William Shaw

  Research Notes:

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.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: boilermaker. ⁷²¹