Sharp Family Collection

The photographs in this collection are copies of originals drawn from the personal collections of various family members including Henrietta Cockrell and Simon Graham Seton Wenley (SGSW).

The Sharps were a prominent family who made their fortune as jute merchants in Dundee. The family's firm, John Sharp & Sons, enjoyed considerable success in the 1800s under the management of John Sharp and later his son, also John Sharp. The firm continued to blossom and soon John Sharp Jnr. enrolled his four sons into the company as business partners. Two of his sons, John and Frederick, married into the White family line, marrying Eleanor and Beatrice White respectively. The Sharps lived in various properties in Fern Hill, West Ferry, the Balmuir estate and the Hill of Tarvit. For further biographical details about the family see, Lesley Lindsay's research notes, available in UR-SF 36.

Usually chronological within series.

Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

Digital copies transferred to the University Archive by Henrietta Cockrell, 2011. Physical items transferred to the Archive by Sarah C. E. Sharp and Henrietta Sharp Cockrell, on behalf of the late David H Sharp.

The Sharps were a prominent family who made their fortune as jute merchants in Dundee. The family's firm, John Sharp & Sons, enjoyed considerable success in the 1800s under the management of John Sharp and later his son, also John Sharp. The firm continued to blossom and soon John Sharp Jnr. enrolled his four sons into the company as business partners. Two of his sons, John and Frederick, married into the White family line, marrying Eleanor and Beatrice White respectively. The Sharps lived in various properties in Fern Hill, West Ferry, the Balmuir estate and the Hill of Tarvit. For further biographical details about the family see, Lesley Lindsay's research notes, available in UR-SF 36.

Family history provided by Henrietta Cockrell: John Sharp, elder brother of Frederick B Sharp of Hill of Tarvit was Henrietta's great-grandfather. Simon is a great great grandson of James F White, through JFW's 4th child, Elizabeth (Lily) Wilson White, who married George Seton Veitch Wenley, son of James Adams Wenley, treasurer of the Bank of Scotland. George and Lily emigrated to Napier, New Zealand and most of the family is still there. Their second child, Alison, however, married her first cousin, Harold (a son of John Sharp) and lived in Scotland - at Balruddery - and were Henrietta's grandparents. Another son of James Adams Wenley was Robert Mark Wenley (1861-1929) who was a well-known philosopher and professor at the University of Michigan.

Handlist

Electronic files (JPEG), paper, seals and artefacts.

Description compiled by Durham Burt, Archives Assistant, 06/02/2012.

Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.

Photographs held by Henrietta Cockrell and family.

Not expected

For further information about the Sharp family see Lesley Lindsay's research notes, URSF 36.

Originals held by Henrietta Cockrell and family.

Published

Catalogued

MS 330