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The inferred spouse Sarah A Shaw would have been living at the time the register was collected in September 1939. It does not refer to a previous wife.

Can only think this is another family perhaps then as Sarah Ann Shaw had already passed away. Thank you

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Ancestry suggests that 1939 record is for this couple:

Sarah Ann Gartside
in the Manchester, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930
Name: Sarah Ann Gartside
Gender: Female
Marriage Age: 54
Event Type: Marriage
Birth Year: abt 1868
Marriage Date: 19 Apr 1922
Marriage Place: Shaw, Holy Trinity, Lancashire, England
Parish as it Appears: Shaw
Father: John Gartside
Spouse: William Hegginbottom Shaw
Reference Number: GB127.L201/1/4/4


Sarah A Shaw
in the 1939 England and Wales Register
Name: Sarah A Shaw
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 26 Dec 1867
Residence Date: 1939
Address: 12 Princess Street
Residence Place: Lees, Lancashire, England
Occupation: Housewife
Line Number: 12
Schedule Number: 256
Sub Schedule Number: 2
Enumeration District: Nvpd
Borough: Lees
Inferred Spouse:
William H Shaw
Household Members Age
William H Shaw 67 - 28 July 1972
Sarah A Shaw 72

I can only find one baptism of children of William & Sarah

Baptism: 2 Nov 1902 Christ Church, Everton, Lancashire, England
Edith May Shaw - [Child] of William Shaw & Sarah
Born: 4 Sep 1902
Abode: 86 Buckingham St.
Occupation: Carpet Layer

Which is presumably where all the other children were born as that is the address in 1911

The Sarah Ann who died in 1934 was living in Rice Lane Walton. The burial record says 'removed to family grave see L26. Don't know where L26 is though.

L26 might mean Lair or Plot 26.

107 Rice Lane was Walton Hospital.
There are records of lots of births and deaths there, on other pages in the image of that record.

I think I prefer this burial

Name: William Henry Shaw
Age: 69
Birth Year: abt 1867
Burial Date: 15 Aug 1936
Burial Place: Walton Park, Lancashire, England
living in Boswell St

in the margin it says 'family grave L26

If that Sarah Ann death is one you are certain of L26 is the same reference

That probably relates to this death:

William H Shaw
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: William H Shaw
Death Age: 69
Birth Date: abt 1867
Registration Date: Jul 1936[Aug 1936] [Sep 1936]
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District: Liverpool South
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 130

Thank you both so much. Absolute stars. Apologies for the delay in replying. Going to read through this all properly now. :-) :-)