When Michael Kershaw was born on 9 December 1677, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Abraham Kershaw, was 27 and his mother, Susanna Holdsworth, was 25.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name, probably from Kershaw in Middleton (Lancashire), named as ‘church wood’ (Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English sceaga ‘small wood, copse’). There are two minor places in Yorkshire called Kershaw, which may have been named after families bearing the Lancashire surname.
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