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SHAWs of C18th Coventry & Birmingham
Seeking ancestry of John SHAW, Pewterer and later Freeman of the City of Coventry, who married Elizabeth BIDMEAD on 2.11.1772 at St Michaels, Coventry.
Their first child, Benjamin BIDMEAD,
was illegitimate but baptised also as John SHAW
on 21.12.1770 at St. Phillips, Birmingham. This may indicate John SHAW senior had Birmingham
origins or that his apprenticeship was done there. John senior may be the son of
John SHAW, the 1748 & 1756 mayors of Coventry.
It appears that Benjamin being
born out of wedlock continued to use his given name rather than
his baptised name of John SHAW. The BIDMEAD family name from this
point onwards should really have been SHAW. Benjamin married Rachel
DURKIN (actually DUFFKIN)
in 1793 at St. Michael's Coventry.
Other known children born within the marriage of John & Elizabeth SHAW and baptised in Coventry in the 1770's include Mary SHAW (c. 31.5.1773) & Thomas SHAW (c. 20.9.1774) at St. Michael's, Coventry.
If you are connected in any way with this SHAW family you may have heard family tales of a connection to Sir Henry MORGAN. This would have come from the BIDMEAD family.
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