Shaw in my family tree
1: English: topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or thicket, Old English sceaga, or habitation name from one of the numerous minor places named with this word. 2: Scots and Irish: anglicized form of any of various surnames derived from the Erse and Gaelic personal name Sithech Wolf.
Variant (of 1): Shafe, Shave, Shaves, Shawe, Shay, Shayes, Shays.
Cognates (of 1): Danish, Norwegian: Schou, Skou, Skov. Swedish: Skog, Skogh, Skoog, Skoogh.
The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was born in Dublin into a Protestant family established in Ireland by William Shaw, a captain in William III's army, who went there circa 1689.
Shaw or variants was the 46th most common name in England and Wales according to a survey taken by H.M.Treasury in 1944, with a relative frequency of 0.20%.
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