>Here's an additional complication: in 1856, John SHAW, Journeyman >Printer of Cambridge Street, Aylesbury, & Mary Anne SHAW christened a >son John Harry SHAW, born 1855. John SHAW aged 4 was buried May 1860. I >can find no sign of John SHAW the printer anywhere else, & the only >other Mary Anne SHAW in Aylesbury is accounted for, the perpetually >unmarried daughter of Joseph. My Mary Anne had a son Harry in 1865, & I >think is the Mary Ann who had a son Harry in 1858, & buried him 6 months >later. (All St. Marys). I have a feeling that John Shaw was printing somewhere else (????for one of the Gibbs papers, in which case, try Herts). Chris Reynolds may know. I just have this feeling that he reached the point where he was putting his name to his own printing. The possible setup is that they went to Tring, or Hemel, or wherever), John died, Mary came back to Aylesbury and continued having babies, then married Mr Tomkins. Could be wrong. > >My Mary Ann married William Tompkins, former crier & bill sticker 30 >years her senior & widowed 6 weeks earlier, in 1870, & buried him 4 >months later. We...ll. Girl's got to have a career. > > -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society