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

Birth:	1863 Cannock, Staffordshire
Death:	July1937 Cannock, Staffordshire

Mother:	Letitia Craddock (b.1837) /ID:180
Father:	Henry Shaw (b.1834)
Siblings	William Shaw (b.1863) /ID:1011
	John H Shaw (b.1865) /ID:1012
	Jane Shaw (b.1867) /ID:1013
	Amy Shaw (b.1869) /ID:1016
	Annie Shaw (b.1874) /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		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.