PARRENT-VA/TN?/KY?/IN
Here's a PARRENT puzzle...
I have a list of names of children from an 1830 chancery suit held in Harrison County, Indiana:
Josiah Parrent, Polly Parrent, Lydia Parrent, Nathaniel Parrent, Levi Parrent, John Parrent
Their mother was Hannah, maiden name HURST. Hannah's father was John Hurst, and she was born on a farm that was adjacent to the South Fork of the South Branch of the Shenandoah River, in what was then Frederick County (the area became part of Dunmore/Shenandoah County). According to Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish, there were three PARENT/PARRENT men added to the list of tithables for Augusta County (from which Frederick was taken) about 1750. These men were Thomas PARENT, William PARENT, and Josiah PARENT (as is the case with many other surnames of the region and period, spellings vary).
It seems likely to me that one of these men was the father of Hannah's PARRENT husband.
A second chancery suit from 1835 gave the names of the children as Jonah Parrent, Poly Parent, Lidia Parent (who received the subpoena and returned it) and Nathaniel Parent, Levi Parent, John Parent (whom the subpoena never found).
(Working from memory now as notes are at home) A William PARENT appears in the 1850 Jefferson County INDIANA census in Madison, and a Thomas PARENT appears in the Jefferson Co. KENTUCKY (Louisville area) census. Both counties are close to Harrison County, Indiana.
To date, I've found no intermarriages between the Protestant HURSTs and any Catholic families until well into the mid 1800s. My thinking is that this PARRENT family was also Protestant and not Catholic.
I hope this information looks familiar to someone. I'd very much like to know what became of Hannah's family.
Thanks,
-doug quebbeman
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