Born about in County Tyrone, Ireland
Daughter of Thomas Shaw
and [mother unknown]
Sister of
Henry Shaw [half]
Wife of
James Maxwell
— married
16 Mar 1869 in Tradeston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Descendants 
Mother of
Maria (Maxwell) Riddall, Thomas Maxwell, Alexander Maxwell, Mary (Maxwell) Bean, Hugh Maxwell, Eliza Ann Maxwell, Mary Elizabeth (Maxwell) Montgomery, James Maxwell, Sarah (Maxwell) Smith, Robert Maxwell, Jane (Maxwell) Anderson, John Maxwell and William Maxwell
Died
at about age 73
in Ballynagilly, Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom [uncertain]
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Biography
This profile is part of the Maxwell Name Study.
Mary (Shaw) Maxwell was born in Ireland.
Mary Ann was born about 1848-1850[1] in County Tyrone.[2] She was the daughter of Thomas Shaw (flax merchant) and Sarah Ann Coyle, both deceased as of 1869.[3]
On 16 Mar 1869 at Tradeston, Glasgow, Scotland, she married James Maxwell, a foundry labourer. [3]
She moved with James back to his home of Dunmore, Lissan, County Tyrone, Ireland. [4]
She passed away 13 Jul 1923 "age 71", late of Ballynagilly. She was buried at Claggan Presbyterian. The chief mourners were: [5] [6] [7]
- Alex Maxwell, John Maxwell (sons)
- Mrs. Riddle, Mrs. Bean, Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. Smyth, Mrs. Anderson (daughters)
- Henry Shaw (brother)
- William Montgomery of Belfast, W. J. Smyth (sons-in-law)
- Thomas Maxwell, William Riddle, William Maxwell (grandsons)
- Hugh Marks, Henry Reid, James Reid, John Reid, Thomas Bell, Bobbie Bell, Bobbie Marks, Bobbie Maxwell (relatives)
Research Notes
By elimination, perhaps Mrs. Bean is the 1875 daughter? No marriage found.
Sources
- ↑ Age 20 in 1869; age 51 in 1901; age 63 in 1911; age 71 in 1923.
- ↑ From the 1901/11 censuses.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 ScotlandsPeople: MAXWELL JAMES || SHAW MARY ANN || 1869 || 644/9 146 || Tradeston. Full image retrieved: the writing is hard to read but the mother's name looks like Maria Bell or similar.
- ↑ http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Lissan_Lower/Dunmore/1729294/
- ↑ GRONI search: D/1923/99/1009/25/324 Mary Maxwell 13th July 1923 71 Female Cookstown
- ↑ Space:Claggan_Presbyterian_cemetery_inscriptions - Maxwell 3
- ↑ "Obituary", Mid-Ulster Mail - Saturday 21 July 1923, Page 8
- 1901 Ireland census - Residents of a house 36 in Dunmore (Lissan Lower, Tyrone). James Maxwell (53), Mary Ann (51, wife), Sarah (14), Robert (11), John (9), Janie (9), William (7), all Presbyterian b. Tyrone.
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