When Ellen Maria Shaw was born in August 1838, in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Ebenezer Shaw, was 42 and her mother, Mary Bryant Dickerman, was 40. She married Nahum Williams Keith on 9 November 1859, in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in San Francisco, California, United States in 1870. She died on 21 May 1902, in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Titicut Parish Cemetery, Middleborough Center, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historic Notes: 1847: Name changed from Yerba Buena to San Francisco. 1856: San Francisco an Independent City.
The Fort Tejon earthquake, on January 9, 1857, registered at 7.9, making it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States. Only two people were killed, largely due to the sparse population in the area where the earthquake occurred. As a result of the large scale shaking, the Kern River was turned upstream and fish were stranded miles from Tulare Lake as the waters were rocked so far from its banks.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
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