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Name: SHAW, William Henry (Rev.)
Birth Date: 1858 Celbridge, Kildare
Death Date: before 1935
First Date: 1922
Profession: Farmer
Area: 'Lamourya', Nyeri
Married: 1. In Keynsham 8 Oct 1884 Blanche Bush b. 1855 Bitton, Glos., d. 1891 Barton Regis, Glos.; 2. In Handsworth, Stafford 26 July 1892 Blanche Hasluck b. 1860 Hockley, Warks., d. 25 May 1926 Lymington; 3. In Hampstead 23 Dec 1926 Mary Edith Marriott b. 11 July 1872
Children: 1. Catherine (1885 Hertford-5 Nov 1949 Nakuru); Ellen Miriam (1889 Ilfracombe-16 Jan 1915 Bedford); Vernon Graham Havergal (20 Aug 1887 Barnstaple-10 Jan 1985 Barking); Greville Havergal (10 Feb 1891 Stapleton-3 Nov 1918 France) 2. Giles Havergal (9 Jan 1894 Stapleton-11 Apr 1917 Arras, on active service); Gladys Elizabeth (Matthias) (8 Mar 1895 Stapleton-31 Aug 1974 Malindi); Irene Blanche (MacDougall) (16 June 1896 Stapleton-9 July 1978 Nakuru); Muriel Joyce (Vernon) (5 Aug 1902 Stapleton); St. John Havergal (24 Dec 1903 Stapleton-1986); William Blair Havergal (1899 Stapleton); Brian Van Dyke Havergal (1897 Stapleton-9 Sep 1978 Nairobi); Francis Ridley Havergal (9 Oct 1900 Stapleton-1964 Worthing) 3. Barbara Jill (1929); Rosemary Ellen (1931
Book Reference: Red 25, Wed
School: Trinity Coll. Dublin
General Information:
Gazette - 27/2/1924 - Electoral Register - Shaw, William Henry, Clerk in Holy Orders, Nyeri and Shaw, Blanche, Married woman, Nyeri
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters' Register - Kenya Province - William Henry Shaw, Clerk in Holy Orders, Lamourya PO Nyeri and Blanche Shaw, Wife of Rev W H Shaw PO Nyeri
He is also the father of Greville Havergal Shaw and another brother, both killed in WW1, sons of Rev William Henry and Blanche Shaw. Rev WH Shaw was rector of Stapleton - address in 1915 16 Rothsay Rd, Bedford.
In 1911 Census his children are Catherine Havergal, Ellen Minnie Havergal, Greville Havergal. Gladys Elizabeth Havergal, Irene Blanche Havergal, William Blake Havergal, Muriel Joyce Havergal, St John Havergal,
In 1901 census there are also children Brian V., Blair W. and Francis R.H.
He inherited quite a lot of money from his father, got into debt and was made bankrupt.
Newspaper report 1915 (unknown source: Shaw declared his arrest after his return from Australia, where he went upon his bankruptcy, to have been illegal and pleaded for release on account of intense humiliation and the death of his daughter while nursing soldiers and his own physical unfitness. It was stated in opposition to the application that the bankrupt had throughout shown a determination not to make a statement or to appear before the court, and it was stated that he had told to the Receiver that they would have to take his corpse first. Counsel for the trustee asserted that the debtor was a highly capable man. The Judge remarked that there was no evidence of unfitness to draw up a statement, and counsel added that Mr. Shaw had merely defied them point blank, refusing to do anything. The Judge, adding that a serious feature of the case was that the bankrupt had destroyed his papers, ordered the applicant to remain in gaol.
Barnes: He seems to have retained some of that money because when they came to Kenya in 1922 they travelled 1st Class. He also travelled to France with Blanche 1st class from UK in 1923 giving their intended future address as England.
[The final 2 children cannot belong to the 3rd wife if she was born in 1872. She was 54 on the 1926 wedding certificate.]
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