When Elizabeth Shields was born on 21 August 1826, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James Henry Shields, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Livingston, was 33. She married Harmon Cutler on 11 April 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1851 and Oakshaw East Church, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 19 September 1857, in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Cutler Hill Cemetery, Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English: variant of Shield 1 (and perhaps occasionally 2, 3, and 4) with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. In the plural form, the surname may also be topographic, for someone who lived in or near some huts, or habitational, from a place so named, such as North Shields (Northumberland) and South Shields (Durham), though these are unlikely to be the main sources of the surname.
Irish: shortened form of O'Shields , an alternative Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Siadhail; see Shiel .
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Possible Related NamesHarmon Cutler was born in Dover, New York, July 16, 1799. When young, he was apprenticed to learn the wagon—makers trade. He married Nov. 13, 1825, Susannah Barton of Coberskill, N.Y. Soon after this …
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