Below is the
Visitation entry for the Sharrock family. It comes
from the 1620 Visitation of Cornwall.
Veryan is a small village on the Roseland
Peninsula of Cornwall.
The information
would have been largely contributed by John Sharrock
of Tregon-John a farm, very close to Creed Parish
Church, That farm still exists.
Prior to that John
owned a property, in St. Tudy, known as Polrode. A 16th Century property of that name still exists
and was mentioned in the Domesday Book.
John Sharrock married into the very wealthy family of Matthew
from the nearby, to St. Tudy, village of St. Kew.
In 1596, John, withhis brother-in-law, were in St
Tudy Church following a service when he had a
altercation with Edward Lower. (Lower was, I believe, the grandfather of
Richard Lower famous for his work on blood transfusions.)
The altercation
started with Lower telling John Sharrock “It is
not fit to make a tailor’s shop in the church.” There is a
suggestion that John’s father was an illiterate tailor who signed documents
with a small drawing of a pair of scissors as his mark.
John apparently
replied “Thou art a usurer and a common usurer and proud of thy little
mole hill and thou thinkest thou hast possessed or
gotten a kingdom, but if thou and I do live I will make it less”.
All the characters
in the “tree” are well documented, elsewhere, with the exception of
the “more hazy” first two generations.