{"id":6708,"date":"2023-03-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenandjon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2024-10-07T08:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T07:42:28","slug":"joseph-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hweb.uk\/?p=6708","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joseph Lewis<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

1838 – 1876
3rd Great-Grandfather<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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1838 – Birth of Joseph Lewis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, we know very little about Joseph Lewis. It is only from Census records that we know he was born in Liverpool around 1838 – these facts have have remained consistent in the limited information we have found. From his marriage certificate, we know his father was also a Joseph Lewis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One possibility is that his parents were Joseph Lewis and Catherine Conley (they married in Liverpool in 1833) but this needs to be explored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We only pick up Joseph’s life when he married Eagle Diana Shaw in Liverpool in 1858. The family travelled all over the north of England and Southern Scotland – Joseph’s occupation varies from Painter to Artist to Landscape Artist to travelling showman (same profession as Eagle’s father which may be how they met).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1858 – Marriage of Joseph Lewis & Eagle Diana Shaw<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Lewis married Eagle Diana Shaw on 29th October 1858 at St Nicolas in Liverpool. Witnesses were William Smith and Ann Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrea Napier (Andrea Griffiths) recalls that her mother (Edith Jackson) said that she thought Harriet’s mother was Italian – dark hair and olive skin. Somewhere along the line there was a Grandmother called Rosa, but no-one can recall where she fits in … and no research has found any relation in this line of that name or similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only thing that has been picked up on the census is that Eagle’s father was born in Jamaica around 1792. This just raises more questions than answers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1859 – Birth of Harriet Elizabeth Lewis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Harriet Elizabeth Lewis (or Elizabeth as she preferred to be known) was born on 21st March 1859 at Luddenden Foot, Warley near Halifax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She married William Shaw at St George, Barrow-in-Furness on 4th June 1879 – a ceremony witnessed by Christopher G Braithwaite & Sarah Alice Shaw.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

They had eight children:<\/p>\n\n\n\n