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     John Mark Shaw was born on 1 July 1927 at Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was the son of William Timothy Shaw and Margaret Mary Bondy. John Mark Shaw married Theresa Mary Karle, daughter of Joseph Aloysius Karle and Monica Meurer, on 21 August 1954. John Mark Shaw died on 22 January 1975 at Monroe, Michigan, USA, at age 47; Pneumonia¹he was buried circa 25 January 1975 at Holy Seplechur.
     He was Office/clerical worker for; 'Great Lakes Steel Corporation' in Ecorse, Michigan. Also involved in local civic theater productions.²

     William Timothy Shaw III was born on 26 April 1924 at Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was the son of William Timothy Shaw and Margaret Mary Bondy. William Timothy Shaw III married Margaret Lora Hamilton, daughter of L. Grant Hamilton and Mary Edgar, on 19 June 1948 at Southfield, Oakland, Michigan, USA. William Timothy Shaw III married Susan King, daughter of Deforest M. King and Mellie Elaine Sackett, on 20 December 1969. William Timothy Shaw III died on 17 October 2010 at Howell, Livingston, Michigan, USA, at age 86.¹

     Margaret Mary Bondy was buried at Holy Seplechur. She was born on 20 November 1900 at Detroit, Michigan, USA. She married William Timothy Shaw, son of William Shaw and Hanora J. Hartnett, on 4 August 1923 at Detroit, Michigan, USA. Margaret Mary Bondy died on 17 November 1987 at Detroit, Michigan, USA, at age 86; Natural causes.¹

     Joseph Michael Shaw was born on 11 April 1911.² He was the son of William Shaw and Hanora J. Hartnett. Joseph Michael Shaw died on 14 January 1971 at Albany, New York, USA, at age 59; Pneumonia^3,4he was buried circa 16 January 1971 at SJ Lot 109 Sec 19 1NE.
     Joseph Michael Shaw was also known as Michael Joseph Shaw. He began military service Air Corps WWII.⁴ An article appeared in the Auburn Citizen on Aug. 9,2021 detailing Joseph's son's search for his unknown father
"FLEMING — Vince Shaw has always remembered a letter sent to his family's home on Garrow Street sometime in the late 1940s.
It was addressed to Joseph Michael Shaw, his uncle. The sender was a woman studying to be a nurse. Vince doesn't remember much else about her or the letter — except for four words she wrote.
"I've had the baby."
Vince recalled the letter as he stood in the morning sun at St. Joseph Cemetery on July 31, about 75 years after it was sent.
The baby in question, he continued, "was this guy right here." Then, Vince nodded toward his newly discovered first cousin: Paul Wisuri, of Palm Desert, California.
That morning in the cemetery, the two gathered around the gravestone of Joseph, the father Wisuri had spent his life searching for. Among the family joining them were cousins Kathleen Decker, of Port Byron, and Elizabeth Shaw Antkowiak, of Michigan, who helped Wisuri piece together the DNA puzzle that brought his lifelong search to its conclusion within the last year.
Making the occasion even more important was the gravestone itself. It was recently installed by the cemetery, replacing one that was buried 5 inches underground and inscribed with the wrong dates of Joseph's lifetime. The new gravestone recognizes his service in the Army during World War II, and was obtained with help from the Veterans Affairs office in Auburn.
"I'm just honored to help solve this and put some closure on this," Antkowiak told The Citizen that morning. "To honor his service, his son being here with us and that we found him. His son is home."
Vince, alluding to those four portentous words from Wisuri's mother, added, "I knew he was out there somewhere."
Wisuri had fewer words that morning as he took in the weight of the moment.
"It's been a journey," he said. "I never thought this day would come."

The history of "the Auburn Shaws," as Decker called them, begins in the 1850s. That's when four of the six sons of Thomas and Sarah Maher Shaw immigrated to the city from Knocknagee Townland in County Kildare, Ireland. Decker's research shows the family name was likely derived from the Irish name "Seoighe" ("Shoy-ya"), which translates to "Joyce." "Ulysses" author James Joyce could be a distant ancestor, she said. The name's origins also explain why the Auburn Shaws, who are Catholic, aren't related to the thousands of others with the same name, who are Protestant.
"Everybody asks me, 'Are you related to so and so Shaw?'" Decker said. "And I say, 'If they're from Auburn and if they're Catholic, then yes.'"
One of those four sons, David Shaw, would settle at 76 Fitch Ave. He died in 1882, struck by a runaway train car at the corner of Genesee and Osborne streets, and was buried in St. Joseph Cemetery.
David left behind 15 children — and it is from them that Vince and his cousins descended.

Vince remembered his uncle Joseph as a "happy person who smiled a lot." The grandson of David and son of William and Hanora (Hartnett) Shaw, Joseph graduated from parochial school at St. Mary's Church before serving in the Air Corps during World War II. Joseph later told war stories to Vince and other children in the family. He would sit on the couch, and they on the floor around him.
"Every once in a while he'd say, 'Here's a dollar for you,' 'Here's a dollar for you,'" Vince said. "Then we'd wait for the next story: 'Here's a dollar for you,' and so on."
Wisuri, however, didn't hear those stories. He grew up in Massachusetts, first in foster care and then with his mother, Sylvia DeMars. She was 16 when she gave birth, so she couldn't secure custody of him until he was 5. When she did, Wisuri frequently asked her about his father, he told The Citizen on Friday. All she would say was that he was Irish and served in World War II.
When Wisuri reached adulthood, he moved west. He lived in California and Idaho, and served in the Vietnam War. But as his family grew with three children and five grandchildren, he kept getting questions about his father. He long suspected the man's name was Hayward, Wisuri's middle name. That and other potential clues led him down rabbit holes of research, but not to the man himself.

Wisuri had almost given up the search when, last October, he took a 23andMe DNA test. The closest "hit" it discovered was Antkowiak. She was only a second cousin — but, luckily for Wisuri, she has spent decades mapping her family history using DNA and genealogy research. Wisuri was skeptical he had no hits named Hayward, he said, but as Antkowiak told him, "you can't argue with science."

"'You're a Shaw,'" he recalled her saying to him. "I would never have looked for that name."

That wasn't enough for Wisuri. He not only faced questions from his fellow children about his father and heritage, he said, he also faced hardships due to the nature of his childhood.
"Every night I would lie in my bed and I would fantasize that my father was going to come and find me and take me away," he said. "It gave me hope in a very bad situation."

When Wisuri reached adulthood, he moved west. He lived in California and Idaho, and served in the Vietnam War. But as his family grew with three children and five grandchildren, he kept getting questions about his father. He long suspected the man's name was Hayward, Wisuri's middle name. That and other potential clues led him down rabbit holes of research, but not to the man himself.

Wisuri had almost given up the search when, last October, he took a 23andMe DNA test. The closest "hit" it discovered was Antkowiak. She was only a second cousin — but, luckily for Wisuri, she has spent decades mapping her family history using DNA and genealogy research. Wisuri was skeptical he had no hits named Hayward, he said, but as Antkowiak told him, "you can't argue with science."

"'You're a Shaw,'" he recalled her saying to him. "I would never have looked for that name."

Antkowiak went to work researching Wisuri's lineage with Decker, her distant cousin and fellow genealogy devotee. The process took them through 23andMe, Ancestry.com, Family Tree DNA and more.
But the key to finding Wisuri's branch on the tree of the Auburn Shaws, Decker said, was Vince. A DNA test revealed he and Wisuri were either brothers or first cousins.
After the family deduced they were the latter, the details fell into place. DeMars would indeed become a nurse, as the letter suggested, and Joseph was discharged from the Army in February 1946, about nine months prior to Wisuri's birth in November. As he combed Joseph's birth certificate and military records, provided by Vince, Wisuri gradually came to the realization. He had finally found his father.

"I was ecstatic," Wisuri said. "I feel like my life is complete now."

Joseph passed away in January 1971, when he was 59 and Wisuri was 24. So he was never able to meet his father.
But, last month, he was able to meet his family in the Auburn Shaws — and they've welcomed him like one of their own.
The weekend he gathered with Vince, Antkowiak and Decker at St. Joseph's Cemetery, they also exchanged photos, went to lunch and attended Mass. Wisuri brought his son Ian and grandson Joseph to share the moment, which saw the family plant a U.S. flag and veteran's marker beside Joseph's new gravestone. The Wisuris then stood by it for the first picture of the four generations in one place.

As the family chatted and joked like they had been acquainted for decades, Wisuri encouraged others to use the technology that led him to the Auburn Shaws.
With his story in mind, though, Antkowiak added a suggestion.
"You have to be prepared for what you might find. It might knock your socks off," she said. "And you have to try not to judge your ancestors because we don't know what lives they lived."⁵

     Edward Vincent Shaw was born on 19 September 1905 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA.¹ He was the son of William Shaw and Hanora J. Hartnett. Edward Vincent Shaw married Rose Marie White, daughter of Phillip White and Arsenia Chouinard, on 14 August 1925 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA.² Edward Vincent Shaw died on 24 January 1972 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA, at age 66; Coronary occlusion³he was buried at SJ Lot 41 Sec 32D 1S.
     He lived at 37 Park Place, Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA. He was Columbian Rope.

     George M. Shaw was buried at SJ Lot 109 Sec 19 2SW. He was born on 26 July 1903 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA.¹ He was the son of William Shaw and Hanora J. Hartnett. George M. Shaw married Maybelle Onelah Bowen, daughter of Ormie David Bowen and Margaretta Elizabeth James, on 15 September 1960 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA. George M. Shaw died on 10 August 1980 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA, at age 77; Cerebral thrombosis.²
     He was personalit. He was Bailiff, Weaver,Firth Carpet. He was (an unknown value.) He lived at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA. He witnessed the marriage of Clarence Joseph Rabitow and Mary Shaw on 30 September 1919 at St. Mary's Church, Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA.^3,4

     Mary Shaw was buried at SJ Lot 30 Sec 26 1-NE. She was born on 28 July 1901 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA.¹ She was the daughter of William Shaw and Hanora J. Hartnett. Mary Shaw married Clarence Joseph Rabitow, son of Edward Rabitow and Lena Elger, on 30 September 1919 at St. Mary's Church, Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA.^2,3 Mary Shaw died on 8 August 1921 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA, at age 20; Typhoid Fever.⁴
     She lived at 30 Garrow St., Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA.

     William Timothy Shaw was born on 25 December 1897 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA.¹ He was the son of William Shaw and Hanora J. Hartnett. William Timothy Shaw married Margaret Mary Bondy on 4 August 1923 at Detroit, Michigan, USA. William Timothy Shaw died on 9 November 1959 at Detroit, Michigan, USA, at age 61; Stroke²he was buried at Holy Seplechur Cemetery.
     He lived at 17391 Heyden, Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was Machinist, general foreman.

     Christopher Leo Shaw is the son of Robert Stuart Shaw and Jane Kobick. Christopher Leo Shaw married Linda Ruhrwein, daughter of Fred Ruhrwein and Helen ( ) Ruhrwein, on 1 June 1991 at St. Louis, Missouri, USA.¹

     Robert Stuart Shaw Jr. is the son of Robert Stuart Shaw and Jane Kobick. Robert Stuart Shaw Jr. married Florence Parmentier, daughter of Maurice Parmentier and Odille (?), on 29 May 1993 at Vitray, France.¹

     Elizabeth Newman Shaw is the daughter of Robert Stuart Shaw and Jane Kobick. Elizabeth Newman Shaw married James L. Powell on 4 May 1996 at Seattle, Washington, USA.¹

     Annemarie Holm is the daughter of Johnnes Holm and Annemarie Hansen. Annemarie Holm married Robert Stuart Shaw, son of Leo Nelson Shaw and Marie Adrienne Heffernan, on 4 February 1977 at New York, New York, USA.

     Honore Kearns married Ovide De St.Aubin.

     Ovide De St.Aubin married Honore Kearns.

     Corinne M. De St.Aubin was born on 25 January 1929 at New York, New York, USA. She was the daughter of Ovide De St.Aubin and Honore Kearns. Corinne M. De St.Aubin married Lee Nelson Shaw, son of Leo Nelson Shaw and Marie Adrienne Heffernan, on 14 April 1978 at Scarsdale, New York, USA. Corinne M. De St.Aubin died on 24 December 1995 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, USA, at age 66.¹

     Charlotte Elizabeth Schmidlapp is the daughter of Lawrence C. Schmidlapp and Carol Elizabeth Sweeney.

     Lawrence C. Schmidlapp married Carol Elizabeth Sweeney, daughter of Michael James Sweeney and Virginia Marie Shaw, on 17 November 1984 at Chappaqua, New York, USA.¹

     Douglas Thomas Sweeney is the son of Michael James Sweeney and Virginia Marie Shaw. Douglas Thomas Sweeney married Maria Giraldi on 15 September 1995 at Harrison, New York, USA.¹

     Robert Leo Sweeney is the son of Michael James Sweeney and Virginia Marie Shaw. Robert Leo Sweeney married Annette O'Connor on 26 November 1988 at Fredricksburg, Virginia, USA.¹

     Anna Mudrak married Walter Antkowiak.

     Walter Antkowiak married Anna Mudrak.

     Angela Marie Antkowiak married Adam David Agosta.¹ Angela Marie Antkowiak is the daughter of David Roger Antkowiak and Elizabeth Ann Shaw.

     Ryan David Antkowiak is the son of David Roger Antkowiak and Elizabeth Ann Shaw.

     David Roger Antkowiak is the son of Walter Antkowiak and Anna Mudrak. David Roger Antkowiak married Elizabeth Ann Shaw, daughter of John Mark Shaw and Theresa Mary Karle, on 5 June 1981 at Alpena, Michigan, USA.

     Arcie Farley married Odia L. Sylvis.

     Odia L. Sylvis married Arcie Farley.

     Andrew Brian Shaw is the son of David Bryan Patrick Shaw and Wanda Lee Sylvis.

     Wanda Lee Sylvis is the daughter of Odia L. Sylvis and Arcie Farley. Wanda Lee Sylvis married David Bryan Patrick Shaw, son of John Mark Shaw and Theresa Mary Karle, on 25 September 1982.

     John Mark Shaw Jr. is the son of John Mark Shaw and Theresa Mary Karle.

     Mary Ann Shaw is the daughter of John Mark Shaw and Theresa Mary Karle. Mary Ann Shaw married G(Eorge?) William Payne, son of George Oliver Payne and Joyce Leota Harris, on 28 May 1986.