STOKE ST  MARY,  SOMERSET,   ENGLAND

STOKE ST MARY HISTORICAL RECORDS

The Rev Shaw was the incumbent at Thurlbear/Stoke St Mary from

He had a daughter Mary Ann Sophia who married a Surgeon in the Army in India, William Joseph Shaw.

They were both in India during the Indian Mutiny.  Ann Sophia was in Cawnpore at the time of the uprising and she was killed in the boats on 27 June 1887.

He was stationed at Onaw and had tried to join his wife in Cawnpore but was unsuccessful.  He was  at Dilkhosha Palace, on his way out of Lucknow, with the resuced garrison when he died on 22 November  following, of decline aged 24.  

The Rev. Shaw stayed on at Stoke until 1860 when he sold up and left.  He was probably living at Stoke Villa [now Woodfordes]