Peter William Sharp

Peter and brother John moved from Falkirk, Scotland toCardiff/Glamorgan, Wales to raise their families, but eventuallyreturned to Scotland. Also was a shoemaker to the British Navy.

Uncle Will Sharp says in a letter that Peter Sharp had a shop inAberdere, and was a grocer in Taffs Well, Wales for a time. He wasapparently "a biblical scholar, well versed in church history and withthe writings of the Scottish fathers of the church." He would trampup the valley of the Taft from Cardiff, 20 miles or more, to get thebenefit of the old Shoemaker's ideas and opinions on knotty questionsof tenet and dogma or obscure matters of history. His was the largestfuneral ever seen in that Welsh valley, according to Uncle Will. Hedied from a fall from a horse in his 67th year, but his death recordssays congestion. Will visited Grandma Dinah Sharp at her windblowncottage on his visit to Wales in 1888. He said she was 6 feet tall atthe age of 80. They are both buried in the overgrown graveyard ofGlyndwr Taf Glanllyn Chapel on hte outskirts of Taffs Well. It is achest type grave above groudn and bears the followiing inscription:
Margery, wife of Thomas Evans of Walnut Tree Bridge, daughter of PeterSharp, who died June 16, 1872, aged 44 years. Also Dinah, wife ofPeter Sharp, who died July 1 1891 aged 87. Also Peter Sharp who diedJanuary 5, 1865 in his 67th years.