When Sarah Kershaw was born about 1793, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, her father, Abel Kershaw, was 35 and her mother, Mary Marsland, was 34. She married John Edwards Jr. on 1 June 1814, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She was buried in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name, probably from Kershaw in Middleton (Lancashire), named as ‘church wood’ (Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English sceaga ‘small wood, copse’). There are two minor places in Yorkshire called Kershaw, which may have been named after families bearing the Lancashire surname.
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