Brief Life History of Genevieve Cordelia
When Genevieve Cordelia Shaw was born on 10 November 1888, in Del Norte, Rio Grande, Colorado, United States, her father, Ernest William Shaw, was 28 and her mother, Effie Maude Shreve, was 17. She died on 23 June 1891, in her hometown, at the age of 2, and was buried in Del Norte Cemetery, Del Norte, Rio Grande, Colorado, United States.
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- Genevieve Cordelia Shaw, "BillionGraves Index"
- Genevieve Cordelia Shaw, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (2)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1890 · Gold is Discovered
In 1890, Robert Miller Womack discovers a rich gold deposit along Cripple Creek, near the western slope of Pikes Peak. This would become the richest gold strike in the Rocky Mountin area.
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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