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Uncle Charlie’s Photo Album

Created by: Edward Alexander Shaw

With notes and pictures from Charles Weir Shaw b.1913

 

 

  1. James Shaw b.1865 on right

Conductor on Left

Electric Streetcar in Scotland

  1. Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b.1869 taken Detroit, Michigan 1922
  2. James Shaw b. 1865 & Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b.1869
    1. Marriage Record (front)
    2. Marriage Record. (back)
    3. Picture of Wedding Chapel.
    4. Church Record.
  3. Bessie Shaw b.1857, 14 Napier St., Belfast, Ireland
  4. Rev. Charles Shaw b. 1856 and wife Essie
  5. Charles Shaw b. 1856 was a missionary in China.  This is retirement party. (Front & Back) On his way home to Ireland, he died and was buried in the Red Sea.
  6. Ellen (AKA: Nellie) Shaw b. 1863
  7. Old Papers:
    1. James Shaw b. 1865 Detroit Railway letter of reference.
    2. James Shaw b. 1865 Union Withdrawal Card.
    3. Letter from Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900 to Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913 & Gertrude (Taylor) Shaw b. 1921. 
    4. Margaret St.Clair Shaw b.1898 Police ID & work permit (front & back)
    5. James Shaw b. 1865 Sheffield Railway letter of reference.
    6. James Shaw b. 1865 Detroit Railway letter of reference.
    7. James Shaw b. 1865 Sheffield Railway 2nd Merit Badge.
    8. James Shaw b. 1865 Notaries in Sheffield, England.
    9. James Shaw b. 1865 Merit Badge Envelope.
    10. James Shaw b. 1865 letter of reference Detroit Electric Railway.
    11. James Shaw b. 1865 letter from Attorney in Detroit about sale of lot in Simmons Subdivision in Detroit, Michigan 
  8. Jessie (Smitt) Peace (mother of Margaret Peace b.1869). This picture was taken at Grant & Morton Royal Studio 172 Main Rd. Darnall.
  9. Richard Peace (father of Margaret St. Clair Peace b. 1869).
  10. Richard Peace (father of Margaret b. 1869), Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869, Jessie (Smitt) Peace (mother of Margaret Peace b. 1869), Richard Peace (son of Richard & Jessie Peace), Hugh Shaw b. 1909, Jessie Peace (daughter of Richard & Jessie Peace) Beulah’s mother.

Archibald Burns Photographer in Edinburgh, Scotland took this picture.

  1. Jessie (Peace) Lewis (sister of Margaret St. Clair Shaw b. 1869)
  2. Charles Britton, Annie (Peace) Britton, son Charles (sister of Margaret Shaw b. 1869)
  3. Robert J. Gregg, Bessie (Peace) Gregg (sister of Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869.) Children Robert & Ester Gregg

Robert had a farm on the County Line outside of Milan, Michigan.

  1. a. Willie and Mae (?) Peace lived in Pontiac, Michigan. (Mae was his 2nd wife)

b. Willie and Mae Peace last picture taken September 1960

c. Thank-you card mailed to Charlie b. 1913 & Trudy Shaw 

  1. James & Ellen Watson. (half brother of Margaret Shaw b.1869.
  2.   No picture.
  3.   James Richard Shaw b. 1894 & Ellen “Jean” Shaw b. 1893.  Jimmy died at 6 months of age and was buried in Woodmere Cemetery Detroit, Michigan.
  4. Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913 Taken on Headwell Road in Dumfermline, Scotland.
  5. Margaret St. Clair Shaw b. 1898. Maggie, taken at the corner of Headwell Rd. & Townhill Rd. Dumfermline, Scotland
  6.  Mother (Margaret  St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b.1869 taken at our house in Milan, Michigan.
  7.  Ellen “Jean” (Shaw) Fenton b. 1893 & Arnold Taken at the Sea Shore—Darlington, England.
  8. Annie Weir (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900.
  9. Edward Alexander Shaw b. 1902 Eddie taken in front of Annie’s Apartment building on Whitfield Ave. Detroit, Michigan about one year before his death.
  10. William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904 & Rowena (Tutt) Shaw. Taken at home in Panama City, Florida.
  11. Hugh Wellington Shaw b. 1909 & Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913, taken in Milan, Michigan
  12. Charles Weir Shaw b, 1913 Graduation Western High School. January 1931.
  13. Back row L-to-R Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896, William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904, Edward Alexander Shaw b. 1902

Front row L-to-R Hugh Wellington Shaw b. 1909, Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913

  1. L-to-R Willie b. 18?? & Jo Peace b. 18??, Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896, Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869
  2. Jean Kelday’s house, Kirkwall, Orkney.  Cousin of Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869. 
    1. Willow Rd. “X” marks the house where Tommy Peaces’ Aunt Jean lived with Douglas her son and Milly his daughter.  Picture taken by Douglas Walker.
    2. Back of picture.
  3. Kelday Family
    1. Jim Kelday’s mother Kirkwall Orkney
    2. Nell Angus, Maggie & Jim Kelday.  Nell is Jim’s sister.  Taken in front of Nell’s home, Kirkwall, Orkney.
  4. Annie Shaw b. 1900 went to Kirkwall in 1952 and stayed with Jim Kelday.  Cousin of Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869.  
    1. Jim Kelday & I  (Annie b. 1900) at Maes home.
    2. Maggie Kelday & I (Annie b. 1900) Taken at Maes home, Kirkwall, Orkney.
    3. Jim Kelday, looks like Ruth Kurtz, and ? (Jean? B. 1893)
  5. Pictures of Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869 birthplace Orkney Isles, Scotland
    1. Thurso from Thurso Castle..
    2. Kitchener Memorial, Marwick Head, Orkney.
    3. Jim & Maggie Kelday at Standing Stones of Stenness.
    4. Skara Brae, Hut 5
    5. Skara Brae, Doorway and Passage from Hut 2.

1.      Skara Brae: one of the most perfectly preserved Stone Age villages in Europe, which was covered for hundreds of years by a sand dune on the shore of the Bay of Skaill, Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scot. Exposed by a great storm in 1850, four buildings were excavated during the 1860s by William Watt. After another storm in 1926, further excavations were undertaken by the Ancient Monuments branch of…
             

    1. UK map
    2. The Italian Chapel. Lamb-Holm, Orkney.

1.      Back of Card

    1. Scrabster Harbour, NR Thurso.
    2. Thurso Castle.
  1. Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869 in backyard of our house in Saline, Michigan.  2nd picture.
  2. Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896, Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869, Hugh Wellington Shaw b. 1909, Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913
  3. Hugh Wellington Shaw b. 1909, Friend, Bill Baron, Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869, Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913
  4. Hugh Wellington Shaw b. 1909, Bill Baron, Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913
  5. Our House on Main Street in Milan, Michigan after moving from Saline, Michigan.
  6. Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913.
  7. William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904, Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869, Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913, Hugh Wellington Shaw b. 1909.
  8. Annie Shaw b. 1900, William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904.
  9. Annie Shaw b. 1900, Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869.
  10. William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904.
  11. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b.1900 in family’s first car.  An Oakland Touring Car that belonged to Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896. 

In 1909, Billy Durant (GM Founder) brought in the Oakland Motor Car Company. Though the purchase made bankers nervous –its cash price was bigger than the price GM had put out for Buick and Olds combined- it paid off when Oakland production reached 4,500 the next year. Hill-climbing was a sport that attracted a lot of attention then, and one Oakland model, the Pontiac, later became so famous for its climbing ability that the division was renamed for it.  This picture displays an Oakland Touring Car.

  1. Neighbor, Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869.
  2. Neighbor, Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913.
  3. Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913, Hugh Wellington Shaw b. 1909
  4. Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), ? ,  Aunt Ellen Watson, Cousin James Watson, Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913, Cousin Dolores Watson, Cousin Henry Watson.  (father of  Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869 changed his last name to Watson) – Written by Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913.
  5. Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), Aunt Ellen Watson, Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913, Aunt Ellen’s children, taken in Milan, Michigan.
  6. Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913, Hugh Wellington Shaw b. 1909. Milan, Michigan.
    1. Leaning on Sled
    2. Sled
    3. Snowman
  7. Standing Edward Alexander Shaw b. 1902, Uncle Charles Britton, Aunt Annie (Peace) Britton, Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869, Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896, Cousin Harold Britton, Center: Cousin Arthur Peace, Bottom: Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913, Hugh Wellington Shaw b. 1909, Friend.
  8. Back row L-to-R: William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904, Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896, Cousin Harold Gregg, Uncle Willie Peace, Front: Hugh Wellington Shaw b. 1909, Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913.
  9. Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), Aunt Annie (Peace) Britton, Uncle Charles Britton.  These pictures were taken in Pontiac, Michigan at Uncle Charles Home.

*** FROM MILAN, MICHIGAN

WE MOVED TO DETROIT, MICHIGAN AND

LIVED IN THE CLARK PARK AREA. ***

  1. Front Row: Aunt Ellen Watson, Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869, Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Aunt Jo Peace, SECOND ROW: L-to-R. Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896, Jack Danskine, the rest are friends.
  2. FRONT ROW: L-to-R. Aunt Ellen Watson, Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869, Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Aunt Jo Peace, The rest are friends.
  3. FRONT ROW: L-to-R. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869, Aunt Jo Peace, BACK ROW L-to R: Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896, Jack Danskine. The rest are friends.
  4. L-to-R:   Chris Shaw (Christina Hume b. 1892, wife of Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896), Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900.
  5. BACK ROW L-to-R: Maggie & Bill Baron, Friend, Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896, Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869) FRONT ROW L-to-R: Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Friend, Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913, Friend
  6. L-to-R: Friend, Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Robert “ Douglas” Shaw b. 1896, Friend.
  7. L-to-R: Cousin Arthur Peace (nephew of Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), Uncle Willie & Aunt Jo Peace (brother and sister-in-law of Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Charlie (Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913).
  8. RIGHT FRONT: Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), Aunt Jo Peace, Cousin Tommy Peace.
  9. Annie’s Husband Robert Danskine, Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Friend.
    1. Wedding Announcement in News Paper.
  10. Robert Danskine, his brother Jack Danskine, William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904.
  11. L-to-R: Danskine Brothers: Jack, Bob, William, & Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913.
  12. L-to-R: Bill (William) Danskine, William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904.
  13. L-to-R: Mr. Danskine, Annie’s (Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900) Father-in-Law, Jean Danskine (Annie’s sister-in-law), Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), Jack Danskine, Annie.
  14. L-to-R: Bob (Robert) Danskine, Arthur Peace.
  15. L-to-R Friend, Bob Danskine, William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904.
  16. L-to-R: Hugh Wellington Shaw b. 1909, William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904.
  17. L-to-R: Uncle Willie Peace, Aunt Jo Peace, and Cousin Arthur Peace.
  18. BACK ROW: Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Maggie Baron, Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896, Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), Children.
  19. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), Friends.
  20. Mother (Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869), Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900.
  21. L-to-R: Aunt Nellie (Ellen Shaw b. 1863), Uncle Bob (Robert Shaw b. 1866, Friend.  (Nellie and Bob lived on the Farm together.)

THESE PHOTO’S WERE TAKEN AT UNCLE BOB’S FARM

OUTSIDE OF MILAN, MICHIGAN

  1. L-to-R: Uncle Bob (Robert Shaw b. 1866), Aunt Nellie (Ellen Shaw b. 1863), Aunt Annie (Peace) Britton, Uncle Charles Britton, Eddie (Edward Alexander Shaw b. 1902), Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896, William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904. 

Douglas’s Oakland Touring Car.

  1. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Douglas (Robert Douglas Shaw b. 1896).
  2. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Chris (Christina (Hume) Shaw, wife of Robert “Douglas” Shaw b. 1896).
  3. Eddie (Edward Alexander Shaw b. 1902), Uncle Bob (Robert Shaw b. 1866), William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904.
  4. Mr. Danskine (Annie’s b. 1900 Father-in-Law), Jenny Peace, Rowena (Tutt) Shaw, Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Albert Peace, David Peace, Thomas Peace, Thomas Peace Jr., William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904.  (Albert, David, & Thomas are Tommy & Jenny’s children).
  5. L-to-R: Friend, Friend, Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Jenny Peace, Thomas Peace, Mr. Danskine.
  6. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900 & Chris (Christina (Hume) Shaw).
  7. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Chris (Christina (Hume) Shaw) & ?.
  8. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900 & Jean (Ellen “Jean” (Shaw) Fenton b. 1893.
  9. Jean (Ellen “Jean” (Shaw) Fenton b. 1893).
  10. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900 & Jean’s (Ellen “Jean” (Shaw) Fenton b. 1893) trip to Switzerland in 1952.  (a, b, c, d, e)
  11. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900 & Jean’s (Ellen “Jean” (Shaw) Fenton b. 1893) trip to Dumfermline, Scotland in 1952.

L-to-R: Rissie Danskine (Annie’s sister-in-law), Nell Hume (Chris (Hume) Shaw’s sister-in-law), Jean (Ellen “Jean” (Shaw) Fenton, Mary Hume (Chris (Hume) Shaw’s sister-in-law), Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Marjorie Hume.

  1. L-to-R: Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Nell Hume, Rissie Danskine, Jean (Ellen “Jean” (Shaw) Fenton b. 1893.
  2. Letter to Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900 from Edward Weir.
    1. Envelope
    2. Page 1
    3. Page 2
    4. Note to Annie from Uncle Willie Peace

1.      Envelope

2.      Christmas 1939 page 1

3.      Christmas 1939 page 2

  1. L-to-R: William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904, Rowena (Tutt) Shaw & Maggie Baron.
  2. L-to-R: Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Maggie Baron & Rowena (Tutt) Shaw.
  3. Picture taken on front lawn of The Cumberland Tourist Home in Berea, KY. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900 & Louie Key owned this tourist home.
  4. Pitctures taken near Rowena & Wallace’s home in Panama City, Flordia.
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
  5. William “Wallace” Shaw b. 1904.
    1. Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913 &Wallace
  6. Jenny (Danskine) Peace (Annie’s sister-in-law) & Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900
  7. Ellen “Jean” (Shaw) Fenton b. 1893 & Arnold Fenton Taken at the Seashore in Brighton, England.
  8. Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913.  Taken in Pontiac in 1943?
  9. Diane (Winters) Shaw, Edward Alexander Shaw, William Kurtz, Kimberly Ann Shaw.
  10. Dennis White (Patty Meadow's Husband) & Patty (Meadow) White, Kathy (Shaw) Meadow, Douglas A. Shaw  --Timothy Charles Shaw
  11.  Edward Shaw, Barbara Ruth (Herschelman) Shaw, Albert “Bud” Meadows,   Kathryn Anne (Shaw) Desjardin.
  12. Karen An (Shaw) Warren, Albert “Bud” Meadows, Kathy (Shaw) Meadows. (Gertrude Shaw in the back ground)
  13. Janet Shaw
  14. Carol Shaw
  15. Lori Shaw
  16. Carol Shaw
  17. Larry Kurtz, Janet Shaw, Lori (Laura) Shaw, John Bodine (Husband of Laura Shaw)
  18. Dave Kurtz, Jill (?) Kurtz, Cindy (Szymanski) Shaw, Timothy Charles Shaw
  19. Ruth (Shaw) Kurtz, Gertrude (Taylor) Shaw, ?, Jill (?) Kurtz
  20. Christina (Hume) Shaw, Charles Weir Shaw b1913, Marjorie Key, and Louie Key Friends of my Mother’s – Ruth (Shaw) Kurtz.
  21. Charles Weir Shaw b.1913, Kathy (Shaw) Meadows, Douglas A. Shaw, Ruth (Shaw) Kurtz.   (Charlie with the three children of his brother R. Douglas Shaw)
  22. 110
  23. Kathie (Shaw) Meadows – stewardess for Chicago and Southern –Ruth Kurtz.
  24. Douglas Shaw and neighbor at cottage in Greenbush
  25. Barbara (?) Shaw, Douglas A. Shaw
  26. Ruth (Shaw) Kurtz - High School graduation
  27. Ruth (Shaw) Kurtz, Dave Kurtz, and Chris Kurtz
  28. Chris, Dave, James & Larry Kurtz (twins)
  29. James & Larry Kurtz
  30. James & Larry Kurtz
  31. Ruth (Shaw) Kurtz
  32. Annie (Shaw) Danskine b. 1900, Ruth (Shaw) Kurtz, Chris Kurtz, and Christina (Hume) Shaw
  33. Chrissie Kurtz, Timothy Charles Shaw
  34. Bill Kurtz & Ruth (Shaw) Kurtz's house in Quaker Valley sub., Farmington Hills, Michigan
  35.  Ruth (Shaw) Kurtz. cover of "Dial" monthly magazine at Mackenzie High. Where in the world did Annie get this?  My mom must have bought a few copies as I have one here.  –Ruth (Shaw) Kurtz.
  36. Ruth (Shaw) Kurtz in a Play at Alma College.
  37. Macenzie High School Commencement Program Cover, Program
  38. Card from Ellen “Jean” (Shaw) Fenton b. 1896 Envelope, back of envelope, card, back of card, note inside card
  39. Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1896 Passport cover, Passport, back of Passport page
  40. Charles Weir Shaw b. 1913
  41. Margaret St. Clair (Peace) Shaw b. 1869  Internment Card
  42. Robert Danskine b.  husband of Annie Weir Shaw b. 1900 Internment Card
  43. Robert “Douglas” Shaw Cover funeral notice, funeral notice, inside funeral notice, death notice from news paper
  44. Art Haegers ??
  45. 133
  46. Margaret “Maggie”  St. Clair Shaw b189? Labour Certificate
  47. Annie Weir (Shaw) Danskine b1900. Certificate of Citizenship
  48.  Annie Weir (Shaw) Danskine b.1900  Labour Certificate  Back of Certificate.
  49.  Robert G. Danskine b1??? Annie Weir Shaw b1900 Marriage License  Back of License
  50. 138
  51. 139
  52. 140
  53. 141
  54. Art Haegers? Back of picture
  55. None
  56. Margaret St. Clair Shaw b189? Birth Certificate, back of birth certificate
  57. Annie Weir (Shaw) Danskine b1900. Birth Certificate
  58. Annie Weir (Shaw) Danskine b1900.  Petition for Naturalizing, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4

 

 

Main Entry: leg·a·cy
Pronunciation: 'le-g&-sE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -cies
Etymology: Middle English legacie office of a legate, bequest, from Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French, office of a legate, from Medieval Latin legatia, from Latin legatus
Date: 15th century
1 : a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : BEQUEST
2 : something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past <the legacy of the ancient philosophers>