Bond 4144 & 4145

4144. Robert Shaw Sr & 4145. Alice Smalley [England] {&2184&3144, &2185&3145}


~ 1563, Robert born in Wollaton, Nottingham, England.
~ 1565, Alice born in Wollaton, Nottingham, England [d/o Richard Smalley?]
6/25/1585 in Wollaton, Nottingham, England, Robert married Alice. (S) Nottingham Parish Registers, 1905, P57.
Robert a yeoman and a miner.
1620, Robert appointed as a supervisor in the will of Reginald Raven, also a miner.
Robert’s will identifies multiple individuals who he owed small debts, all except 2 residents of Wollaton.
1625, Robert died in Wollaton.
(S) Societies, Cultures, and Kinship, 1580-1850, Mary Carter, et al, 1993, PP67 …

Family notes:
• 4/1/1549, “Action for Breach of a Custom observed in delivering Coal at Wollaton Pit. 1549, April 1. Richard Smalley, by Adam Very his attorney, complains agains John Parlby in a plea of trespass upon the case. … a coal-pit called ‘a min of coals’ within the Manor of Wollaton, the County of Nottingham ; of which pit the said Richard has been for the space of 12 years last past, and is still, one of the colliers ; …” (S) Records of the Borough of Nottingham, 1889, P9. [Original text in Latin.]

Child of Robert and Alice:

i. Robert Shaw Jr ( 2072), born ~1599.