Brief Life History of Amanda M.
When Amanda M. Shaw was born on 3 November 1842, in Sandford, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Zebina Shaw, was 25 and her mother, Drucilla Earle, was 24. She married Alden Cann on 10 November 1861, in Nova Scotia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Hartford, Windsor, Vermont, United States in 1900 and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. She died on 26 August 1925, in Hebron, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 82, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Hebron, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Amanda Cann in household of Aldon Cann, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Amanda Shaw, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Amanda Shane, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1864 · St. Albans Raid
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
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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