Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy

31/1/2006

THE HISTORY OF THE SHARP FAMILY OF ABERDEENSHIRE

The meaning of the name does not seem to be known, but it first appears in Scotland in the fourteenth century, when a William Sharp is recorded as a tenant of the Earl of Douglas in 1376. In 1439, a Patrick Sharp was recorded in the Aberdeen Burgh records. The name is nowadays fairly common all over Scotland. for more click here

 
 

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