FWIW I have a John Sillers/Sellers who married on 7 May 1788 to Mary Johnson, Liverpool St Peter. Maybe they were related. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "blythswood" <blythswood@btinternet.com> > Dag opnieuw, Peter > > Sorry to have taken so long to get back to you on this one (you posted to > the Birkenhead list on 29th April 2005). > > I can find no evidence of John SELLARS' talents being much celebrated > locally, but he was of course born in Manchester so Birkenhead wouldn't have > regarded him as one of its own "sons" no matter how accomplished he was in > his particular field or what fame he attained as author of "Chemistianity". > Wirral Archives have, however, drawn my attention to this mention of him on > page 100 of "Bygone Birkenhead" by J R Kaighin :-