Shaw, Mary Annie

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Mary Annie Robson Shaw was the wife of David Shaw and lived in 7 Percy Terrace, Bellingham in 1911 and 1921. It would appear that she was the illegitimate daughter of Jane Robson, a twenty-two-year-old milliner living in Horton, Northumberland. She was born in Seaton Delaval on 22 February 1873. In 1875 her mother married Thomas Powell Murray, a blacksmith. Six years later, in the 1881 Census, Mary Annie was living in Horton with her maternal grandfather, Thomas Robson, a widower who was a coalminer. She was still living at 29 Doble Row, Horton with her grandfather, who had remarried. (N.B. on the census sheet she is recorded as daughter.) By this stage she had, at the age of eighteen become a schoolteacher. On 1 April 1896 in Earsdon she had assumed her mother’s married name of Murray when she married David Shaw – her father’s name is given as Thomas Murray. Her husband taught in Newport, Monmouthshire, Thwing, Yorkshire, and Blyth. Her family in 1901 were Thomas Robson Shaw, (born 1897), Agnes Annie Shaw (1899) and Janet Shaw (1900) and the home address was 17 Belgrave Road, Blyth. By 1911 she had resumed teaching and was an assistant elementary schoolmistress working in Bellingham County School of which her husband was headmaster. She was similarly employed in 1921. In 1939 the Shaws, both retired, were living in Benwell Hill Road, Newcastle. Mary died in the fourth quarter 1940. The death was registered in Newcastle.