Researching Anne Sharpley
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 383 people with the Sharpley surname? In that year Sharpley was ranked number 3196 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Anne means "Full of grace" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Anne Sharpley on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Anne Sharpley and the Sharpley Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sharpley Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Sharpley family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 313 people with the Sharpley surname in the UK? Sharpley is now ranked number 3747 for popularity in the UK. |
Sharpley Family History Databases
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Some Famous People called Anne Sharpley
Anne Sharpley
Anne Sharpley (1928-1989) was an English journalist.
In the 1940s, she attended art school in York. While there, she won a Vogue magazine competition, which led to a career in journalism. During the 1960s, she was an investigative reporter with London's Evening Standard.
She was known for scooping other reporters with her account of Winston Churchill's funeral, by vandalising a telephone after filing it, thereby delaying her rivals' reports. She reputedly told Ann Leslie that a female foreign correspondent should:
She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 2 January 1967.
Six photographs of her, five in a 1961 series by Ida Kar and one from 1965, by Jorge Lewinski, are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. A memorial to her, in the form of a planted urn on a stone plinth, stands in St John's Lodge Garden, Regent's Park, London. The plinth is inscribed with the words:
William Stevenson described how she was nicknamed "Shapley Sharpley" by Randolph Churchill.
Source: Anne Sharpley, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Sharpley
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