Brief Life History of George William
When George William Shaw was born on 1 July 1871, in Cassville, Barry, Missouri, United States, his father, John Albert Shaw, was 22 and his mother, Mary Adeline Jarrett, was 17. He married Clara Gandy on 8 December 1889, in Cherokee, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Otoe Township, Pawnee, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Auburn Township, Noble, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. He died on 29 August 1952, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 81.
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Sources (18)
- George W Shaw, "United States 1950 Census"
- George Shaw, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- G R Shaw in entry for Ted R Shaw and Olive Isabel Hamilton, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
Spouse and Children
1871–1952 Male
1873–1961 Female
Children (7)
1887–1891 Female
1891–1892 Female
1898–1989 Female
1901–1946 Female
1903–1908 Male
+2 More Children
Parents and Siblings
1848–1918 Male
1853–1933 Female
Siblings (11)
1871–1952 Male
1873–1873 Male
1877–1951 Male
1879–1900 Male
1881–1961 Male
+6 More Children
World Events (8)
1872 · The First National Park
Age 1
1872 · The Modoc War
Age 1
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 25
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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