Thomas (Perrett) French is a part of US Black heritage.
Research Notes
Peter Perrett was born in South Carolina in about 1862. According to the family story he was involved in an altercation and thereafter changed his name to Thomas French.
Sources
Ancestry.com. Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm] Image
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2YK-S5L : accessed 4 April 2021), Thomas French, Joplin Ward 3, Jasper, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 40, sheet 9B, family 258, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 789; FHL microfilm 1,374,802.
"Kansas State Census, 1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGXJ-BHKH : 12 October 2019), T J French, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States; citing Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, 90, 3, Kansas Historical Society, Topeka.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X775-64D : accessed 4 April 2021), J Thomas French, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 5, sheet 22A, line 22, family 359, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 727; FHL microfilm 2,340,462.
"Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q21X-6C8N : 19 February 2021), Thomas J French in entry for Clarence Monroe Turner and Nannie Lee French, 17 Mar 1944; citing Election Precinct 29 Alabama City, Etowah, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,892,266.
"Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:29NL-9HX : 19 February 2021), Thomas J French in entry for Clarence Monroe Turner and Nannie Lee French, 18 Mar 1944; citing Calhoun, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 2,200,390.
"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVTM-5VBP : accessed 4 April 2021), Thomas J French in entry for Nannie Lee Turner-Banks, Missouri, United States, 15 Mar 2012; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing St. Louis Post-Dispatch, born-digital text.
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