Fred Shaw (rugby union)
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September 1871
| Born | Fred Shaw September 1871 Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 27 October 1938 (aged 67) East Bierley, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fred Shaw (September 1871 – 27 October 1938) was an English rugby union forward who represented Yorkshire, the North of England and England in the late 1890s. He was the first player from Cleckheaton RUFC to be selected for the North of England and the first from the club to gain full international honours.
Shaw was born in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, in September 1871.[1] He was the son of Eliza Shaw, an unmarried domestic servant who in 1871 was working in Halifax.[2]
Eliza never married and raised Fred as a single mother. He appears to have been her only child.[3] By 1881 Shaw was living in Cleckheaton with his mother and grandmother, Mary Shaw.[3]
Eliza later worked as a dressmaker and continued to do so for the rest of her working life. By 1911 she was recorded as living by independent means.[4]
On 2 August 1897 Shaw married Jane Whitworth at St Peter’s Church, Birstall.[5] The couple had four children: Samuel, Alice, Harry and Stanley.[6]
Working life
Outside rugby, Shaw worked in the building and construction trades. In 1901 he was employed as a pavior.[6] By 1911 he was engaged in road and stone work.[4]
In 1921 he was recorded as a steel mason employed by the Heavy Woollen Tramway Company, headquartered in Heckmondwike.[7]