Surname Search: "Sharp"

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The goal of these surname search blog posts is to help you connect with other researchers interested in these surnames, and to find more information about your ancestors. Use the resources below as a stepping point to find credible sources, and remember: not every “Jane Doe” is your “Jane Doe”! If you have information related to the Sharp surname, or would like to reach out to fellow Sharp genealogy researchers, leave a comment. Please do not share any information about those still living to respect privacy.

Sharp / Sharpe

Notable ancestors include:

• Dallas Lore Sharp, nature writer and professor

• Granville Sharp, abolitionist

• Many DAR patriot ancestors, including Abraham Sharp, Adam Sharp, and Asa Sharp

• Percival Sharp, Titanic victim

• Samuel Sharpe, scholar

• Thomas Sharp, qualifying ancestor for First Families of Maryland

• William Sharp, Scottish writer

Genealogy websites

• “Joshua B. Sharp Family History Project” (Rootsweb)

• “My Sharp Family” (Rootsweb)

• “Sharp Family Lineage” alleyancestors.tripod.com

• “Sharp Family: an essay by Phil Norfleet” Mayfield Family Genealogy

• “Sharp(e) Family Genealogy” sharpgenealogy.tripod.com

• “Sharp-Neal and Related Families” (Rootsweb)

• “The Sharp Family Line” (Rootsweb)

• “The Sharp Family, by Charles Frederick Hesketh - Sharp” cdmueller.tripod.com

Message boards & mailing lists

• “Sharp” posts on Ancestry.com Message Boards

• “Sharpe” posts on Ancestry.com Message Boards

• “Sharp” posts on Genealogy.com GenForum Message Boards

• “Sharpe” posts on Genealogy.com GenForum Message Boards

• “Seeking information about James Sharp and Elizabeth Baker” thread on HistoryHub

Social media groups & societies

• “Sharp Family Tree” Facebook page

Photographs:

• “Alfred Sharp, circa 1926-1927” BYU Library

• “Ben and Mary Sharpe family” History San Jose

• “Charles Cutler Sharp” The Huntington

• “Clifford Sharp, age 3 1/2 and Gertie Sharp, age 10, in studio portrait” Sonoma County Library

• “Colonel Jacob Sharpe, 156th New York Infantry, Brevet Brigadier General” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

• “Dallas Lore Sharp and family” Oregon Historical Society

• “De H. Sharp, 1894” Library of Congress

• “Ethel Sharp, about 1930” Sonoma County Library

• “Gertrude Sharp, 1900” Denver Public Library

• “Gov. J. Sharp, 1873” Library of Congress

• “Helen Sharp, 1894” Library of Congress

• “Honorable H. Sharp, 1905” Library of Congress

• “Ivor Sharp family portrait” University of Utah

• “J. Sharp, 1894” Library of Congress

• “Jessie Sharp, 1937” Denver Public Library

• “Joseph Sharp, with pick axe in hand, 1849 gold miner” Online Archive of California

• “Lester Sharp, 17..about 1929” Sonoma County Library Digital Collections

• “Mr and Mrs. Lester Sharp, about 1940s” Sonoma County Library

• “Mrs Tabitha Sharpe” Museum of Ventura County

• “Mrs. H. Sharp, 1905” Library of Congress

• “Mrs. Sharp, 1894” Library of Congress

• “Paul Sharp, 1894” Library of Congress

• “Portrait of Mabel Sharp, 1888” History San Jose

• “Ray Sharpe, 1965” TESSA Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

• “Rev. James Clement Sharp” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

• “Rev. Sharp, 1855” Library of Congress

• “Rusty & Susan Sharp Family” Campbell County Rockpile Museum

• “Sharp and his family about the time that he made the river trip in 1909” The Huntington

• “Sharp family” Tennessee State Library and Archives

• “Sharpe, circa 1861-1865” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

• “Susie Sharp Family” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• “The Sharp Family Photos” Jefferson County, Tennessee. Black in Appalachia

• “Two poses of the Earl Sharp family” Sonoma County Library Digital Collections

• “W.B. Sharp, 1894” Library of Congress

• “W.G. & Margaret Sharp, 1916” Library of Congress

• “William G. Sharpe” Museum of Ventura County

• “Willie Sharp, 1894” Library of Congress

• “Wm. G. Sharp, 1910” Library of Congress

Website clippings, news articles, blog posts (no paywalls)

• “Henry Sharp, Part III: Odds & Ends” 15, June 2024. Empty Branches on the Family Tree

• “Joseph Henry Sharp Biography” Couse-Sharp Historic Site

• “Sharp family explorers legacy” University of Delaware Messenger

• “The Sharp Family” The Sharp Poole Connection and the Long Trail Back Home

Artifacts

• “A.W. Sharp Family Bible Records” North Carolina Digital Collections

• “Inventory and appraisal of the estate of Robert Sharp” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

• “Inventory of estate of Sarah Sharpe, seized” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

• “Jacob Sharp’s tax bill, 1772” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

• “Mary Ann Sharp indentured to apprentice with Warren Hall of Buckston, 29 June 1799” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

• “Miscellaneous genealogy papers [Sharp]” North Carolina Digital Collections

• “Tewksbury Almshouse Intake Record, Sharp, Catherine” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

• “Will of Robert Sharp, 1763” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

• “Will of Susanna Sharp, 1768” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

Correspondence and letters

• “Granville Sharp. Letter to Zachary Macaulay, 1797” The Huntington

• “Isiah Sharp to Samuel Warner, 24 August 1852” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

• “Letter from Elias Sharpe, Windham, to Amos Augustus Phelps, June 6th 1836” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts

• “Letter from Granville Sharp, London, to Joseph Willard, 1791” Curiosity Library

• “Thomas Sharp letter, 1897, to Hamlin Garland” USC Libraries

• “Sharp, Granville, letter to John Coakley Lettson, 1788.” The Huntington

Homes & historical markers

• “Abbie Gardner Sharp Cabin” State Historical Society of Iowa

• “Central City residence of Dr. V.C. Sharp, 1875” Denver Public Library

• “Mathias Sharp House, circa 1867” Indiana

• “Sharp Family Homes” Ohio

• “Sharp House, 1915” CSU Chico Digital Collections

• “Sharp’s Hotel, 1886” Newport Beach. Orange County Public Libraries

• “The Sharp Family and the Civil War” Arkansas

Oral histories

• “Dorothy Sharp Hellyer Collection” (audio only) Library of Congress

• “Glen Luther Sharp Collection, 1951” (audio only) Library of Congress

• “Jean Sharp Collection, 1943” Library of Congress

• “Wayne Sharp Collection, 1951” (audio only) Library of Congress

• “William Robert Sharp Collection, 1942” (audio only) Library of Congress

Finding aids (may not have online content)

• “Benjamin Sharp Family Papers” TriCollege Libraries

• “Granville Sharp Collection, 1768-1803” New York Heritage Digital Collections

• “William Sharp correspondence, 1880-1889” University of Michigan Library

Books (Online & In Print)

• Adney, Edwin Tappan, and R. Wallace Hale. “The Sharp Family, descendants of Alexander Sharp, of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the province of New Brunswick.” St. John, N.B., 1908. (Full view on Provincial Archives of New Brunswick)

• Fullerton, Hugh Lee. “History of the family of James Fullerton and Margaret Sharp” 1949. (Full view on HathiTrust)

• Powers, Benjamin Mather. “The Sharp Family of New Jersey, with Mather and Mattison Connections” Brown-White Lowell Press, Kansas City, Missouri, 1948. (Full view on Internet Archive)

• Sharp, Eli. “Christian Sharp Family Genealogy” 1952. (Full view on Internet Archive)

• Sharpe, Jack C. “The Sharp/e Family, Part 1” Valley, Alabama. 1991. (Full view on Internet Archive)

• Sharpe, Jack C. “The Sharp/e Family, Part 2a” Valley, Alabama. (Full view on Internet Archive)

• Sharpe, Jack C. “The Sharp/e Family, Part 2b” Valley, Alabama (Full view on Internet Archive)

• Sharpe, John Calvin. “On the Hills of Home” Hester Printing, West Point, Georgia. 1972. (Full view on Internet Archive)

• Sharpe, John Calvin. “Sharpe-Milford Family Record Bicentennial Supplement” 1977. (Full view on Internet Archive)

• Sharpe, William Carvosso. “Records of the Sharpe family in England and America, from 1580 to 1870” Seymour, Conn., W.C. Sharpe, 1874. (Full view on HathiTrust)

• Sharpe, William Carvosso. “The Sharps of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and abstracts of records in Great Britain” Seymour, Conn., W.C. Sharpe, 1903. (Full view on HathiTrust)

• Sharp, William Elmo, Jr. and Janet Elizabeth Bliss Sharp. “Generations: a narrative history of the Sharp and Bliss families” Visalia, CA; Jostens Yearbook Publishing Co., 2006. (Full view on Internet Archive with login and borrow).

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