When Schofield Kershaw was born in 1815, in Clayton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Jacob Kershaw, was 39 and his mother, Mary Schofield, was 11812. He married Alice Greenwood on 21 November 1836, in Bradford St James, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 6 May 1849, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 34.
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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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