{"id":526,"date":"2009-06-24T15:31:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-rr-tt.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=526"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:32:20","slug":"sixty-minute-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/p-rr-tt.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/06\/24\/sixty-minute-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty Minute Special!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across the following 3 year old letter on a genealogical enquiry site: \u2018I\u2019m trying to find out more about my father\u2019s family. His name was Trevor William Parrott and he died in January 2000 in Maidstone, Kent. His mother was Marjorie Parrott and I believe she passed away in 1987 either in Liverpool or Oxford.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure of my grandfather\u2019s Christian names but I know he passed away in Oxford in the late 1960s or early 1970s. My parents divorced when I was very young and I know so little about my father\u2019s family, so any information or help would be very much appreciated.\u2019<\/p>\n

Not much information there, I thought. Sitting at home I wondered how much I could find out in the course of an hour? Right – phone off the hook, office door closed – and here\u2019s the result!<\/p>\n

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    The death of Trevor William Parrott in Maidstone in 2000 was quickly found using\u00a0www.findmypast.com<\/a>. It also gave his date of birth as 10 February 1936. Four minutes gone!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The next step was to find Trevor\u2019s mother\u2019s maiden name. Easy, I thought, since I knew precisely his date of birth and the GRO birth indexes give the mother\u2019s maiden name. No, it turned out not to be easy \u2013 he wasn\u2019t in the index of births. My first set back! Seven minutes gone.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    However Trevor\u2019s marriage was quickly found, dated September 1964 in Tiverton, Devon, to a Miss Brewer. Looking for a Brewer who married a Parrott in the GRO marriage index showed she was Margaret J. Brewer. Eleven minutes gone.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    A different approach was needed to find Trevor\u2019s birth. I tried\u00a0www.ancestry.com<\/a>\u00a0under the heading of \u2018Public Family Trees\u2019. The name came up immediately with the date of death as 1 January 2000 in Ditton, Kent. Best of all it gave his birth details \u2013 a big surprise \u2013 and the names of his parents. He was born, not in the UK but in India, in Kalimpong on 10 February 1936. His parents were named as William Parrott and Lilian n\u00e9e Burns. This immediately raised a question \u2013 who was the \u2018Marjorie\u2019 described earlier as Trevor\u2019s mother? Solve one problem and another comes up and wipes the smile off of your face! 20 minutes gone<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    At this stage data from \u2018FAMILY NOTES\u2019 came to the rescue. I remembered that some years ago Ruth Newman contributed a couple of articles on British baptisms and marriages in Bengal, (Births, Sep 1991 issue, Marriages, March 1992 issue), transcribed from the records held at the India Office in London. By a remarkable stroke of good luck Trevor\u2019s details were there. They were: Born 10 Feb 1936, bapt. 19 Jul 1936 in the Lahore Cantonement, son of Sydney and Marjorie Parrott. Sydney was the assistant manager of the Military Dairy Farm. Thirty seven minutes gone.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


    \nSt. Andrew\u2019s Church, Lahore, formerly in India, now in Pakistan<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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      The details of the parents marriage on 27 Oct 1930 were: Sydenham Desmond Basil Parrott, occupation \u2018Military\u2019, bachelor aged 28, lived Military dairy farm, Lahore Cantonement. He married Marjorie Alicia Catherine Burns, spinster, 28, living 99 Brackenbury Road, Lahore. The ceremony took place at St. Andrew\u2019s church, Lahore. The witnesses were E. Barnett, T. Barnett and under the heading \u2018parents\u2019 were \u2018Captain William Fred Parrott and Anthony Edwin Burns, RN.\u2019 Wikipedia says that St Andrews Church in Lahore was built by the British in 1899 for Christian employees of the railways in the Neo Gothic style of architecture prevalent at that time.\u2019 45 minutes gone.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      This explained who \u2018Marjorie\u2019 was. Whoever researched the family tree on Ancestry\u2019s \u2018Public Family Tree\u2019 got it wrong! Going back to Marjorie\u2019s generation nothing was found in the GRO births under the name Sydenham B.D.Parrott, nor for Marjorie A.C.Burns. 55 minutes gone.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      I searched in the GRO births for grandfather William Fred Parrott until I reached the 60 minute barrier but to no avail. 60 minutes gone. However, it had been possible to find father, mother, and 2 grandfathers and to put right an incorrect, published, family tree. Not too bad for an hour\u2019s work?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I came across the following 3 year old letter on a genealogical enquiry site: \u2018I\u2019m trying to find out more about my father\u2019s family. His name was Trevor William Parrott and he died in January 2000 in Maidstone, Kent. His mother was Marjorie Parrott and I believe she passed away in 1987 either in Liverpool …<\/p>\n

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