Name, occupation, from entry of daughter’s, Jane, Death Certificate records, found in November 2023.
Name: Jane Carter wife of James Carter a labourer
Parents: William Parrott a stonemason and Mary Parrott, formerly Tyrrell

Date and place of baptism, names of parents, from the Church of England records of "1801 Baptisms" for, St. Mary, Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England found in November 2023"
Entry reads, "March 13 [1801], Wm Parrot, son of John & Martha Parrot"
Place: St. Mary, Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England

Birth year confirmed, christening details, parent's names confirmed, immigration details, 1828 Census entry, date and place of death, from Australian Royalty website, found in November 2023:
https://australianroyalty.net.au/tree/purnellmccor...6981/William-Parrott
Birth: about 1801
Christening: 13 March 1801 (aged 0)
Name: William Parrot
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 13 Mar 1801
Christening Place: Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England
Father's name: John Parrot
Mother's name: Martha
Immigration: 5 May 1818 (aged 17 years), Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Immigration Text: William Parrott, one of 170 convicts transported on the ship Neptune, December 1817.
Sentence Details: Convicted at Nottingham Quarter Session for a term of 7 years on 14 July 1817.
Vessel: Neptune.
Date of Departure: December 1817.
Date of Arrival: 5 May 1818.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales.
Marriage: Mary Tyrrill, 1822 (aged 21 years), New South Wales, Australia
Census: November 1828 (aged 27 years), Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Census Text:
- Parrott, William, 25, free by servitude, Neptune 2, 1818, 7 years, Protestant, mason Sussex Street Sydney
- Parrott, Mary 22 born in the colony
- Parrott, Esther 1 born in the colony
Death: 11 April 1860 (aged 59 years), Goulburn Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Australian Royalty
Britain used transportation to distant lands as a way of getting rid of prisoners. After Britain lost its American colonies in 1783 the jails of England were full. So, Australia, which had recently been claimed for the British Crown by Lieutenant James Cook, was chosen as the new destination.

Only a generation or so ago, descendants of convicts were ashamed of their heritage. However, since the 1988 bicentenary, it has become increasingly fashionable to discover a convict ancestor. Early arrivals, especially on the first fleet, were particularly welcome finds with convict ancestry one of the most sought-after prizes of genealogical inquiry.

Then, in January 2008, the first episode of the first season of the Australian version of the television series, "Who do you think you are"?, featured Australian award-winning actor, Jack Thompson, who quipped that, "these day, unlike times gone by, having a convict ancestor gives you the status of Australian royalty".

The new penal colony and British settlement in Australia was planned for Botany Bay, today the location of Sydney airport. However, Botany Bay was not as hospitable as first thought. The bay was shallow, there was not a large supply of freshwater, and the land was not fertile.

A beautiful harbour in Port Jackson to the north was discovered and had all those qualities. They named it after the British Home Secretary, Lord Sydney. They made this the site, Sydney Cove, for the new colony. The first ships (First Fleet) landed there, at present day Circular Quay, on 26 January 1788. This date today is being celebrated as Australia’s national holiday, Australia Day.

When transportation ended in 1868, over 150,000 convicts had been transported to New South Wales and other Australian colonies. Most convicts stayed in Australia after serving their sentences, and some became well-known, important people within the Australian colonies.

Some references:
https://guides.sl.nsw.gov.au/convicts-bound-for-australia
https://www.visitsydneyaustralia.com.au/history-5-first.html
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBri...onvicts-to-Australia/
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBri...onvicts-to-Australia/

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THE STONE STORE, KERIKERI, NEW ZEALAND
William Parrott, stonemason, built the iconic and now historic, Stone Store in the Kerikeri Inlet, in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. The construction commenced on 19th April 1832 and was completed in 1836.

Attached to this page is an image of a sketchbook drawing of the Stone Store, the drawing dated 9th August 1841. Also a high-resolution version here as a PDF. Was drawn by the Reverend Richard Taylor (1805-1873), missionary. It was drawn at Kororipa Pa across the Kerikeri Basin opposite the Stone Store with includes the original bell tower. Kemp's Mission house is to the right and other buildings to the left, including an earlier store building near the shore. On the hill to the left are the original church and the old Baker/Edmond house surrounded by trees. The small house across the road from the store was that of stonemason William Parrott. That road leads up the hill to the modern day Kerikeri villiage.

Also photo of the inscription on the keystone above the door, "CMS 1833". (The CMS being for the "Church Missionary Society").

Brian and Carol of nzolivers lived in Kerikeri from the early 1970's to 1984. Most interesting that their daughter Marie Oliver, was born at the local Bay of Islands Hospital and married a descendant of this William Parrot-!! A lovely connection.

Here are extracts about William and the Stone Store:

The Stone Store, Kemp House and St. James Church
http://pearlspad.net.nz/KerikeriBayOfIslands.htm
The Stone Store is a well known attraction in Kerikeri.... On August 12th 1819 the American Sailing Vessel, "General Gates" arrived in the Bay of Islands. Among the 22 Passengers were:
- SamuelMARSDEN,
- The Rev. John Gore BUTLER,
- Mrs. BUTLER and son;
- Francis Hall, Schoolmaster and Missionary;
- James KEMP, Blacksmith and Catechist and,
- Mrs. KEMP.
In June, 1821, the building of Rev. John Gore BUTLER's house started... This is now known as Kemp House, the oldest wooden building in this country...
By 1819, local residents realised the need for a more permanent structure and so, at the suggestion of James KEMP, a Stonemason from New South Wales was employed. This was William PARROTT. The construction of the Stone Store
building was commenced on 19th April 1832 and completed in 1836.

The Stone Store at Kerikeri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Store
Part of the second Church Missionary Society station in New Zealand, the store was designed by John Hobbs to replace an earlier wooden storehouse. The Stone Store was erected between 1832 and 1836 by a mason, William Parrott, a carpenter, Ben Nesbitt, and a team of Māori. Construction was of sandstone from Australia, local volcanic rocks, and burnt shell mortar. Iron ties and window bars were forged by James Kemp, though these corroded the sandstone. Initially the building had a wooden belfry on one side.

Stone Store, Kerikeri 1833
https://www.facebook.com/ICOMOSNZ/posts/stone-stor...ton/2211521949102708/
Aotearoa's [New Zealand] oldest colonial stone building. Built by stonemason William Parrott, who learnt his trade as a convict in NSW, built the store out of local volcanic basalt and sandstone imported from NSW. Carpenter Ben Nesbitt from Scotland made the floors and roof using Kauri from the Hokianga. Ironwork was made by the blacksmith and missionary John Kemp.

Kerikeri Stone Store - Bay of Islands
By Peter Connolly
https://www.flickr.com/photos/48166939@N06/29444401067
The Stone Store, a former storehouse, is the oldest stone building in New Zealand, construction having begun on 19 April 1832. The keystone above the door bearing the date 1833 is thought to have been carved by the stonemason William Parrott who cut the Sydney sandstone in situ, but construction of the building was not actually completed until mid-1836.
Stone was used because the missionaries needed a vermin-free, fireproof area for their supplies and provisions, and for improved security from inquisitive Māori. There was a plan to build a mill where the bridge exists

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Travel back and forth New Zealand/Australia:
Record, from the New South Wales Unassisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, of William traveling from New Zealand to Australia during the construction. Perhaps tried to be in Auistralia Christmas?
Cabin: William Parrott and William Newton
Port of Departure: New Zealand
When Sailed: 12 December 1834
Port of Arrival: Port Jackson, New South Wales
Voyage Arrival Date: 30 December 1834
Vessel: Schooner
Vessel Name: John Dunscombe

Returning to New Zealand [to work on the Kerikeri Stone Store building] from The Australian [Sydney] of Tuesday 10 February 1835, found in November 2023 on the National Library of Australia’s Trove website:
Shipping Intelligence.
DEPARTURES.
For New Zealand, same day, [Thursday last, 5th October 1835] the brig Hind, Captain Wyatt, with sundries. Passengers, Mr. R. Cunningham, Mr. William Parrott, Mr. P. Fitzsimmons, Mr. W. Butterworth, and Mrs. Mary Adcock.

William and wife Mary, and child, returning to Australia [Stone Store construction complete] as per The Sydney Monitor of Wednesday 6 April 1836:
Shipping Intelligence
ARRIVALS
On Saturday the schooner 'Active' Capt Wishart from New Zealand - cargo - flax. &c. - passengers - Mr Scott, Mr James Ryrie, Mrs Busby and three children, and Mr. and Mrs Parrott and child.

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Trial in Australia for Bigamy
Full date and place of marriage to Mary from Trial for bigamy in 1850, from Australian Royalty website, found in November 2023:
https://australianroyalty.net.au/tree/purnellmccor...6981/William-Parrott
Trial for bigamy:
Original Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday 3 July 1850 on the National Library of Australia’s Trove website, page 4:
LAW INTELLIGENCE. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
BIGAMY
William Parrott was indicted for having intermarried with one Ann Martin, his first wife, Mary Tyrrell, being then alive.
It was shown by a copy from the Registry of St Philip's Parish Church, that on the 11th of November, 1822, a marriage was solemnised by the Rev Mr Hill, between William Parrott and Mary Tyrrell and a witness was examined who partook of the wedding supper. It appeared that they lived together for a good many years, and had several children, of whom some were alive, and were grown up to maturity, but for the last eighteen or nineteen years had been living apart. Mrs Parrott herself was also produced in Court, and identified as the Mary Tyrrell who was married to the William Parrott then in the dock. It was proved that the witnesses of the first marriage had since died. The second marriage was solemnized by the Rev. Mr. Lewis, minister of the Wesleyan chapel, at Chippendale, on the 3rd of July last, and both the prisoner and Ann Martin were identified by the rev. gentleman.
[See PDF through this nzolivers page for full article courtesy of National Library of Australia’s Trove website]

Sentence for bigamy in 1850, from Australian Royalty website, found in November 2023:
https://australianroyalty.net.au/tree/purnellmccor...6981/William-Parrott
Original Source: Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer, Saturdau 31 August 1850, page 2
FRIDAY
Before His Honor The Chief Justice.
His Honor passed sentence upon William Parrott who was convicted of bigamy at the last Criminal Sessions, but remanded for sentence, in consequence of the jury having recommended him to mercy, and in order to give His Honor time to enquire into the character of the prisoner, to endeavour to coincide with the recommendation of the jury. His Honor in passing sentence on the prisoner observed, that, after every enquiry had been made, he found it impossible for the ends of justice to coincide with the recommendation of the jury. His Honor then sentenced the prisoner to be worked on the roads or other public works in the colony for the period of fire years.
The Court then adjourned until this day at 10 o'clock.

The Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 13 Apr 1860, found in November 2023 on the National Library of Australia’s Trove website:
CORONER'S INQUESTS.- The City Coroner held two inquests yesterday. The first at Mooney's Family Hotel, corner of Crown and Campbell streets, on the body of a man named William Parrott, aged fifty-eight years. The deceased was a stonemason by trade, and had been a master builder, but was bitterly, reduced in circumstances. For some weeks preceding his death he lived alone in an underground kitchen in Goulburn-street East, and during the time stated frequently complained of sickness; for the last fortnight he was confined to his bed.
Mr. Dixon, the owner of the kitchen in which the deceased lived, and another man named Harrison, waited on him, and on the application of the former he (the deceased) was granted the privileges of an out-patient of the Infirmary. It appeared that the deceased's wife was living in the town or district of Maitland, and it was stated that he had some grownup daughters residing close by where he himself lived but they never came to wait on him. The ostensible reason for this unkindness was stated to be that the deceased had cohabited with a woman not his wife. The woman alluded to left him some time back, but came every day during his sickness, bringing him eggs, &c., and keeping his clothes, bed, and domicile clean.
On Tuesday night last he appeared more unwell than usual. Mr. Harrison left him at eleven o'clock p.m., and the next morning at seven he (the deceased) was found dead in bed.
He was a native of Nottingham, in England, came out as a prisoner of the Crown, and had been about forty years in the colony.
Verdict: Natural causes. In a rider the jury expressed themselves to the effect that they did not consider the deceased had been properly treated or attended to, and, further, that he ought not to have been left alone all night.

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St Philip's Church, Sydney, where William and Mary were married on the 11th of November 1822, was a stone church and in use from 1810 to 1856. It was the second church on the site, the first having burnt down in 1798. This second church had a 150-feet high, round clock tower.A photo is posted to William’s media page.