When Keziah Shaw was born on 19 January 1806, in Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Job Shaw, was 42 and her mother, Lucy Sherman, was 38. She married Joshua Palmer Morgan on 8 June 1825, in Evans, Erie, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Victor, Ontario, New York, United States in 1850 and Sweden, Monroe, New York, United States for about 5 years. She died on 29 March 1845, in Elgin, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Brockport, Monroe, New York, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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