Bertram James Shaw

Brief Life History of Bertram James

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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Family Time Line

Bertram James Shaw
1901–1984
Bessie B Syme
1903–1988
Marriage: 7 May 1922
James B. Shaw
1923–2011
Margaret Ann Shaw
1937–2020

Sources (11)

  • Bertram Shaw, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Bertram James Shaw, "Wyoming, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
  • Bertram H Shaw, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"

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World Events (8)

1902 · So Much Farm Land

A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.

1908 · Utah's First National Monument

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.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

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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