Welcome to Ken Herlingshaw's family website                    83-149

This is my website for publishing information about the history of the Herlingshaw family. Or more accurately the Shaw family that evolved into the Herlingshaw family in the early 20th century.
It is a somewhat random "work-in-progress".  I will add more information and photographs from time to time, as things turn up.


 

Contact Details

If you wish to get in touch or, better still provide input, please send an email to the author by clicking here. Family photographs and information will be especially welcomed. Note that information about births, marriages and so on can sometimes take six or more years to become publicly available - so don't hesitate to write about more recent events.

Family History

Although there are only a few hundred people with the Herlingshaw name in the world, the family is obviously much larger. If you would like to read some of the history or see some photographs click one of the green buttons below.

Warning Notice !

This is only for family members who are directly related to Phyllis Mary Herlingshaw (1924 - 1989), the wife of Louis Raymond Herlingshaw:

You may have inherited her allergy to Suxamethonium (a.k.a. Scoline) which is often used in general anaesthesia and sometimes by paramedics (eg in an ambulance). It is important that you ask your doctor to get you tested for this allergy and if positive you should carry a warning card or wear a bracelet to make sure that this drug is not given to you. The adverse effects can be extremely serious, even fatal.

Latest News

Lexi Herlingshaw-Saunders "rang the bell" three times at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle - Great news ! Hopefully her recovery will continue.

Apparently the black sheep population in New Zealand increased slightly. Or has there been a recent cull ?

Special Delivery

Jamie-Leigh gave birth to a baby boy on 28th April 2020 in The James Cook University Hospital. He was named Teddy-James.

And Teddy-James is now three years old ! (although in this picture he was only two)

Doctor Herlingshaw, I presume ...

Katie Ann Herlingshaw is now Doctor Herlingshaw, having been awarded her Ph.D. by the University of Svalbard. She is the first person with the Herlingshaw name to have achieved a doctorate. Congratulations to Katie !

This was the topic of Katie's Ph.D. thesis:  Characterising Mesoscale Fast Flow Channels in the Polar Cap Ionosphere. Here she is in Svalbard (which is half-way between Norway and the North Pole) - and as a "southerner" I thought Teesside was cold !

Other News (some good, some bad) ...

Annie Herlingshaw (née Ralph) died on 12th March 2024. She was was the second wife of (James) Norman Herlingshaw, they married in 1952 and she was the last of that generation. Their children were David Norman (b. 1952), Shirley Ann (b. 1954), Margaret (b. 1955), Steven (b. 1959), Michael (b. 1960), Paul (b. 1964) and Wendy (b. 1967). Annie was born on 2nd April 1930 so was almost 94 years old. The funeral and cremation took place at Kirkleatham Cremtorium on Friday 22nd March 2024.

Norma Ann Doble (née Herlingshaw) died on 27th December 2022. Her funeral was at Kirkleatham on 24th of January 2023. Norma was the daughter of (James) Norman Herlingshaw and Minnie Ann Reed and was born in December 1940. She married William Doble in 1960.

Joshua Nathan Briggs, son of Ivy Dorothy Briggs (née Herlingshaw) died in January 2023 aged 29. Ivy Dorothy (known as Dot) is the youngest daughter of Cliffy Herlingshaw.

Sadly Ivy Johnson (née Herlingshaw) died on November 6th 2020, aged 93, well on her way to being 94 years old. She lived longer than anybody else born with the Herlingshaw name and will be missed enormously, a very special person in every way. Ivy's funeral was held on Wednesday 18th November 2020 at Kirkleatham Crematorium. The Obituary section of the Evening Gazette newspaper contains tributes and photos.

Susan C Herlingshaw (known as Sue, née Ford) died in Somerset in April 2020. She was the wife of Colin (who died in 2014) and mother of Andrew, Philip and Christopher. And a grandmother many times over. Sue was born in 1949 in Hammersmith. She met Colin when living with her parents in Hartswood Road, just around the corner from the then Herlingshaw family home which was at 105 Wendell Road, London W.12.

My uncle Cliffy Herlingshaw (youngest brother of my dad Louis Raymond and my aunt Ivy) died in The James Cook University Hospital on the 24th May 2019. Very sad news, he was a great guy. The funeral took place on 10th June 2019 in Eston.

On my mother's family side Billy English died of smoke inhalation due to a house fire at his home in Ilketshall St Margaret, Suffolk on the night of Saturday 16th March 2019. Billy married Sheila, his next-door neighbour and daughter of my maternal grandmother's brother, Augustus Rodney King and his wife Ivy Elma Grace. Billy lived in the same tiny village of around 200 people for all 81 years of his life and knew everyone in the area and everything about it. The village church was so crowded at the funeral ceremony that many had to stand outside.

Below is a photo from June 1950 featuring (front to back) Kenneth Raymond, Colin, Uncle Cliffy and Louis Raymond. It was taken in the front garden of the Notting Hill prefab family home at 62 Clarendon Road, London W11.

And in almost exactly the same spot five years later, in June 1955 is seven week old Sandra Herlingshaw who had just been christened at St John's Church - at the top of the hill on Ladbroke Grove. The two girls at the front were from the neighbouring McCall family and the lady back left was Mary Fairer, an old friend of Phyllis Mary. Also Frank Wilson, my step-father and Mary Elizabeth Wilson, my maternal grandmother.

Chelsea Herlingshaw-Saunders has recently become a world champion !  She is now at college training to become a nurse.

Information from the 1939 "Census" has been published. Unfortunately details of many of the residents were redacted for strategic reasons due to the imminent war with Germany, so it is of limited value.

Sadly John Woodbridge died on the 6th of December 2017. John visited Dad almost every week and they had known each other for over 50 years. This is a picture of John taken at Dad's birthday celebration in December 2012, relaxing in one of the nine (!) famous red leather chairs at Heritage House in Ascot. I kept one chair for myself as a memento but the others have found good homes.

This old hand-colourised photograph from about 1941 of Phyllis Mary Herlingshaw (1924-1989) was once left under a rusting tin and got badly damaged. It has now been restored using the wonders of Photoshop.

The Herlingshaw Centre in South Bank is alive and well, thanks to the Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation. This photo was taken in August 2017 - but it seems that these signs no longer exist and the Herlingshaw Centre is once again anonymous to passers-by on this road.

It is sad to report that my aunt Alice Herlingshaw (née Beckley), wife of Cliffy Herlingshaw died on the 1st July 2017. She was born in 1934 and her funeral took place on 14th July 2017 at Christ Church in Eston.

This photo is of Cliff and Alice on their wedding day in 1952:

Katie Ann Herlingshaw, youngest daughter of Robert and Jacqui, is studying at The University Centre in Svalbard north of Norway. She researches upper atmospheric physics. Svalbard is in a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean and apparently there are more polar bears there than human beings.

Charlotte Herlingshaw (daughter of Alan and Kathleen) is Student Education Service Officer at the University of Leeds Faculty of Arts. This is Charlotte:

Louis Raymond Herlingshaw died aged 93 in St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey in March 2016. To see the photos presented at his funeral at Easthampstead in Bracknell please click the Contents button below. Thanks to all those who made donations to Cancer Research UK (and the US equivalent) and to the many people attending his funeral.

Jane, a grand-daughter of Cliffy Herlingshaw and Alice and daughter of Janet, died in February 2017.

Sonia Herlingshaw married Craig Homer at Wynyard Hall in County Durham on 30 July 2014. Sonia is the oldest daughter of Robert and Jacqui. The bridesmaids were sisters Jenna and Katie and pageboy/usher was brother Robert.

Jamie-Leigh Herlingshaw married Anthony Saunders on Saturday 6th September 2014 at St. Cuthbert's Parish Church in Ormesby, Teesside. Chelsea and Lexi were amongst the bridesmaids and her grandfather Louis Raymond escorted her down the aisle.

For more of Jamie-Leigh wedding photos please click the Contents button below. 

Colin Herlingshaw (b. 30th April 1947) died on 27th July 2014 in Basingstoke Hospital and his funeral was held in Thatcham, Berkshire. Colin's wife Sue died in 2020 in Somerset.

An old photograph recently found featuring Ivy Johnson, Phyllis Mary Herlingshaw, Tommy Johnson and Louis Raymond Herlingshaw:

Sarah (Sadie) Herlingshaw died in 2012. She was the second wife of William Herlingshaw (1920 - 1988), they married in December 1986. Her first husband was in the air force, Allen T Coates (b. 1917) and they married in early 1941. Her second husband was Edwin M Vasey (b. 1923) who eventually became a police inspector, they married in 1952. She was born as Sarah Wilson and had known William Herlingshaw from their school days when she lived on a farm in Gilling and he came to visit during school holidays. Sadie's funeral was held on April 24th, 2012 at St Agatha's church in Gilling West. For petty family reasons (not from our family !) her headstone there only mentions one of the four surnames she had during her lifetime, Vasey. Very sad and unnecessary, especially as she described herself as Sarah Herlingshaw in her will.

The first William (Herling) Shaw was listed in the 1911 census and although officially still in the army at that time he was recorded as living next door to his surrogate parents, his uncle Joseph Shaw and his aunt Mary in South Bank. He is listed in this census as William Shaw, not Herlingshaw which suggests that he did not change his name until later, as a 1909 army document also lists him as Shaw. However, he used the Herlingshaw name in 1913 when he got married and in 1914 when he re-entered the army as one of the first reservists recalled for WW1. Perhaps marriage prompted the name change? Or perhaps he used both names for a while. It is reputed that at some time the name was hyphenated but that has never been demonstrated. William's sister Alice seems to have done so for a while although she used "Shaw-Herling" - until she married in 1911 and took her husband's surname.

Click below to go directly to other family photographs.

Note that baptism date is often used as shorthand for birth date and burial date for death date and some dates are from the official registration rather than the actual event so will be later. Numeric dates are in the UK format (D/M/Y)
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