Hillibrant Meredith PARRATT (and other various forename spellings)

[NickT]

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

[CaroleW]

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

[Annette7]

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

[carol8353]

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.

[CaroleW]

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

[Annette7]

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

[Annette7]

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

[CaroleW]

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 

Once again - very well done on the "find"

[Mabel Bagshawe]

JMP, apothecary, is on the voters register at Bridge St, Westminster in 1780 and 1790  and possibly in 1774 in Abingdon st