Cuthbert Sharp

[AlanBoyd]

Incidentally, the tree has a photo of John Sharp Harrison, with an impressive beard.

[middlesbrough]

There is an extensive tree on Ancestry which appears to be well-documented, but beware: you shouldn't accept anyone else's tree as being correct without careful scrutiny.

The tree is called Scrutton Family Tree - 2021 01 15 19-44 and the owner is Michael Smith.

The tree has a Cuthbert Sharp 1714-1794. He has two sons:

1) Cuthbert Sharp, 1743, m Susannah Crosby. These are the parents of Sir Cuthbert Sharp, 1781

2) Paul Sharp, 1746, m Mary Shepherd. These are the parents of another Cuthbert Sharp, 1778

Cuthbert Sharp, 1778 m Elizabeth Wilkinson and their daughter Mary Sharp, 1810 marries John Harrison, 1808. These are the parents of John Sharp Harrison, 1840.

Thus John Sharp Harrison’s grandfather (Cuthbert 1778) was the first cousin of Sir Cuthbert.

2) I think this is meant to be Cuthbert, not Paul.

[middlesbrough]

Mary Shepherd married Cuthbert Sharp 15.2.1767 Hartlepool.

There is this one
Paul Sharp m Mary Hood 25.7.1777 Hartlepool

Looking at the image it says Paul Sharp fisherman 27, Mary Hood widow 26. Witness John Cutts, tinman Stock (could possibly mean Stockton).

[AlanBoyd]

Could this get any more confusing? – There are two Mary Shepherds.

One married a Cuthbert Sharp in 1767.

The other married Luke Hood in 1770, and he died in 1771.

Burials, Hartlepool District, Church: St. Hilda
3 Aug 1771 Luke Hood, drown'd 31 July, fisherman

She went on to marry Paul Sharp, another fisherman, as you have pointed out. The tree that I referred to in my earlier post does seem to know about this, but referred to Paul Sharp's wife by her maiden name.

[AlanBoyd]

The birth year for Cuthbert Sharp (1714) that I transcribed from the Ancestry tree seems to be inferred from his marriage, which also reveals that he was a fisherman.

Durham Marriage Bonds
25 Jan 1741 Cuthbert Sharp (fisherman, age 27, of Hartlepool) obtained a licence to marry Jane Rafton (age 33, of Hartlepool), directed to Stockton-upon-Tees
Surety: Robert Oakes, mariner, of Stockton-upon-Tees

[AlanBoyd]

In order for this all to hang together we have to believe that a Hartlepool fisherman had two sons, one of whom (Paul) followed on in his father’s trade while the other (Cuthbert) was able to marry into a well-to-do Stockton family (Crosby).