John Shaw was born on 10 August 1812, in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada as the son of James Shaw and Jane Leonard. He married Deidamia Phinney on 27 February 1838, in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America in 1838 and Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1874. He died on 31 December 1874, in Canning, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 62, and was buried in Cornwallis Reformed Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Grafton, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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In 1820, Cape Breton Island rejoined Nova Scotia. It is located on the Northeastern part of Nova Scotia. Until then it had been owned by the French until 1763. Than was in British control and a separate colony in 1784.
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In 1848, Nova Scotia became the first self-governing colony in the British Empire.
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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