Isaac Shaw (abt. 1832 - 1900)

Born about 2 Sep 1832 in Berwick, Kings County, Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Love Minetta (Nichols) Shaw — married 8 Dec 1857 in Upper Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died 25 Feb 1900 at about age 67 in Weston, Kings County, Nova Scotia

Biography

• Isaac was born about 2 Sep 1832, the son of Sydney Shaw and Caroline Skinner of Berwick, Kings County, NS.^[1]
• In 1857 he married Love Minetta Nichols. They had one daughter, Love Minetta Shaw, but Isaac's wife died just two weeks after childbirth..
• On 18 Dec 1859, he married Salome Freeman, the daughter of Zoeth Freeman and Charlotte Parker of Harmony, Queens County, Nova Scotia^[2], and they had children^[3], including

1. Sidney Ellsworth Shaw, b. Aug 1861, d. 6 Feb 1862
2. Rev. Mark Bailey Shaw, b. 17 Nov 1862 in Waterville, Kings Co., Nova Scotia; who studied at Acadia University and became a minister of the Baptist Church; who married Antoinette Dewis in 1886^[4] , and who died d. 25 Jul 1922, San Bernardino, San Bernardino CA
3. Dr. Carl Addison Shaw, M. D., b. 20 Apr 1865, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, who married Annie Patten in 1890^[5], and who died 9 Aug 1924, in the Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles
4. Harlow Page Shaw, born 31 Jul 1866, Cornwallis, Kings Co., Nova Scotia,^[6], a farmer, who died in 1939
5. Frederick Monod Shaw, b. 25 May 1868, Waterville, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, who died 17 Mar 1900, Denver, Denver Co., CO
6. Rev. Albert Avery Shaw, b. Oct. 7, 1870 Berwick, Kings Co., Nova Scotia^[7]
7. Flora McLaren Shaw, who was adopted

• Isaac Shaw died 31 May 1902 in Weston, and is buried in Berwick, Kings County, Nova Scotia. His obituary was published in The Register on 1 Mar 1900 in Berwick, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada. Mr Shaw was a son of the late Sydney Shaw, Esq., and was one of the pioneers in the fruit growing and nursery businesses in this Valley. In the days of the free school law, he was brought into considerable prominence. He then resided in Waterville. Acting as Secretary to Trustees, he was compelled to defend a case which was carried to the decision of which, in favor of the trustees, did much to settle the disputes which attended the inception of free schools. Mr Shaw afterwards removed to Berwick, and later to Weston, where he has resided for the past twelve years. He has always been prominent in church work, an earnest and faithful member of the Baptist Church of which he has been for twenty years a deacon. Two of his sons are ministers of that church, the Rev.M.B. Shaw, formerly a missionary in India, now in charge of a church in California, and Rev. A.A. Shaw pastor of the Windsor Church. Of his other sons, Carl is government physician at St. Kitts, West Indies, Harlan P. is head teacher at the Normal Hall, Bridgewater, Mass., and Fred M. is engaged in teaching in Denver. One daughter, Mrs S.V. Sanford, also survives him as also and adopted daughter, Miss Flora McL. Shaw now in California.

Sources

1. ↑ The Sprague Project record for Isaac Shaw, person ID#I350116
2. ↑ Freeman genealogy in three parts; Part 2; Franklin Press: Rand, Avery and Company. Boston, 1875; pg 395, 415
3. ↑ History of the descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass by Charles H. Farnam; Published 1889 by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor in New Haven, see person ID 11500, page 775 (scroll to p 801 in the .pdf)
4. ↑ Nova Scotia Vital Records showing Antoinette Dewis and Mark B. Shaw married 1886 in Cumberland County can be found in Registration Year: 1886 - Book: 1809 - Page: 279 - Number: 103
5. ↑ Nova Scotia Vital Records showing Annie L. Patten and Carl A. Shaw married 1890 in Kings County can be found in Registration Year: 1890 - Book: 1826 - Page: 225 - Number: 10
6. ↑ Nova Scotia Vital Records showing Harlan (sic) Page Shaw, born 1866 in Cornwallis, Kings County can be found in Registration Year: 1866 - Book: 1816 - Page: 30 - Number: 511
7. ↑ Nova Scotia Vital Records showing Albert Avery Shaw, born 1870 in Berwick, Kings County can be found in Registration Year: 1870 - Book: 1816 - Page: 131 - Number: 126