Thank you everyone.
The response has been quite amazing for a novice. But I'm am now somewhat confused.
This is what I think I know.
Samuel Shaw was born in 1840 and trained as a cabinet maker. His father John Shaw was a wool stapler.
On the 23 July 1864 married Mary Anne Wilkinson a weaver who was born at Bowling [1881 census Mirfield??] on 30 June 1841[conflicts with K Gerrad's post of 14th @08 07 41which seems to indicate that she was born in 1832 which would make her 8 years older than Samuel] [In the 1871 census she is 29 and in the 1881 census she is 49???] and christened at St Peter's Bradford on 8 August 1841. Her parents were Abraham and Hannah Wilkinson of Bowling and Abe was a wool sorter.
They take over the Barracks Tavern in Fulford Rd York which is now the Fulford Ams.
Mary Ann died in 1891 at 59 [which would mean she was born in 1832]
Samuel married the maid Susan Gilbert who was born in York in 1868/9, in the Dec qtr 1892.
Now it gets complicated.
It would appear that they had three children:- Beatrice Eleanor (Beatie A, b York 1893), Stanley (b York 1895) and Albert G (b York 1898). There are also Mary Ann's children Clara (b Bradford 1866 who seems to disapear), John (b1865. Or maybe its Hannah gradchild by another of her children), Edward (b 1869 ditto), Nathan (b Bradford 1875), Mary (b Bradford 1877)
The family of Samuel, Susan, Beatrice, Stanley and Albert with Nathan who is only 6 years younger than his step mother and with whom there is a story from the old aunts that he was having an affair go to Western Australia on the Ormuz on 10 July 1908. My grandmother Beatrice meets Francis A Malone and at the age of 15/16 marries in Perth and here I am.
Hope I've got this right. Please tell me if I've messed it up.
Maxk
Ps Hope you don't mind but I will have to now try and find the other branch.
