Laura( Gear) Shaw on 1930 MA Census
Gear,Laura July 16, 1907 in Halifax , daughter of James &Rosanna Gear ( shoe merchant )Spinster age 36,born Halifax,to John Shawage 43, son of Charles & Catherine (Kennedy)Shaw ( Farmers) Bachelor, employee on a ship, born Main a Dieu,Cape Breton, by bans Roman Catholic, witnessed byJames J. Baker and Ida Davidson.PANS mfm # 16535
John Shaw is buried at Holy Cross, Halifax NS Canada with headstone, He supposedly died 1920Õs or earlier if Laura went to YS in 1918.)
She went to " the Boston States".Name: Laura T Shaw
Event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Boston (Districts 251-500), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Gender: Female
Age: 60
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Birthplace: Canada
Estimated Birth Year: 1870
Immigration Year: 1918
Relationship to Head of Household: Servant
Father's Birthplace: Canada
Mother's Birthplace: Canada
Enumeration District Number: 0351
Family Number: 60
Sheet Number and Letter: 4B
Line Number: 87
NARA Publication: T626, roll 950
Film Number: 2340685
Digital Folder Number: 4607686
Image Number: 00371
Collection: United States Census, 1930
Looking for info on this family as Laura had a daughter Marion, who was my Grandmother's cousin. She married a John ( Jack ) Kawana in Jamacia PLain, year unknown.