Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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[Ancestor] Sherrard




Husband [Ancestor] Sherrard

            AKA: [Ancestor] Shearer, [Ancestor] Sherred
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Children
1 M William Sherrard 1 2

           Born: 1720 - Newtown Limavady, County Derry, Ireland 2
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         Spouse: Margaret Johnston (      -      ) 1



General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Sherrard


The Sherrards (sometimes the name is spelled Sherred and Shearer) were of Huguenot ancestry, members of the family having originally set out from France to escape religious persecution and having fled to Scotland, settling in the Lowlands. Later they took up their home in County Derry, Ireland, near the village of Newton Limavady.

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Sources


1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 392.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 63.


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