Thomas married again to Anna Turton 26 March 1695 in Deane.



Thomas was a churchwarden in Deane in 1695.

Thomas, a yeoman of Westhoughton, left a will written in 1709:



In the name of God Amen I Thomas Shawe of Westhoughton in the County of Lancaster yeoman doe make this my last will and testament in manner & forme following (that is to say) first my mind & testament shall bee Paid and discharged forth & out of the whole of my goods and psonall estate. And after the same shall bee soe paid and discharged as aforesaid then I give and bequeath unto Anne my wife the summe of twenty pounds pursuant to the agreement made betwixt mee and her immediately before our intermarriage and in full of what she can or may clayme forth & out of my reall and psonall estate whatsoever. Item I give and bequeath unto Mary Turton all my goods now standing and being in her now dwelling house scituate in Westhoughton aforesaid. Item I give & bequeath unto my son James Shawe one dwelling and alsoe all my pare trees now growing & being upon my tenement in Westhoughton aforesaid and alsoe all my stone trenchs standing and being in and about my now dwelling house scituate in Westhoughton aforesaid. Item I give and bequeath unto my said son James Shawe and unto James Marsh of Westhoughton aforesaid the summe of thirty shillings to bee by them distributed att their discressions amongst the poore pepals inhabitting within Westhoughton aforesaid. I give and bequeath all the rest residue & remainder of my said goods and psonall estate unto John Shawe and Raph Shawe my two younger sons equally to bee devided between them share and share alike. Wheareas I the said Thomas Shawe in and by one indenture of assignment bearing date the three and twentieth day of this instant December, and made between mee the said Thomas Shawe upon the one part and Henry Hampson of Westhoughton in the said county yeoman and Robert Leigh of Westhoughton aforesaid yeoman upon the other part I have libertie and power to charge all that my messuage and tenement with the apartences in Westhoughton aforesaid which I hould or lease under the Right Honorable Richard Lord Viscount Colchester with any summe or summes of money not exceeding the summe of thirty pounds of lawfull money of Greate Brinaine to such uses intents & purposes and in such manner & forme as I the said Thomas Shawe by any my act or deed or last will and testament in writing under my hand & seale lawfully executed & attested in the psence of three or more witnesses shoud give grant devise charge limit bequeath or appoint the same now I the said Thomas Shawe in purshange of my liberty & power aforesaid doe hereby charge the aforesaid messuage & tenement with the appurtences with the payment of the summe of thirty pounds of lawfull money of Greate Britaine in manner and fforme following (that is to say) with the summe of ten pounds and thereof to bee paid unto the aforesaid John Shawe and Raph Shawe my two younger sons equally to bee devided betweene them att the end of one yeare next after my decease, and with the like summe of ten pounds another part thereof to bee paid unto the said Raph Shawe or his assignes att the end of three yeares next after my decease and to and for noe other use intent or purpose in any wise whatsoever and I doe hereby revoke and make void all former and other will and wills by mee heretofore made. And lastly I doe nominate and appoint the aforesaid John Shawe and Raph Shawe my said twoe younger sons executors of this my last will and testament hopeing they will see the same faithfully pformed as my trust is in them reposed. In witness whereof I the said Thomas Shawe have hereunto putt my hand and seale the six and twentieth day of December Anne RRne Anno Magne Britaine & Octavo Anno Dom 1709.




A true and perfect inventory of all ye goods and chattels of Thomas Shaw of Westhoughton late deceased November ye 10th 1710
Imprimis in five cowes – 13:2:00
In towe horses – 6:10:00
In horss gears – 00:13:6
In one hooke and picke – 00:2:6
Goods in ye barn – 02:16:00
Goods in ye north lofte – 00:11:00
Goods in ye south lofte – 1:11:12
Goods in ye chamber at ye head & end of ye house –  2:13:6
Goods in ye new loftte – 3:15:4
In fustian cloth & wooll – 60:00:00
Goods in ye greatte loft – 4:02:6
Goods in ye shope – 2:16:00
Goods in ye fire house – 02:10:6
In other househould ments – 00:2:6
In ye deceaseds aparrell – 1:10:00
Ye tottale 115:3:2

Aprised by us
Roger Rycroft
Robert Laighe
James Marsh

An inventory was created for James:


October the 15th 1678
A true and parfecte inventorie of all the goods catells and chattels wherein James Shaw of Westhoughton husbandman was possessed at death.
Imprimus tow kine – 6-4-8
Item one horse – 6-0-0
Item in hay – 2-5-0
Item in foure arkes lesse and biger – 0-16-0
Item in oeate meale – 0-7-0
Item in featherbed a boulsters – 1-15-0
Item in bed hillinges couverlids & blankets – 1-9-0
Item in hangings aboute bed and iron rods – 0-10-0
Item in linen – 0-12-0
Item in a possnet and a litle skellet and 2 spits – 0-4-8
Item in pewter – 0-7-6
Item in boeards and shelfs in both buteries – 0-8-0
Item in other boeards and tresses – 0-5-0
Item in one paire of ould bedstockes – 0-2-0
Item and one other bedside – 0-1-0
Item one busshel or halfe  messuare – 0-1-0
Item in one harow & plow irons footeige and a swingle tree – 0-8-0
Item one paire of fustian loomes – 0-5-0
Item one smoothing iron – 0-0-8
Item in canell and coles – 0-12-0
Item one meale sive & 2 sieves and tow wiskets and a stutle – 0-2-0
Item one churne & stuffe and lids – 0-6-0
Item in trine ware in & a butteri & mugs 0-6-0
Item in lead weights – 0-2-0
Item 2 baskets and ayles – 0-2-0
Item and one cheire and quishens and a litle wheele - -0-1-8
Item in cheeses – 0-8-0
Item one other thick boerd and 2 cheese boerds – 0-1-4
Item in money and bills and bonds and money oweing – 14-8-0
Item the decedents aparill – 1-0-0
Item in all other odd business called husellments and scuffelmentes – 0-1-0
Praysed by us the day and yeare above writen
Hughe Rigbie George Greene Robert Reend