This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dmcshaw Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.shaw/3812.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: We are trying to find our Shaw ancestors. My husband's Shaw line is from Charles County, Maryland. We have been unable to find the connection to the correct Shaw family who first settled in this area. We theorize that our Shaw's must have settled here in the late 1700's/early 1800's (maybe from VA, New England, England, Ireland, or Scotland?). There are some unique names in our line, such as Elkanah, Arosia, Alphonsus, Ecelia, Rhoda, Columbus, Berry, Millard, and Ovid. These names do not seem common to the old Charles County, MD records, but I have found some of these names with Shaw's in the New England area. We think my husband's gggrandfather, William S. Shaw (b abt 1793 - d 12 Apr 1862), was descended from William Shaw (b abt 1767 - d abt 1820 Charles County, MD) and Pricilla (MNU) Shaw (b abt 1818 - d 1835 Nicholas Co, KY), but there have been different theories offered as to who William S. Shaw's father was (possibly James, Josiah, or John Shaw, instead of William). There are births of, who we think are 3 of William's siblings, recorded in the church register of King George's Parish/Piscataway Parish/St. John's Broad Creek Parish (all names for the same church), as children of William and Priscilla, Joseph (b 2 Jun 1786, Luke Lucis (sp Lewis) (b 2 Aug 1796), and Sarah (twin to Joseph) (b 2 Jun 1786). This is why we believe his parents were William and Priscilla Shaw. William S. Shaw's first wife was named Milley MNU (b. abt 1780 - d. 25 Oct 1848). After Milley's death, William S. Shaw married Innocence B. Wilkerson (b. abt 1818 - d. 18 Jun 1903) on 6 Sept 1849 at St. Paul's Piney Parish in Charles County, MD. William S. Shaw served in the War of 1812. We just recently found out Innocence's maiden name was Wilkerson from her War of 1812 Widow's Pension File, but we are not sure of the names of her parents, but we think her father may have been John B. Wilkerson. Innocence and William Shaw are buried at St Paul's Piney Parish Episcopal Church in Waldorf, MD. After William's death in 1862, Innocence remarried to Dennis Gates on 25 Jan 1868. Innocence B. Wilkerson and William S. Shaw had the following children: (1) William Columbus Shaw (1850-1930), m. Victorine Lucy Willett (1862-1919) (2) Unknown Son Shaw (abt 1852) (3) Joseph Berry Shaw (1854-1894), m. Elizabeth Kate Willett (1857-1916) (my husband's ggrandparents) (4) Walter Millard Shaw (1856-1933), m. Maria Frances Hicks (1859-1924) (5) Mary R. Shaw (1857-), m. ? Marshall E. Boarman (1954-) (6) Elkanah Arosia Shaw (1859-1898), m. Virgie Eugenia Robey (1871-1958) We seem to have a disconnect at William and Priscilla Shaw. In my research at the College of Southern Maryland Studies Center, I found some letters written to the Charles County Historical Society from a Carol Lee Moore back in the 1970's and 1980's requesting information on this very couple. Carol Moore stated she had original letters in her possession dated 1837-1867 written from Joseph Shaw in Indiana to his brother, my husband's gggrandfather, William S. Shaw, here in Charles County, MD. From the content of the letters, she was able to determine that Joseph, Samuel, William S., Luke Lewis, Sarah, John Anderson, Ann, Matilda, and James Shaw were siblings. Priscilla and William Shaw are believed to be their parents. Sometime between the 1820 Census and 1824, Priscilla Shaw moved to Nelson County, KY to live near her son, Luke Lewis Shaw, and took her four youngest children with her (James, Matilda, John, and Ann). In 1824, in Nicholas County, KY, Priscilla Shaw gave permis! sion for her daughter, Matilda, to marry. She is shown on the 1830 census living next to her son, Luke Lewis Shaw. She died there sometime between 1830 and 1840. But, I still don't know her maiden name, or the names of her or William Shaw's parents. DNA testing has recently proven that Myrle Shaw (living in California) descended from Luke Lewis Shaw, and my husband, Ken Shaw (living here in Charles County), descended from William S. Shaw, were related. This proves that Luke Lewis and William S. were indeed brothers, descending from the same father. I was able to track down the family of Carol Lee Moore but, unfortunately, she was killed in a car accident in 2002. Her daughter said that, after her death, some of her genealogy information was redistributed to other family members. She was going to confer with her father to figure out how much they still had in their possession and to whom they sent the rest to try to find any Shaw related letters and photos for us. I am keeping my fingers crossed that we will be able to recover these important letters, as they will hold many clues to us here in Charles County. We would be most familiar with the names and landmarks mentioned in the letters, and that should help provide the! clues we need to conduct further research. She hasn't gotten back to me yet, though. We also found a note in my husband's elderly aunt's personal affects after her death that said: "John Shaw, came to Lancaster Co, VA in 1705. He was surgeon to Capt. Robert Tayloe of London, brother of the second William Tayloe." We are not sure if this has any significance to our Shaw line or not. But, since we have not been successful in matching this line to other Shaw's in Charles County, we wondered whether our William and Pricilla Shaw came from another country, state or county. Do you have any Shaw family information that matches up with our Shaw line from Charles County, MD? I'd be happy to exchange information. Denise C. 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