Calling All Male P*RR*TTS The P*rr*tt DNA project is administered by P*rr*tt Society members Wayne Parrott and Harald Reksten. The project uses Y-DNA testing which looks at markers on the male Y chromosome to determine relationships –men within a family will share a Y chromosome with only occasional rare changes which can be used to estimate the genetic distance …
Bat & Ball Boys The addition of ‘U.S., Baseball Questionnaires, 1945 2005’ to the Ancestry record sets recently provides us with some fascinating information about P*RR*TTs who played professional baseball during this period. One of the earliest questionnaires is for Raymond Addison PARROTT who says that he had the nickname ‘Polly’ and worked as a …
P*rr*tt entries in The London Magazine This is a selection of P*rr*tt entries found in The London Magazine or Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer with supplementary notes from the Editor. 1746: Ecclesiastical Preferments. Mr. Andrew Perret , to the Vicarage of Stone in Staffordshire. Alumni Cantabrigienses records that Andrew PERRET was the son of Thomas of Yorkshire and may …
It’s in the Papers We’ve scoured the pages of newspapers recently added to the British Newspaper Archive website to bring you some P*rr*tt-related articles. NEWCASTLE EVENING CHRONICLE (Northumberland, England) – 16th January 1896 ONE CHILD KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED. Among the incidents of a heavy north-westerly gale which swept over the country yesterday there is …
Records from the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 In 1745 Jacobite rebels sought to regain the British throne for the ‘Old Pretender’ James Stuart under the leadership of his son, the ‘Young Pretender’ Charles Stuart. Find My Past recently released a variety of papers associated with this event, accompanied by basic transcriptions of names, dates and …
It’s in the Papers We’ve scoured the pages of newspapers recently added to the British Newspaper Archive website to bring you some P*rr*tt-related articles. COVENTRY EVENING TELEGRAPH (UK) – 7th May 1959 After 47 years’ service with the B.T.H., Mr. W. A. Perrett, a senior designer in the Motor Engineering Department of the Rugby Works, …
Benjamin Parrott Homer (1761-1838) is pictured here in a painting by the artist Christian Gullager. He was the son of Benjamin Homer and Mary Parrott (the daughter of Bryant Parrott and Ruth Wadsworth). Benjamin married Abigail Pearce and had nine children, only three of whom – Fitzhenry, Mary and Georgiana – survived him. Benjamin’s father and grandfather were merchants in the East India Company and …
PARLIAMENTARY P*RR*TTS In the course of his research into Sir Richard Perrot, Bob Turner (member 2004) reviewed The Journals of the House of Commons from 1714 to 1787 for any P*rr*tt entries and found a number of items of interest. GEORGE PERROT George was the son of Thomas Perrot and Anastasia Plaxton, the grandson of Andrew Perrot …
Ania Waterman (2060) found this signed photograph of Wing Commander Peter Lawrence Parrott (272) (1920-2003) on eBay. Peter was a member of the P*rr*tt Society during his lifetime, but prior to that he had an illustrious career in the RAF. Peter joined 607 Squadron in 1940 at the age of 20 and was the first …
P*rr*tts in prison Nineteenth century gaol registers for Somerset have recently been made available on the Ancestry website and, as one would expect in this part of the country, there are a number of P*rr*tt items of interest. James Prowse Parrott was admitted to Wilton Gaol on 6th October 1875 for using threatening language. He had …
