Peter Theodore Shaw

Profile & Legacies Summary

1770 - 1829

Biography

Will of Peter Theodore Shaw of Brimpton Berkshire proved 29/11/1829. Under the will Peter Theodore Shaw made his property in Antigua liable to meet any shortfall in annuities of £500 p.a. to his wife and £300 p.a. to his younger children: the will also showed him as the tenant-for-life of an unnamed estate (almost certainly Spooners) on St Kitts. In the will, Peter Theodore Shaw refers to 'our common benefactor', Charles Spooner (q.v.), who was his uncle.

Sources

PROB 11/1761/43. He was shown as aged 59 at death, Ancestry.com, England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1981 [database online]; his wife's name is from Ancestry.com, Pallots Marriage Index 1780-1837 showing marriage license to Maria Thornton (with consent of her parents) and Peter Theodore Shaw [indexed as Peter Shaw] at Chenies Bucks., in 1795.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Maria Thornton

Children

Peter Spooner; Charles; Mary

Associated Estates (4)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1790 [SY] - 1823 [EY] → Tenant-for-life

Blubber Valley [ Antigua ]

Under the will of Charles Spooner in 1790, Spooner's unnamed estate(s) on Antigua was left in entail to Peter [Theodore] Shaw, his nephew or conceivably great-nephew.

1823 [SY] - 1829 [LA] → Owner

Blubber Valley [ Antigua ]

1819 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Tenant-for-life

Spooners Cayon [ St Kitts ]

1822 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Tenant-for-life

Spooners Nichola Town [ St Kitts | Christ Church Nichola Town ]