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From: "frederick jones" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] SHERRATT
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 05:20:53 +0200
References: <00a801c4f574$71e63420$6d849ed9@janet>


Dear All,
I do not think that they were eloping to the continent - there was a war on
between among others Britain and Napoleon!
He could have been a soldier going to Portugal for the Peninsular War.

Fred Jones in thundery Johannesburg.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [CHS] SHERRATT


> I've come round to thinking that any different spelling looking similar
may be
> related. As well as accents having a influence on what was written I
think we
> have to bear in mind that when its written it may be misread.
> Dover has always been the main port to Calais as far as I know, they might
have
> wanted to emigrate.
>
> Janet
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
>
> >I have a SHARRATT in my family about whom I know next to nothing. Is
this
> > the same name?
> >
> > Charles BLOUNT married Mary Ann SHARRATT at St. Mary Dover - 23 Feb
1809.
> > But the interesting thing is that Charles came from Shrewsbury SAL and
Mary
> > Ann came from Shoreditch LON. Why did they marry in Dover? Elopement?
But
> > do
> > accountants elope?
> >
> > Cyril
>
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