When Mary "Polly" Shirley was born on 3 October 1790, in Spotsylvania Court House, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States, her father, John Warfield Shirley III, was 30 and her mother, Frances Yates, was 29. She married Edmund Pendleton Rogers on 19 January 1809, in Adair, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She died on 7 July 1836, in Barren, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Rogers Beauchamp Cemetery, Edmonton, Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of the places so named, such as Shirley (Warwickshire), Shirley in Millbrook (Hampshire), Shirley (Surrey), Shirley in Owston (Yorkshire), and Shirley (Derbyshire). The placenames probably derive from Old English scīr ‘bright’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though some may have scīr ‘district, shire’ as the initial element if they lie on a boundary; for example, the Warwickshire place lies on the Warwickshire-Worcestershire boundary. The name Shirley first appears in Ireland in the late 17th century, following the granting of lands to a Shirley family in the barony of Farney, Monaghan.
History: William Shirley (1694–1771) was born in Sussex, England, and came to MA in 1731. He rose in the colonial service, was appointed governor in 1741, and was responsible for the British capture of the French fortress of Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, in 1745.
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