{"id":7058,"date":"2020-11-04T17:34:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T06:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=7058"},"modified":"2020-11-08T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T21:00:05","slug":"william-parrott-and-sarah-eggleton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.michelledennis.com.au\/?page_id=7058","title":{"rendered":"William Parrott and Sarah Eggleton"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Parrott<\/strong> was born in 1687 in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England to parents William Parrott (1658-1755) and Elizabeth Battye (b 1666-1743).<\/a><\/p>\n

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All Saints Wotton Underwood Buckinghamshire<\/p><\/div>\n

William was baptised on 7 Nov 1687 in Wotton Underwood. He was one of seven children born to the couple.<\/p>\n

Wotton Underwood\u00a0is a village and\u00a0civil parish\u00a0in the\u00a0Aylesbury Vale\u00a0District of\u00a0Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n

In 1851 it contained just\u00a0 253 inhabitants. The greater part of the land is in grass, and there are about 800 acres of wood. \u00a0In old records the parish is called indifferently Ottone, Woothong, and Wooton.<\/p>\n

The village is small and consists chiefly of cottages, to each of which a little plot of garden-ground is attached, built about 1817, by George, Marquis of Buckingham. It is distant 7 miles north of Thame, 10 miles north west of Aylesbury, and 3 miles from Brill.<\/p>\n

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Wotton House<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Distant view of Wotton House<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

William was a carpenter by trade, in the village of Wotton Underwood, according to his son Michael’s baptism record.<\/p>\n

At the age of 23 years William married Sarah Eggleton<\/strong> at Bicester, Oxfordshire on 5 November 1711.<\/p>\n

Sarah Eggleton was born in 1691 in Wotton Underwood, and was baptised there at All Saints on 22 November 1691.<\/p>\n

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Tailor<\/p><\/div>\n

Sarah was one of four daughters of Michael Eggleton 3<\/em>,\u00a0 a taylor, (1661-1714) and Mary (b 1661). Michael was baptised on 19 January 1660, with his father named as Michael Egleton 2 <\/em>(baptised 26 May 1633 at All Saints, also the son of Michael Egleton 1<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The younger two Michael Eggleton\/Egelton’s, both tailors of Wotton Underwood, had wills proved in Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n