Sarah Jane Lindsay
Born: Abt. 1854  Middlesex, Ontario, Canada 1900 census says Aug 1852   She was 21 in 1875 when she married David Shaw  She may have been born in Aug 1853
Married: 1st  to David Shaw  24 May 1875  Mount Forest, Wellington, Ontario, Canada 2nd to Richard Cluxton b. Jan 1853 Canada	Marriage record for David Shaw and Sarah Jane Lindsay parents of David Shaw are John and Helen Shaw parents of Sarah Jane Lindsay are James and Mary Lindsay witnesses  Sydney and Maria Smith

FATHER

James Lindsay

MOTHER

Mary Hannah

CHILDREN with  David Shaw

William Mellis (Fredrick) Shaw

CHILDREN with Richard Cluxton

Georgie Cluxton b. May 1887 Canada

Sarah Jane Lindsay, born in Middlesex, had moved to Maryborough, Wellington, Ontario by 1861. They were still there in 1871. She was one of seven children born to James and Mary Lindsay, Sarah being the only daughter.  When she was 21 she married David Shaw, the bailiff in Teeswater, the same town where she was then living.  Seven months later her son William Mellis Shaw was born.  Eventually the marriage must have fallen apart.  Neither she nor David can be found in the 1881 census.  However, according to the 1900 census she married Richard Claxton in 1885. and migrated to the United States in 1890.

In 1900 she is living in blue Earth, MN with Richard Claxton and her daughter, Georgie.  There is also a niece, Eva Lindsay, living with them.  She and her husband and daughter are still in Blue Earth, MN in the 1905 State Census for MN.

By 1920 she and Richard had separated for he is living  in a boarding house in Rice Lake, Barron, MN.

Then on Oct 22, 1922, her brother, Thomas Lindsay, died in Howich, Huron, Ontario, Canada,  and on his death record "Sarah J. Cluston, Marshfield Wis,  sister," is listed as next of kin.  Sarah Jane is still in Marshfield in 1930 listed as mother-in-law and living with her daughter Georgie and Georgie's husband, David L. Miller.

Death Certificate for Thomas Lindsay