Brief Life History of Jedadiah
When Jedadiah Shaw was born on 25 January 1726, his father, Jeremiah Shaw, was 25 and his mother, Phebe Wilbor, was 21. He died on 5 May 1800, in Sheshequin, Sheshequin Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Sheshequin Valley Cemetery, Sheshequin, Sheshequin Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Jedediah Shaw, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- Jedediah Shaw, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jedadiah, "Rhode Island, Vital records, 1846-1898, 1901-1953"
Parents and Siblings
1700–1764 Male
1704–1799 Female
Siblings (12)
1726–1800 Male
1726– Female
1728–1810 Female
1730–1815 Male
1733– Female
+7 More Children
World Events (4)
1776
Age 50
1776
Age 50
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Age 60
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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