When Lewis Jarvis Shaw was born on 14 September 1840, in Duplin, North Carolina, United States, his father, George W Shaw, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Outlaw, was 24. He married Mary Elizabeth Outlaw in 1865, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Mortons Gap, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Magisterial District 1 Curtail, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 29 March 1927, in Mortons Gap, Henderson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Madisonville, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States.
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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 .
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