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From: "Gordon Evans" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Joseph and Mary Jane SHERLOCK
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:40:54 +0100
References: <OLEALJNIICOEJKFIMHAHOEMKDKAA.von@yvonnepurdy.free-online.co.uk>


Hi Von

This one takes a bit of getting your head around, but here goes :-

Henry SHERLOCK (b1839 Hoose) married Mary Ann JONES (b1839 Little Sutton) in
Liverpool St Peter in 1860.
Shortly before the marriage Mary Ann gave birth to a son who was both
registered and baptised as William Henry JONES, but who was known during his
comparatively short life (he died in 1886 aged 29) as William Henry
SHERLOCK.

Henry and Mary Ann's first legitimate child was a Joseph SHERLOCK (b1862
Hoose).

William Henry married an Ellen BRYAN from Tipperary in Liverpool St Nicholas
in 1880 and baptised a son William Henry SHERLOCK on 18 January 1882 in
Hoylake Holy Trinity. In the 1891 Census this child is shown as aged 10,
born in Aberystwyth, living in Lake Place, Hoylake, with his grandmother
Mary A SHERLOCK (nee JONES).

The 1881 Census for Wales has :-

RG11/5445 folio 130 page 28
24 High Street, Aberystwyth
Mary HUGHES, head, W, charwoman, born Middlesex
Mary Jane STOWE, niece, U, 18, general servant, born Middlesex

Free BMD has :-

Marriages
1882 SeptQ
Aberystwyth 11b/95
Joseph SHERLOCK
Mary Jane STOW

Joseph and Mary Jane SHERLOCK had the following children, all born in
Hoose:-

1883 Joseph (d1883)
1884 Mary Elizabeth
1886 Joseph Henry (d1887)
1888 William Albert
1891 Florence Evelyn
1893 Harry
1896 John (d1896)
1897 Joseph (d1898)

Mary Jane (Stow) SHERLOCK (born c1862 London Woolwich) of course died in
Hoose in 1899, aged 37.

The big question to me is whether the William Henry SHERLOCK, baptised in
Hoylake on 18 January 1882 as a child of William Henry and Ellen SHERLOCK,
was in reality the illegitimate child of Mary Jane STOW - "adopted" by this
couple shortly before her marriage to William Henry's brother Jospeh in
1882?

Regards
Gordon

From: "YvonnePurdy" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 8:02 PM
Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Joseph and Mary Jane SHERLOCK

>Hi all,
>A query for any of the SHERLOCK researchers. On 31 May 1897 a Joseph
>Sherlock was baptised at Holy Trinity,
>Hoylake, son of Joseph and Mary Jane Sherlock. Baby Joseph appears to
>have been buried, also at Holy Trinity,
>Hoylake, aged 14 months, on 23 August 1898, son of Joseph and Mary Jane
>Sherlock. I don't have these Sherlock
>parents.
>Any identification and help much appreciated, or is it a senior moment, a
>few of those recently:-(
>Kind regards, Von



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