Originally published in the society’s Family Notes journal
BENJAMIN PARROTT Thimble Rigger! SOUTHAMPTON 9 Sept 1841: THIMBLE RIGGING AND EXTRAORDINARY INFATUATION OF THE VICTIM On Friday before P. Breton Esq, 5 thimble-riggers were placed at the bar charged with conspiracy to defraud a gentleman named Edwards, residing at Millbrook, of certain sums of money and his gold watch – to wit, a sovereign, …
This is a picture of Merchant Navy officer Arthur Parritt. Sadly the picture is not sufficiently clear to make out the name of the shipping company for which he worked, but it may be that amongst our readers is someone who knows about such things and can enlighten us! Arthur came from a typically large …
It’s In the Papers … International Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana,USA) 3 October 1890 POLICE PICKINGS A Dance Disturbed and George Parrott Under Arrest Last night Officer Borgman, the new policeman whose beat is in the Eighth Ward was summoned to the new house of Mr. Oetting on East Lewis Street where a dance …
The Good Old Days – never were! Wiltshire Removal Orders Poor P*RR*TTs, like so many others, were often harshly treated in the past. One way in which this manifested itself was that if they were – or seemed likely to be – unable to support themselves they could be forcibly ‘removed’ from where they were …
DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A MADMAN SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, AUSTRALIA, 6 Sept 1884 Great alarm was caused recently among the inhabitants of Berkeley Street, Lambeth Walk, by loud cries for help. It appears that a man named Edward Parrott , with his wife and three children, had lived for some time at no. 13 in the …
The Parrott Rifle Robert Parker Parrott was born on 5 Oct 1804 in Lee, New Hampshire, USA and died at Cold Spring on 24 Dec 1877. He joined the army but resigned in 1836 and became the Superintendent of the West Point Iron Foundry in Cold Spring, New York. He created what became known as …
Emma Parrott – Convicted felon I am a great believer that the ‘Good old Days’ never were. If proof were needed, take the case of Emma Parrott who on 13 Feb 1883 was convicted of ‘Unlawfully receiving a certain dress piece and a piece of lining knowing the same to have been obtained by false pretences‘. …
Lest We Forget P*rr*tt Civilian War Deaths The thought of soldiers dying during warfare does not surprise us; but it is sometime forgotten that civilians have been victims, too. Where would we find details of World War 2 civilian deaths? The answer lies, surprisingly perhaps, with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. As well as recording …
P*RR*TTs and the ‘BOER WAR’ In the closing years of the 19th century the British made several unsuccessful attempts to take over the Transvaal and the Orange Free State in South Africa to which the original Dutch, German and Huguenot settlers had moved in the ‘Great Trek’ between about 1835 and 1842. Finally the call …
Perrot Arms in the New World by Wayne Parrott (775) & Harald Reksten (522) One of the better known armigerous Perrot families rose to prominence in Pembrokshire, Wales. They and their English branches used arms consisting of 3 pears, below a demi-lion rampant. The March 2010 issue of P-rr-tt Family Notes highlighted Richard Perrot (1622 …
