SAMUEL PARRY, Blaisdon area, 1850-1870. (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Friday, February 12, 2016, 18:30 (3200 days ago) @ goldenfox

Hi Eric,
do you know just how many Samuel Parrys were born in total who we may be getting confused with ?. I ask as my first look via Family Search suggests rather too many for comfort, yet I'm surprisingly struggling to find yours on the earlier Census' with his parents. There is also the possibility of Parry being transcribed as Perry, and vice versa. I thought my researches for the Jones of Lydbrook were difficult, but it seems your problems are worse !

For starters, and to help my thinking, from FoD Prs we have these Baptisms;

Record_ID:128264
Entry_Number: 619
Year: 1847
Month: Sep
Day: 19
Parents_Surname: PARRY
Child_Forenames: Samuel
Fathers_Forenames: Benjamin
Mothers_Forenames: Ellen
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Aston Ingham
Occupation: Labourer
Officiating_Minister: J.J. Shalley [?] Curate of Newent
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: AR90/3
Page_Number: 78
Parish_Chapel: Aston Ingham
Soundex: P600

PRs show this Samuel b1847 marries Mary Yemm at Weston under Penyard in 1873, so can be discounted.

Record_ID: 271877
Entry_Number: 182
Year: 1850
Month: Sep
Day: 15
Parents_Surname: PARRY
Child_Forenames: Samuel
Fathers_Forenames: Samuel
Mothers_Forenames: Mary
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Hartpury
Occupation: Labourer
Officiating_Minister: Charles Crawley Vicar
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P165 IN 1/16
Page_Number: 23
Parish_Chapel: Hartpury
Soundex: P600

So very similar to your Samuel, except the Parents of course !

And GlosBMD gives these Birth Records;

Child Surname Child Forename Father Surname Mother Surname Mother's Former Name Year District Office Register Entry
PARRY Samuel PARRY PARRY PRITCHARD 1847 Gloucester Gloucester, Newent 5 186

Child Surname Child Forename Father Surname Mother Surname Mother's Former Name Year District Office Register Entry
PARRY Samuel PARRY PARRY BROWN 1850 Gloucester Gloucester, Redmarley 5 40

Child Surname Child Forename Father Surname Mother Surname Mother's Former Name Year District Office Register Entry
PARRY Samuel PARRY PARRY GLOVER 1850 Gloucester Gloucester, Huntley 5 18
(which is our subject/target)

And finally

Child Surname Child Forename Father Surname Mother Surname Mother's Former Name Year District Office Register Entry
PARRY Samuel PARRY PARRY JONES 1859 Gloucester Gloucester, Redmarley 7 499

Apart from your Samuel's burial in 1871 at Hartpury aged 19, of all the Samuel Parry Burial Records on the FoD database this is the only one that can relate to any of the above Births;

Record_ID: 249540
Entry_Number: 1049
Year: 1924
Month: Apr
Day: 26
Surname: PARRY
Forenames: Samuel
Residence: Cinderford
Age_at_death: 76 years
Officiating_Minister: W M Bellamy Vicar
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P109 IN 1/14
Page_No: 132
Parish_Chapel: Drybrook
Soundex: P600

So born abt 1848.
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GlosBMD gives these Marriages which may link to the above baptisms;

Groom Surname Groom Forename Bride Surname Bride Forename District Parish Building Year Register Entry
PARRY Samuel JONES Mary Ann Forest of Dean Westbury-on-Severn (FoD) Register Office [Closed] 1879 6 135

Groom Surname Groom Forename Bride Surname Bride Forename District Parish Building Year Register Entry
PARRY Samuel PARRY Hannah Forest of Dean Westbury-on-Severn (FoD) Register Office [Closed] 1888 8 188

Groom Surname Groom Forename Bride Surname Bride Forename District Parish Building Year Register Entry
PARRY Samuel WALDRON Mary Forest of Dean Mitcheldean St Michael and All Angels 1894 1 151

??????

I suspect it may help for all these Births to be researched thro the Census' etc, so as to narrow down who was who and where. However, as hard as I try, my only reference site LDS is proving very unhelpful when trying to search the above people on the Census', odd ! But even then that won't solve your query as to why your Samuel died. I've revisited the old local newspapers again c1870 but no trace of any Samuel Parrys ?, widening the timescale confirms, as you know, an awful lot of Samuel Parrys in the news over many generations, especially a Samuel M (Morton?) Parry who I think was an RSPCA Inspector in the 1920s etc.

I've also searched the Glos Archives Nonconformists site, but to my surprise just one Samuel Parry on their database, a Will from 1837 for a "gentleman of Longhope".
http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/genealogy/Results.aspx

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Anyway, you've probably seen this record but if not here's one Samuel born "Longhope c1851" you can put into the discounted pile.

1881 Census, Dodd St, Elvet, Durham, England

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
William Coltman Head M 40 Coal miner. Pensher, Durham, England
Jane Coltman Wife F 37 Gateshead, Durham, England
Samuel Parry Boarder M 30 Coal miner. Longhope, Gloucestershire, England

More to come, hopefully soon, J