James Shaw
(Abt 1790-)
Margaret Gilmour
(Abt 1790-)
Hans Shaw
(Abt 1816-Abt 1886)

 

Family Links

Spouses/Children:
1. Margaret Clark

Hans Shaw

  • Born: Abt 1816, Killinchy, County Down Northern Ireland
  • Marriage (1): Margaret Clark on 23 Jan 1839 in Second Presbyterian Church, Killinchy, Northern Ireland UK
  • Died: Abt 17 Jul 1886, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire Scotland about age 70

  General Notes:

1881 Census has Hans/Margaret living at 7 GlencairnSquare Kilmarnock with Daughters Elizabeth and Sarah and Elizabeth's three daughters. Hans listed as a Surfaceman.

Roy Allan Shaw notes:
Our grandfather Hans came to the states in 1923, aboard the "S.S. Tuscania" and settled in Kearny, NJ.
He was a machinist for the Continental Electric Co. in the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ. He married Mary Cook Morrison, 31 December 1917 in the Cooperative Hall, Bank Street, Paisley. He died on 10 August 1936.
He was 43 and is buried in the Hillside Cemetery, Lyndhurst, NJ.

We began our search when we discovered Hans father's name "Samuel" on his burial certificate. We never new the name of our great-grandfather and no one ever spoke all that much about the family as my grandfather died young. I only knew my grandmother who spoke with a heavy brogue.

After a slow start we found Elizabeth (Young) Shaw, Samuel's wife, who is buried in Hawkhead Cemetery in Paisley, Scotland. Samuel is not buried with her, but her son William is. Born in 1885, he died when he was only 17. He was a boilermaker apprentice. His father Samuel, our great-grandfather was a blacksmith.

We searched for Samuel for a long time. We finally realized on the death certificate that Hans was born in England.
We knew his birth date and cross referenced that with information from the English and Wales BMD. We found Hans birth and Samuels death in Hartlepool, England. We contacted Bereavement Services and they confirmed that Samuel was buried in the Spion Kop Cemetery in Hartlepool. There was no headstone, so my brother and I had a stone placed and in 2014 we went to Scotland to visit the homeland and took the train to Hartlepool to visit the grave.
It was a great and very rewarding experience for us.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Surfaceman.

• alt birth. 721 Roy Allan Shaw notes:
My branch of the Shaw family begins in Ireland with James Shaw b. 1790, his son Hanse and wife Margaret.

Our grandfather Hans came to the states in 1923, aboard the "S.S. Tuscania" and settled in Kearny, NJ.
He was a machinist for the Continental Electric Co. in the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ. He married Mary Cook Morrison, 31 December 1917 in the Cooperative Hall, Bank Street, Paisley. He died on 10 August 1936.
He was 43 and is buried in the Hillside Cemetery, Lyndhurst, NJ.

We began our search when we discovered Hans father's name "Samuel" on his burial certificate. We never new the name of our great-grandfather and no one ever spoke all that much about the family as my grandfather died young. I only knew my grandmother who spoke with a heavy brogue.

After a slow start we found Elizabeth (Young) Shaw, Samuel's wife, who is buried in Hawkhead Cemetery in Paisley, Scotland. Samuel is not buried with her, but her son William is. Born in 1885, he died when he was only 17. He was a boilermaker apprentice. His father Samuel, our great-grandfather was a blacksmith.

We searched for Samuel for a long time. We finally realized on the death certificate that Hans was born in England.
We knew his birth date and cross referenced that with information from the English and Wales BMD. We found Hans birth and Samuels death in Hartlepool, England. We contacted Bereavement Services and they confirmed that Samuel was buried in the Spion Kop Cemetery in Hartlepool. There was no headstone, so my brother and I had a stone placed and in 2014 we went to Scotland to visit the homeland and took the train to Hartlepool to visit the grave.

• connection. 721 Roy Allan Shaw and I are connected.
These are the links between us:
Roy Allan Shaw (1950)
His father was John Morrison Shaw (1918)
His father was Hans Shaw (c1870)
His father was Samuel Shaw (1848)
His father was Hans Shaw (c1816) & he also had Annie Shaw (1858) who married John Findlay (1856)
His father was Robert Findlay (1827) & he also had Isabella Findlay (1854) who married John Smith (1856)
They had William Smith (c1879)
He had Margaret Smith (1910) who married John Nicol (1908)
His father was James Nicol (1876)
His father was Alexander Nicol (1834)
His father was James Nicol (1800)
His father was John Nicol (1764)
His father was James Nicol (1719) and he was also father to Walter Nicol (1771)
He had George Nicol (1810)
He had John Nicol (1844)
He had Helen Nicol (1889) who married George Arthur Davies (1894)
They had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)


Hans married Margaret Clark on 23 Jan 1839 in Second Presbyterian Church, Killinchy, Northern Ireland UK. (Margaret Clark was born about 1816 in Northern Ireland.)


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