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Thanks again Suz. If you are looking at military records for the local Loscoe Heanor areas could you look out for any earlier ones like 1880s etc. There was mention of Shaw relatives fighting with General Gordon at Khartoum and I think that was mid 1880s and someone serving with distinction in the navy. However I'm also considering this may have been Draper family and they were from the Loscoe area also. It wouldn't be the first time one of my Australian ancestors has got mixed up with which side of the family and grandparents they are talking about. I have to excuse it with living the other side of the world from grandparents and never knowing them they got stories from their mother's and passed it down as though it was from the father's side. I have spent years looking for false parents also after they make up names for death certificates rather than admit they don't know the names of their grandparents.
I had that with the Shaw line. Thomas' parents were Edward and Ellen according to his death cert but I found him before emigration in 1851 Nottingham census recently married with stepson using wife's name so I knew it was him and got his birthplace Loscoe from that. There was no Edward and Ellen at Loscoe then when I got the marriage details his father was John and not Edward at all. His wife's death cert said her mother's name was Draper and I knew that was incorrect so when I found a John Shaw married to Anne Draper with son Thomas correct age I knew I'd found my Thomas. I now know John was from West Hallam and there seem to be a lot of Shaw's there and as far as I can understand that is not too far from Loscoe and Heanor either.
Any assistance you can come up with no matter how small will be greatly appreciated.
Best Wishes, Carmel
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