RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE

RETURN TO ESSEX FAMILIES OR SUFFOLK FAMILIES PAGES

RETURN TO POST-1538 FAMILIES PAGE

PARKER 

[PARK631] Samuel Parker m. [MASO632] Sarah Mason
. [PARK641] John Parker m1. Elizabeth
. . [PARK651] Samuel Parker m. [LAST652] Charlotte Last
. . . [PARK661] Daniel Parker m. [RUMS662] Susan Rumsby
. . . . [PARK671] John Last Parker m. [WODK672] Sarah Anne Wood
. . . . . [PARK682] Sarah Ann Parker m. [BODD681] George Boddy

7.  [PARK631] Samuel Parker married (at Westhall 15th June 1726) [MASO632] Sarah Mason (born 1703, see MASON). They had two children as follows:

6.  [PARK641] John Parker (born 1728) married 1. (at Westleton, c.1754) Elizabeth. They had two children born and baptised at Westleton as follows:

Elizabeth died at Westleton (buried there 5th August 1777), and afterwards, John, a widower, married 2. (at Westleton, 13th October 1778) Mary Reeve nee Fryer, a widow of Middleton, witnessed by Robert Fair and Mary Tier. They had one child born and baptised at Westleton as follows:

John died at Westleton (buried there 21st August 1782).

Mary Fryer had previously married 1. (at Middleton, 12th November 1765) John Reeve (born 1741), witnessed by John Hoggar and B Symonds junior (parish clerk). They had had one child born and baptised at Middleton as follows:

Mary's first husband John Reeve died at Middleton (buried there 17th September 1778, four weeks before Mary remarried).

5.  [PARK651] Samuel Parker (born 1755, son of John & Elizabeth) married (at Wissett, 13th October 1787) [LAST652] Charlotte Last (born 1761, see LAST), witnessed by George Howlet (parish clerk) and John Oldrin. They had eight children as follows:

James was not baptised at Westleton. In most of the Censuses he said he was born at Westleton, but in the 1851 Census he said he was born at Sudbourne, which is curious because that was where his mother had died in 1838.

James married (at Ubbeston, 17th October 1834) Elizabeth Eade (witnessed by Mary Mayhew (probably Elizabeth's sister) and Joseph Mayhew (Mary's husband);

The family moved from Westleton to the Heveningham/Huntingfield area by 1814. When their son John married (1814) he said he was from Huntingfield, and he certainly lived there between 1817 and 1822. Their eldest son Samuel had married by 1818 and was living in Westminster, London, where he was a machinist (at 1841) and then a proprietor of houses (at 1851). Daniel married in 1823, and lived at Heveningham (1827-31) and Huntingfield (from 1834). When their son James married (1834) he said he was living at Heveningham, and he lived there (1836-51), then at Huntingfield (1856-71). By 1838 Samuel and Charlotte were living at Sudbourne, reason not established. Finally, Samuel returned to the Westleton area after Charlotte's death.

In 1835 the Long Row Cottages were built at Sudbourne for estate workers for Sudbourne Hall, owned by the Marquis of Hertford.

Charlotte died (age 77, of general decay) at Sudbourne (7th November 1838, buried there 11th November 1838). Samuel (an agricultural labourer) died (age 77, of mortification of the foot) at Darsham (8th January 1841, buried there 12th January 1841).

4.  [PARK661] Daniel Parker (born 1799) married (at Linstead Magna, 9th February 1823) [RUMS662] Susan Rumsby (born 1796, see RUMSBY), witnessed by Dinah Rumsby (Susan's sister) and John Rumsby (Susan's brother). They had six children as follows:

 
 

 

Heveningham
(25 June 1994)

 Church

Daniel (an agricultural labourer) died (age 60, of a heart complaint) at Frostenden (1st May 1859, buried there 8th May 1859). Susan died (age 73, of "old age") at Huntingfield (17th October 1866, buried there 21st October 1866).

 

 

Huntingfield Church
(25 June 1994)

ornate porch

3.  [PARK671] John Last Parker (born 1837) moved down to Essex in the early 1850's, following his older brother Job who had married (at Coggeshall 1849) Fanny Saunders. John Last (a labourer and a minor) married (at Feering, 25th October 1856) [WODK672] Sarah Anne Wood (born 1834, see WOOD), witnessed by Job Parker (John's brother) and Fanny Parker (Job's wife).

 

 

Feering Church
(July 1986)

They had ten children born and baptised at Feering as follows:

They lived at Feering, first at Skiers Green, then latterly at Langley Farm. John Last (a farm labourer) died (age 62, of influenza pneumonia) at Feering (4th January 1900, buried there 9th January 1900). At the 1911 Census, Sarah Anne was living at Langley Farm, Feering, and with her were her brother George Wood (brewery pensioner, widower) and grandson Joseph Parker (horseman on a farm, son of Job). Sarah Anne died (age 95, of cardiac failure and myocardial degeneration) at Kelvedon (6th April 1930, buried at Feering, 10th April 1930).

There is a headstone at Feering Church

 

 

part of headstone
(September 1984)

which reads:

JOHN LAST PARKER

WHO DIED 4TH JANUARY 1900

AGED 61 YEARS.

ALSO OF HIS WIFE,

SARAH ANN,

WHO DIED 6TH APRIL, 1930

AGED 95 YEARS.

THIS STONE IS ERECTED BY THE REID

FAMILY AS A MARK OF ESTEEM IN

RECOGNITION OF 40 YEARS FAITHFUL SERVICE

AT FEERING BURY.