Brief Life History of Mary Ann Elizabeth
When Mary Ann Elizabeth Shaw was born on 11 December 1843, in Goldsborough, Wayne, North Carolina, United States, her father, George W Shaw, was 30 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Outlaw, was 28. She married Robert A Taliaferro on 14 November 1867, in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in District 2, Spencer, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Earlington, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died on 7 May 1923, in Mortons Gap, Henderson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Madisonville, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States.
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- Mary Ann Whitfield, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mary A E Taleferro, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Ann Shaw, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967"
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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.
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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