Originally published in the society’s Family Notes journal
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. SOUTH WALES GAZETTE (Abertillery) – 10th March 1944 ABERTILLERY POLICE COURT. N.F.S. Property. Before the Magistrates at Abertillery Police Court on Wednesday, Idris James Leonard Perrett , aged 23, of …
Peace Corpsman’s Body Is Discovered Washington The Peace Corps said that a body believed to be that of missing volunteer John S. Parrott of Sarasota had been found in an African forest yesterday. Police were investigating the possibility of suicide. According to reports reaching Washington, the body was discovered in a wild, remote region in …
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. NORTH BRITISH AGRICULTURIST (Midlothian) – 20 May 1885 ‘AGRICULTURE’ AT THE INVENTIONS EXHIBITION. The exhibition at Kensington, which was opened in the beginning of this month by H.R.H. the Prince …
Walter Parratt: Master of Music Walter PARRATT (1841 1924) was an organist and composer of some esteem, holding posts at Magdalen College, Oxford and St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, as well as serving as the president of the Royal College of Organists. His grandfather, William PARRATT (c.1760 1845) came from the Whalley area of Lancashire and was the …
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. BRISTOL TIMES AND MIRROR (Bristol, England) – 19 November 1814 Saturday James Chinnick, of Freshford, was committed to Ilchester gaol, by W. Clark, Esq.charged with having stolen a pig from …
A Revolutionary War Captain Revolutionary War records on Fold3 were available to access free of charge in early July. I noticed that several Revolutionary War Pension records from Connecticut mentioned a Captain Peter PERRETT of Milford and wondered what more could be found about him. Further research reveals that there are a number of records …
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 …
