When Samuel Alexander Shaw was born on 28 November 1863, in Auburn, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, his father, Alexander Harrison Shaw, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Ann Rogers, was 35. He married Emma Francis Laird on 14 March 1886, in Cummings, Atchison, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Jefferson Township, Jefferson, Kansas, United States in 1870 and Jefferson, Montgomery, Kansas, United States in 1895. In 1875, at the age of 14, his occupation is listed as santa fe railroad in Kansas, United States. He died on 16 July 1942, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Nortonville, Jefferson, Kansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1873: Jefferson, Kansas, United States
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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.
Possible Related NamesLast Friday morning during the fog the Nortonville section crew composed of Foreman Thos. Laird, his brother Harry, and Sam Shaw came near to being killed. They were going east on the handcar and …
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