Genealogy
It should be quite obvious to you now that I am interested in my family history. To date, I have my parents, James Sherry and Reta Sweeney, my grandparents, Michael Sherry and Mary Marrs, my great grandparents, Edward Sherry and Margaret McCormick and my great great grandparents Edward Sherry and Rose Kelly.
On my mother's side I have my grandparents, Charles Sweeney (1873-1928) and Ellen Muise, my great grandparents, Edward Sweeney (1836-1912) and Martha O'Connor (1843), and my great, great, grandparents were Hugh Jeremiah Sweeney (1786-1894) and Elizabeth MacLaughlin (1811-1882).
Click the link below to open an Excel file of my Sherry Family Tree so far.
I would be very interested in any other SHERRYS out there who may think there is some family conection.
Sherry Family Tree (File size 45kb)
Philately
I collect British used stamps.It is surprising how one can get so engrossed in little squares with tiny perforations (or not as in the case of some of Queen Victoria stamps). Perforations 15 ½ X 14, 14 X 14, ink shades, types of gum, chalky paper, missing phosphurs. It doesn’t have to be like that. I specialise in used British stamps. Nothing else. Just plain old used stamps. Doesn’t sound very exciting does it? But, you try and find that missing 31p purple (2 bands) (18.3.86) catalogued at £14.00, or the ½p turquoise with left hand phosphur band. Sure there are plenty of stamp dealers that will sell you anything, but at what price? And to answer the question that everyones asks, yes, I do have a penny black; and a twopenny blue. The Machin series of stamps are quite fascinating. They all have the queens head and a price on them, but there are 100's of different prices and colours. I think I've got most of them, but there are the few elusive ones to find yet.
Singing
I am a member of the Cottontown Chorus from the Bolton Barbershop Harmony Club. We sing songs in the barbershop style - a capella - unacompanied singing. I have been doing this for about 30 years and I'm getting quite used to it. The year 2005 was the highlight of my singing career; the chorus won the Gold Medal by beating all the other choruses in the country. That entitled us to compete in America, against the "Big Boys". That was a tremendous trip to Indianapolis, but we didn't do too well; we are in a different league.
10th July 2005 saw us competing at the International Eisteddfod in Llangollen, North Wales. We won the Barbershop Class and just missed out on the Choir of the World Competition.
We competed again in May 2007 at Scarborough with two new songs, and won Gold again. This time we have decided not to go to the International in America and concentrate on the European competitions instead in 2008. We will be going to Germany 14th to 16th March 2008.
14th July 2007, we competed again at the International Eisteddfod in Llangollen. Guess what? We won again. This is getting to be a habit; a nice one at that.
Interested in barbershop singing? Click here to listen to the Cottontown Chorus
Or visit the Bolton Barbershop Harmony Club Web Site
Or visit the BABS (British Association of Barbershop Singers) Web Site
Or ladies might like to visit the LABBS (Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers) Web Site