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William "Bill" Parrow

William "Bill" Parrow

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 3:18AM GMT
Classification: Query
My gggranddfather,William"Bill" Parrow born in 1828 lived and performed in Minstrel shows with Joel Walker Sweeney in the late 1840's in the Richmond,Virginia area..He later moved to Tennessee. I have not been able to find his people where he grew up in Virginia. I was wondering if you might know of him as he was well known and the newspapers advertised them performing all over the south.He was stabbed and killed Nov 1870

Re: William "Bill" Parrow

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 5:36PM GMT
Classification: Query
What evidence do you have to show that he came from Nova Scotia or Canada?

Re: William "Bill" Parrow

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 8:07PM GMT
Classification: Query
I do not know where he came from. He lived in the Richmond, Virginia area and performed there also. He states on the 1860 and 1870 census that he was born in VA. while he was living in Lebanon, Tennessee. In the newspapers he is listed as "Bill" Parrow.

Re: William "Bill" Parrow

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 10:10PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 17 Oct 2014 4:43AM GMT
Hi, have you tried searching alternative spellings? The name sounds like it may be French -- Perrault or Perault or Perrow?
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