SHAW, William, E & Family
10 June 1788 – 5 May 1862
Origin Leceistershire, England, UK
Accompanying Family Wife Eliza (nee Cooper), Sons, Nathaniel Chapman, Charles William, Frederick James, George Edward & Daughters, Elizabeth Caroline & Mary Louisa
First settled in Belvoir, Upper Swan, WA
Original Occupation Soldier
Occupation in Australia Settler
EGYPTIAN
Arrival Year 1830
Fremantle
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William and Eliza Shaw arrived with six children and a further three were born in Western Australia. They came to the Swan River Colony after unsuccessfully trying to settle in Ireland and took up land in the Swan on a property they named Belvoir.
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William and Eliza Shaw were my great-great-great grandparents. My Grandfather Charlie Mitchell (born Simon Shaw) was the son of Willie Shaw, who was the son of George Edward Shaw and Mary Belapan.
Tue 8 Nov 2016
William and Eliza Shaw are also our ancestors. Roland Hugh Shaw was their great grandson. Roland is our grandfather. We have written a book on the Shaw family and would love to hear from you.
Sun 29 Jan 2017
I have have been told that William Shaw fathered Aboriginal Children,does anyone have information they would like to share? I would love to know.
Wed 5 Jan 2022
Recheck the generations of Shaw mob as Mary B was a young woman in 1829 and GS was only a sml child … maybe another Shaw was the father of Will Shaw the 2nd born about 1831/2….
Tue 2 Aug 2022
Willie Shaw son of George Edward Shaw wasn’t born until 1858, possibly to another Mary B. I imagine records of aboriginal women around that time would be hard to verify. Are there any birth, marriage or death records of a William Shaw born 1831/32?
Fri 30 Dec 2022
There is a Shaw family born in Catabody or Cataby as now known, Yued people.Quite a few descendants .
Sat 13 Jul 2024
Have rechecked the generations of Shaw mob of GS & Mary B
William 'Willie' Shaw was born in Western Australia in 1860. He was the son of George Shaw and Mary Ann Ballapon, a Ballardong Noongar woman.
George Shaw had an illegitimate son with a full-blood Nyoongar woman from the Ballardong clan, Mary Ann Ballapon. Mary Ann came from the York area (a wheat-belt town, north-east of Perth). Mary Ballapon died soon after Willie was born. Eliza Shaw (George’s mother) took care of WIllie until she arranged for another family to raise him. To do this, she walked from Upper Swan (near Guildford) to Gingin (some 80 km away), carrying Willie in her arms (Durack: 1976: 202; )
Willie married Mary Ann Hill at Gingin in 1886.[2] Together, they had 12 children.
Willie passed away in Perth in 1918 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. After escaping from Claremont Mental Hospital, Willie took a gun from the Osborne rifle range and tried to shoot Warrant- Officer Ward before turning the gun on himself.[3] He was buried in the Anglican portion of Gingin Cemetery.[4]
Tue 21 Jan 2025
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