SHAW, Herbert
Born 1869; died 5 December 1918; buried 6 December 1918; age 48
Herbert Shaw, a builder, died on 5 December 1918 at St Patrick's College Temporary Hospital aged 48 and was buried the following day at Karori Cemetery. There is no headstone.
Causes of death were given as influenza for two days and pneumonia for five days. His residential address was 4 Myrtle Crescent, Mount Cook.
Death and funeral notices appeared in the Dominion and the New Zealand Times on 6 December, 1918. The funeral was a motor funeral.
The death notice showed he had lived at Trentham and New Plymouth, and gave his age as 49, compared with 48 in the death record.
He was born in 1869 at Wahgunyah, Victoria. His parents were Sarah Ann King (1837-1914) and John Freeman Shaw (1829-1902). His father’s occupation on the death record was wine merchant. His parents married in Christ Church, Geelong in 1851.
Two of his siblings, Mary Ann and William Thomas, were born in Ballarat, while Lucy Jane was born in Wahgunyah and Alfred, Walter, and George were born in Rutherglen.
Herbert’s death record shows that he had married Mary Anderson when he was 23 in Perth, Western Australia, however there is no entry for this marriage. A likely marriage is that of a Herbert Shaw and a Mary Anderson in Rutherglen, Victoria in 1892.
A Herbert Shaw, builder, and a Mary Shaw were listed at Main Road, Upper Hutt in the 1911 and 1914 Hutt electoral rolls. In 1913, the Hutt Valley Independent newspaper reported that a Herbert Shaw was successfully sued in a civil case in the Upper Hutt Court over some building repairs. The Evening Post of 10 May 1917 reported the dissolution of a partnership between Herbert Shaw and Frederick Duncan Payne, who had been builders and contractors in Wellington.
Herbert’s death record stated that he had been in New Zealand for ten years and that at death he had two living female children.
The Kiwi Collection V2 lists a Herbert Shaw as the parent/guardian of Mabel Shaw, born 4 October 1900, in school records for Island Bay and Upper Hutt schools. Her last day at Upper Hutt was 21 May 1915, and her destination was New Plymouth. This could be one of his daughters. The other female child could be Phyllis Joyce Shaw, for whom there is a birth entry in 1918 in Wellington with parents listed as Herbert and Mary Shaw.
Herbert was buried in Karori Cemetery in Section CH ENG2, plot 178 E. There is no headstone.
Researched and written by Margaret Hurst
Born 1869; died 5 December 1918; buried 6 December 1918; age 48
Herbert Shaw, a builder, died on 5 December 1918 at St Patrick's College Temporary Hospital aged 48 and was buried the following day at Karori Cemetery. There is no headstone.
Causes of death were given as influenza for two days and pneumonia for five days. His residential address was 4 Myrtle Crescent, Mount Cook.
Death and funeral notices appeared in the Dominion and the New Zealand Times on 6 December, 1918. The funeral was a motor funeral.
The death notice showed he had lived at Trentham and New Plymouth, and gave his age as 49, compared with 48 in the death record.
He was born in 1869 at Wahgunyah, Victoria. His parents were Sarah Ann King (1837-1914) and John Freeman Shaw (1829-1902). His father’s occupation on the death record was wine merchant. His parents married in Christ Church, Geelong in 1851.
Two of his siblings, Mary Ann and William Thomas, were born in Ballarat, while Lucy Jane was born in Wahgunyah and Alfred, Walter, and George were born in Rutherglen.
Herbert’s death record shows that he had married Mary Anderson when he was 23 in Perth, Western Australia, however there is no entry for this marriage. A likely marriage is that of a Herbert Shaw and a Mary Anderson in Rutherglen, Victoria in 1892.
A Herbert Shaw, builder, and a Mary Shaw were listed at Main Road, Upper Hutt in the 1911 and 1914 Hutt electoral rolls. In 1913, the Hutt Valley Independent newspaper reported that a Herbert Shaw was successfully sued in a civil case in the Upper Hutt Court over some building repairs. The Evening Post of 10 May 1917 reported the dissolution of a partnership between Herbert Shaw and Frederick Duncan Payne, who had been builders and contractors in Wellington.
Herbert’s death record stated that he had been in New Zealand for ten years and that at death he had two living female children.
The Kiwi Collection V2 lists a Herbert Shaw as the parent/guardian of Mabel Shaw, born 4 October 1900, in school records for Island Bay and Upper Hutt schools. Her last day at Upper Hutt was 21 May 1915, and her destination was New Plymouth. This could be one of his daughters. The other female child could be Phyllis Joyce Shaw, for whom there is a birth entry in 1918 in Wellington with parents listed as Herbert and Mary Shaw.
Herbert was buried in Karori Cemetery in Section CH ENG2, plot 178 E. There is no headstone.
Researched and written by Margaret Hurst