Brief Life History of Catherine
When Catherine Shaw was born about 1811, in Prince Edward Island, Canada, her father, John Shaw, was 51 and her mother, Mary Bradley, was 48. She married Aulay Matthews on 4 January 1844, in Prince Edward Island, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lot 4, Prince, Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1881.
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- Cathernie Matthews in household of Aulay Matthews, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Catherine Shaw, "Prince Edward Island Marriage Registers, 1832-1888"
- Catharine Mathews in entry for Mr Peter Mathews, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
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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