Completely Stuck - Please Help

[Lazylover]

Hi Guys

I still haven't been able to find any information about George Rice Price Parry's birth / parents / siblings

I posted some information here:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,269450.msg1537495.html#msg1537495

and tried the site suggested but didn't find anything. I've had a look through Pigots Trade Directory for 1823 and couldn't find any Parry's.

I've got him on Census' for 1841 & 1851 in Wales - Living in Holywell; Occupation Tailor. In 1861 he's in the Workhouse at St. Asaph. In 1871 he's living in a boarding house in Bradford; Occupation Tailor.

In all these returns he states he was born on the Isle of Man but I can't find any evidence of this.

Its a major brickwall that I'd love to topple so any help would be appreciated.

[joyce341]

do you know that someone is doing a one name surname for Parry.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/im.griffiths/parryfamilyhistory/parryhome.htm

joyce

[Voirrey M]

Have   you   eliminated          George    Isaac   Pary     bapt.    13   May   1810   at    St    Mathew's   C  of  E

Douglas   IOM    parents   John   Pary   /    Margt.  Clarke.     Very  few   Parrys   ever   in  IOM.

[Lazylover]

Joyce, thanks for that I'll get in touch and see what info we can swop - have a large parry family!

Voirrey - i have seen the entry on the LDS website but I don't think its the right George. Throughout the records george referrs to himself as Rice Price Parry and Isaac doesn't feature in any of his offspring's names either.

[Frances_mnb]

Is he possibly Catholic ? - the name Rice is often Catholic and there was a Rice family in Peel - see http://www.manxnotebook.com/towns/peel/rice.htm - if so then Catholic records don't seem to exist for that period - see http://www.manxnotebook.com/parishes/rcath/rc_bapts.htm for some recorded in Dublin which have a Rice family member as sponsor

[Frances_mnb]

Have   you   eliminated          George    Isaac   Pary     bapt.    13   May   1810   at    St    Mathew's   C  of  E

Douglas   IOM    parents   John   Pary   /    Margt.  Clarke.     Very  few   Parrys   ever   in  IOM.

I think you will find this is Pavey not Pary - and also I think he is buried Braddan 18100928

[Lazylover]

All of the family marriages / baptisms / burriels are carried out by the Parish Church in Mold - this is Church of Wales and Christian.

....and here was me thinking that Rice Price Parry is rather uncommon so would be easy to track......silly me!   

[Frances_mnb]

I understand that Roman Catholics consider themselves Christian (having possibly some 1500 years prior claim than the Church in Wales? (they disestablished many years ago so no longer 'of') ) - however it is not that unusual for a male to defer to his wife's wishes in religion.

[Lazylover]

Religion confuses me and I certainly can't follow all the twists and turns of the family........


So.... if there were very very few Parry's on the Isle of Man maybe he wasn't born there - could he have been born elsewhere (say Ireland) and gone to the Isle of Man as a very young child? Does anyone know how common the Parry surname was over the water?

....thinking via posts now, he's got be going round in circles - seriously thanks for all your help so far.