When Bertram James Shaw was born on 21 November 1901, in Vermillion, Sevier, Utah, United States, his father, Richard Hartley Shaw, was 33 and his mother, Ada Jane Ainsworth, was 34. He married Bessie B Syme on 7 May 1922, in Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States in 1950. He died on 24 June 1984, in Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Green River, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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