John Alexander Shaw

Brief Life History of John Alexander

When John Alexander Shaw was born in 1882, in Barrhill, Ayrshire, Scotland, his father, Alexander Shaw, was 40 and his mother, Ann Rowan, was 36. He died in 1884, in his hometown, at the age of 2.

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Family Time Line

Alexander Shaw
1842–1894
Ann Rowan
1846–1919
William Rowan Shaw
1865–1927
Stephen Rowan Shaw
1867–1937
Agnes Shaw
1869–1944
Annie Shaw
1871–1946
Euphemia Rowan Shaw
1875–1958
Lizzie McConnell Shaw
1879–1918
Jane Shaw
1881–1951
John Alexander Shaw
1882–1884
Albert Edward Mc Connell Shaw
1885–1946
Alexander Shaw
1891–1938

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    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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