Family history

As you know, I'm doing quite a bit of research on the history of the Sheraton family: not just my branch of the family, but all of it (I imagine we're all related if you go far enough back, but of course it's difficult to get the evidence back in the 1700s and before).

Anyway, one particular branch of the family which I've inevstigated seems to have been quite wealthy, owning farms etc. They moved from Co Durham to Shropshire in about 1830, and had a house at St John's Hill, Ellesmere. Some of that branch went to Liverpool and became merchants. They then seem to have died out round about 1920.

The first thing which I found today is that there is a house called Sheraton House in St John's Hill, Ellesmere, and English Heritage have it on their books as a listed property. I'm sure it's the same house.

Then, amazingly, on looking for further information about the house, it turns out that it is currently for sale! £795,000 for a six-bedromed detached house, and it looks lovely in the pictures.

Of course, I don't have that sort of money to spare, but if I did, and if I was thinking of retiring to that part of the world, wouldn't it be wonderful to own a house called Sheraton House with a genuine family connection?

I can dream, anyway...