Service Record

[CraigM63]

A search of the British Newspaper Archive produces this fragment from the Staffordshire Advertiser of 14 October 1916, which suggests that he was in the Royal Garrison Artillery at the time of his marriage, OCR issues aside. Obtaining a copy of his 1916 marriage registration would be quite useful at this point I think.

The wedding of pte. Parrott, Royal Garrison Artillery, fourth son of the lat Mr. Frank Parrott, of Seig) ford Grange and ford Hall, Seighford, snd Miss Deis, Mary Tie ...

There are medal index cards for at least two Frederick Parrott's serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery, one with service numbers 850 and 292554, the other with service number 74913.

[jim1]

Well done CraigM63
That brings it down to 2.
There is a pension ledger card for 292554 Parrott who was in 135 Heavy Bty.
It may give info about any wife he may have. Unfortunately I don't have access to
Fold3.
So there are 3 sources of info for the poster to follow up on, the above ledger,the marriage cert.
& the Electoral Roll.
We await the outcome.

[AllanUK]

You are right Jim, that grandfather Frederick died in 1955 and was married to Daisy.

The wedding that CraigM63 posted definitely is your man. The newspaper article clearly states that he was with the Royal Garrison Artillery and that he married Daisy Mary Heywood. One of the bridesmaids was his sister, Florence, and his best man was a Private E Parrott -- his brother??

(image snippet from a larger article courtesy of Find My Past)

[AllanUK]

There is a pension ledger card for 292554 Parrott who was in 135 Heavy Bty.
It may give info about any wife he may have. Unfortunately I don't have access to
Fold3.

The pension card reads Pension is being issued by IOW for Frank & Victor Church, stepchildren of the above married man

Frederick Parrott identified as per the 1916 wedding married Miss Daisy Mary Heywood -- I can not find any children linked to Daisy.

[Jool]

I've also just downloaded the same clipping Allan with the extra text at the bottom which mentions Frederick being selected by Lord Crewe as a tenant of Radford Farm near Whitmore.  I will post the full article.

[jim1]

I pretty much ruled out 292554 Parrott as the 35th. Bty. went to
France in May 1916 & joined the Somme Offensive.
He wouldn't have been granted leave after a couple of months just to get married.
Looking more like the other one unfortunately he's listed as Base Details on the Roll
so not with his Bty.

[AllanUK]

The pension card that mentions the step children of Fred Parrott were the children of Frank Church and Sarah A Barrett (married 1910) -- Frank Richard Alfred born 1912 and Victor George born 1913. The pension card for Frank Church clearly records that Sarah remarried and her name was now Parrott.

[jim1]

A bit off topic but there's an Ernest Parrott RGA whose entry
on the Roll is the next number down to Frederick so looks like they joined together.
Ernest was his younger brother.

[Cathymjp]

Good morning all,

I am thrilled and delighted with the information you have managed to find out about Frederick.  The newspaper article about their wedding is wonderful as no one in the family has a picture of them when they were young.  I did look for newspaper articles but could only find Frederick's death which happened when my husband was 3 months old.  There are a lot of leads on here for me to follow up but the first thing I am doing is applying for the wedding certificate.  Daisy's family were a well known local firm of auctioneers and her mother and my great grandmother were best friends.  Thank you all very much for your help and I will keep you posted about any further developments.

I notice from the newspaper clipping that Frederick was granted the tenancy of a farm Radford.  This rather implies to me that he did not go back to war after his wedding, and in fact, he became the tenant of a farm called Radwood.  Do you think this is possible that he did not go back?

You may like to know that I met Daisy. She lived close to the farm where we are now and I used to visit her.  She lived to be 100, and was a lovely lady.

Cathy