The Shurrock Family Details


Family name Shurrock Name William
Parents names William & Mary Watson Date of Birth 1851
Grandparents Thomas & Mary
Town of birth Brill County Buckinghamshire
 
First spouse Annie White Parents names
When/where born 1852 Bothamsal, Nottinghamshire Map When married  1874
Where married Earlsetown/Openshaw?
Second spouse Parents names
When/where born   When married  
Where married
 
Date of death 1909 Earlsetown
Child death? Occupation Labourer in Iron Works
Children James White(1874-76), William(1877-1903), Sarah Elizabeth(1878-1953), Mary Ann(1879), Annie(1888), Ada(1892), Florence(1893-1934)
Dated information 1851: 24 March Will is born he is baptised Will "Sherock" on April 4.
1851: William's aunt Hannah is listed as his nurse.
1861: William is shown as a cripple, which may account for Hannah in 1851.
1874: Living at 10 James Street, Openshaw, Manchester.Map
1876: Living at 42 Regent Street, Earlsetown.Map
1881: Peter Cook, a sawyer from Brill is lodging.
1903: Son William dies on January 4th.
1909: 8 December William dies of pulmonary tb, acute hephritis. The informant was John T Hodson, husband of Sarah Elizabeth.
1911: Annie is living with her daughter Sara Elizabeth and family.
1920: 2 March, Annie Shurrock dies of 1) Chronic Ulcer of Leg; 2) Acute Lobar Pneumonia informant was her daughter Sarah Elizabeth Stockwell.
General information In the 1871 census William is at home in Brill. By 1881 they are both living in Earlestown. In 1874 their son James White is born in Openshaw, Manchester and dies in 1876 in Newton-in-Makerfield. In 1891 Annie says she is from Yorkshire, in 1901 she is from Rockley, in 1911 Annie says she is from Bothamsal, Yorkshire. The only Bothamsal is near Retford, Notts, close to Rockley.

"Slaters Directory of Manchester & Salford" 1877-78 has a William Shorrocks listed at Low Moor Iron Works, Bradford. This would fit with the birth of James White in 1874 in Bradford but only if the information was collected in 1876 for publication in 1877.
Images 1851: Birth certificate
1851: PR birth
1909: Death certificate
1920: Death certificate
MI: Newton-le-Willows
Family tree Click here to view Shurrock family photographs
 
Pre census
1841
1851 Brill Common, Brill (HO107/1726) d4a p11 Map
1861 Little Brill, Old Kiln Gdns, Brill (RG8/887) d3 p7 Map
1871 The Common, Brill (RG10/1432) d3 p26 Map
1881 13 Wood Street, Earlstown (RG11/3786) d1 p16 Map
1891 13 Wood Street, Earlstown (RG12/3069) d1 p48 Map
1901 140 Legh Street, Newton in Makerfield (RG13/3574) d7 p36 Map
1911 138 Legh St, Newton in Makerfield (RG14PN23110 RG78PN1350 RD459 SD1 ED9 SN47)
Post census 138 Legh Street, Newton in Makerfield