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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: NickT on Saturday 17 December 16 23:41 GMT (UK)
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Hi,
I haven't been on board for quite a while so Christmas greetings to one and all to begin with.
I'm not sure which board to plump for with this request so I thought I had best go with this one.
Hillibrant Meredith PARRATT was born c1790. I know about his service in the Army and his marriage to Lucy Apreece (followed by the birth of their children) but I can find none of his ancestors - not even his mum and dad. Can anyone help? I'm not sure of his origins but suspect London/SE England.
Thanks as always.
Nick
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I'm not sure of his origins but suspect London/SE England.
1861 census for Effingham Surrey on Family Search shows his birthplace as Hertfordshire
Hillebrant Mandeth Parratt Turnpike Road
Male Age 69
Married
Occupation Lt Col 2nd Royl Surrey Mil - Land Proprietor
Birth Year (Estimated) 1792
Birthplace ... St Margaret, Hertfordshire
Page Number 1
Registration Number RG09
Piece/Folio 441 / 67
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St. Margaret, Hertfordshire was the short version of Stanstead St. Margaret and as far as I can see there doesn't seem to be any records for this parish available online.
I note that when he married he signed as H M Parratt and a witness was a M S Parratt.
Annette
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Unfortunately the 1851 shows his birthplace as St Margaret's Westminster.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGKD-B56
But it does have a 55 year old( b 1796) unm sister Elizabeth Caroline living with him.
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That could be the Elizabeth Parratt aged 40 who was living in St Michaels Hertfordshire in 1841
HO107 Piece 447/7 Folio 21 Page 36
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Right - with St. Margaret in Westminster (not Herts.) FindMyPast reveals the following all baptised at St. Margaret, Westminster:
James b.14/5/1781, bp.11/6/1781, son of James Meredith Parratt and Sophia Maria
Thomas b.1/5/1782, bp.11/7/1782 ditto
William b.4/4/1783, bp.2/5/1783 ditto
Sophia Elizabeth b.19/10/1785, bp.15/11/1785 ditto
Sarah Charlotta b.2/10/1786, bp.31/10/1786 ditto
Edward b.28/10/1787, bp.28/11/1787 ditto
Maria Sophia b.11/12/1788, bp.20/1/1789 ditto
Hillebrant Meredith b.12/2/1791, bp.7/4/1791 son of James Meredith Parrott (wife's name missing from original entry)
plus with surname transcribed as Perrott:
Elizabeth Caroline b.10/9/1795, bp.26/10/1795 dau. of James Meredith Perrott and Sophia Maria
James Meredith Parratt, widower, married Sophia Maria Cooper, of St. Gregory, London - by licence - on 17/8/1780 St. Margaret, Westminster
James Meredith Parratt's will - probate 2/4/1798 - copy of will is on Ancestry.
James Meredith Parratt b.20/9/1739, bp.7/10/1739 St. Margaret, Westminster to Thomas and Elizabeth.
Annette
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Apprentice indentures on Ancestry show that an Edward Worsdale was apprenticed 1772 to James Meredith Parrott, Citizen and Apothecary of London.
Can't find JMP's first marriage.
Annette
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Hi Annette
Yet again you have "pulled the rabbit out of the hat". I've told you to take so many bows in the past that you could have a bad back by now ;D
Once again - very well done on the "find"
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JMP, apothecary, is on the voters register at Bridge St, Westminster in 1780 and 1790 and possibly in 1774 in Abingdon st
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Thank you all for your help. Plenty for me to go on now.
:)
Nick
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JMP also appears in a number of reports of coroners inquests in the 1860s, as apothecary to Westminster Hospital