Daniel and Fielding in San Francisco

Yes, it has been quite a delay since my last post, but May and June are always the busiest months of the year for me and I'm finally getting back to a less hectic schedule and can look at the family tree again. Right now I'm curious about the Daniel and Fielding families of San Francisco.

Many years ago I received a family tree which linked to a known branch of my tree via the Warrack family of Towie, Aberdeenshire. I'm only now getting around to trying to verify the information (as the tree I received didn't have any sources) and have some loose ends I'd like to tie up.

The tree starts with one James Sharrocks of Rochdale and his wife Martha, née Meanock (I haven't found an independent source for her surname, but her grandson had this as his middle name -- although he did also spell it Manic -- so it probably is a family name).

James and Martha appear on the 1861 UK census at 33 & 34 Bury Road, Spotland Nearer Side, Rochdale, along with their son Alfred. It's Alfred I'm trying to find, so I haven't spent any additional time looking for details of their other family, but other children on the census were daughter Martha Ann (21) and sons Frederick (10) and Allen (7). James and Martha were both aged 45 on this census and James was a Town Councillor and Cotton Manufacturer.

Alfred, apparently born 15 Nov 1837 in Rochdale (birth registered December Quarter 1837), claimed to be aged 25 on the census and his occupation was "Manager in a Cotton Factory". On 16 September 1863 he married Ellen Fielding at St Chad's, Rochdale. He was aged 25 and she was aged 18. Her father's name was Abraham Fielding. The Fielding family can be found living farther along Bury Road from the Sharrocks family in 1861, living at No. 166. Ellen, then aged 15, and sister Emma (17), were living with their grandparents Robert and Jane (née Taylor).

According to the family tree I received, Alfred Sharrocks and Ellen Fielding had the following children:
1) daughter, born 1863 (no details given; I cannot find any evidence, but perhaps the child was illegitimate and registered under Fielding)

2) Emma, apparently born 28 Dec 1864 in Rochdale. An Emma Sharrocks, daughter of Alfred and Ellen, was baptised at St Chad's, Rochdale, on this date, and she died in San Francisco on 1 March 1868, aged 3 years, 3 months and 4 days (so, by subtraction, born on or about 26 November 1864).

3) Ellen, born Sep 1865 in Rochdale and died there Dec 1866. The birth of an Ellen Sharrocks was registered in September Quarter in Chorley District, Lancashire, and her death, aged one, in December 1866, also in Chorley District, and this might be the same child.

4) Edna, born and died June 1866 at Underwood, Spotland, Rochdale. I can't find any registrations supporting Edna's birth and death here or in Chorley (where Ellen, above, possibly was born in September Quarter 1865 and died in December Quarter 1866, which covers the period in which Edna supposedly was born and died).

5) Charles Fielding, born 31 August 1869 in Eureka, California. There is plenty of evidence for Charles' birth and death -- 25 February 1954. Charles married twice, firstly to Agnes Flint, with whom he had one daughter, Gertrude Ellen (21 Jan 1907-16 Dec 1996), who married a Mr Baker. Charles' second marriage was to Emma Alexander, née Gillespie (marriage licence dated 13 April 1913), no issue.

6) Alfred Meanock (or Manic), born 11 Apr 1872 in Eureka, California, died 25 Dec 1919 at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. As with his brother Charles, there is a lot of documentary evidence about Alfred and his family. He became a medical mission worker on behalf of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of the United States in Korea, where his four children (Ella Janet, Marian Ames, Theodora and Horace Fielding) were born. On his 28 June 1899 passport application he refers to his father in the present tense; on his 2 December 1909 application he says that his father is deceased.

According to the family tree, Alfred Sharrocks and Ellen Fielding were divorced in 1872. This was the same year their youngest child was born and it is the last known event I have in the life of Alfred Sharrocks, other than the detail that he appears to have died between 28 June 1899 and 2 December 1909, according to the information on his son's passport applications. Where did he go? He, Ellen and Charles were living in Eureka, California in 1870, but he doesn't appear to be in the US in 1880. Did he return to England? Move elsewhere?

Ellen Fielding remarried sometime before 1880 to James Daniel. James was born circa 1847 in New York State, possibly in Albany, son of John Daniel and Mary Brown. He was a marble cutter, as was his older brother John, who had been born in 1834 in Upper Canada. John had also moved from New York to California, where he'd married at San Francisco to Emma Fielding on 17 October 1865. Emma was Ellen's older sister, so once Ellen Fielding Sharrocks had married James Daniel, there were two sisters married to two brothers. The family of John Daniel and Emma Fielding can be traced to the present day, but James Daniel and Ellen Fielding vanish after 1880.

On the 1880 census, James Daniel, Ellen Fielding, and their "sons" (stepsons) Charles and Alfred Sharrocks were living in San Francisco. The family tree I received says that James and Ellen had one daughter, Una Ellen, born 17 July 1884 in San Francisco. Una can be traced and her birthdate verified. She died, unmarried, aged 91 in Sonoma County, California, on 17 October 1975, and she worked as a nurse. She also appears as the informant on the death certificate of Emma Gillespie Sharrocks, her sister-in-law, in San Francisco in 1949. On the 1900 census, the earliest surviving census on which Una appears, she is boarding on Lincoln Avenue, Alameda, with the family of John and Sophia Elder, and is attending school. There is no sign of her parents.

What happened to James Daniel and Ellen Fielding after 1880? Like Alfred Sharrocks, they seem to disappear.

This is actually rather a distant branch from my direct line, but the loose ends tempt me to keep looking at it. I'd be grateful for any help!