The Rev. William Shaw lived in Stoke St Mary sometime in the late 1850s. He was married with at least 2 sons and 3 daughters.
His son William Joseph was a Surgeon in the British Army and he married the daughter of a doctor in Bulford, Wiltshire Mary Ann Sophia Southby. The married in 1856 and then presumably went out to India and were sadly there at the time of the Indian Mutiny.
Mary was at Cawnpore and was killed in the boats on 27 June 1857. Her husband died at Kilkhosha Palace on his way out of Lucknow with the rescue garrison on about 22 November. He had tried to join his wife at Cawnpore in June but had been unable to do so.
Rev Shaw stayed in Stoke until 1860 was he sold his house (possibly Stoke Villa) and moved to Wilton, Taunton.
One last Happy Note: 4 June 1863 Agnes Christiana, younger daughter of Rev William Shaw married Edmund Richard elder son of Anthony Southby of Bulford House, Wiltshire.
