Brief Life History of Helen Margaret
When Helen Margaret Shaw was born on 23 October 1842, in Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, William Shaw, was 32 and her mother, Frances Maria Phillips, was 25. She married John Wilfred Britton on 15 July 1860, in Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died in 1931, at the age of 89, and was buried in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Helen Brittam, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Legacy NFS Source: Helen Margaret Shaw - Government record: birth: 1843; New Brunswick, Canada
- Helen Margaret Shaw Britton, "Find a Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Abraham Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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