When William Shawcross was christened on 9 September 1798, in Flixton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Shawcross, was 41 and his mother, Nancy Swift, was 39.
English: habitational name from Shallcross in Fernilee (Derbyshire), which is recorded as Schakilcross in the 13th and 14th centuries, and Shawcross in the 16th–18th centuries. The placename derives from Old English sceacol ‘shackle’ + cros ‘cross’.
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