frank kershaw was born on 2 October 1913, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. He died on 19 August 2009, in Downtown St. Catharines, St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 95.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name, probably from Kershaw in Middleton (Lancashire), named as ‘church wood’ (Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English sceaga ‘small wood, copse’). There are two minor places in Yorkshire called Kershaw, which may have been named after families bearing the Lancashire surname.
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