Brief Life History of Lucy
When Lucy Shaw was born about 1852, in Wibsey, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Benjamin Shaw, was 31 and her mother, Martha Smith, was 26. She married Miles Shepherd on 25 March 1871, in Bradford Cathedral, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in North Bierley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Great Horton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911.
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- Lucy Shepperd, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
- West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910 for Lucy Shaw
- Miss Lucy Shaw, "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices"
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1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
1863 · Lendal Bridge Opened
The Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
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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