
Letitia Shaw	Boarder		Widower	74		1837		Female	Norton Canes, Staffs
William Shaw	Boarder		Married	47		1864		Male	Cannock, Staffs		Collier Hewer
John Shaw	Boarder			21		1880		Male	Cannock, Staffs		Colliery Loader

1937

July 1937 – Death of William Shaw, age 74, at Cannock, Staffordshire.