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1869 Metcalfe Co KY Estate
Inventory of Nat Shirley, Vol 1 p 140-141
A true and just inventory and
appraisment of the personal estate of Nat Shiirley of color
deceased was produced to us by George Shirley his
administrator this 29th day of December 1869.
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Branch 84:
John
W. Shirley
born
about 1825 in Kentucky. African-American ancestry living Metcalf
Co KY. This lineage includes the famous opera tenor George Irving
Shirley
Branch 87:
John
Shirley born
about 1825; slave of George F. Adams of St Mary's County Maryland;
Emancipated May 20 1864; father and mother born Maryland (1880
census); farmer of Mechanicsville MD; May be related to Jetson
Shirley also enumerated in the slaveholdings of George Adams;
Grandson Marcus Patterson age 17 living with John in 1900 census.
Branch 88:
Marion
Taylor Barnes Shirley
- b. May 1, 1907 Hart County Georgia, d. 1963; Marion was
the son of Minnie Harris Craft, the daughter of Elisha Harris
of Hart Co Georgia and his wife Mary (Mae).
Branch 92.
Shirleys
of Edgecombe Co NC - African-American families including George Shirley,
Samson Shirley and Edgar Shirley, among others.
Branch 94. Turner
Shirley born about
1830 in VA, possibly Madison Co VA. African-American family living
in Broad Run, Loudoun Co Virginia
Branch 95. Charles
Shirley born about
1815 in Pennsylvania. He and his family appear as free mulatto/black
in 1850 Lancaster Co and 1860 Chester Co PA census. Descendants
lived in West Chester Township, Chester Co PA
Branch 96.
Barnaby
Shirley
born
about 1810 in Virginia. African-American family living at Orange
Courthouse PO, Orange Co VA in 1870
Branch 107.
African
American Shirley Families of Franklin Co GA. Several heads of these
families are documented as slaves in the estate record of Richard
Shirley of Hart Co GA (Branch 4). Many descendants moved to Colorado
Co Texas
Branch 108. African
American Shirley Families of Tuscaloosa Co AL One particular family headed by Nicholas
Shirley and wife Rosina Vaughn, children moved to Chicago and
to Kansas City MO
Branch 109. African
American Shirley Families of Dallas Texeas - The mother of this family was likely
a former slave of John "Judge" Shirley, the father
of famous outlaw Belle Starr (Myra Belle Shirley). New
Shirleys
of Jamaica (and the USA)
Shirleys families of Jamaica
Don Shirley famous
pianist and a member of the Shirleys of Jamaica family.
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