Hi Gordon, I hope one day you'll be able to make the Cornelius Sherlock connection with your family. He certainly had a lot of lovely architecture in his portfolio especially the Picton Library and St. Stephen's. Just beautiful, I love looking at old architecture and their sculpted facades so I thank you for sharing these websites. The sculptures are wonderful; so much creativity and knowledge in these pages. I hope to be able to visit Liverpool and Wirral down the road and hopefully walk down the same streets and enter the same churches as my ancestors as well as see these magnificent buildings in person. Be well Eleanor In a message dated 1/4/2011 2:56:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com writes: Eleanor wrote :- >Yes, I had read your interesting post to Dorothy on the Flixton Sherlock >line and Hoylake Boat Disaster although they don't appear to be connected >to my tree (yet) I, my youngest brother George plus several SHERLOCK cousins have been trying unsuccessfully for many years to find a link between our Wirral SHERLOCKs and their Flixton counterparts, if only to be able to lay claim as 'one of ours' the Cornelius SHERLOCK born 1823 in Liverpool, son of Liverpool customs officer Thomas SHERLOCK and his wife Ann Hopley DOD. Cornelius was the architect of many fine buildings still to be seen in Liverpool, including the Picton Library, Walker Art Gallery, No 1 Victoria Street, St Stephen's church in Gateacre and Sandown Park in Wavertree :- http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/liverpool/1.html http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/lpoolwmbrown.htm http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/cities/liverpool/victoria-street/no-1-v ictoria-street.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Stephen's_Church,_Liverpool http://www.dhwav.btinternet.co.uk/page42.html Cornelius married vicar's daughter Jane Rebecca CRAWFORD (b1822 IRE Roscommon) on 7th November 1849 in Kirk Onchan, Isle of Man, the couple having just one daughter Clarinda Beatrice SHERLOCK (b1858 Liverpool). Clarinda married merchant's son Reginald Louis ROSS in St Marylebone parish church, London, on 25 June 1884 and had just one son Reginald Sherlock ROSS, born on 6 April 1897 in Quebec, Canada. Reginald Louis was dead by 1901, when widow Clarinda ROSS was living with her widowed mother Jane SHERLOCK + widowed aunt Eleanor GANDELL in Windsor Road, Southport. Clarinda never re-married, dying in Hendon in 1939, aged 80. Reginald Sherlock ROSS died in London in 1970, aged 73. From: <Preulet@aol.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] calling all Sherlock"s >Hi Gordon, >I'm happy to see you agree with me on Samuel SHERLOCK marrying Ann Jane >RILEY and thanks for the insight that >she and Mary Ann Riley are most likely sisters as I have both marriages >within my tree. Unfortunately my research stops there so I know I need to >do >catchup on both sisters marriages into the SHERLOCK family so it gives me >something to look forward to take care of. >I appreciate these additional clues that hopefully will put me on the path >to completing these 2 lines. >Yes, I had read your interesting post to Dorothy on the Flixton Sherlock >line and Hoylake Boat Disaster although they don't appear to be connected >to >my tree (yet) >Warm Regards >Eleanor ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message