Brief Life History of William H
When William H Shaw was born in 1851, in Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont, United States, his father, Hudson Shaw, was 52 and his mother, Diantha C. Roberts, was 33. He married Catherine Thorn Robinson on 23 November 1881, in Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 29 September 1891, in Everett, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Bennington, Vermont, United States.
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- Wm H Shaw in household of Hudson Shaw, "United States Census, 1860"
- William H. Shaw, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Wm. H. Shaw in entry for Sarah R. Shaw, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1864 · St. Albans Raid
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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