Roy Allan Shaw ⁷⁵⁰

  Research Notes:

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:

• connection. ⁷⁵⁰

Roy married Darlene. (Darlene was born circa 1950.)