Mary Jane Shaw's Family

Mary Jane was born in March 1860 in the hillside hamlet of Oker in Derbyshire, in the small triangle between Matlock, Wensley and Darley Dale.  Oker is also known as Oaker, Okerside and Oakerside. She was baptised on 17th June 1860 in South Darley (presumably at the church of St Mary the Virgin).

Her parents were John Shaw, an agricultural labourer (later he was a lead miner) born 1819, died 1869 and Mary Dakin born 1824, died 1897. Mary Jane Shaw had these brothers and sisters:

  Joseph, born 1848, died 1916 (Mary Jane's oldest brother who brought up her son William in Teesside)

  John Samuel, born 1850, died 1878

  Elizabeth Ann, born 1854, married Edward Ashton in 1878, remarried to James Smedley in 1883

  George Henry, born 1856, died 1940 

  James, born 1857/8, died 1935 

  Martha Ellen, born 1865, died 1946, married Charles Henry Jarvis of Shirland on 23rd May 1893 in Elton

  William, born 1868

After John Shaw died of dropsy (nowadays called oedema) his wife Mary remarried to John Wright, a widower shoemaker 22 years her junior. John Wright's father was also John Wright, another shoemaker and his mother was Hannah Low.

Joseph Shaw married Mary Kirkland (née Walton) from Brassington in Derbyshire who was born about 1840. They both died in 1916 in Teesside.

George Henry Shaw married Emma Bingham, born about 1856 in Wooley, in 1875 in South Darley. After Emma died he remarried to Fanny Swift Hopkinson in 1920, a few weeks before his 64th birthday.

James Shaw married Charlotte Slater in 1885.

Charles Henry Jarvis was the son of Samuel Jarvis.

It is possible that George Henry Shaw and his first wife Emma divorced and she died in 1923.

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