Brief Life History of John F
When John F Shaw was born on 21 March 1845, in Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Walkingshaw, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Penman, was 38. He married Martha R Morris about 1867, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1863. He died on 19 January 1923, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- John Shaw in household of John W Shaw, "United States Census, 1860"
- John F Shaw, "Find A Grave Index"
- John F. Shaw, "Pennsylvania, Berks County, Reading, Charles Evans Cemetery and Crematory Burial Records, 1887-1979"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1851
The Borough of Pottsville became the Schuylkill County Seat in 1851.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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Co. B, 27th Pa. Milit Information according to Death Certificate / Pennsylvania, Veterans Burial Cards: John died at 5:00 p.m. at his home due to Chrome Nephritis; 17 Jun 1863 - John enlisted in Co. …
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