When Elizabeth Ann Shore was born in 1849, in Seaton Carew, Durham, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Shore, was 30 and her mother, Ann Cowper, was 27. She married John Eccleston in 1870, in West Hartlepool, Durham, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in Stranton, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1861. She died on 26 November 1940, in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 91.
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English: from Middle English s(c)hore ‘shore, bank, coast, steep slope, cliff’ (Old English scora). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived near such a feature, or, in Lancashire and Yorkshire especially, habitational from a place so named, such as Shore in Rochdale (Lancashire) or Shore in Todmorden (Yorkshire). In southwestern England, the name is probably a variant of Score , which shares the same etymology.
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schor, Schorr or Szor, variants of Schauer .
Americanized form of French Giard , reflecting the characteristic Canadian and American French rounding of the -ard ending. Compare Shor .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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