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Tiburcio Parrott was born in Mazatlan, State of Sinaloa, Mexico, on 11 August 1840. His mother was Deloris Ochoa,1 a native of Mazatlan. His father was John Parrott, a native of Tennessee, who in 1840 was U.S. Consul in Mazatlan. Deloris Ochoa was John Parrott’s mistress for most of the years he was stationed in Mazatlan. To date research has not revealed very much about the Ochoa family other than that they were a prolific family of the Mazatlan area. Since Mexican baptismal certificates almost unfailingly list maternal and paternal grandparents, such a certificate would be helpful, but as yet the Diocese of Mazatlan has not been able to locate one for the baptism of Tiburcio. The Parrott family is almost certainly of English extraction. Records as early as 1623 mention a John Parrott in Elizabeth Cittie in Virginia. A number of people have worked to sort out the carious Parrott families but so far no one has clearly delineated all the branches. Tiburcio Parrott was descended from a John Parrott who was born in Virginia in 1730. That John Parrott was probably the son of Nathaniel and Penelope Parrott of Bristol Parish, Virginia. If we take the year 1623 in Elizabeth Cittie as the start of the Parrott family in America then we have a one hundred year period to be researched. Maybe at a later date someone will do this research project since many famous people had the surname of Parrott and they should be relatively easy to trace. For instance, Richard Parrott was outstanding in both Lancaster and Middlesex Counties, Virginia. He was sheriff of Lancaster County in 1657, Sheriff of Middlesex County, and Representative of Middlesex County to the house for Burgesses in Williamsburg, Virginia. Then, too, records show an Elijah Parrott in Halifax County, Virginia, during the revolution. He was a son of John and Ruth Parrott and a brother of James Parrott. A chain of events indicates the probable date of the movement of the Parrott family from Halifax County to Lee County, Virginia, to Jackson County, Tennessee. Tiburcio’s grandfather, James Parrott, and his wife, Catherine Stuart2, were living in Halifax County, Virginia, when their oldest child, Eliza, was born in 17973. Their next child, William Stuart Parrott, was born in Lee County, Virginia, on 17 September 1798.4 Sarah sally Parrott was born in Jackson County, Tennessee, on 15 May 1800.5 According to family legend the youngest child, John Parrott, was born in the wagon in which the family moved themselves and their belongings to Jackson County6, but that seems unlikely since records show that the family had been living in Jackson County for eleven years before John was born on 16 April 1811. |
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