Good afternoon/evening, everyone - I am looking for informationabout Edward Parrish (1693-1748) and his wife, Rachel Harwood Parrish, that might be in Maryland meeting house records. I am also looking for meeting house records, if any, that mention their children. This much I know: they married at Third Haven (or Trad Haven) Meeting in Talbot County, Maryland, in February 1723 (according to our calendar); what happened thereafter is not easy to determine. He might be the son of one of my ancestors, Edward Parrish (1669-1723) of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Her family lived in Talbot County (Eastern Shore), so how they met might be another puzzle to solve. A genealogy publishedin 1935 states that their first son was born sometime before 1740. Other genealogies indicate that they are the ancestors of an unrelated Parrish family that settled in Goochland County, Virginia. What I would like to have are answers to these questions, please: (1) What records of their transfer from one meeting house to another still exist? If they left the Society of Friends, what records of their departure from the Society still exist? What do those records tell us? (2) Assuming that they remained in the Society of Friends and might have moved to Anne Arundel County, whatdo meeting house records from that county tell us about their children? Thank you very much for your assistance. I look forward to your replies. With best wishes, Stephen Parrish Volunteer administrator, Family Tree DNA Parrish/Parish DNA Project Member, Family Tree DNA British Quakers Project

Stephen Parrish, The meeting records for Maryland Quaker congregations are not in one place. In 1723 meetings on both side of the Chesapeake Bay reported to Maryland Yearly Meeting (and young Quaker couples often found acceptable mates at the half-yearly meetings!). But the Eastern Shore Quaker meetings started under Maryland Yearly Meeting were transferred to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1790, roughly in exchange for the northern-Virginia, western-Maryland, and central-Pennsylvania [west-of-the-Susquehanna-River] meetings transferred to the renamed Baltimore YM. [The 1789-1790 swap was justified by reference to the difficulties of crossing the swollen Susquehanna River or Chesapeake Bay in the winter.] Third Haven MM in 1790 went to Philadelphia YM, where it remains an active meeting, but unlike other PYM meetings, it stores most of its original records at the Maryland Hall of Records. Here is the MMNA entry: https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/meeting_view?anID=2063 My "Where Records Kept" and "Records Known Extant" fields show where to view the records and what microfilm copies are out there. The early meetings in Anne Arundel County, MD were all predecessors of Sandy Spring MM, now meeting for worship in Montgomery County weekly or more often and still an active monthly meeting in Baltimore YM: https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/meeting_view?anID=1944 As it happens, the Maryland Hall of Records microfilmed most all of the early records of both branches of Baltimore YM and kept a copy when the originals were later stored at the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College or the Quaker Collection at Haverford College. The current Ancestry.com digitalization project will make most of the PYM and BYM early records available on line some time in 2013. Transfers to Virginia meetings should be recorded in Volume VI of William Wade Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. I do not know about Goochland County, but many of the Richmond-area meetings were merged into the predecessor of Richmond Monthly Meeting. https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/meeting_view?anID=1774 Perhaps someone on this list who regularly does people genealogy will know which monthly meeting covered Goochland County. Tom Hill Thomas C. Hill Charlottesville, VA 22901-6355 U.S.A. formerly Cincinnati, OH www.QuakerMeetings.com E-mail: MonthlyMeetings@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: quaker-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com On Behalf Of Stephen Parrish Sent: Thursday, 11 October, 2012 5:55 PM To: QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: [Q-R] Edward Parrish (1693-1748) and Rachel Harwood Parrish Importance: High Good afternoon/evening, everyone - I am looking for information about Edward Parrish (1693-1748) and his wife, Rachel Harwood Parrish, that might be in Maryland meeting [house - sic.] records. I am also looking for meeting [house] records, if any, that mention their children. This much I know: they married at Third Haven (or Tred Haven) Meeting in Talbot County, Maryland, in February 1723 (according to our calendar); what happened thereafter is not easy to determine. He might be the son of one of my ancestors, Edward Parrish (1669-1723) of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Her family lived in Talbot County (Eastern Shore), so how they met might be another puzzle to solve. A genealogy published in 1935 states that their first son was born sometime before 1740. Other genealogies indicate that they are the ancestors of an unrelated Parrish family that settled in Goochland County, Virginia. What I would like to have are answers to these questions, please: (1) What records of their transfer from one meeting house to another still exist? If they left the Society of Friends, what records of their departure from the Society still exist? What do those records tell us? (2) Assuming that they remained in the Society of Friends and might have moved to Anne Arundel County, what do meeting house records from that county tell us about their children? Thank you very much for your assistance. I look forward to your replies. With best wishes, Stephen Parrish Volunteer administrator, Family Tree DNA Parrish/Parish DNA Project Member, Family Tree DNA British Quakers Project

Stephen Parrish wrote: > > > I am looking for information about Edward Parrish (1693-1748) and his wife, > Rachel Harwood Parrish, that might be in Maryland meeting [house - sic.] > records. I am also looking for meeting [house] records, if any, that mention > their children. > > > > This much I know: they married at Third Haven (or Tred Haven) Meeting in > Talbot County, Maryland, in February 1723 (according to our calendar); what > happened thereafter is not easy to determine. He might be the son of one of > my ancestors, Edward Parrish (1669-1723) of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. > Her family lived in Talbot County (Eastern Shore), so how they met might be > another puzzle to solve. > > Although this doesn't refer to your specific questions [unquoted here], I assume that some researchers have looked at the Parrish Quaker line in Lincolnshire, England, in the 1660s/70s, where an Edward Parrish was born in 1667 - a good age to to be father of yours. Has that led anywhere? Any clues from that? Any Lincolnshire population in Maryland?   Chris