Hi Alan. I have Robert Sinclair Shaw, buried in Minmi Cemetery, but not your Robert.... co-incidence but your post caught my attention. However, I have the Minmi Cemetery register and your Robert is noted there, as well as the funeral notice of Barbara . In addition there are accounts of the deaths, from the newspapers of the time, of the inquest of David, aged 17 and William Corner Shaw in Lithgow. Can I be of any assistance to you? rosalee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Egginton" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 6:16 AM Subject: [SHAW] Robert Shaw > Robert Shaw was my great grandfather, born in Kilsyth, Scotland, in 1831, > the son of David Shaw and Ann Aitken. He had a twin sister, Agnes, and his > other siblings were Jean (b. 1816), Andrew (1818), John (1820), Matthew > (1822), Elizabeth (1824), Ann (1826), David (1829), and Barbara (1834). > > Robert married Barbara Corner in 1853 at Renfrew Abbey, Paisley, and > emigrated to Australia in the "Anna", which sailed from Liverpool, > disembarking in Sydney in February, 1855. They settled at Minmi, near > Newcastle, N.S.W., where Robert worked in the coal mines until his death > in 1877 from English cholera. > > Robert's children were Catherine (b.1851), Annie (1854), Barbara (1856), > David (1858 - killed in a railway accident in 1875), William (1861 - > killed in a mining accident at Lithgow in 1890), Andrew (1863 - my > grandfather), Robert (1865), John (1868), Jane Euphemia (1871) and > Alexander 1874 - drowned in a shipwreck at the mouth of the Clarence > River, N.S.W. in 1882). > > I would very much like to contact any of Robert's descendants or > descendants of any of his siblings with whom I would like to share > additional information. > > Regards to all, > > Alan > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx