Mystery surname

[bbart]

At Findmypast:
Click SEARCH
Choose Military, armed forces & conflict
Enter name Robert Sherlock

That should bring up about 192 returns. About 5 entries down you should see:
Sherlock    Robert  1796  -  1812   British Army Service Records    Carlow Ireland

Click on the Image Icon to get to the first page.  There is little arrows on the sides if there are more documents in his set.

I don't know if you can link from this, but this is the first page of the set for me:

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBM%2FWO97%2F0482%2F126%2F001&parentid=GBM%2FWO97%2F482%2F680056

If it works, keep hitting the right arrow to get through all the pages.  The son James etc is on the 11th page:  https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbm%2fwo97%2f0482%2f126%2f011&parentid=gbm%2fwo97%2f482%2f680056

Let me know if that works!
   

[stewpot72]

Many thanks again for the pointers. It's so easy when you know how. I was assuming that the little arrows were similar to those on Ancestry census pages and just took you to the next census page.
What an amazing history this has turned up. I might never know why there were two surnames but I now know more about Robert Sherlock than any of my other forebears.
Thank you again.