THE two pictures above are about the only significant clues Maureen Williams from Caernarvon in North Wales has in her hunt for the ‘Shaw’ side of her ancestry.
Her grandparents were Alfred and Emma Shaw who lived in Huddersfield.
Alfred was a woollen cloth finisher and lived in Berry Brow so it is more than likely he was employed at John Brooke and Sons Ltd, of Armitage Bridge.
He and his wife had seven children, Harriet Emma, Charlotte, Ann Alice (a mender, possibly also at Brooke’s Mill), Hugh, a joiner’s assistant, Edith M, Lucy and Emily.
“Harriet Emma was my grandmother and married George Tinsdeall,” said Maureen. “Their son, Llewellyn, was my father.”
Maureen has managed to trace the Tinsdeall line back to 1765, but the Shaw line is more problematic.
“It is Harriet Emma’s brother’s and sisters’ descendants I’m trying to find,” she said.
“I can remember visiting Ladyhouse Lane in Berry Brow to see one of them.”
She left Elland in 1950 with her parents, Llewellyn and Mary Tinsdeall, to live in Caernarvon, North Wales – which is where she met her husband.
