SHEWARDSON, Janet

1785 - 1876  (91 years)

• Name	SHEWARDSON, Janet  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	1785	Nesting, Shetland, Scotland   [1, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Jennet Stewartson / Janet Stewartson Jennet Shewardson Janet Sigurdsson
  Residence	1841	Whiteness and Weesdale, Orkney and Shetland, Scotland   [6]
  Residence	1851	Tingwall, Whiteness and Weisdale, Shetland, Scotland   [1, 5]
  	Relation to Head of House: Wife
  Residence	1861	Tingwall, Shetland, Scotland   [4]
  	Relation to Head of House: Wife
  Death	30 Dec 1876	Upper Scalloway, Shetland, Scotland
  Person ID	I3358	Stark Family Tree
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	SHEWARDSON, Moody
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	ANDERSON, Isabella
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2276	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	ROBERTSON, Laurence,   b. 21 May 1788, Nesting, Shetland, Scotland d. 27 Oct 1867, Tingwall, Shetland, Scotland (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland
  Children	+ 1. ROBERTSON, Laurence,   b. 25 Aug 1809, Tingwall, Shetland, Scotland d. 11 Dec 1879, Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland (Age 70 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. ROBERTSON, Hunter,   b. 1 Dec 1818, Tingwall, Shetland, Scotland d. Bef 1881 (Age < 62 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. ROBERTSON, Andrew,   b. 18 Dec 1821, Tingwall, Shetland, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. ROBERTSON, George,   b. 12 Oct 1823, Tingwall, Shetland, Scotland d. 1824 (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. ROBERTSON, George,   b. 26 Sep 1825, Tingwall , Shetland, Scotland bur. Ballarat, Victoria, Australia  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 6. ROBERTSON, James,   b. 12 Sep 1828, Lerwick, Tingwall, Whiteness, Shetland, Scotland d. 10 Jul 1900, Waianakarua, Waitaki, Otago, New Zealand (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3214	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - Relation to Head of House: Wife - 1861 - Tingwall, Shetland, Scotland Marriage - - Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  1877 Janet Shewardson Death

  
  

• Notes

  Surname shown as Sigurdson in death record of son Laurence. Sigurdson is Icelandic in nature... Present in 1841 census. Resident at Berry, Scalloway.

  
  

• Sources

  [S117] Ancestry.com, 1851 Scotland Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Parish: Tingwall, Whiteness and Weisdale; ED: 12; Page: 20; Line: 11; Roll: CSSCT1851_3; Year: 1851. [S6] Ancestry.com, Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). [S16] Ancestry.com, Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). [S47] Ancestry.com, 1861 Scotland Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Parish: Tingwall; ED: 6; Page: 4; Line: 15; Roll: CSSCT1861_2. [S46] Ancestry.com, 1851 Scotland Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Parish: Tingwall, Whiteness and Weisdale; ED: 2; Page: 3; Line: 8; Roll: CSSCT1851_3; Year: 1851. [S45] Ancestry.com, 1841 Scotland Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Parish: Whiteness and Weesdale; ED: 3; Page: 13; Line: 730; Year: 1841.