Rebecca Mary Anne Minchin (Jeffers) Shaw (1854 - 1948)

Born 8 Dec 1854 in Marylebone, London, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of John Hay Shaw — married 14 Mar 1876 in Westbourne-Park, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 24 May 1948 at age 93 in The County Hospital, Mickleover, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Rebecca was born in 1854. She was the daughter of the Reverend Michael Haynes Jeffers and Rebecca Minchin.

In 1862 they were on a passage to India where her father had been appointed to the church in Madras, but he died of consumption on the ship, and was buried at sea. Rebecca and her mother stayed in India for a while before returning to England. Her mother remarried.

UK Census Date 1871: Recorded in the household of her mother, along with her two brothers, in Teignmouth, East Teignmouth, Devonshire, England. Aged 16.

She married Colonel John Hay Shaw (the son of James Shaw) on 14 March 1876 at St Stephen's in Westbourne-Park, Middlesex, England, after Banns.^[1] Her address was recorded as 70 Talbot Road. John was 15 years her senior.

SHAW AND JEFFERS - On the 14th ult. at St Stephen's in Westbourne-Park, John Hay Shaw, Captain 108th Regiment, to Rebecca Mary Anne Minchin, only daughter of the late Rev. Haynes Jeffers.^[2]

They had three children;

James Donald Hay Shaw (1877 – 1940)

Clare M Hay Shaw (1880 – 1955)

Lettice Barbara Hay Shaw (1887 – 1904)

In 1881 she was recorded as a Lodger in the household of Mary Cave, along with her two children, in Shrewsbury Road, Paddington, London, Middlesex, England. Aged 26.

UK Census Date 1891: Living with her husband and two daughters in St Nicholas Rd, Streathem, London, England. She was 36 years of age. Also in the household were two servants.

By 1901 she was recorded in The Crescent, Bedford Eastern Ward St Paul, Bedfordshire, England, together with her husband and daughter Lettice. She was now 46 years of age. Also in the household were two servants. Her husband had now retired.

Sadly her daughter Lettice died in 1904 at the age of 17. In 1908 a stained glass window at St Paul's church in Bedfordshire was dedicated to her memory.

UK Census Date 1911: Living with her husband, 31 year old daughter Clara and two servants in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. Aged 56.

Her husband passed away in 1923.

In the 1939 England and Wales Register Rebecca was living at 4 The Crescent, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England in the household of William and Isabel Watts.

Occupation: Private Means

In 1940 her son James died.

She passed away in 1948, having outlived her husband and two of her children.

Her Will was proved on 2 September 1948 at London to Veronica Hamilton (the wife of Claud Lorn Campbell Hamilton) and the said Claud Lorn Campbell Hamilton, C.M.G. D.S.O. retired colonel H.M. army. Effects: £13,934, 18s. 5d.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DP2-RRG : accessed 13 January 2016), Rebecca Mary A M Jeffers, 1876; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,” database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Marriage, Kensington, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
2. ↑ Weekly Irish Times April 1, 1876 https://search.findmypast.com/
3. ↑ "England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7XCP-T8N2 : 25 February 2019), Rebecca Maryanne Minchin Hay or Shaw, 2 Sep 1948; citing Probate, London, England, United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Great Britain.; FHL microfilm .

• The Book of Minchin: A Family for all Seasons - Dorothy Minchin-Comm

Census Records

• "England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5RT-HYF : 23 June 2017), R Marian Jeffers in entry for R Marian Gideon, 1871.

• "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q279-8RT5 : 20 August 2016), Marian Shaw in household of Mary Cave, Paddington, London,Middlesex, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales census,"

• "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QSKK-9MM : accessed 14 January 2016), Rebecca Shaw in household of John Shaw, Streatham, London, England; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, London county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

• "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3Z-ZFP : accessed 14 January 2016), Rebecca M M Shaw in household of John H Shaw, Bedford Eastern Ward St Paul, Bedfordshire, England; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Bedford And Kempston subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

• "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7VY-PLK : 21 December 2018), Rebecca Maryanne Winchester Shaw in household of John Hay Shaw, Bedford, , Bedfordshire, England; from "1911 England and Wales census,"