Samuel 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.

He later added:
Roy Allan Shaw notes:
I was born January 4th,1950, so we are the same age. We grew up
in Kearny, NJ. went to school there. I am retired and live in Caldwell, NJ. My brother
Ronald was born September 19th,1943 is retired and lives in Hamilton, Montana.

My father was a machinist and worked for Continental Electric Company in Newark,NJ.
He retired when he was 55 and moved with our mother Doris to California.

Our father John Morrison Shaw was born in Paisley on 25 September 1918. He
came to the States 27 February, 1926 aboard the S.S. "Cameronia" from Glasgow,
arriving at Ellis Island. He came with his mother Mary Cook Shaw, Ms. Morrison and
his younger brother Findlay. Hans Shaw his father came in 1923. My understanding
which I am currently trying to solve, "is that the family went back and forth to Scotland
multiple times". I have been using the Ellis Island Web Site to determine if that is true?

The family settled in Kearny, NJ. The Coats & Clark Thread Mill in Paisley, Scotland
opened a mill in Newark, NJ., so many people from Paisley came for work and settled
in Kearny.
In addition, the Prudential Insurance Company was located in Newark. The Nairn
Floor-covering company was located in Kearny on Bellegrove Drive. I worked as an
artist/designer for the company when they were known as Congoleum-Nairn. Many of
the early employees were from Scotland.
Kearny had a large ship building complex in the 1900's, many of the workers were
from "the other side". Samuel Shaw our great grandfather was a ships boiler maker
in Glasgow and later in Hartlepool, England, where he died.

Coats & Clark:

<http://www.textilehistory.org/ClarkThread.html>
<http://www.coatsandclark200years.com/timeline.html>

Kearny Shipyard:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Shipbuilding_and_Drydock_Company>

I had found Samuel's name on our grandfather Hans immigration documents. He
was given as a family member with his address in Pawtucket, RI. We had his address
in Rhode Island and found the 1941 Census doc. with his wife's name.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: blacksmith. ⁷⁵⁰

• connection. ⁷⁵⁰

Samuel married Elizabeth Young on 30 Jul 1864. (Elizabeth Young was born in 1850 in Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland UK,⁷⁵⁰ died in 1922 in Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland UK ⁷⁵⁰ and was buried in Hawkhead Cemetery, Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland UK ⁷⁵⁰.)