When Mary Lucille Shaw was born on 10 April 1927, in Beaufort, North Carolina, United States, her father, Lewis Arthur Shaw, was 23 and her mother, Linda Harrison, was 24. She married John Earl Roberson on 15 December 1945, in Martin, North Carolina, United States. She lived in Washington, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States in 1930 and Williamston Township, Martin, North Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 23 May 2014, in Williamston, Martin, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Williamston, Martin, North Carolina, United States.
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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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