Sir Bernard Vidal Shaw - Born Where?

[barryd]

I am researching a linked (by not related) ancestor Bernard Vidal Shaw. He married Mrs. Katherine Ciceley Creasy, a World War I widow, in Kisumo, Kenya, 23 December 1929. Katherine's maiden name was Colls.

The sun never set on Bernard's governmental postings. He was everywhere! His birth date is 28 April 1891 and he died Fulham, London 26 May 1984 but I cannot find a birth place.

[CaroleW]

Freebmd has a Bernard Vidal Shaw birth in 1857 Devon - could it be his father?

[Lostris]

This chap pops up a lot when searching on the full name - Father of your man ?

................ three eagles displayed sable, as many trefoils slipped
of the field. Crest — On a wreath of the colours, a hind's
head sable, transfixed through the neck with an arrow or.
Motto—" Te ipsum nosce. "

Sons of Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, K.C.B. , D. L. co.
Middlesex, b. 1830 ; d. 1908 ; m. 1855, Anna, d. of
Murto Dove of Lisbon and Algarve : —
Eyre Massey Shaw, Esq., b. 1855. Post, add.—
Bernard Vidal Shaw, Esq., Capt., b. 1857.
Robert Clarina Shaw, Esq. , b. i860. Res. — 11 Gloucester
Street. S.W. 1.

Cecil O'Brien Shaw, Esq., b. 1862.

[KGarrad]

All I've found so far is his knighthood?
1957 Birthday Honours List, Overseas Territories:
Bernard Vidal Shaw, Senior Puisne Judge, Special Court, Cyprus.

[CaroleW]

The 1857 Bernard married in 1889 to Gertrude Wynne Cole or Alice Thompson

[CaroleW]

Bernard snr and wife Gertrude Wynne departed London 23.9.1914 for Demerara, Guyana

[barryd]

Bernard Vidal Shaw Senior died 10 January 1932, South Kensington, London. Administration to Gertrude Wynne Shaw, widow. Thank you Gertrude for being so American with your name. I am now thinking that Bernard and Gertrude hopped on a boat for somewhere exotic (British) for Bernard's employment and Bernard Vidal Jnr. was born there! At least I am a little closer with all of your help. From a site on the Internet I found that he was 25 years in British Guiana, and he was believed to be there in 1891 which corresponds to Bernard Junior's birth. The Ship's Manifest in 1914 confirms that. No wonder the family is not in English Censuses. Not surprising that Bernard Junior has little evidence of being in England. 

[barryd]

1881Census Southwark, London.
Eyre Massey Shaw Chief of Fire Brigade, son Bernard Vidal Shaw [Senior], 23. This Bernard Vidal Shaw married Gertrude Wynne Cole or Dallas [possibly a widow] December Qtr. 1889, Kensington, London.

Eyre Massey Shaw, Grandson of the Chief of Fire Brigade, died of wounds, 30 July 1916. Commonwealth War Graves Commission site gives parents as Bernard Vidal Shaw [Senior] and Gertrude Wynne Shaw. 1911 Census this Grandson is at boarding school, age 15, in Hammersmith, London. Birthplace British Guiana.

1951/1952 Electoral Rolls, 50 Hornton Street, Kensington, London, 3 Shaws living in the same house
Bernard V. Shaw [Junior]
[Son of] Gertrude W. Shaw [Widow]
[Husband of] Katherine C. Shaw

Gertrude Wynne Shaw died 8 June 1954. Will to Bernard Vidal Shaw, Retired Official of Colonial Legal Service.

It looks likely that the Junior Bernard Vidal Shaw as well as his soldier brother were both born in British Guiana but further research is needed.

[dawnsh]

records may not have survived, reading between the lines here

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/

but there are lots of suggestions and things to follow up