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William Shirley (continued)
b. ca1730. Lived in Frederick Co. Maryland. Family to Pennsylvania and Kentucky

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1(vii). Robert Shirley born about 1775. Enumerated in several extant Scott Co KY tax lists beginning in 1801 as above majority age; He was named in the 1805 will of his father William Shirley as residual heir upon the death of Robert's mother Margaret Shirley; Robert was last taxed in Scott Co KY in 1810. He married Elizabeth Cardwell in 1811 in Scott Co KY In 1812, William Cardwell (presumably a relative of his wife Elizabeth) acted as attorney for Robert Shirley and wife Elizabeth for the sale of land on Dry Run long ownd by his father William Shirley. He served in Capt. Jacob Peacock's Company, 13th Reg't of KY Militia, commanded by Col John Davis at Battle of New Orleans. He served from Oct 1814 to April 1815. Robert Shirley lived in Bullitt Co KY by 1814 when he was enumerated in tax records there; He was enumerated in the 1820 census of Bullitt Co KY, age 45+; The family is not found (as yet) in 1830 census records, possibly living with another head of household in Bulltt County KY; Robert Shirley died 16 November 1832 Bullitt Co. KY.

1801 Scott Co KY Tax - Robert Sherley [next in alphabetical list to William] 1 males over 21; 0 16-21; no slaves; 4 horses; no land

1804 Scott Co KY Tax - Robert Sherley [next in alphabetical list to William] 1 males over 21; 0 16-21; no slaves; 2 horses; no land

1805 Scott Co KY Tax - Robert Shirley [next in alphabetical list to Margrett] 1 males over 21; 0 16-21; no slaves; 1 horses; no land

1806 Scott Co KY Tax - Robt Shearley (next to Margret Shearley) 1 male over 21; 0 males 16-21; no slaves; 0 horses; no land

1810 Scott Co KY Tax - Robert Shearley 1 male over 21; 0 males 16-21; no slaves; 2 horses; no land

1812 Nov 24. Scott Co DB A-C p 413 - This indenture made the 24th 1812 between [William?] Cardewell attorney in fact for Robert Shirly by virture of a...recorded in the Clerks office of the....and Elizabeth Sherly wife of the said....part and James H. Mahoney of the same...the part witnesseth that this same..as Ally as asforesaid and the said...for the consideration of seven hundred. by the said James H. Mahoney the receipt. acknowledged and by these presents bargain and sell, transfer and convey. ....His Heirs and assigns ..and parcel of land lying and being in the. on the waters of Dry Run. Bounded as followth.towit.. Corner to Waller Rodes ? thence. east to two Elms....... Wm. Cadwell, Robt Shirly, Elizabeth Shirly. Nov 24th 1812 (see also Bullitt Co KY)

1814 Bullitt Co KY Tax - Robert Shirley 1 male over 21; 0 males 16-21; no slaves; 1 horses; 107 acres of 2nd rate land in Bullitt Co on F Fork; land entered by J Larue

1820 Bullitt Co KY Census - Robert Sherly 300001 - 11010 (born before 1775)

married Elizabeth Cardwell on 28 December 1811 Scott Co. KY; She was born about 1773. She lived in Jefferson Co. KY in the 1850 census. Living with her son George Shirley in the 1860 census of Clark Co. IN (age 87 in census). Her father was William Cardwell born 1760 died 1780 Bullitt Co. KY who served in the Rev War and her mother was Famariah Fields b 1760 d 1843. They were married March 1781 Culpepper Co. VA.

children:

2(i). Harriet Shirley born about 1808 (before 1810 per father's census profile); She married John Bass on 17 September 1828 in Bullitt Co KY

2(ii).William Cardwell Shirley born about 1813 KY, age 37 in 1850 Jefferson Co KY census; Lived Bullitt Co KY in 1860 census, age 51

married Rebecca Bishop on 20 May 1835 Bullitt Co. KY; She was age 50 in 1860 census, identified as 'insane'

children:

3(i). Malinda Shirley born 11 March 1836 KY, age 14 in 1850 census; She died Dec 9, 1926 Jefferson Co. KY; She married James R. Martin on 6 December 1859 in Bullitt Co. KY

3(ii). William H. Shirley born about 1838 KY, age 12 in 1850 census; Married with children, enumerated at Woods Twp, Jefferson Co KY in 1870 census, age 32

married Amelia Gentry on 15 November 1860 in Bullitt Co KY, age 32 in 1870 census

children:

4(i). Mary B. Shirley born about 1862 Jefferson Co. KY, age 8 in 1870 census

4(ii). Laura K. Shirley born about 1863 Jefferson Co. KY, age 7 in 1870 census

4(iii). Joseph A. Shirley born about 1864 Jefferson Co. KY, age 6 in 1870 census

4(iv). Mignonette Clay Shirley (Nettie C.) born on 15 October 1871 KY; She died 14 April 1938 in Atlanda GA; She married 1) George E. Holman on 8 September 1889 Clark Co. IN; married 2) Charles Dusenberry

3(iii). Francis Shirley born about 1840 KY, age 10 in 1850 census; He died 10 February 1873 in Louisville, Jefferson Co KY

married Mary Thixton on 28 February 1863 at Jefferson Co KY

They may have had at least one child named Millie Shirley (m Sam Barron)?

3(iv). Amanda Shirley born about 1844 KY, age 6 in 1850 census, age 17 in 1860 census; She married 1) Christopher Martin on 14 May 1860 in Jefferson Co. KY and married 2) Frank Johnson

3(v). John H. Shirley born about 1845 KY, age 5 in 1850 census, not enumerated in parent's 1860 census household

married Rosella Cornell on 22 January 1868 in Bullitt Co. KY

children:

4(i). John Shirley born about 1869 KY, age 11 in 1880 census

4(ii). Anna Shirley born about 1871 KY, age 9 in 1880 census

4(iii). Erastis Shirley born about 1872 KY, age 8 in 1880 census

4(iv). Mollie Shirley born about 1874 KY, age 6 in 1880 census

4(v). Samuel Shirley born about 1877 KY, age 3 in 1880 census

4(vi). Katie Shirley born about 1879 KY, age 1 in 1880 census

additional children born after 1880?

3(vi). Newton Jasper Shirley born about 1849 KY, age 1 in 1850 census, age 11 in 1860 census household; Marriage with children at Mount Washington Twp in Bullitt Co KY 1880 census, age 32

married Elizabeth Connell (sic Cornwall) on 23 June 1869 at Jefferson Co KY (note: all the details of the marriage left blank, unlike all other listings in the record book)

children:

4(i). Ophelia Shirley born about 1871 KY, age 9 in 1880 census

4(ii). Joseph Shirley born about 1876 KY, age 4 in 1880 census

4(iii). Ann Shirley born about 1877 KY, age 3 in 1880 census

3(vii). Elizabeth Shirley born about 1851 KY, age 9 in 1860 census; She married John Spenser

2(iii). America Shirley born about 1814 Bullitt Co. KY. She married Parkenson O'Curry on 25 August 1834 in Bullitt Co KY

2(iv). Louis Johnson Shirley born on 16 June 1816 Jefferson Co. KY. Was a soldier in the Texan War of 1836. Enumerated in the 1860 Clark Co IN census, age 44; Also living in Jeffersonville Clark Co IN 1870 census age 53; occupation City Policeman. Living Aurora Dearborn Co IN in 1880 census, age 63; He died 5 November 1886 at Jeffersonville Clark Co IN Shirleys of Clark Co Indiana

married 1) Mary E. Miller on 15 June 1843 at Jefferson Co KY She was age 31 in 1860 census, age 45 in 1870 census; age 52 in 1880 census; Her surname identified in the death certificate of son James W Shirley

Lewis Shirley married Elizabeth Miller dau of Sarah Miller on 15 June 1843 at Jefferson Co KY

married 2) Cora______ (source for this wife?)

children:

3(i). Sarah Elizabeth Shirley born December 1844 Bullitt Co. KY, age 15 in 1860 census

3(ii). Martha Alice Shirley born about 1846 KY, not enumerated in parent's 1860 census household

3(iii). James W. Shirley born on 13 November 1850 Bullitt Co. KY, age 10 in 1860 census, age 19 in parent's 1870 census household; He lived in Jackson Co IN in 1880 census and in Cinncinatti Hamilton Co Ohio in 1910 census; He died 25 December 1936 in Rhea Co. TN

married Elizabeth Vandergrift on 25 August 1878 at Clark Co IN

children:

4(i). James William Shirley born on 1 July 1879 Dearborn Co. IN; He lived in Dayton Montgomery Co Ohio and then later in Oakland Alameda Co California

married 1) Mary Knipfel Her name was identified in the marriage record of daughter Claudia Mae Shirley

married 2) Eleanor Sadie Lester in 1929

children:

5(i). George William Shirley He died 4 June 1976; He married 1) Dorothy Hickey; married 2) Mabel Rea (Mabel lived San Jose CA)

5(ii). Claudia Mae Shirley She married Charles Betts on 14 December 1925 at Akron Summit Co Ohio (parents named)

5(iii). Beatrice Shirley

5(iv). Virginia Shirley She married Mr. Meshot

5(v). Virgil Shirley (twin of Virginia)

5(vi). Charles Robert Shirley (retired probation officer, lived San Jose CA)

4(ii). Claudia Shirley born March 1881 Dearborn Co. IN; She married Robert Crane. no children

4(iii). George Edward Shirley born on 30 April 1883 at Dearborn Co IN

married Catharina Schottenberg on 15 May 1913

4(iv). Frankie Cleveland Shirley born 23 March 1885 (death cert. parents named); She married George Scrambling, no children

4(v). Hampton Houston Shirley born in 1889 died young

3(iv). George Thomas Shirley born 4 July 1856 Bullitt Co. KY, age 4 in 1860 census, age 13 in 1870 census, age 23 in parent's 1880 census household

3(v). Luella Shirley born 16 March 1861 Jeffersonville, Clark Co. IN, age 9 in 1870 census, age 19 in parent's 1880 census household

3(vi). Edward Howard Shirley born 24 October 1863 Clark Co. IN, age 6 in 1870 census, age 16 in 1880 census

3(vii). Louis Kyle Shirley born 29 March 1866 Clark Co. IN, age 4 in 1870 census, age 14 in 1880 census

3(viii). Charles Augustes Shirley born 27 November 1869 Clark Co. IN, age 0 in 1870 census, age 10 in 1880 census; He died 5 December 1952, buried Calvary Cem, Louisville Jefferson Co KY

2(v). George Edward Shirley born about 1819 KY Living in Jefferson Co. KY in the 1850 census, and enumerated in Clark Co. IN in 1860, age 43; Only one child shown in 1850 and 1860 censuses. Mother Elizabeth Shirley lived with the family in both censuses. Shirleys of Clark Co Indiana

married Sarah Ann Cardwell on 22 March 1841 in Bullitt Co KY

children:

3(i). Martha Shirley born about 1843, age 7 in 1850 census, age 17 in 1860 census. She may be the Martha Jane Shirley who married James T McKenzie on 8 September 1861 in Clark Co IN

2(vi). John Shirley born about 1823. He was liviing in home of George Murphy and family, listed as a mechanic, also listed in another home same census, with Joseph W. Mitler and family in the 1850 census of Jefferson Co. KY. He was 27 and single.

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		William Shirley (continued) b. ca1730. Lived in Frederick Co. Maryland. Family to Pennsylvania and Kentucky Haplogroup E3b
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		This Lineage Page Last Reviewed and Updated October 2020 1(vii). Robert Shirley born about 1775. Enumerated in several extant Scott Co KY tax lists beginning in 1801 as above majority age; He was named in the 1805 will of his father William Shirley as residual heir upon the death of Robert's mother Margaret Shirley; Robert was last taxed in Scott Co KY in 1810. He married Elizabeth Cardwell in 1811 in Scott Co KY In 1812, William Cardwell (presumably a relative of his wife Elizabeth) acted as attorney for Robert Shirley and wife Elizabeth for the sale of land on Dry Run long ownd by his father William Shirley. He served in Capt. Jacob Peacock's Company, 13th Reg't of KY Militia, commanded by Col John Davis at Battle of New Orleans. He served from Oct 1814 to April 1815. Robert Shirley lived in Bullitt Co KY by 1814 when he was enumerated in tax records there; He was enumerated in the 1820 census of Bullitt Co KY, age 45+; The family is not found (as yet) in 1830 census records, possibly living with another head of household in Bulltt County KY; Robert Shirley died 16 November 1832 Bullitt Co. KY. 1801 Scott Co KY Tax - Robert Sherley [next in alphabetical list to William] 1 males over 21; 0 16-21; no slaves; 4 horses; no land 1804 Scott Co KY Tax - Robert Sherley [next in alphabetical list to William] 1 males over 21; 0 16-21; no slaves; 2 horses; no land 1805 Scott Co KY Tax - Robert Shirley [next in alphabetical list to Margrett] 1 males over 21; 0 16-21; no slaves; 1 horses; no land 1806 Scott Co KY Tax - Robt Shearley (next to Margret Shearley) 1 male over 21; 0 males 16-21; no slaves; 0 horses; no land 1810 Scott Co KY Tax - Robert Shearley 1 male over 21; 0 males 16-21; no slaves; 2 horses; no land 1812 Nov 24. Scott Co DB A-C p 413 - This indenture made the 24th 1812 between [William?] Cardewell attorney in fact for Robert Shirly by virture of a...recorded in the Clerks office of the....and Elizabeth Sherly wife of the said....part and James H. Mahoney of the same...the part witnesseth that this same..as Ally as asforesaid and the said...for the consideration of seven hundred. by the said James H. Mahoney the receipt. acknowledged and by these presents bargain and sell, transfer and convey. ....His Heirs and assigns ..and parcel of land lying and being in the. on the waters of Dry Run. Bounded as followth.towit.. Corner to Waller Rodes ? thence. east to two Elms....... Wm. Cadwell, Robt Shirly, Elizabeth Shirly. Nov 24th 1812 (see also Bullitt Co KY) 1814 Bullitt Co KY Tax - Robert Shirley 1 male over 21; 0 males 16-21; no slaves; 1 horses; 107 acres of 2nd rate land in Bullitt Co on F Fork; land entered by J Larue 1820 Bullitt Co KY Census - Robert Sherly 300001 - 11010 (born before 1775) married Elizabeth Cardwell on 28 December 1811 Scott Co. KY; She was born about 1773. She lived in Jefferson Co. KY in the 1850 census. Living with her son George Shirley in the 1860 census of Clark Co. IN (age 87 in census). Her father was William Cardwell born 1760 died 1780 Bullitt Co. KY who served in the Rev War and her mother was Famariah Fields b 1760 d 1843. They were married March 1781 Culpepper Co. VA. children: 2(i). Harriet Shirley born about 1808 (before 1810 per father's census profile); She married John Bass on 17 September 1828 in Bullitt Co KY 2(ii).William Cardwell Shirley born about 1813 KY, age 37 in 1850 Jefferson Co KY census; Lived Bullitt Co KY in 1860 census, age 51 married Rebecca Bishop on 20 May 1835 Bullitt Co. KY; She was age 50 in 1860 census, identified as 'insane' children: 3(i). Malinda Shirley born 11 March 1836 KY, age 14 in 1850 census; She died Dec 9, 1926 Jefferson Co. KY; She married James R. Martin on 6 December 1859 in Bullitt Co. KY 3(ii). William H. Shirley born about 1838 KY, age 12 in 1850 census; Married with children, enumerated at Woods Twp, Jefferson Co KY in 1870 census, age 32 married Amelia Gentry on 15 November 1860 in Bullitt Co KY, age 32 in 1870 census children: 4(i). Mary B. Shirley born about 1862 Jefferson Co. KY, age 8 in 1870 census 4(ii). Laura K. Shirley born about 1863 Jefferson Co. KY, age 7 in 1870 census 4(iii). Joseph A. Shirley born about 1864 Jefferson Co. KY, age 6 in 1870 census 4(iv). Mignonette Clay Shirley (Nettie C.) born on 15 October 1871 KY; She died 14 April 1938 in Atlanda GA; She married 1) George E. Holman on 8 September 1889 Clark Co. IN; married 2) Charles Dusenberry 3(iii). Francis Shirley born about 1840 KY, age 10 in 1850 census; He died 10 February 1873 in Louisville, Jefferson Co KY married Mary Thixton on 28 February 1863 at Jefferson Co KY They may have had at least one child named Millie Shirley (m Sam Barron)? 3(iv). Amanda Shirley born about 1844 KY, age 6 in 1850 census, age 17 in 1860 census; She married 1) Christopher Martin on 14 May 1860 in Jefferson Co. KY and married 2) Frank Johnson 3(v). John H. Shirley born about 1845 KY, age 5 in 1850 census, not enumerated in parent's 1860 census household married Rosella Cornell on 22 January 1868 in Bullitt Co. KY children: 4(i). John Shirley born about 1869 KY, age 11 in 1880 census 4(ii). Anna Shirley born about 1871 KY, age 9 in 1880 census 4(iii). Erastis Shirley born about 1872 KY, age 8 in 1880 census 4(iv). Mollie Shirley born about 1874 KY, age 6 in 1880 census 4(v). Samuel Shirley born about 1877 KY, age 3 in 1880 census 4(vi). Katie Shirley born about 1879 KY, age 1 in 1880 census additional children born after 1880? 3(vi). Newton Jasper Shirley born about 1849 KY, age 1 in 1850 census, age 11 in 1860 census household; Marriage with children at Mount Washington Twp in Bullitt Co KY 1880 census, age 32 married Elizabeth Connell (sic Cornwall) on 23 June 1869 at Jefferson Co KY (note: all the details of the marriage left blank, unlike all other listings in the record book) children: 4(i). Ophelia Shirley born about 1871 KY, age 9 in 1880 census 4(ii). Joseph Shirley born about 1876 KY, age 4 in 1880 census 4(iii). Ann Shirley born about 1877 KY, age 3 in 1880 census 3(vii). Elizabeth Shirley born about 1851 KY, age 9 in 1860 census; She married John Spenser 2(iii). America Shirley born about 1814 Bullitt Co. KY. She married Parkenson O'Curry on 25 August 1834 in Bullitt Co KY 2(iv). Louis Johnson Shirley born on 16 June 1816 Jefferson Co. KY. Was a soldier in the Texan War of 1836. Enumerated in the 1860 Clark Co IN census, age 44; Also living in Jeffersonville Clark Co IN 1870 census age 53; occupation City Policeman. Living Aurora Dearborn Co IN in 1880 census, age 63; He died 5 November 1886 at Jeffersonville Clark Co IN *Shirleys of Clark Co Indiana* married 1) Mary E. Miller on 15 June 1843 at Jefferson Co KY She was age 31 in 1860 census, age 45 in 1870 census; age 52 in 1880 census; Her surname identified in the death certificate of son James W Shirley Lewis Shirley married Elizabeth Miller dau of Sarah Miller on 15 June 1843 at Jefferson Co KY married 2) Cora______ (source for this wife?) children: 3(i). Sarah Elizabeth Shirley born December 1844 Bullitt Co. KY, age 15 in 1860 census 3(ii). Martha Alice Shirley born about 1846 KY, not enumerated in parent's 1860 census household 3(iii). James W. Shirley born on 13 November 1850 Bullitt Co. KY, age 10 in 1860 census, age 19 in parent's 1870 census household; He lived in Jackson Co IN in 1880 census and in Cinncinatti Hamilton Co Ohio in 1910 census; He died 25 December 1936 in Rhea Co. TN married Elizabeth Vandergrift on 25 August 1878 at Clark Co IN children: 4(i). James William Shirley born on 1 July 1879 Dearborn Co. IN; He lived in Dayton Montgomery Co Ohio and then later in Oakland Alameda Co California married 1) Mary Knipfel Her name was identified in the marriage record of daughter Claudia Mae Shirley married 2) Eleanor Sadie Lester in 1929 children: 5(i). George William Shirley He died 4 June 1976; He married 1) Dorothy Hickey; married 2) Mabel Rea (Mabel lived San Jose CA) 5(ii). Claudia Mae Shirley She married Charles Betts on 14 December 1925 at Akron Summit Co Ohio (parents named) 5(iii). Beatrice Shirley 5(iv). Virginia Shirley She married Mr. Meshot 5(v). Virgil Shirley (twin of Virginia) 5(vi). Charles Robert Shirley (retired probation officer, lived San Jose CA) 4(ii). Claudia Shirley born March 1881 Dearborn Co. IN; She married Robert Crane. no children 4(iii). George Edward Shirley born on 30 April 1883 at Dearborn Co IN married Catharina Schottenberg on 15 May 1913 4(iv). Frankie Cleveland Shirley born 23 March 1885 (death cert. parents named); She married George Scrambling, no children 4(v). Hampton Houston Shirley born in 1889 died young 3(iv). George Thomas Shirley born 4 July 1856 Bullitt Co. KY, age 4 in 1860 census, age 13 in 1870 census, age 23 in parent's 1880 census household 3(v). Luella Shirley born 16 March 1861 Jeffersonville, Clark Co. IN, age 9 in 1870 census, age 19 in parent's 1880 census household 3(vi). Edward Howard Shirley born 24 October 1863 Clark Co. IN, age 6 in 1870 census, age 16 in 1880 census 3(vii). Louis Kyle Shirley born 29 March 1866 Clark Co. IN, age 4 in 1870 census, age 14 in 1880 census 3(viii). Charles Augustes Shirley born 27 November 1869 Clark Co. IN, age 0 in 1870 census, age 10 in 1880 census; He died 5 December 1952, buried Calvary Cem, Louisville Jefferson Co KY 2(v). George Edward Shirley born about 1819 KY Living in Jefferson Co. KY in the 1850 census, and enumerated in Clark Co. IN in 1860, age 43; Only one child shown in 1850 and 1860 censuses. Mother Elizabeth Shirley lived with the family in both censuses. *Shirleys of Clark Co Indiana* married Sarah Ann Cardwell on 22 March 1841 in Bullitt Co KY children: 3(i). Martha Shirley born about 1843, age 7 in 1850 census, age 17 in 1860 census. She may be the Martha Jane Shirley who married James T McKenzie on 8 September 1861 in Clark Co IN 2(vi). John Shirley born about 1823. He was liviing in home of George Murphy and family, listed as a mechanic, also listed in another home same census, with Joseph W. Mitler and family in the 1850 census of Jefferson Co. KY. He was 27 and single.
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