Brief Life History of Emma
When Emma Kershaw was born on 4 October 1881, in Clayton by Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Squire Kershaw, was 43 and her mother, Harriet Binns, was 45. She died on 30 July 1888, in her hometown, at the age of 6.
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1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
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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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