When Ruth Shaw was born on 16 May 1722, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Shaw, was 42 and her mother, Keziah Crane, was 36. She married Jabez Billings on 14 May 1741, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1766, at the age of 44.
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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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