Frank Shaw

Hannah Maud was born in 1805. She was in a relationship with Issac Hemingway, and had a child Sarah Hemingway. Hannah Maud died at age 54 years old on October 2, 1860. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Hannah Maud .

The Hemingway surname has its origin in a now lost place-name in the West Riding of Yorkshire, possibly in the vicinity of Halifax to judge by the early distribution of the name. Hemingway combines the Danish personal name Hemming with the Middle English way meaning “way” or “path.” It appeared as a surname in the 1379 Yorkshire poll tax returns. Hemingway is the main spelling. Variants have been Hemmingway and Hemenway. Of the 2,150 Hemingways in the 1891 UK census, more than 80% of them were recorded in Yorkshire. Issac was born in Lightcliffe, Yorkshire, England according to the 1861 census. Lightcliffe is a village located three miles east of Halifax and two miles northwest of Brighouse. In the 1841 census, Isaac was listed as being 45 yeaers old. a 1795 Baptismal record lists Issac as being baptized in that year. Issac and Hannah were listed in marriage papers as being from Northowram. in the census' they are listed as living in Hipperholme which is about 1 1/2 mile from Northowram. Issac married Hannah Maud on Feb 19, 1824. The 1841 census had Issac living with his wife Hannah and their children, Elizabeth (12 years old), Sarah (10 years old), Mary (6 years old), and Ellin (4 years old). His occupation was farmer and his farm was in Hipperholme cum Brighouse. In 1851 he and his family lived at 83 Woodbottom, Hipperholme cum Brighouse. He farmed 20 acres. Living with their parents were Ellin (14 years old), Ruth (6 years old), Maude (son) (11 years old), and James (9 years old). In both the 1841 and 1851 census, Issac was living at 83 Woodbottom, Lightcliffe, Hipperholme cum Brighouse. The 1861 census lits him as being 65 years old. His wile died before this census. Issac and his family lived in Hipperholme. His daughter Elizabeth and sons James and Maude lived with him. Issac died in 1862 and was buried in St Matthews Old Churchyard on Jn. 12, 1862.

Sarah was baptized on May 15, 1831. Parents listed were Issac Hemmingway and Hannah. He was a farmer and they lived in Northowram, Yorkshire. Witnesses to their wedding were James Hirst and Ellen Hemmingway? In 1891, the census showed her as a widow. She was living with her daughter Alice and her husband David Sandie at 64 Kings Cross , Halifax. Alice Sandie was the mother of two children, Harry and Edith. this might be this Sarah Sarah Shaw BIRTH 1829 DEATH 4 Feb 1915 (aged 85–86) BURIAL St. Matthew's Old Churchyard Lightcliffe, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England

The clans of the Pictish people in ancient Scotland were the ancestors of the first people to use the name Shaw. John Shaw was from the Halifax area, Yorkshire, England. The Shaw surname in England and Scotland may have either topographical or locational origins. As a topographical name, Shaw was used for someone who lived by a copse, wood or thicket, derived from the Old English sceaga or “dweller by the wood.” Alternatively, the surname might have been come from a number of place names with the same root in Lancashire, Yorkshire and elsewhere. The three counties of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cheshire accounted for over half of the Shaws in the 1881 census. The wedding license indicates that both were living in Hipperholme, Yorkshire, England. I know that this Sarah Hemmingway was his wife because their son, Alfred, declared that his parents were John Shaw and Sarah Hemmingway. John was 25 and Sarah 19 at the time of the wedding. his father was John Shaw, a clothier and her father was Issac Hemmingway a farmer. The 1851 census has them living at Healy Hill Northuwram, Halifax with their year old daughter, Hannah. John's occupation was listed as wire drawer. In 1871 he was living at 243 Burriton Terace, , Halifax, Yorkshire, England.also at this address were Sarah (41 years old), Hannah(22), Jane (16), Alfred Bates (13) and Alice (9). Hannah had a job as a worsted weaver. Jane was a domestic servant. Alfred was a worsted doffer and Alice was still going to school. His occupation was listed as a Wire Drawer. A wire drawer is a worker making wire by drawing a metal rod through a series of holes. it is a practice that goes back to antiquity and back to 1300 in England. I found on an old website that a wire manufacturing company named John Shaw and Sons existed in the Brighouse area from 1871? to 1903 when it went out of business. The company employed 36 at its peak. The website said that the owner was born about 1826 and died in 1871. This John may be connected as either the owner, a relative or a worker. I found a number of Shaw's working as wire drawers. Alfred Bates Shaw may be named after a relative. In 1769 a John Shaw married a Sarah Bates. The wedding was performed at St. John the Baptist Church, the same church Alfred's parents were married in. A Henry Bates witnessed the wedding.

Francis Shaw was born to Alfred Bates Shaw and Margaret Fay, and has a brother Alfred Shaw. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Francis Shaw.

Margarets parents, James and Catherine Fay, came to Boston in the 1850's fleeing the Irish famine. Margaret was born in Andover, Massachusetts. In 1880 they lived at 159 Tremont, St. Boston. It is unknown where Margaret worked but sometime before 1887 she met a young Englishman, Alfred Shaw. Alfred was 8 years older then she was but he said he was born in 1860 instead of 1858. Perhaps he wanted to appear younger to Margaret and her family. They became engaged. In order to be married in a Roman Catholic church he converted and was baptised a catholic. According to Boston records they were married in 1887. They had three children, Francis, Alfred and Anna. In 1910 the family lived at 47 Smith St., Boston. Margaret was listed as a widow and as a nurse in a private home. By 1930 Margaret and Anna had moved to 37 Aubrey Rd in Montclair, NJ. Her son Alfred and his family remained in Boston. In the 1928 and 1931 Montclair directories they were listed at 33 Claremont Ave., Montclair,NJ. Margaret was listed as the widow of Alfred B. Shaw.

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.

Alfred Shaw of Massachusetts was born on November 6, 1890, and died at age 72 years old in July 1963.