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 Patrick Shirkeyb. 1720. Lived in Botetourt Co Virginia. Family to Grainger Co Tennessee |
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2011 Update: This lineage has long been included in Shirley surname research. In the past, researchers uncovered instances when members of this family were known by the Shirley surname rather than Shirkey. Also one of the main branches of this family apparently adopted the Shirley name and it is used by descendents to date. In 2011, the Shirley Association continued to research this family, especially its existance in Mississippi and Tennessee. We are beginning to be convinced that the Shirley/Shirkey issue has been a mistake - that mentions of this family in historical records with the Shirley surname are actually quite rare. And that the Balser Shirley branch which continued to use the Shirley surname is actually a branch of an entirely different family. Patrick Shirkey Sr. born about 1720; He died 1783 in Botetourt Co. VA at the family place. Records show Ensign Patrick Shirkey was on Captain Robinson's Muster list of Augusta Co. VA in 1742. Records show that by 1744 Patrick was dealing in land with Col. James Patton. In 1746 he owned 400 acres from a new grant at 'Locust Bottom'. Patrick was paying for purchases from the Patton grants in Botetourt Co. VA by 1753. By 1772 Patrick and Anne owned 1,389 acres in what is now Botetourt Co. and one 44 acre tract was purchased from Benjamin Bordan. Patrick established a milling business on the Upper James River in 1746. He grew hemp so the mill could have made rope and cloth. He fortified his home from Indian attract by palisades and logs of his-wall were provided with loopholes for firing of guns from within. the loopholes were plugged or filled with wooden plug to keep out the cold. The house had a shingled roof. Patrick and Robert Montgomery gave the land to build a Presbyterian Meeting House 'for all the community' at Sinking springs in 1754 near Fincastle. After the Rev. War the church building of the Church of England in Fincastle was turned over to the Presbyterians. Patrick furnished horses in 1776 for an expedition against the Cherokees for the Battle of Long Island in the Holston River. He was listed again in Captain Robinson's Co. in 1783. He furnished 13 horses, 17 cattle and one slave. Two of his sons, Nicholas and James, were listed in Captain May's Co. They also furnished horses, cattle and slaves.
married Anne _____. died after 1786; mentioned in her husband Patrick Sharkey's 1786 Botetourt Co VA will. children: 1(i). Anne Sharkey born 1748 Augusta Co. VA; She married Adam Woods in 1773 in Botetourt Co VA 1(ii). James Sharkey born 1750 Augusta Co. VA; he is enumerated in Pryor's District in 1785 Botetourt Co VA tax lists; mentioned in his father Patrick Sharkey's 1786 Botetourt Co VA will.
1(iii). Nicholas Sharkey born about 1752; he is enumerated in Pryor's District in 1785 Botetourt Co VA tax lists; Not mentioned in his father Patrick Sharkey's 1786 Botetourt Co VA will. According to a message board, Nicholas' will mentions no children leaving his mill to his nephew.
1(iv). Elizabeth Sharkey born about 1753; She married Adam Peck on June 24, 1777 in Botetourt Co VA. Elizabeth "was born in 1757 and died in 1832; dau of Patrick and Ann Sharkey of Botetourt Co Va. Adam Peck was an ensign in the Rev'l; settled in 1788 at Mossy Creek, now Jefferson Co TN; was a member of the first legislature of Tennessee;..." 1(v). John Sharkey born about 1760; mentioned in his father Patrick Sharkey's 1786 Botetourt Co VA will; He appears in Grainger Co TN deed, court and census records as early as 1809. (I don't know if this is correct) In 1812, John petitioned and was approved to keep an ordinary or house of entertainment in the town of Rutledge, Grainger Co. In 1818, he placed an ad in the Knoxville Register newspaper looking to hire 6 journeymen cabinet makers. He last appears in Grainger Co in the 1820 census. Descendants lived in Mississippi.
1(vi). Mary Sharkey according to a 1796 lawsuit of the heirs of her father Patrick Sharkey, she married Peter Wiley 1(v). Patrick Sharkey, Jr. born about 1760 Augusta Co. VA; ; mentioned in his father Patrick Sharkey's 1786 Botetourt Co VA will; Enumerated in 1789 Botetourt Co VA tax list; died 1813 Grainger Co. Tennessee. 2011 Update: There are no estate records for Patrick Sharkey and wife in Grainger Co TN, nor in Knox County (see bio next). Mentions of the estate of Patrick Shirkey and Mary Shirkey are instead found in early Warren Co MS tax records, the county where their son William Lewis Sharkey settled.
Other Information Records show Ensign Patrick Shirkey was on Captain Robinson's Muster list of Augusta Co. VA in 1742. Records show that by 1744 Patrick was dealing in land with Col. James Patton. In 1746 he owned 400 acres from a new grant at 'Locust Bottom'. Patrick was paying for purchases from the Patton grants in Botetourt Co. VA by 1753. By 1772 Patrick and Anne owned 1,389 acres in what is now Botetourt Co. and one 44 acre tract was purchased from Benjamin Bordan. Patrick established a milling business on the Upper James River in 1746. He grew hemp so the mill could have made rope and cloth. He fortified his home from Indian attract by palisades and logs of his-wall were provided with loopholes for firing of guns from within. the loopholes were plugged or filled with wooden plug to keep out the cold. The house had a shingled roof. Patrick and Robert Montgomery gave the land to build a Presbyterian Meeting House 'for all the community' at Sinking springs in 1754 near Fincastle. After the Rev. War the church building of the Church of England in Fincastle was turned over to the Presbyterians. Patrick furnished horses in 1776 for an expedition against the Cherokees for the Battle of Long Island in the Holston River. He was listed again in Captain Robinson's Co. in 1783. He furnished 13 horses, 17 cattle and one slave. Two of his sons, Nicholas and James, were listed in Captain May's Co. They also furnished horses, cattle and slaves. Info from Ruth Shirley Contributed to Rootsweb by: Grant A. Van Vranken <gb234@bresnan.net> Patrick Sharkey was born ca 1720 in Ireland. He died in February/March
of Patrick Sr. established a milling business on the Upper James
River in 1746, A Seed-Bed of the Republic p 328 unknown Author, publisher and date THE SHARKEYS 1850 Hinds Co MS census (Jackson MS) William L Sharkey M 51y
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"William Lewis Sharkey, son of Patrick
Sharkey, was probably born in Knox County, Tennessee, on August
12, 1798. Sharkey moved with his family, including younger brothers
Jacob Rhodes and James Elliott, to Warrenton, Warren County,
Mississippi, around 1800. Both of Sharkey’s parents had
died by 1813, leaving him to support himself and his brothers
by farming. During the War of 1812, Sharkey enlisted in a Mississippi
military unit that participated in the Battle of New Orleans
on January 8, 1815. After the war, Sharkey continued farming
and began reading law. He became a member of the Mississippi
bar in 1822 and thereafter established a law practice in Vicksburg,
Warren County. Sharkey was elected to the Mississippi legislature
in 1827 and served until becoming a circuit judge in 1831. On
March 15, 1832, Sharkey married Minerva Steele Wrenn, widow of
Belfield Wrenn of Warren County, Mississippi. The couple divided
their time between homes in Vicksburg, Warren County, and Jackson,
Hinds County. They also spent time at Bogue de Sha, the Hyland
family plantation near Yokena, Warren County. Minerva Sharkey
had two children from her first marriage: Peterson Goodwin Wrenn
(b. June 18, 1823) and Emily (Fannie) Steele Wrenn (b. January
14, 1825), whom William Lewis Sharkey adopted. Sharkey served
as an associate justice (and later as chief justice) of the Mississippi
High Court of Errors and Appeals from 1832 until his resignation
in 1850. He briefly served as consul of Havana, Cuba, during
the administration of President Millard Fillmore in 1852. Sharkey
returned to Jackson and resumed the practice of law before being
appointed to an 1854 committee, including William L. Harris and
Henry T. Ellett, which was responsible for revising and codifying
the laws of the state Mississippi. The resulting work was the
Revised Code of the Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi,
1857. In 1865, Mississippi governor Charles Clark appointed Sharkey
and William Yerger as commissioners responsible for proposing
a state Reconstruction plan to President Andrew Johnson. After
a plan was adopted, President Johnson appointed Sharkey as Mississippi
provisional governor on June 13, 1865. He served in that capacity
until December 14, 1865. Sharkey was later elected as a United
States senator, but the Mississippi congressional delegation
was never seated because of the state’s failure to ratify
the Thirteenth Amendment and its passage of the Black Codes.
William Lewis Sharkey continued practicing law until his death
in Washington, D.C., in 1873. He was interred at Greenwood Cemetery
in Jackson." - Mississippi Department of Archives and
History