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Hi Nick.
Thanks for joining this conversation. My extended family and myself are definitely linked to the Lytchett Minster Pardy family through a large group of DNA matches in Newfoundland and Britain. Although the name Pardy was common in Dorset and Hampshire, we haven’t yet established Thomas’ origins and the baptisms of the children he had with his wife Catherine, nor her maiden name. Hence I suspect that they settled in Lytchett Minster from another area of Britain or France. We have wills for both Catherine and Thomas that establishes who their children were. All the records available have suggested that our DNA inherited from Thomas and Catherine’s son John Pardy is shared with descendants of William Pardy’s children but I’ve not been able to access Newfoundland records that determine William’s family lines exactly. John Pardy married Susannah Rogers in Lytchett Minster. Their children moved to Guernsey during the Napoleonic wars. In fact his sons John and Thomas were POWs. Then their descendants migrated to Connecticut, England and Australia during the gold rush years.
If anyone can show me the family lines and supporting records for William Pardy’s children I would be very grateful.Hi Jason
It’s been a while since I was logged in to this site so thanks for your post. I’ve used a few Wills and Lytchett Minster records to confirm Thomas and Catherine Pardy’s family but there are still a few gaps, particularly with the sons who were planters and mariners in Newfoundland. I think you are correct that the link must be through William Pardy’s descendants. Incidentally, Grandy is a name that pops up in our DNA matches as well as Barnes. I know those families were part of the Dorset population involved in the plantations early on.
Jane Pardy who married Richard Banfield, daughter of William and Elizabeth Julia Harvey, also appears in a few of our match’s trees but I have a reliable record for William marrying Ann Brewer, unless Elizabeth was a second wife or some trees have skipped a generation??
I’ve not been able to trace the records backwards to conclusively prove anything. Have you been able to view the Diary of Reverend William Marshall Grandy and see the relevant records in it, or others that confirm the children of William Pardy?Hi Deb
I’ve not uncovered much more. The family parents were Thomas Pardy and Katherine of Lytchett Minster, Dorset, England. I’m descended from their son John, who was a mariner and his children who grew up in the Channel Islands. But I think our shared DNA with a big group in Newfoundland is from John’s brothers who were planters in the late 1700s- Samuel, Thomas and William Pardy- but still connected to Dorset. I know from his will that Thomas Pardy senior was merchant and based in Burin. Our DNA match trees mention some Pardys but no tree can show a definitive link to Dorset or to mine which is well supported by documents and other DNA matches.
I’m also very interested in the Newfoundland family lines to understand what life was like for them
