A daughter of Robert Brown, she came from a successful family of lawyers in Edinburgh. She married William Shaw at St Cuthbert's in Edinburgh on 1 April 1816 and had six children with him, though two of them died young and another in early adulthood. William died two years after the birth of their last child and left her with debts.
The family lived first in Annandale Street and then Haddington Place. The eldest surviving child Robert moved to London to work; the rest of the family followed about 1846, living initially in Middleton Road, Dalston but had moved by census night in 1851, when she, her children Janet, Richard and Robert and their one servant were at 2 Hill Road in the ecclesiastical district of St Mark's Marylebone.
Robert had moved out by census night in 1861, when the family was instead at 8 Albion Road (now Harben Road) in Swiss Cottage. By 1871 she and her unmarried daughter Janet were at 16 Albion Road (either a move or a renumbering of the street), along with Elizabeth's granddaughter Elizabeth H Shaw, a housemaid and a cook.
Elizabeth and Janet were still at 16 Albion Road ten years later (this time with Elizabeth's grandson William C Shaw, a nurse and a housemaid) and it was there that Elizabeth died in 1883. She was buried on 11 April.
The family lived first in Annandale Street and then Haddington Place. The eldest surviving child Robert moved to London to work; the rest of the family followed about 1846, living initially in Middleton Road, Dalston but had moved by census night in 1851, when she, her children Janet, Richard and Robert and their one servant were at 2 Hill Road in the ecclesiastical district of St Mark's Marylebone.
Robert had moved out by census night in 1861, when the family was instead at 8 Albion Road (now Harben Road) in Swiss Cottage. By 1871 she and her unmarried daughter Janet were at 16 Albion Road (either a move or a renumbering of the street), along with Elizabeth's granddaughter Elizabeth H Shaw, a housemaid and a cook.
Elizabeth and Janet were still at 16 Albion Road ten years later (this time with Elizabeth's grandson William C Shaw, a nurse and a housemaid) and it was there that Elizabeth died in 1883. She was buried on 11 April.
A daughter of Robert Brown, she came from a successful family of lawyers in Edinburgh. She married William Shaw at St Cuthbert's in Edinburgh on 1 April 1816 and had six children with him, though two of them died young and another in early adulthood. William died two years after the birth of their last child and left her with debts.
The family lived first in Annandale Street and then Haddington Place. The eldest surviving child Robert moved to London to work; the rest of the family followed about 1846, living initially in Middleton Road, Dalston but had moved by census night in 1851, when she, her children Janet, Richard and Robert and their one servant were at 2 Hill Road in the ecclesiastical district of St Mark's Marylebone.
Robert had moved out by census night in 1861, when the family was instead at 8 Albion Road (now Harben Road) in Swiss Cottage. By 1871 she and her unmarried daughter Janet were at 16 Albion Road (either a move or a renumbering of the street), along with Elizabeth's granddaughter Elizabeth H Shaw, a housemaid and a cook.
Elizabeth and Janet were still at 16 Albion Road ten years later (this time with Elizabeth's grandson William C Shaw, a nurse and a housemaid) and it was there that Elizabeth died in 1883. She was buried on 11 April.
The family lived first in Annandale Street and then Haddington Place. The eldest surviving child Robert moved to London to work; the rest of the family followed about 1846, living initially in Middleton Road, Dalston but had moved by census night in 1851, when she, her children Janet, Richard and Robert and their one servant were at 2 Hill Road in the ecclesiastical district of St Mark's Marylebone.
Robert had moved out by census night in 1861, when the family was instead at 8 Albion Road (now Harben Road) in Swiss Cottage. By 1871 she and her unmarried daughter Janet were at 16 Albion Road (either a move or a renumbering of the street), along with Elizabeth's granddaughter Elizabeth H Shaw, a housemaid and a cook.
Elizabeth and Janet were still at 16 Albion Road ten years later (this time with Elizabeth's grandson William C Shaw, a nurse and a housemaid) and it was there that Elizabeth died in 1883. She was buried on 11 April.
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