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Sharrock of Veryan
Hello!
I’m Dave Sharrock from Bude,
Cornwall, in England. Thanks for visiting my site.
I assume you’re a Sharrock
or interested in the name.
My family stretch back to about 1640, in
Cornwall, where they are within a generation of a well documented and well to
do family of the same name, who appear in the 1620 Heralds’ Visitation of
Cornwall.
It was the information, in the
Visitation, linking this Cornish family with Lancashire that intrigued me.
“Sharrockes of Ribblesdale in Com.
Lanc.
First of wh. Was Ralph Shorrock of Shorockhayes wch in the Barrons’ War was advanced to be a Captaine
and therein lost his life, his descent grewe poore, and when the Scotts
overran the Northern borders & parte of
Lancashire and Cheshire the most part of this familie
fled into Dublyn in Ireland, where by the Corruption
of the Irish Ideoam they were termed Sharlock wch name of necessitie they were constrained to hold in the time of
King Henrie the Seventh.”
(The
Barons War took place between 1258 and 1267. Henry the seventh was on the
throne from 1485 to 1509.)
I hope I can tell you more of how and
where the name originated in the north of England.
I can’t prove, yet, that my line is
descended from the “Visitation” family but I have a lot of circumstantial
evidence which up ‘til now satisfied me.
There is ,
currently, a DNA project taking place. It involves another Sharrock,
apart from myself, as well as members of the Shorrocks and Shorrock “clan”.
The “Visitation” family were minor gentry
and provided children and grandchildren who amongst things became Prime
Minister of Great Britain, another wrote the “forwards” to the books of Robert
Boyle, of Boyle’s Law. Perhaps I could tell you something of them.
My own family tree starts with Thomas Sharrock, about 1640, a quaker,
who suffered imprisonment for his faith.(Detail of his suffering can be found here.) His family remained on the Roseland peninsula of
Cornwall for two hundred years.
My own GG Grandfather, a customs officer,
who survived the Crimean War is the “father” of
virtually all Sharrocks in the southwest of England.
Please, take the time to look at the
following topics. If they interest you, please, contact me. (at
david.sharrock@btinternet.com)
1. How and where did the name originate.
2. Where did the family go from Lancashire.
3. The “Visitation of Cornwall” family of Sharrock.
4. What became of the “Visitation” family
5. My
(David Sharrock) ancestors from about 1640 to the
early 19th Century.
6. The
descendents of John Pascoe Sharrock.