James SHORROCK of Chapels [22707]

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SHORROCK OF ECCLESHILL, LOWER DARWEN, AND OVER DARWEN.
William Shorrock, of Eccleshill in 1651, was assessed to a subsidy in 1663. He had sons Thomas and James. Thomas Shorrock, of Eccleshill, yeoman, died in 1728. He had sons, Robert, and William. William Shorrock, of Eccleshill, bom in 1690, died, aged 73, in May, 1764. Thomas Shorrock of Eccleshill married, in 1 741, Ann Thompson of Lower Darwen.
William Shorrock, of Lower Danven, had a son James, bom in 1701. I think James Shorrock was father of the next-named Ralph Shorrock and of James Shorrock.
Ralph Shorrock of Lower Hill, Lower Darwen, yeoman, by Nancy his wife (she died April 17th, 18:7, aged 74) had sons, Ralph ; James, bom in 1771 ; John, bora in 1775 ; and William, bom in 1781, died, aged 62, Aug. 22nd, 1843; daughters, Jane, Mary, Nancy and Sally. Ralph Shorrock died, in his 87th year, Sept. 28th, 1818.
Ralph Shorrock of Lower Darwen, yeoman, son of Ralph, married Jane, daughter of Mr. Thomas Eccles of Lower Darwen, and by her (who died Nov. 1838) had issue, sons, Ralph, born in 1798, died unmarried, aged 18, May 8th, 1817 ; Thomas, died unmarried in 1832 ; George, born in 1801, died in 1802 ; and Eccles, bom in 1804 ; and a daughter Mary, wife of Mr. Thomas Ashton.
Eccles Shorrock, Esq., a younger son of Ralph, was the eminent merchant and cotton-spinner of Blackburn and Over Darwen. Mr. Eccles Shorrock acquired a landed estate in Over Darwen, and resided at Low Hill House. He also purchased the Houinshead Hall and manorial estate in Tockholes. His first wife was Eliza, daughter of Mr. James Bailey of Witton (she died, aged 46, Oct. loth, 1850). Eccles Shorrock, Esq. , married, secondly, Jane daughter of John Brand wood, Esq. , of Turacroft, by whom he had no issue. He died, aged 49, July 17th, 1853, having made his nephew, Eccles .Shorrock, eldest son of Thomas Ashton, Esq., his heir.
Another branch of the Shorrocks descends from James Shorrock of Lower Darwen, brother of the first Ralph Shorrock named above. James Shorrock had sons, Ralph ; James ; and William Shorrock of Sough (who by his wife, a daughter of Pickup of Sough had a son William Shorrock, of Sough) ; and a daughter, wife of James Pickup of Sough.
James Shorrock of Chapels, son of James, married Betty Pickup, and by her had sons, James, bom in 1776 ; and Ralph ; and daughters, Sarah, and Ann. Mr. James Shorrock died in November, 1819.
Mr. James Shorrock of Princes was eldest son of the last-named James. He married, in 1797, Nancy, daughter of Mr. Christopher Hindle, and by her (who died, aged 71, Dec. 5th, 1849), had issue, sons, Christopher, bom Sept. 6th, 1804 ; James, born April 7th, 1806 ; and George, bom in 1822, died in 1859 ; and daughters, Betsy, Sarah, Nancy, Mary Ann, and Jane. Mr. James Shorrock died Dec. 28th, 1861.
Christopher Shorrock, Esq. , of Manchester, eldest son of James, married, in 1831, Helen, daughter of Joseph Eccles, Esq., of Lower Darwen, and by her (she died in 1837) had sons, Eccles, bom in 1832 ; James bom in 1833 (James Shorrock, Esq., of the Beeches, Bowden, Cheshire, who married Miss Good, of Bowden, but has no issue); and Joseph Shorrock, born in 1834; married Nancy, daughter of Mr. James Shorrock of Astley Bank ; has no issue. Christopher Shorrock, Esq., died March 28th, 1862. His next brother '97
James Shorrock, Esq., J.P., of Astley Bank, married, in 1831, Miss Rachel Henrey, and by her (who is yet living) had issue, sons, Christopher; William Henry; Peter, James, Peter ; and daughters, Betsy ; Nancy ; Sarah Maria, wife of Edward Elworthy, Esq.; and Rachel Henrey. James Shorrock, Esq., died April nth, 1869.
Christopher Shorrock, Esq. , of the Moss, Lower Darwen, eldest son of James, married, in 1863, Jane, daughter of James Chetham, Esq. , of Chadderton, and has issue.
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James married Betty PICKUP [22708] [MRIN: 8161].