Posts Tagged ‘Shaw’
A summary of the life of Mary Shaw Sant is found on this site. This entry is a portrait of Mary which was taken at the same time as a portrait of her husband John Sant. She was born in England in 1814 and died in Clifton, Idaho in 1877. She was baptized a member […]
Mary Shaw was born in England to Richard Shaw and Elizabeth Postles. She was the eleventh child of twelve born to her parents. She married John Sant in 1831 and became the mother of twelve children. Their daughter Elizabeth who married Thomas Winterbottom is our direct ancestor. Mary’s husband John met the missionaries of The […]
John Sant was born to Abel Sant and Margaret Bayley in England. He was the seventh of twelve children born to his parents. When John was just ten years of age, his father was convicted of having a file in his lunch pail and sentenced to the prison ship which traveled to Australia. This method […]
Elizabeth Sant was born in England in 1842 to John Sant and Mary Shaw. She was known in life as Betsy. She was one of twelve siblings. She married Thomas Winterbottom, son of Samuel Winterbottom in 1861 in England. They became the parents of six children. One, Elizabeth Hannah died as an infant. Another, Hannah […]