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Reproduced from a booklet produced by Mrs Mary LOWE (deceased) and other's for a SHERLOCK family re-union in Victoria, Australia.
Notes on the family of Sherlock from State papers and other official documents by Rev. J F M Ffrench of Clonegal. M.R.I.A p. 33-47 and The Family of Sherlock by Rev. Canon Ffrench, M.R.I.A. of Clonegal. P. 155-159
Tracing the family back to it’s source in Gower, Wales, to Ireland etc., the name being originally SCURLAG, or de SCURLOG. Later SCURLOKE and SHYRLOCK. One branch of the family settled in Oxton, Cheshire from 1400. Of this family was Dr. Richard Sherlock, educated in T.C.D. and obliged to leave Ireland in the rebellion of 1641. He was afterwards Chaplain to the Earl of Derby, who presented him with the living of Winwick. His portrait is still preserved in the Rectory of Winwick, and he is said to have been uncle of the celebrated Bishop Wilson of the Isle of Man.