At 09:13 AM 26/01/06, Michel wrote: >I am having a particularly difficult time in attaching the PARSONS lines to >the METFORD group. There seem to be 4 PARSONS who are associated with the >METFORD clan (for lack of a better term). Has anyone seen PARSONS or is >researching them? Some went to Sidcot school (which unfortunately means very >little to me). Nine children of Isaac Parsons and Mary Bagwell did go to Sidcot School (as I did, but not quite so long ago), the eighth being Ann Metford Parsons (1821 - 1847) who married Thomas Gregory. The school was founded in 1808, shortly before the eldest child (Isaac) was born, and is still going strong. Only two of the children had middle names and Ann was the only one whose middle name looks like a surname, almost certainly from an earlier generation but the Sidcot School register gives no more than the names of the parents. It would be worth looking at the Bristol & Somerset Quarterly Meeting Digest of marriages for the marriage of the parents (if not already done). >A long line of METFORD in Taunton and Glastonbury (lots of them!) None of them seem to have been at Sidcot School. >2. In the METFORD of Glastonbury line there was CLOTHIER, PIKE, RAWES and it >eventually pretty much "daughtered-out" with THOMSPON and CLARKE, although >there are a few Metfords still around here and there. A James Clothier was one of the earliest pupils at Sidcot, going there in 1809. But no Metfords at all. Howard M. Knight, near Bristol, UK