SHARDELOW, Joseph

Male 1828 - 1912  (83 years)


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  • Name SHARDELOW, Joseph 
    • Joe also had two stepchildren, Mr W H Allen, Woonsocket, South Dakota and Mrs Katie Allen of Daytona.
      Source: Daytona Herald article 1909.
    Nickname Joe 
    Birth 21 May 1828  Calais, Maine USA or Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1920 USA Census says Harry Shardelow's father (Joseph) was born in Maine.
      1910 USA Census says Daniel J Shardelow's father (Joseph) was born in Maine.
      1909 Dayton Herald newspaper article says Joseph was born in Calais, Maine.
      1900 USA Census says Joseph was born in Maine and that his father was born in England and his mother in Scotland.
      1900 USA Census also says Lewis' father (Joseph) was born in "Canada (Eng)".
      1880 USA Census says Joseph was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. Calais, Maine is on the USA-Canada border and is about 100 miles across the sea from Nova Scotia.

      Conclusion: it seems probable that he was born at Calais or closeby over the border in New Brunswick, Canada.
    Gender Male 
    Departure 1838  Calais, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    The three brothers "shipped aboard different vessels and the sister went to live with a family in Calais". Source is 1909 Dayton Herald article about Joseph.  
    Miscellaneous as specified 1840  New Brunswick, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Shipwrecked off the coast of New Brunswick.
    Source: Dayton Herald article 1909. 
    Miscellaneous as specified 1846 
    Enlisted in US Navy to fight in Mexican War 
    Miscellaneous as specified 25 Oct 1854  Balaklava, Sebastapol, Crimea, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Joe witnessed the charge of the Light Brigade 
    Professional position/status 15 Jun 1857  New York, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Enlists with US Navy
    Source is US Naval Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938 
    Professional position/status 15 Jun 1859  New York, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Discharged from US Navy
    Source is US Naval Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938 
    Miscellaneous as specified 1861  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Enlists in USA Navy to fight for the Union in the American Civil War. Assigned to the sloop-of-war Lancaster, now a guardship. Severely wounded and laid up for some time, then returns. 
    Miscellaneous as specified 10 May 1861  St Louis, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Dayton newspaper story states he volunteers on Mississippi gunboats on 18 May 1862, boarding packet at St Paul, Minnesota and took passage for St Louis (500 miles journey). Worked on the Essex, signed up for one year but was compelled to stay until the end of the war (1865). Wounded again at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

    According to US Naval Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, this was 10 May 1861 - official record likely to be more accurate than his own story given to newspaper. 
    Professional position/status 4 Oct 1864  Cairo, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Discharged from US Navy
    Source is US Naval Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938 
    Miscellaneous as specified 1 Dec 1900  New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Joseph Shardalow (a not e) is named as one of many defendants in a New York Tribune newspaper notice of summons to the New York state Supreme Court. No indication of the offence/accusation. Other defendants include E N Little & Sons which was a New York painting company ("Little the big painter"). nb Joseph Shardelow was at this time residing in the Soldiers Home in Dayton, Ohio but after his sailor/soldier career he was a painter. 
    Residence 9 Mar 1909  Soldiers Home, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Dayton Herald article about Joe says he was living here. Is this the same place he was living in the 1910 Census?
    The article includes a photo of him standing and tells his life story as a sailor who travelled the world and fought in four wars. He witnessed the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. 
    Residence 15 Apr 1910  Jefferson, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    1910 USA Census shows Joseph as an inmate in the National Military Home here. It states he was born in Indiana although we think it was Calais, Maine because that was what a Dayton Herald newspaper article in 1909 says that is where he was born and specifies his precise date of birth. The 1910 Census also says his father and mother were born in Kentucky. 
    Death 6 May 1912  Soldiers Home, Dayton, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID P756  My Genealogy / The Shardalow Name
    Last Modified 22 Feb 2021 

    Father SHARDELOW,   b. England, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1837, Calais, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother ,   b. Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1837, Calais, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F453  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family MILLER, Margaret,   b. 1839   d. 1897 (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage 17 Apr 1865  Troy, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Reported in the Troy Times newspaper on this date (marriage probs before that).
    • "April the ninth 1865. I dashed frantically into the sea of bliss, or to use a nautical phrase, I got spliced to Mrs Maggie B Allen of Troy Ohio."
      Source: Dayton Herald article 1909.
    Children 
    +1. SHARDELOW, Lewis,   b. 11 Jan 1866, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Aug 1914, Carrmonte, Dayton, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
    +2. SHARDELOW, Daniel J,   b. 1869, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1932 (Age 63 years)
    +3. SHARDELOW, Harry,   b. 1870, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jun 1950, College Hill Hospital, Dayton, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    +4. SHARDELOW, Evaline,   b. 1876, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1935 (Age 59 years)
     5. SHARDELOW, William   d. > 1950
    Family ID F254  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Mar 2021 

  • Newspaper Clip
    The Dayton Herald (Dayton, Ohio) · 21 Feb 1900, Wed · Page 2
    The Dayton Herald (Dayton, Ohio) · 21 Feb 1900, Wed · Page 2