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Alfred Bates Shaw 1858

Alfred Bates Shaw was born on April 3, 1858 to John Shaw and Sarah Hemingway. Alfred Shaw was in a relationship with Margaret Fay, and has children Alfred Shaw and Francis Shaw.

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Alfred Bates Shaw was born in England on 4/3/1858. He was baptized at St. John the Baptist Church , the same church where his parents were married. HALIFAX (St. John the Baptist), a parish, partly in the union of Todmorden, but chiefly in that of Halifax, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York; comprising the market-town and borough of Halifax, the parochial chapelries of Elland and Heptonstall, and the townships of Barkisland, Erringden, Fixby, Hipperholme with Brighouse, Langfield, Lightcliffe, Luddenden, Midgley, Norland, Ovenden, North and South Owram, Rastrick, Ripponden, Rishworth, Shelf, Skircoat, Sowerby, Soyland, Stainland with Old Lindley, Stansfield, Wadsworth, and Warley He attended enough school as to be able to read and write well by the age of 14. At that age he was living at Milton Terrace, West Hill Park, Halifax and he was employed as a "factory hand". The 1871 census gave his job as Worsted Doffer. A Doffer is someone who removes (doffs) bobbins, pirns or spindles holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones. In Lancashire the doffing boys were free to do what they liked once they had completed a doffing, as long as they stayed within earshot of the "throstle jobber," who would whistle when they were next needed. They were motivated to do the work as fast as possible, since this gave them as long as possible to play. Between ten and twelve boys could handle a factory with about ten thousand throstle spindles, depending on the amount of yarn being spun. The doffers were usually the sons of poor people, and were small and skinny. They were sometimes called "The Devil's Own" for the tricks that they would get up to. As a rule they would go barefoot except at the coldest times of year. Alfred stole two coats from the factory and ran way from home for 5 weeks. He was apprehended and tried on Dec. 31, 1872. He was found guilty and sentenced to two months in a house of corrections and 4 years to a Reformatory School. He was sent to Calder Farm Reformatory which is in Mirfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. Calder Farm had opened in 1855 and closed in 1922. I do not know when he was released, but he may have become a clerk in Halifax. In the 1881 census a Alfred Shaw was listed as a clerk living at the Queen Hotel, 48 Swine Market, Halifax. He worked as an Iron Monger clerk. This hotel was torn down in 1968 and the street is now Gibbet Street. So Alfred came to Boston sometime between 1882 and 1886. An Alfred Shaw, clerk, lived at 9 Green St. in 1886,on Chester Pk in 1899, and 20 Newark in 1893 according to the Boston Directory. Only one Alfred Shaw was found. After he arrived in Boston he met Margaret Fay. They became engaged. He agreed to convert to Roman Catholic and was baptized. He put his birthday down as April 3, 1860 when his real birthday was April 3, 1858. He listed his parents as John Shaw and Sarah Hemingway. They were married in the Catholic Church in Boston on Sept 21, 1887 by Rev. D.J. Kelleher. His son Francis' birth record lists him as being born at 92 Marcella. The Boston Directory of 1894 lists Alfred as a clerk at 104 Kingston, and living at 92 Marcella. The 1895 Boston Directory lists Alfred Shaw (clerk) living at 2493 Washington and at 1316 Tremont. In 1899 Mrs. Alfred Shaw was listed in the Boston Directory as living in the rear of 190 Vernon St., Boston. The 1900 census shows a Mrs. Alfred Shaw 33 yrs old female heading the family. Her parents are listed as being Irish while her childrens father is listed as being English. She is also listed as being married. Their address is 194 Vernon Street, Boston. Her husband was not listed and since she is marked as married, not a widow, he may have left the family or died before 1899. Her birthday is in Dec., 1866 and she was born in the US. She is listed as being married for 13 years which makes the marriage year 1887. She was able to read and write English and her profession was Forelady. In 1910 she lived at 47 Smith Street, Boston. In that census she was described as being born in Massachusetts, with parents from Ireland and working as a private nurse. No husband listed, she was described as a widow. This census lists her age as being 45, thus born about 1865. Her son Frank's WWI draft card (right) has her as a widow in 1917. And living with him at 300 Belgrade Ave., Roslindale,Ma. In 1920 Margaret and her daughter Anna were living at 37 Aubrey Rd, Montclair. In the 1930 census Margaret J. Shaw was living at 33 Claremont Ave. in Montclair, NJ. She and Frank Sr. both worked for American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
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