Brief Life History of Mary A.
Mary A. Shaw was born in 1843, in Delaware, United States. She married Alfred T. Walraven on 17 February 1865, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States for about 10 years. She died on 1 July 1931, in Newark, New Castle, Delaware, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Newark, New Castle, Delaware, United States.
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- Mary Whalraven in household of Alfred Whalraven, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary A. Shaw, "Delaware Marriages and Marriage Licenses, 1713-1894"
- Mary A. Walra..., "Delaware Death Records, 1855-1961"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1855 · Prohibition Law
Delaware enacted a statewide prohibition law in 1855.
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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