This year marks 200 years since the Battle of Waterloo, which took place on Sunday 18th June 1815. The Duke of Wellington’s British troops – alongside Prussian allies – defeated Napoleon’s army, resulting in the restoration of the French monarchy and Napoleon’s abdication and subsequent exile. A number of P*rr*tt men served in the Napoleonic …
It’s in the Papers… Glasgow Herald 14 Jul 1894 GLASGOW SHERIFF CRIMINAL COURT In the Old Court Hall yesterday Sheriff Guthrie and a jury disposed of the following case: The St.Enoch Station Fatality 2 boys, named William Perrett and William Gourlay were charged with having on 31 May 1894 in a carriage of the Glasgow …
The Plague In Haverfordwest 1651-1652 by Wayne Parrott (775) I ran across the rather grim article Phillips J. 1895, The Plague at Haverfordwest, 1651-1652, Archaelogica Cambrensis Fifth Series XII(66):81-95 while looking for something else. What follows is an abstract and a few selected quotes from the article. The plague arrived in Haverfordwest in October of …
Harold John G. Perrott (1897-1972) was the illegitimate son of Kate Perrott, a flax dresser, linen, who in turn was a daughter of William and Sarah Perrott of Castle Cary, Wiltshire. William and Sarah, née Garland are on the family tree of Society member no. 734. In 1901 and 1911 the 3 generations were living …
Billy the Banker William ‘Billy the Banker’ Perrott must be one the most frustratingly elusive characters in Perrott family history! Despite the fact that he appears to have been a financially successful and well-known character, 20 years of research have uncovered very little information about his life. My great-great-grandfather William Perrott was born in Ardgehane …
It’s in the Papers… BATH CHRONICLE, 19 May 1904 Alfred Perrett (14) and Edgar Perrett (12) of 3 Avon Street were charged with wandering abroad and not being under proper guardianship in the public footpath leading up through Beacon Hill on May 16th. PC Bishop stated that he saw the boys on the footpath at …
Mary Anne Perrett This month we feature Mary Ann Perrett, born 1855 in Manningford Abbots, Wiltshire, a daughter of John Perrett (1820-1863) and Anne Berrett (1825-1857). Mary Ann married Edward Barnett Hancock, 1876 in Wandsworth, London, a little after Florence, their first born child, was born in Jersey in 1875. Their second child, sickly John, …
It’s in the Papers… Evening Post, New Zealand, 29 October 1935 HIDDEN HISTORY SURNAMES TELL TALES It was not until after the Norman conquest that surnames were adopted, says an English paper. They were first given as nicknames to suit particular individuals. Today we rarely find any appropriateness in the names we bear. The greatest …
Walter Perrett (1850-1931) and his wife Elizabeth Humphrey (1856-1922). This couple qualify for our ‘emmigrant’ series inside the back cover of this magazine, because Walter was born in Pewsey, Wiltshire and died in Camperdown, Australia. Elizabeth, born in Cottingham, Northants. also died in Camperdown. Walter was the son of agricultural labourer George Walter Perrett (1824- …
Lest we forget – part 2 Continuing the series started in the Dec 2012 ‘Family Notes, we move on to the Parretts and the Parritts. The lists shows Christian names (sometimes only an initial is known), their rank, service number, age (where known) and for which country they were serving. In some cases we know …
