William
Andrew
Parr
jr
Born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors 
Son of William Andrew Parr
and Eliza Rosanna (Newton) Parr
Brother of
Harriet Louisa (Parr) Dowdle, Eliza Mary (Parr) Tattersall, Emily Rose (Parr) Todd, Jessie Parr, Frederick Alfred Parr, George Joseph Jubilee Parr and Florence Myrtle (Parr) Brown
Husband of
Janet Grace (Forrest) Parr
— married
6 Apr 1914 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Descendants 
Father of
William Forrest Parr
Died
at age 44
in Benoni, Transvaal Province, South Africa
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| Trooper William Parr fought in the Second Boer War |
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Biography
William was born in 1881. He was the son of William Parr and Eliza Newton. He passed away in 1926. [1]
1900 Enlisted for the Boer War. William Andrew Parr Private 305 C Squadron N.S.W. Citizens. ( Bushmans Contingent ). [2].
- Australian War Memorial
- Service number 305
- Rank Trooper
- Unit New South Wales Citizen Bushmen
- Place New South Wales
- Conflict/Operation South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
- Native place New South Wales, Australia
- Source Murray page number - 82
- Notes Murray Remarks: Invalided, Australia, 13/12/1900
1900 June 27th William Parr wrote back to his parents which the Riverine Herald printed. [3]
William was invalided back to Australia 13/12/1900.
1903 William Parr jr employed as a mine supervisor in McPhail, New South Wales, when William Richard Tattersall was killed in that mine.[4][5]
1912 William returned to South Africa, via London, working as a mine supervisor then married divorcee Janet (Forrest) MacDonald in 1914 & had one son William Forrest Parr.
1926 Occupation at death - Miner at Apex Benoni, Transvaal.
Sources
- ↑ Entered by Graeme Rose, Monday, September 2, 2013.
- ↑ Bendigo Advertiser Vic. Tue 20 Feb 1900 Page 3 NEW SOUTH WALES BUSHMEN'S CORPS
- ↑ The Riverine Grazier Hay, NSW Tue 25 Sep 1900 Page 2 LETTERS FROM THE FRONT
- ↑ The Peak Hill Express NSW Fri 10 Jul 1903 Page 3 OBITUARY.
- ↑ The Peak Hill Express NSW Fri 10 Jul 1903 Page 3 INQUEST.
Footnotes
Acknowledgments
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~6.25%
Graeme Rose
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~3.12%
Janette Agg :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jagglibrary
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~3.12%
George Preston :
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