When Benjamin Sheard was born on 18 March 1792, in Birstall, Yorkshire, England, his father, Samuel Sheard, was 44 and his mother, Sarah Schofield, was 41. He married Hannah Booth on 27 June 1814, in Leeds Minster, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Batley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 27 May 1860, in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 68, and was buried in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (Yorkshire): from Middle English shard, sherd, shord ‘cleft, gap, notch’ (Old English sceard). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived by a gap (perhaps in a hedge or fence or in a range of hills), or habitational, from a place so named, such as Shard End in Castle Bromwich (Warwickshire), the lost Shert Hall in Disley Stanley (Cheshire), and possibly also Shard near Hambleton (Lancashire).
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