Robert Shaw and Isabella White

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Husband Robert Shaw ¹

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           Born:  - ? Scotland
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Wife Isabella White ²

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           Born:  - England
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Children

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1 M James Shaw ²

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           Born:  - Venango Co, PA
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         Spouse: Margaret Irwin (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Shaw

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Shaw is a very common English surname, used also as a termination. It means a small wood, from the Anglo-Saxon "Scua," a shade or place shadowed or sheltered by trees. Several parishes and places bear the name, and from these doubtless the families of Shaw took their surnames. We also find the name in combination, as Abershaw, Bagshaw, Cockshaw, Henshaw, Bradshaw, Longshaw and Eldershaw. The coat-of-arms of the Shaw family of Kilmarnock, Scotland, is: Azure three covered cups two and one or; on a chief argent a merchant ship under sail proper, a canton gules charged with the mace of the city of London surmounted by a sword in saltire, also proper pommel and hilt of the second. Crest: A demi-savage affrontee, wreathed about the head and waist proper, in the dexter hand a key or, the sinister resting on a club reversed also proper. Supporters: Dexter a savage wreathed about the head and waist with laurel, his exterior hand resting on a club all proper (emblematical of fortitude), the sinister hand presenting an escroll, thereon inscribed "The King's Warrant of Precedence" sinister, an emblematical figure of the city of London, the dexter arm supporting the shield, the sinister extended to receive the escroll presented by the other supporter. Motto: I mean well.

Of Scotch-Irish descent, he may have been born in Scotland. He emigrated to America, and settled in Venango County, Pennsylvania, at a very early date. There he took up land, and was engaged in its cultivation until his death.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1311.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1312.