- Parr Family Genealogy 2005 - (FREDERICK) WILLIAM GEORGE PARR

William George, son of Frederick Parr and Jane Whiting, was born 16 December 1864 at ____________ Ontario.
The 1901 census had his birth as 15 November 1865.

Sarah Jane, daughter of Allen Hayward and Eliza Lester, was born 3 June 1873 at ________________ Ontario.

They were married 23 March 1890 in the _____________________ (church?) at _______________. (city)

They had 7 children; Sherman, Hazel May, Clinton Earl, Della Mae, Wilfred Allen, Otis Leonard, and Raymond David Frederick.

For the 1901 census, they had 2 lodgers and a farm hand listed with them. The farm hand turned out to be Willy's future brother-in-law by marrying his sister Vinie.

Willy had a butcher business in Brigden and the male children were expected to help out after school; Sherman slaughtered his first animal - a sheep - when he was 9 years old.

Granddaughter Mary Lee Parr Apps recalls Willy standing on top of the kitchen table playing the fiddle! ... if you can imagine.

Willy George died 8 January 1935 and was buried at Bear Creek Cemetery north of Brigden, Ontario. It was said that he died of tuberculosis.

Sarah died from ___________________ (cause) on 25 April 1938 and was buried at Bear Creek Cemetery north of Brigden, Ontario.

If you have information on Robert and Hannah Parr, or their descendants, please contact me at parrresearch@sympatico.ca
or my mailing address is:
Jack Parr, Box 609 Mount Albert, ON, LOG 1MO, Canada

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