Shaw Family Line

Shaw Family Line

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Nana's 7x Great-Grandmother:

My 9x Great Grandmother:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 10x Great-Grandmother:

Susannah Shaw (1617 - 1687)

Susannah Byram

Also known as: "Martha Shaw", "Martha Susannah Shaw", "Susanna", "Susan"

Birthdate: ca. 1617

Birthplace: Northowram, Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Nicholas Byram

Dr. Nicholas Byram, I

Also Known As: "Biram", "Bryan"

Birthdate: ca. 1610

Birthplace: Kent, England [uncertain]

Denomination: (Probably) Puritan or Congregationalist

Arrival: Nicholas Byram migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Death: April 13, 1688 in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Dominion of New England

Burial: Old Graveyard, East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Occupation: Physician, Trader

Immediate Family:

Son of William H. Byram and Mary Williams

See: Byram Family Line

Children:

1. Abigail Byram 1637-1712

2. Experience Byram 1638-1712

3. Nicholas Byram II 1640-1727

4. Ebenezer Byram 1642-

5. Deliverance Byram 1644-1720

6. Josiah Bryam 1645-1646

7. Joseph Byram 1646-1647

8. Susanna Byram 1648-1742

9. Bass Byram 1649-1744

10. Mary Byram 1658-

About Susannah Shaw

Susanna (Shaw) Byram migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Biography

Susannah Shaw was born to Abraham Shaw and Elizabeth Best in May 1617 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, to Abraham Shaw and Bridget Best. She was baptized 25 May 1617.[1][2]

Marriage

She married Nicholas Byram about 1635 in Weymouth, Suffolk, MassachusettsBay.[3]

Death and Burial

Susanna died Aug 1696 and was buried 21 Aug 1698 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay.

Susannah's grave is not marked with a headstone. In his book, "Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater", Williams Latham wrote:"The adult persons living and dying in this part of old Bridgewater previous to 1703, and probably buried in this yard, so far as is known, were N. Byram, 1688, and his wife, Robert Latham and wife, 1685-1688; Jonathan Cary, of Beaver, 1695; Experience Mitchell, of Elmwood, 1689; Mercy Harris, wife of Issac Harris, about 1682. No other public place of burial is known to have been used; and we find a very few private burying-grounds in the early settlement of the town, here, or elsewhere, in old Bridgewater."

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Susanna married Nicholas Byram about 1636. They had children, all born in Weymouth:

Nicholas - born about 1640

he married Mary Edson in 1676

Abigail Nicholas - born about 1642

she married Thomas Whitman in 1656

Deliverance - born about 1644

she married John Porter in 1660

Experience - born about 1646

she married John Willis

Susanna - born about 1648

she married Samuel Edson

Mary - born about 1650

she married Samuel Leach

Susannah was the Executrix of the will of her husband. She made an oath to the inventory on June 16, 1688.

Susannah made her will on September 7, 1698. She bequeathed to her children and grandchildren, and gave freedom to her negro Tom and her maid. As part of her probate records, the inventory of her estate begins with "A true inventory of the estate of Susannah Byram widow deceased the 28th of November 1700 in the town of Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth in New England"

Sources

↑ West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: WDP53/1/1/5. [1] (Ancestry subscripstion needed)

↑ Chamberlain Abraham Shaw's will mentions his son-in-law Nicholas Byram.

↑ Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; Volume Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700, pg 130

Chamberlain: Chamberlain, George Walter. History_of_Weymouth_Massachusetts, Volume 4, Weymouth Historical Society, Weymouth, Mass. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, Mass.), 1923 On Hathitrust.org

Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 3. pg. 1186-1189)

References:

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZVV-PDZ/susannah-shaw-1617-1698

https://www.geni.com/people/Susannah-Byram/6000000004964467998

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shaw-221

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65404720/susannah-byram

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowling&p=susannah&n=shaw

https://mdhervey.com/getperson.php?personID=I220&tree=tree1

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Nana's 8x Great-Grandfather:

My 10x Great Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 11x Great-Grandfather:

Burial: Old Village Cemetery, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Occupation: at times, clothier, indentured servant and farmer.

Family

Spouse:

Bridget Best

1592-1638

Bridget Shaw

Also Known As: "Elizabeth", "Briggit"

Birthdate: ca. April 9, 1592

Birthplace: Holdsworth, Ovenden, Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Christened: April 9, 1592 at Ovenden, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England

Denomination: (Probably) Anglican / Puritan

About Abraham Shaw, of Dedham

Abraham Shaw migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

7 children baptized in Halifax: Joseph, Grace, Martha (died young), Maria, John (died young), John and Martha.

Disputed Origins

There is no baptism record in Halifax, Yorkshire, for Abraham Shaw. In the absence of records, multiple hypotheses for his origins were advanced. Pitman found a record in Halifax for the baptism of Abraham, the out-of-wedlock child of Abraham Dobson and Jenet Shaw, on 14 November 1585 in Northowram, Halifax, Yorkshiire, and concluded that this child was the Abraham Shaw who later emigrated to New England (Shaw was his mother's maiden name, not his father's name).[1] However, Abraham Shaw acquired property in Halifax, which would not have been possible if he was born out of wedlock.[2]

Bierbrier found that the will of Thomas Shaw Jr, proved in 1600, describes Abraham Shawe as his eldest son, while the nuncupative will of Thomas Shaw's daughter Sarah, created in 1616, includes a legacy for her brother Abraham Shawe.[3] These wills demonstrate that Thomas Shaw did have a son named Abraham and that this son was alive in 1616, when Abraham Shaw was married.[4] Bierbrier treated Abraham as a son of Thomas Shaw and his second wife Elizabeth Longbotham.[5]

The following comes from the book, Shaws of New Brunswick and Maine With Roots in Massachusetts and England 1518 - 2004: Descendants of Christopher Shaw of Northowram, Yorkshire, England and his grandson Abraham Shaw who settled in Dedham, Massachusetts that migrated north into New Brunswick and Maine. compiled by George H. Hayward, 2004.

"Dr. Daniel Turner, in his Shaw book (1973), said that Abraham Shaw may have been the son of a young unmarried Shaw girl in Halifax, England. And John Brooks Threlfall, in his book, "Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England, and Their Origins" (Madison, Wisconsin, 1990) gives Abraham's parents as Thomas and Elizabeth (Longbotham) Shaw, of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, and Thomas' father as Thomas Shaw Sr. However, Russell F. Shaw, M.D., of Los Alamos, New Mexico, in his article, "The English Ancestry of Abraham Shaw of Dedham, Massachusetts (1590-1638)," said Thomas Shawe was born about 1542, a son of Christopher Shawe, that he was dead by 6 May 1600 when his will was proved in the Prerogative Court of York (Archdesconry of Pontefract), that he married first, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, 10 Jul 1569, Elizabeth Mawde, who was buried from Halifax Church 16 Apr 1588, and that he married second in Halifax, 15 Dec 1589, Elizabeth Longbothom. After Thomas died, Elizabeth married Richard Moore at Halifax, 15 Apr 1601, and was still living 15 Jul 1624 when she received administration of his intestate estate.

M.L. Bierbrier, "The Origin of Abraham Shaw of Dedham", The American Genealogist, April 1981, the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Shawe:

"In the name of God Amen the tenth day of Januarie in the yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Ladye Elizabeth etc. [sic] fortie two et Anno D[omi]ni (1599). I, Thomas Shawe of the Towneshipp of Northowram parishe of Hallifax and County of Yorke sicke in body but of good and perfecte memorie, I praise God for the same, doe ordayne make and declare this my last will and testament in manner and forme followinge to witt First and principallie I give and commend my soule unto the hande of Almightie God with full and perfecte assurance of remission of all my sinnes by and throughe the meritte death and passion of Jesus Christe his onelie sonne and my alone saviour And my body I comitt to the earth whereof it was made to be buried in the Church or Churchyeard of Hallifax amongst the bodyes of other faithfull people of Christe hoping the same shall rise againe at the last Judgement Day glorious and imortall And concerninge the distribuc[i]on :and disposic[i]on of my worldlie goodes my will and mynde is as foloweth First my will and mynde is that all my true and lawfull debts be deducted & payed of my whole goods undevided, after w[hi]ch thinge donne my will and mynde is that all my goodes chattells and debts be devided into three equall parts one parte thereof my will and mynde is shall redounde unto Elizabeth my Wiffe as her right of my goods one other thirde part I give unto Sarah Shawe Susane Shawe and Martha Shawe my daughters & to such childe as my Wiffe hath now conceived if she have conceived any, equallie to be devided amongst them, And the laste thirde parte I doe give and devise to the forenamed Sara Susan and Martha Shawe, and to such child as my Wiffe hath now conceived if she have conceived any as is aforesaid equallie to be divided amongst them. Further it is my will and mynde and I do by this my last will and testament give bequeath and assigne unto the fore named Sara Susan and Martha Shawe my daughters and to such childe as my Wiffe hath conceived etc [sic] the just some of three pounds yearelie to be levied and gathered out of my messuage or tenem[en]t whereon I now dwell for and duringe the tearme of tenn yeares next and imediatlie after my decease towards their supportation maintenance and education duringe theire minorities After w[hi]ch said ten yeares expired it is further my mynd that Abraham Shawe my eldest sonne and heire shall for and duringe the tearme of other tenn yeares ymediatlie followinge the terme aforesaid yearlie yeilde and pay unto my said three daughters and to such child as my Wiffe bath now conceived if she have conceived any the just sum[m]e of three pounds for the augmentinge and enlarginge of their porc[i]ons. A1waies provided and it is my will and mynde that the forenamed Elizabeth my Wiffe shall enjoye and possesse to her proper use all my whole messuage and tene[me]nt aforesaid duringe the tearme of tenn yeares firste aforesaid educatinge my children, if she so longe live and kepe hir selfe sole and unmarried And the tuic[i]on and educatinge of my said children to witt Abraham Shawe Jonas Shawe Sara Susan and Martha Shawe and of such children etc [sic] I comitt to the said Elizabeth my Wief duringe theire minorities. And doe no[m]i[n]ate make and appoint the said Elizabeth full and whole executrix of this my will. And further I desire my trustie freinde John Bairestow of [?]Brormhirste John Crowder of Ovenden Willm Illingworth of Illingworth Henry Beste of Haldesworth and John Longbothome Supervisors of this my last will. And if it fortune any ambiguetye do[u]bte or question happen to arise or growe about any clause or sentence contained herein my will and mynde is that the same shalbe expounded and oppened by my said Supervisors or the moste of them In testimonie whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and sealle the daie and yeare firste above written these witnesses John Bairstowe John Crowder Willm Illingsworth Henry Beste and John Longbothome." [Proved 15 May 1600]

Biography

Abraham Shaw was born about 1590, son of Thomas Shaw and his second wife Elizabeth Longbottom, in Northowram, Halifax, Yorkshire, England.

He married 24 Jun 1616 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England Bridget Best.[6][7]

His occupation was, at times, clothier, indentured servant and farmer.

He emigrated in 1636, possibly on the Anne, settling initially in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony.[8][9] His house burned down in October 1636.

By 1637, he lived in Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony,[10][11] where he was granted 60 acres and the right to build a corn mill, and was one of the men appointed to govern the town. Freeman, 1637; constable, 1638.

He died at Dedham (Norfolk County), Massachusetts, some time after 10 October 1638, when he sold some land at Dedham, and before 25 March 1639, when town records described him as deceased. In 1639, his administrators sold his estate.[12][13]

He is thought to be buried in Old Village Cemetery, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. The grave is not marked;[14] the oldest gravestone in the cemetery has a date of 1678.[15]

Estate

The following abstract of the last will & testament of Abraham Shawe was published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 1848:[16]

Memorandum that if it please Almyghtye God to take me to his rnercye by death. That it is my minde & will that my estate shal be disposed of as followeth (that is to say) I bequeathe to my sonne John, & Martha Shawe, beinge infants ten pownds betweene them, also betweene the aforesd Martha & Marye I leave as much quicke goods as shal be balance to eight pownds, also to Joseph in some goods twelve pownds as may be thought fitt: furder, that Joseph & John shall have my lott att Dedham equally to be devided between them. Also that all the rest of my estate whatsoever be devided, proportionate, betwene all my childron.

Witnesses

Nicolas Biram

Joseph Shawe.

These psons were ordered to make an Inventorye of the estate by the helpe & advice of Mr. Edward Allen.

Abraham Shaw was married June 24, 1616 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England to Bridget the daughter of Henry Best of Ovenden who was baptized there April 9, 1592. Abraham resided in the village of Northowram in Halifax. The bapstims of his children are given in the church records there as follow:-Joseph, Mch. 14, 1618; Grace, Aug. 15, 1621; Martha, Dec. 1, 1623; Maria, June 18, 1626; John, Feb. 16, 1628; John, May 23, 1630; Martha, Jan. 6, 1632. The burials of his dau. Martha on Mch. 31, 1625 and his son John born 1628, on Arpil 12, 1692 [sic: corrected in book to "1629"] are also recorded in the same church records ... The town records mention on 25 of 1 mo. 1639 [old style calendar- date is 25 March 1639] that he was deceased. [17]

Note

This was stuck in Susannah Byram's profile:

"ABRAHAM SHAW came from the village of Northowram, in the parish of Halifax, Eng., to Watertown as early as 1636. His house was burned in Oct. 1636, and he removed to Dedham. He was made a freeman, 9 Mar. 1636-37. Thomas Lechford wrote in his Note-Book, page 329, that Abraham Shawe, sometime of Halifax, in the County of Yorke, clothier, and late of Dedham in New England, planter, made his will about Nov. 1638, mentioning his eldest son Joseph Shaw, his son-in-law Nicholas Byram, his attorney, Mr. Best of Halifax, his daughters Martha Shaw and Mary, his son John and all his children. He married in Halifax, 24 June, 1616, Bridget Best...."

Research Notes

Sources

↑ Pitman, pages 51-52.

↑ M.L. Bierbrier, "The Origin of Abraham Shaw of Dedham", The American Genealogist, April 1981 page 85

↑ M.L. Bierbrier, "The Origin of Abraham Shaw of Dedham", The American Genealogist, April 1981 page 86

↑ M.L. Bierbrier, "The Origin of Abraham Shaw of Dedham", The American Genealogist, April 1981 page 87.

↑ Bierbrier, page 87

↑ U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012), Ancestry.com, Record for Abraham Shaw. [1] Ancestry subscription needed

↑ Torrey, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. pg 664

↑ Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1998, 410

↑ Frank R. Holmes, comp., Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700, New York, 1923. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, 1964. pg 214

↑ John A Farmer, A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England..., pg 261

↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Ancestry.com, Record for Abraham Shaw. [2] Ancestry subscription needed

↑ Frost, Page 5

↑ Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997), Ancestry.com, Record for Shaw, Abraham. [3] Ancestry subscription needed

↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #16195670 Abraham Shaw.

↑ Town of Dedham, Massachusetts. Master Plan Update, Historic & Cultural Resources Element, Draft, 2008. Page 12 [4] Downloaded on 5 September 2016.

↑ Abstract of the Will of Abraham Shawe. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA), Vol. 2, 1848. Vol. 2, p. 180

↑ Frost: Page 5.

Frost, Josephine C. Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams (Self Published, Brooklyn, 1920).

Bierbrier, M. L. pp. 85-87 The Origin of Abraham Shaw of Dedham. The American Genealogist, v. 57 (1981)

Chamberlain: Chamberlain, George Walter. History of Weymouth Massachusetts, Volume 4, Weymouth Historical Society, Weymouth, Mass. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, Mass.), 1923 On Hathitrust.org

Pitman, H. Minot. Abraham Shaw of Dedham. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. v. 106 (1952), pages 50-52.

Frost, Josephine C. Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams. In: Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams, Showing Mayflower Lines Never Before Published from Myles Standish, John Alden, William Mullines and Thomas Rogers. Mrs. Isabella Marion Shaw Knowlton, compiler. 1920. Page 5

Shaw, Russell Franklin. "The English Ancestry of Abraham Shaw of Dedham, Massachusetts (1590-1638)". The Genealogist 10:1 (Spring 1989):86-97.

Delorey, Janet Ireland. "Ancestry of Grace (Shaw) Davis". The Genealogist 10:1 (Spring 1989): 99, 104.

George Hatfield Hayward; Turner, Daniel [5] Shaws of New Brunswick and Maine with Roots in Massachusetts and England, 1518-2004 [electronic Resource] (2004) George H. Hayward, p. 3-4.

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63508080/sybil-shaw-appleyard-mychell

Sybil (MASON) SHAW-APPLEYARD-MYCHELL was baptised 3d 2m 1539/40 in Halifax, Halifax Par, Yorkshire, England and married there (1st) Thomas SHAW 4d 10m 1562 and had five children. She married (2nd) John APPLEYARD 10d 9m 1576 in Halifax and had one child. She married (3rd) John MYCHELL 4d 2m 1588/89 at Halifax and had no children by him.

Sources

The Genealogist, 10:1:86-97, "English Ancestry of Abraham Shaw," by Russell Franklin Shaw.

Links

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/o/o/David-Mook-Solon/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0204.html

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Shaw-of-Northowram/6000000007282054510

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shawe-7

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L1HM-B2M

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63508468/thomas-shaw

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowling&p=thomas&n=shaw&oc=15

https://mdhervey.com/getperson.php?personID=I29398&tree=tree1

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Shaw Clan Motto: Fide Et Fortitudine ("By Fidelity and Fortitude"). History of Clan Shaw (Schaw): The Lowland surname is of a territorial origin and first appears in the 13th century.

Clan Tartans:

Shaw History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The clans of the Pictish people in ancient Scotland were the ancestors of the first people to use the name Shaw. It was a name for a person who shared some of the qualities attributed to a wolf. Shaw is a nickname surname, which belongs to the category of hereditary surnames. Nicknames form a broad and miscellaneous class of surnames, and can refer directly or indirectly to one's personality, physical attributes, mannerisms, or even their habits of dress. The surname Shaw is derived from the Gaelic first name Sithech, which means wolf.

Early Origins of the Shaw Family

The surname Shaw was first found in Perthshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt) former county in the present day Council Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland, where the family appears to have been firmly entrenched in the Eastern coastal regions well before 1000 AD.

While some claim that the Clan originally descended from a MacDuff, one of the ancient Earls of Fife, the first official mention in documents shows them to be present at the General Council held by King Malcolm at Forfar in 1061.

However, this ancient leadership was challenged by many other Clans Commyns (Cummings) who had leased the Shaw lands of Rothiemurchus.

Shaw Spelling Variations

In the Middle ages, spelling and translation were not yet regulated by any general rules. spelling variations in names were common even among members of one family unit. Shaw has appeared Shaw, Shawe, Mac Ghille-Sheathanaich (Gaelic) and others.

Shaw Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Nich Shaw, who arrived in Virginia in 1618

Annis Shaw, who landed in Virginia in 1623

Anne Shaw, who settled in Virginia in 1635 along with Richard and William

Roger Shaw, who landed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1636

Abraham Shaw, who landed in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1637