Generation Zero
(the earliest found)
It is believed that John Shaw and
Mary Wood are possible ancestors from the 16th century. They had a
son called George, born about 1598. His wife is unknown but might
have been Margaret Lonsdale, born 1609, died 1682.
George
had many children:
Hellen, born 1631 in Beeley
Jarvis, born 23rd January 1633
in Beeley, died 28th January 1633
John,
born 1644 in Beeley
Robert, born 1633 in Beeley,
died 30th January 1636
Edward, born 7th August 1636
in Beeley, died 24th August 1636
Thomas, born 1638 in Beeley
Robert, born 3rd November 1640
in Beeley
Ruth, born 23rd May 1643 in
Beeley
Catherine, born 26th February
1646 in Beeley
Gerasius, born 27th March 1649
in Beeley
A William Shaw purchase 520 loads
of iron ore in Cromford in 1653. In the same year a John Shore
purchased 187 loads.
In about 1540 William Shaw of
Wirksworth "a poor miner and getter of leade oore" sued the
executors of Roger Gell in Chancery claiming that the deceased owed
him lead ore to the value of fifteen pounds plus five pounds in
money. The Gell family were "brenners" or lead smelters.
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