Edith Shaw FFM (OH) - Genealogists' Forum

Lynn the Forest Fan · #1 13-06-10, 13:41

Name - Edith Shaw "Adelaide"
Date and place of birth - c1886 Market Drayton have been unable to trace thebirth cert
Names of parents - Thomas Shaw & Mary A surname not known
Date and place of baptism - N/K
Details of each of his or her marriages - Patrick Lyons 16/8/1907
Occupation(s) - 1901 domestic servant
Military service - N/A
Addresses where they lived
1891 - Shrewsbury Road, Little Drayton, Shropshire
1901 - Audleys Cross Tyrley Shropshire
1911 - 195 Chester Road Flint, Flintshire Wales
Date, place and cause of death - N/K
Date and place of burial / cremation. - N/K
Details of will / administration of their estate - N/K
Memorial inscription - N/K

Edith is a real brickwall, I have been unable to locate her birth & she is given as Adelaide in 1881 which was confusing. She disappears sometime after the birth of her last child in 1922 & is shown as being dead by 1943 on her son's death cert. My fil knows nothing about her although he does remember his grandfather & also Edith's sister.

kiterunner · #2 13-06-10, 14:05

There is a likely birth registration for Edith's sister Elizabeth:

Elizabeth Shaw Sep 1889 Mt Drayton 6a 721.

If you get that birth certificate (assuming it's the right one) it will give you Mary A's maiden name which should help.

Lynn the Forest Fan · #3 13-06-10, 17:55

The problem with that is that it wouldn't prove that Mary A is Edith's mother, as well as Elizabeth's

kiterunner · #4 13-06-10, 18:24

No, but then you would be able to look for Thomas and Mary A's marriage and find out if they married before or after the approx date of Edith's birth, and if it was well before Edith was born, you wouldn't be looking for a previous relationship for either Thomas or Mary A, but if they married after Edith was born, you would be able to look to see if she was registered under Mary A's previous surname.

Lynn the Forest Fan · #5 13-06-10, 20:23

I have found a possible marriage to a Mary Bowler in Sept qtr 1888, but had not been able to find Edith under that name either. I wish I had tried ordering a cert before the prices went up.