John Sharp Gravestone Kinfauns Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of the John Sharp gravestone in the Churchyard cemetery in Kinfauns, Perthshire, Scotland. John died in 1723 and his gravestone includes a reed and shuttle for a weaver and a shuttle cock below. The Sharp surname, also recorded as Sharpe, and the diminutives Sharpin, Sharplin and Sharpling, is an English surname. It is a good example of a surname originating from a medieval nickname, with the derivation from the Olde English pre 7th Century word " scearp ", meaning sharp and used to describe a " sharp or smart " person. As a surname it is found recorded all over the British Isles.

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