Shearman Surname History

Shearman migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

H Shearman, who arrived in New York, NY in 1811 1
William Shearman Shearman, who landed in Texas in 1835 1
Henry Shearman, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1855 1

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:

Mr. Thomas Shearman, British convict who was convicted in London, England for life, transported aboard the "Asia" on 29th September 1831, settling in New South Wales, Australia 3
Robert Shearman, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Abberton" in 1846 4
Eldred Shearman, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Princess Helena" in 1850 5
William Shearman, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Statesman" in 1850 6
James Shearman, aged 25, a gardener, who arrived in South Australia in 1853 aboard the ship "Marshall Bennett" 7
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Thomas Shearman, American co-founder of Shearman & Sterling LLP, a law firm headquartered in New York City in 1873
William Shearman (1767-1861), English physician and medical writer, born at Harwich, Essex
Sir Harold C. Shearman (1964-1966), British Labour politician, Chairman of the Greater London Council
Simon Max Shearman (b. 1964), former English cricketer
James Shearman (1970-2004), English composer, arranger and conductor, Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (2004), best known for his prolific work on as many as 53 Hollywood movies
Donald Norman Shearman (b. 1926), Australian former bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia
Sir Montague Shearman (1857-1930), English judge and athlete, co-founder of the Amateur Athletics Association in 1880
Linda Shearman, British gold, two-time silver and bronze medalist competitive ice dancer in the 1960s
Robert Osborne Shearman (1939-1999), Australian rules footballer
John Kinder Gowran Shearman (1931-2003), English art historian
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Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Rubincam, Milton. The Old United Empire Loyalists List. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1976. (Originally published as; United Empire Loyalists. The Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada. Rose Publishing Company, 1885.) ISBN 0-8063-0331-X
Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 12th January 2020). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/asia/1831
State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) ABBERTON 1846. Retrieved from http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1846Abberton.htm
State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) PANAMA 1850. Retrieved http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1850PrincessHelena.gif
State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) STATESMAN 1850. Retrieved http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1850Statesman.gif
South Australian Register Friday 29 April 1853. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) Marshall Bennett 1853. Retrieved http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/marshallbennett1853.shtml