Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
I just downloaded "Sherlocks of Ireland" and started reading it. From an earlier family tree written in 1982 about our branch of the family and from what my father has told me (Gerald [Judd] Sherlock, 91 in August) and from perusing at different times these past few months the on line material at Ancestry.com, I've run into a somewhat porous roadblock at the information I have on my GGGGrandfather, Joseph Sherlock. I have information that he emigrated to the U. S. in 1853 with his much younger wife and his children--most, at the time, being adults.
The problem is he seems to have had three wives. The one my family knew of was Ellen Courtney who he married at Kilflynn Church in Limerick on the border with Cork on 8 May 1845. From what I've heard or read from other sources and what I've seen so far in Adrian's account, the information on him, Joseph, seems to have been lost or it ended up in disparate accounts after his first marriage and long before the Potato Famine which seemed to have robbed them of everything and drove them from Ireland. His son, my GGGrandfather, Joseph Thomas Sherlock born in Limerick in 1828, would have been seventeen when his father married Ellen. His father, I believe, originally married Alicia Burns in 1792 and possibly another woman in 1830. I think he was around 78 when he came to the U. S. and was supposedly 104 when he died in Chicago in July of 1869.
If anyone has any information that can help me straighten this out it would be appreciated greatly, and I would share any or all the information I have (though it may be limited or repetitive to most serious genealogy researchers) on anyone I have anything on.
Adrian, If you read this I would like to email you after I read your book. I have your address from the last page. Thank you for the work you've done.
Thanks,
Tim
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:
|
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/sherlock/messages/608.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|