George Henry Shaw and Emma Bingham

George Henry Shaw born in 1856 in Wensley, died in 1940, married Emma Bingham on 11th January 1875 at St Mary's Church, South Darley. His parents were John Shaw and Mary Dakin. He was a general labourer, later coal miner/hewer and it seems he moved from agricultural Darley to industrial Ashover in 1876-77 to work in the coal industry.

George Henry and Emma had these children:

  Isabella, born 1876 in the Matlock area 

  William, born 1877 in Handley

  George, born 1880 in Shirland

  Elizabeth, born 1882 in Stretton, married George Winson of Ashover

  John, born 6th October 1884 in Stretton, died  21st February 1956, in Clay Cross, married Sarah Alice Spencer

  Esther, born 1885 in Stretton, married ?? Bingham

  Mary A R, born 1887 in Handley, died 1932, married John G Holmes in 1911 in Chesterfield

  Hannah, born 1890 in Handley

  Edwin, born 1894 in Ashover

  Sarah J, born 1897 in Ashover

After Emma died George Henry married again to Fanny Swift Hopkinson in 1920 a few weeks before his 64th birthday. Fanny Swift was born on 18th Feb 1882 in Ashover and died in 1970 in Chesterfield, her parents were Thomas Hopkinson, a farmer, and Martha Swift. In 1901 she was a servant in the household of Alexander Todd a cabinet maker. George Henry and Fanny Swift had one child.

  Eric, born 1920, died 2001, both in Milltown, Ashover, he did not marry.

Emma Shaw (née Bingham) was born in 1856 in Woolley. She had a younger brother George, born in 1860.

John was a coal miner and was buried in Stretton Cemetery, as was his wife Sarah who was born in 1883 in North Wingfield and died in 1967. They married in Ashover on 8th June 1908 and had the following children: Cyril, Emma, James, John, Mary (1905), George (1908) and Joseph (1910).

This is a photograph of John Shaw (1884-1956):

William was a railway engine driver and lived in Bolsover.

George was a gritstone quarry worker.

Eric worked for the Gas Board.

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