ANCESTRY OF LOUIS LEE SHARROCK





David L. Sharrock died young.  In the 1920 census, Etta, now 45, already a
widow, was still living in Atlantic City.  The name is spelled “Sherrick” in
the 1920 census.  Lewis Lee had moved on, but Francis, now 23, and Albert
Fanslau, now 40, were still living in Etta’s household.  Francis had a wife,
aged 18, named Elizabeth, and a daughter named Mary, eleven months old.

1920 CENSUS, ATLANTIC CITY, ATLANTIC COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

Etta SHERRICK        Head              W  F   45  Wd     NJ    NJ       NJ
Francis SHERRICK     Son               W  M   23  S      NJ    NJ       NJ
Elizabeth SHERRICK   Daughter in Law   W  F   18  M      NJ    NJ       NJ
Mary E. SHERRICK     Grand Daughter    W  F   11 mo.     NJ    NJ       NJ
Albert FANSLAU       Boarder           W  M   40  S      NJ    Germany  Germany

In the 1930 census, Albert and Etta Fanslau were married and living in Atlantic
City with two boarders.  They had been married four years.

1930 CENSUS, ATLANTIC CITY, ATLANTIC COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

Albert FANSLAU       Head              W  M   50  M      NJ    Germany  Germany
Etta FANSLAU         Wife              W  F   53  M      NJ    NJ       NJ


ANCESTRY OF NAOMIE LEE SHARROCK

Naomie Lee Sharrock, grandmother of Louis Lee Sharrock, appears in the 1880
census, at the age of 28, as the mother of David Sharrock, then 7 years old.
No one else was living in the household.  At that time, Taylor Sharrock,
then 5 years old, was living with Naomie’s parents, David and Mary Lee.
Taylor is identified as their grandson.  Naomie was probably his mother.

In the 1870 census, Naoma (sic) was a single woman, then 17 years old,
living with her parents, David and Mary Lee, in Hamilton Township, Atlantic
County, New Jersey.  Thus she was married and separated (probably widowed)
between 1870 and 1880.  The identity of her husband (the grandfather of
Louis Lee Sharrock) may never be known.  Perhaps her husband was Larner J.
Sharrock (born c. 1838), John Taylor Sharrock (born c. 1846), or George
Francis Sharrock (born c. 1850), all sons of John M. and Ann Sharrick o
Egg Harbor Township.  But none of these three men appear in the 1870 census,
anywhere in the country.  Perhaps one of them reappeared by 1872, married
Naomie Lee, fathered two sons (David and Taylor), and disappeared again
before 1880.  Perhaps they were lost at sea, like their brother William.

Also living with David and Mary Lee in 1870 was Joseph Emens, a Wood
Chopper, 88 years old.  Such occurrences are gold mines for genealogists.

1870 CENSUS, HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, ATLANTIC COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

LAST NAME   FIRST NAME   AGE  SEX  RACE  OCCUP.             BIRTHPLACE

Lee         David        56    M    W    Farmer             NJ
Lee         Mary         50    F    W    Keeping House      NJ
Lee         Joseph E.    20    M    W    Waterman           NJ
Lee         Naoma H.     17    F    W    Domestic Servant   NJ
Lee         Ellen S.     12    F    W    At home            NJ
Lee         Lewis        10    M    W    At home            NJ
Emens       Joseph       88    M    W    Wood Chopper       NJ

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