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Hi there its lovely to hear from you and thanks for getting back to me 😊 I thought we were related when I read you posts and I would love to help you in anyway I can, there is still a lot of us Shillaws up this way, although sadly we have lost a few over the last few years including my dad Thomas and his younger sister Elizabeth, its strange how all the names keep getting handed down thorough the generations too lol 😁.... Hope to hear from you soon....take care..... PS I heard that in the late 1700's our name was a middle name that was given to a male child as a surname ( not sure how far true it is ) but was told this when I was trying to find the Shillaw coat of arms and was told this is why we didn't have one 😐.

Hi my name is Sarah Shillaw and I think you are all my family too, Im from easington in co Durham a mining town my great grandad was Thomas Shillaw and he married Sarah Elizabeth Holme I think her last name was holme anyway lol and they had four children, Christopher, Roland, Vera and Harold who was my grandad, my grandad(harry) had 5 children jennifer Thomas(my dad), Vera, john and Elizabeth and i was named after my great grandma Sarah. I also have tryd to trace my name back and as far as I can tell it started in 1790 it was a middle name that was given as a surname, I would love to hear back from you :) x