m. 10 Jun 1867
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| Birth |
13 Jul 1868 |
Weston Super Mare, Somerset  |
| Christening |
06 Sep 1868 |
Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire |
| Death |
Mar 1948 |
Tiverton, Devon |
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John Frost | F505778190 |
| Marriage |
Jan 1890 |
Newport, Monmouthshire |
| Birth |
09 Aug 1870 |
Abersychan, Pontypool, Monmouth |
| Christening |
04 Sep 1870 |
Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire |
| Death |
11 Mar 1953 |
52 Leigh Sinton Road, Malvern Link, Worcestershire |
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| Birth |
Jan 1875 |
Pontypool. Monmouthshire |
| Death |
2 May 1906 |
Tonk, Rajputana, India |
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| Spouse |
Gertrude Verschoyle Rose | F601969440 |
| Marriage |
20 Nov 1901 |
St Paul's Church, Umballa, Punjab, India |
| Birth |
Jan-Feb-Mar 1875 |
Pontypool, Monmouthshire |
| Death |
Apr-May-Jun 1876 |
Pontypool, Monmouthshire |
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| Birth |
18 Apr 1876 |
High Street, Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire |
| Christening |
21 May 1876 |
Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire |
| Death |
02 Feb 1953 |
54 Buddle Lane, Exeter, Devon |
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| Spouse |
Francis William Wilson | F37 |
| Marriage |
07 Jan 1903 |
St. Woolos, Newport, Monmouthshire |
| Birth |
05 Apr 1880 |
Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire |
| Christening |
02 May 1880 |
Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire |
| Death |
04 Jun 1946 |
Cross Keys Inn, Cranfield, Bedfordshire |
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| Spouse |
Catherine Rose Bailey | F601968077 |
| Marriage |
22 Jun 1904 |
St Thomas, Telford Park, Streatham, Wandsworth |
| Birth |
Abt 1884 |
St. Woollos, Newport, Monmouthshire |
| Death |
1910 |
Godstone, Surrey |
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| Photos |
 | Clement and Sarah Parker
Photograph taken at Garrett & Lockyear, Newport, Monmouthshire. Courtesy of Susan Milroy. |
| Documents
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 | Clement Parker - Sarah Ann Morgan Marriage Certificate - 10 Jun 1867
Married at Church of Emmanuel, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset. Witnesses are George Godby and Rachel Morgan. |
 | Page 1 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter
Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026):
Her father's parents (the reader's great-great-grandparents Frost): she was a Somerset country woman; he came from Kent and, according to her father, was a ne'er-do-well whose family paid him to stay away: lazy, good-natured, weak and easily led. His wife brought up the large family. Her father (John Frost) left home early and was apprenticed to a tailoring firm in Bristol. He was treated so badly that at 17 or 18 he ran away to Newport, to a firm whose advertisement he had seen in a newspaper. He asked the way of a pretty girl with golden curls down her back, her mother (Minnie Parker). Minnie's mother pitied the lonely boy; they went to the same church, she invited him to Sunday lunch, and he became one of the family.
Records: John's parents were Andrew and Harriet Frost of Taunton. In 1881 John, 16, was an inmate of Kingswood Reformatory near Bristol, very probably the "apprenticeship" (inference). |
 | Page 2 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter
Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026):
Minnie Parker's mother's maiden name was MORGAN (Sarah Ann Morgan). She was said to descend from the old Princes of Wales and was proud of it; a forebear served under Nelson on the Victory, so that branch was called "the Victory Morgans". She had friends in landed and titled families but had married beneath her: they called in their carriages but had nothing to do with her husband Clement Parker, and dropped the family when she died in 1902. One of them, "Lady Lyons - or perhaps Lines", was godmother to Minnie. Most of this came from "Auntie Louisa, my mother's sister".
Records: Sarah Ann Parker's death is probably the one indexed Jul-Sep 1902, Axbridge (Weston-super-Mare), age 58. The noble connections are unsupported; her father was a collier. |
 | Page 3 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter
Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026):
Clement and Sarah had a large family, including twins who died in infancy. Girls: Minnie (the eldest), Louisa, Alice, Sarah and Gertrude. Boys: George and Alfred, and the twin sons. GEORGE was meant to be a teacher but stowed away on a ship to the West Indies, helped the captain in a mutiny and did well. He went to Ceylon and India, was librarian and secretary to a Maharajah, then joined the Indian Civil Service, became an engineer and helped build the Punjab canals. He married, had several children and died young, about 1906; his family went back to her people and contact was lost. ALFRED worked in London and had 9 children (5 boys, 4 girls); the family lost touch when they moved out of London.
Records: George married Gertrude Verschoyle Rose at Umballa in 1901, had three children 1902-05, and died at Tonk, Rajputana, on 2 May 1906, State Engineer, aged 31. |
 | Page 4 - Minnie Frost James 1977 Letter
Family letter by Aunt Min, Minnie Alexandra (Frost) James (1902-2004), c1977. Pages 2-5 survive; page 1 and the last page are missing. Summary of this page (2 Nov 2026):
Cousin FRANK, now in Adelaide, was Auntie SARAH's only surviving child; she married an Irishman. Auntie LOU never married. Aunt GERTIE died tragically young, a talented musician and artist; the writer was "only about 4 or 5" (really nearly 8: Gertie died in 1910). Aunt ALICE married a schoolmaster, Jack Thomas, and had a son and two daughters. "Your grandfather Bailey... your Mum can tell you all she knows." The reader's grandmother spoke of visits to great-aunts who were Quakers in Weston-super-Mare, probably Clement Parker's aunts.
Records: Sarah's other child was probably Horace Parker Wilson, born and died 1912 in Birkenhead. |
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| Notes |
- Aunt Min's letter (c1977) says this was a large family, including TWIN SONS WHO DIED IN INFANCY.
FOUND (3 Nov 2026, GRO online index, which gives the mother's maiden name): GEORGE CLEMENT PARKER and WILLIAM CHARLES PARKER, both births registered Jan-Mar 1875, Pontypool, vol 11a page 155 (the same page), mother's maiden name MORGAN. So the twins were George Clement (already in the tree, b. Jan 1875) and his brother William Charles. Every other known child of Clement and Sarah (Ann Louisa 1870, Alice 1872, Sarah Ann 1876, Alfred James 1880, Amelia Gertrude 1884) also shows mother MORGAN in the GRO index, which confirms the family.
William Charles died young: GRO death index, WILLIAM CHARLES PARKER, age 1, Apr-Jun 1876, Pontypool 11a 92 (best fit; another William Charles Parker died in Pontypool in Jan-Mar 1883 aged 9, which does not fit a Jan-Mar 1875 birth). George Clement survived and died in India in 1906. So Aunt Min's memory is half right: there were twin sons, but only one died as a baby.
RULED OUT: Celia Ann and William Parker (both died Jan-Mar 1883, Pontypool 11a 132) are twins of ANOTHER family. Their births (Jan-Mar 1883, 11a 166) show mother's maiden name WILLIAMS.
NOTE: another Parker family with a Morgan mother was having children in Pontypool in the 1880s (James Henry 1882, Eleanor Jane 1883, James and Clara Ann 1884, George 1886, Isaac 1887 and others). Do not attach those to Clement and Sarah without more evidence.
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- [S4901] U.K. General Register Office, Axbridge Registration Office, 1897, J Qtr, Vol 05C, Page 969 (Reliability: 3).
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