When Isaac Kershaw was born on 7 October 1792, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Jacob Kershaw Sr, was 46 and his mother, Hannah Bennett, was 45. He married Priscilla Robertshaw on 29 September 1811, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Bradford St James, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841.
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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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