Stephen Parrish wrote:     > In reply to Chris Dickinson's post appearing below, thank you for the > information that you provided. I was not aware of a Parrish Quaker line > in Lincolnshire. In the Parrish/Parish DNA project that I administer are > five unrelated Parrish families that settled in America in colonial > times. Although I do not know where each colonial Parrish/Parish family > came from in the British Isles, I have reason to believe on the basis of > evidence accumulated so far (Y chromosome DNA results as well as other > evidence) that my Parrish ancestors did not come from Lincolnshire. > Furthermore, contrary to family tradition, I do not think that my > Parrish ancestors emigrated from Yorkshire; it looks as if they might > have emigrated from the Bristol Channel area or from English counties > that share a border with Wales. > I find it of interest that an Edward Parrish was born in Lincolnshire in > 1667. What happened to him? It is thought that Edward Parrish - eight > generations separate him from me - was born in Anne Arundel County, > Maryland in 1669. > Are any British Isles Quaker records available online?     Stephen. I don't do any Parrish research, but have an interest in links between England and Maryland in this time period.     A significant proportion of early nonconformist and nonparochial records in England have been indexed on an online resource at:  http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ .   If you put Edward Parrish into the search engine, you get a group in Lincolnshire. The source is the Monthly Meeting of Spalding & Wainfleet, Lincolnshire.   I don't know anything more - but it looks interesting. There isn't a death for this Edward, and I didn't see any indication that the family continued in Lincolnshire (on a brief search of the index - you might want to search more thoroughly), so a hop over to the colonies might be a possibility.     Chris