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hi.  i was recently told that my tree may lead to andrew & helen.  i will try not to confuse you although it may be difficult as i am pretty confused.  my ancestor, john downe (or also spelled downs) sharp has always been noted as the child of isaac lorenzo sharp (grandson of anthony sharp, a famous dublin quaker).  i was told that there's been y-dna testing to show that john d. sharp is actually related to your andrew & helen.  this is the line as i was told

john d
john sharp (1721)-zeruiah paine
william sharp jr (1695) sarah langstaff
william sharp sr (1661) mary smith
andrew sharp-helen hendrie

i haven't been able to find how john sharp 1721 is sarah's child.....everything i've seen so far for her makes her born in the 1721 range not the 1698 that i have listed from this other source.  i see that she did have a child named john but he was born about 1745 making him a contemporary of john d., not his parent.    any help you can give me would be appreciated.

thanks.  i wish i was there to look up all this stuff in the books.  it would make it much easier!  i'm trying to get at least basic info.  i've mostly been using the mormon geneology site.  it has an extensive collection of info!  i was able to trace a branch on my father's side back to 1020 in england!  i thought that was pretty cool!

it says that there's nothing online after 1858.  how did you see that he had a will?  please chalk this up to a lack of coffee & me searching from across the pond.  (do they still say that?)

i don't have a membership, just store my tree there.  if you send me a request, i may be able to view the tree. 
i was able to find a little more info.  francis' father, john henry, was born in ireland.  his wife, ann, was born in england.  they lived in liverpool as of the 1911 census & had 8 children at that time.  i found her deat record & believe she may have possibly died in childbirth in 1914.  j.h. died in 1924.

thank you all for your help.   
valda, thanks for those links.  i'm new to this site so i hope my post was ok.

is there a site to look up death records in england?  maybe i can fill in some more blanks that way.