Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Shaw Jr. was born on 24 November 1843, in Bury, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Shaw, was 28 and his mother, Mary Birch, was 31. He married Ann Hancock after 1872, in Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Elton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 4 December 1888, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Joseph Shaw in household of Joseph Shaw, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Joseph Shaw, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Joseph Shaw, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1859 · Lancashire Rifle Volunteers
The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
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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