John Parry
(Cir 1760-1837)
Hannah Dunn
(1766-1843)
John Parry
(1793-)
Hannah
(Cir 1810-)
Fanny Mary Parry
(1836-)

 

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Fanny Mary Parry

  • Born: 1836

  Noted events in her life were:

• source. "Bakers, Bishops and Bushrangers" by Robert J Williams

• Occupation. governess in the 1861 & 1881 census
She had tutored a young Tockington child in music. Basil Harwood, who later became a Doctor of Music. He achieved fame for his compositions for organ and named many of them after local places. After Fanny's death he arranged for a stained glass window to be dedicated in St Mary's Church Tockington as a memorial to the two sisters.

The two sisters remained spinsters and conducted a Dames' School at Cotham House which they inherited on the death of their mother. Each year they conducted a two-day bazaar and raised funds for the Bristol Children's Hospital, a cot being endowed as The Parry Cot.
Fanny arranged for a stained glass window as a memorial to her sister and her parents. It was dedicated in August 1918.


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