 1876 - 1953 (76 years)
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| Name |
Sarah Ann Parker [1] |
- On different documents the spelling of Sarah Ann Parker's middle name is "Anne." However, on her birth certificate her name is shown as Sarah Ann Parker.
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| Birth |
18 Apr 1876 |
High Street, Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire  [2] |
| Christening |
21 May 1876 |
Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire [3] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Residence |
1911 |
Birkenhead, Cheshire [4] |
Address:
35 The Woodlands
Birkenhead, Cheshire CH41 |
| Death |
02 Feb 1953 |
54 Buddle Lane, Exeter, Devon [5, 6] |
| Notes |
- CHILDREN, from the 1911 census (35 The Woodlands, Birkenhead; RG14 piece 22005, schedule 180): Sarah wrote that she had been married 8 years, with 1 child born alive, 1 still living and none died - Frank. So any babies she lost before April 1911 were stillborn or miscarried; stillbirths were not registered at the time, in England before 1927 or in Ireland before 1961. Her only other recorded child is Horace Parker Wilson, born and died in early 1912. Marjorie remembered that her father's mother lost several children, all with digestive problems.
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| Person ID |
I103 |
Walsh - Wilson Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
4 Feb 2009 |
| Father |
Clement Parker, b. 10 Oct 1846, Hutton, Somerset d. 25 Dec 1922, Meadow at Longmead, Caterham Military Depot, Surrey (Age 76 years) |
| Mother |
Sarah Ann Morgan, b. 24 Dec 1843, Sowhill, Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire, Wales d. Between Jul 1902 and Sep 1902, Axbridge district, Somerset, England (Age 58 years) |
| Marriage |
10 Jun 1867 |
Emmanuel Church, Weston Super Mare, Somerset [7] |
| 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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| 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. |
| Family ID |
F505778193 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Francis William Wilson, b. 2 Nov 1874, Jordanstown, Belfast, Ireland d. 30 Aug 1912, Wharf, Port of East London, South Africa (Age 37 years) |
| Marriage |
07 Jan 1903 |
St. Woolos, Newport, Monmouthshire [8] |
| Children |
| + | 1. Francis Todd Wilson, b. 16 May 1907, Belfast, Ireland d. 28 Sep 1981, Adelaide, South Australia (Age 74 years) |
| | 2. Horace Parker Wilson, b. 1912, Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England d. 1912, Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England (Age 0 years) |
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| Documents |
 | Marriage Index - Jan-Feb-Mar 1903 - Francis Todd Wilson
The Newport, Monmouthsire marriage index shows Francis Todd Wilson as a groom in the first quarter of 1903. |
 | Marriage Document - Francis Todd Wilson and Sarah Ann Parker
Married 7 Jan 1903 at St. Woolos, Stow Hill, Newport, Monmouthsire - Married by Rev J. Gower Jones, B.A., curate. |
| Family ID |
F37 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
12 May 2009 |
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| Documents
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 | Birth Certificate - Frank Todd Wilson
Born at 74 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast. Father's occupation is "Shipwright." |
 | Frank Todd Wilson and Marjorie Doreen Charles - Parish Church Register
They were married on Boxing Day 1942 in the Parish Church of St. Stephen's with Lainston, Hants. Their website is: http://www.downs-benefice.hampshire.org.uk/benefice/ststephen.htm Mr. Fred Montague from the Church kindly sent me this photograph of the Church's register. |
 | 1901 Welsh Census - Clement Parker and Family
This census shows Clement Parker (age 54, a gardener) living with his wife Sarah Ann (age 57) and daughter Sarah Ann (age 24, an assistant teacher in an elementary school). They are living at Springfield Lodge, Waterloo Road, Newport, Monmouthshire. 1901 Wales Census; Class: RG13; Piece: 4957; Folio: 95; Page 6. |
 | 1891 Welsh Census - Clement Parker and Family
The 1891 census shows Clement Parker (age 44, a gardener) living with his wife Sarah A. Parker (age 47), daughter Sarah A. Parker (age 14), son Alfred J. Parker (age 11), and daughter Amelia G. Parker (age 6). Living at St. Mary's Cottage, St. Woollos, Newport, Monmouthshire. 1891 Welsh Census; Class: RG12; Piece: 4376; Folio: 98; Page 4; GSU Roll: 6099486. |
 | 1881 Welsh Census - Clement Parker and Family
The 1881 census shows Clement Parker (age 34, a gardener) living with his wife Sarah Ann (age 37) and his children Minnie (age 12), Ann L. (age 10), Alice (age 8), George C. (age 6), Sarah Ann (age 4), and Alfred J. (just under a year). They are living at Upper George Street, Hill Grove, Trevethin. 1881 Welsh Census; Class: RG11; Piece: 5250; Line: ; GSU Roll 1342263. |
 | Sarah Ann Parker - Birth Certificate from Pontypool, Trevethin, Wales
Born on 18 Apr 1876. Father was Clement Parker, a gardener. Mother Sarah Ann Parker (formerly Morgan). Birth certificate from the General Register Office, District of Pontypool, County of Monmouth. 1876 - column 459. |
![Sarah Ann [Parker] Wilson - Death Certificate](documents/thumb_Sarah-Ann-Wilson-DC.jpg "Sarah Ann [Parker] Wilson - Death Certificate") | Sarah Ann [Parker] Wilson - Death Certificate
Died 2 Feb 1953 at 54 Buddle Lane [Exeter]. She is shown as "widow of Francis Wilson, shipwright, merchant navy." Death from myocardial failure, pulmonary oedema, and bilateral broncho-pneumonia. Informant was son F.T. Wilson of 52 Leigh Sinton Road, Malvern Link.
1953 Qtr M Vol 07A Page 478 - Exeter Registration District
Informant F.T. Wilson (Frank, I99), son, of 52 Leigh Sinton Road, Malvern Link. |
 | 1911 U.K. Census - Sarah Wilson, Louise Wilson, and Frank Wilson
In the 1911 U.K. census, Sarah Wilson (age 34) is living in Birkenhead, Cheshire with her sister Louisa Parker (single, age 40) and son Frank Todd Wilson (age 3). Sarah is shown as having been married for 8 complete years, and she's had one child, and the child is living. Sarah was born in Monmouthsire, Louisa was born in Monmouthsire (Pontypool - Abersychan), and Frank Todd in Down, Belfast.
They are living in seven rooms at 35 The Woodlands, Birkenhead.
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 | Frank Todd Wilson Birth Certificate - Belfast - 16 May 1907
The birth certificate for Frank Todd Wilson shows he was born at 74 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast [Urban No. 13], on 16 May 1907 (registration 310). His father was Francis Wilson, a shipwright, and mother was Sarah Ann [Parker] Wilson. The informant was A. L. Parker [presumably Ann Louisa Parker, Sarah's sister]. |
 | Probate of Francis Wilson - Died 30 Aug 1912 in East London, South Africa
District Probate Registry at Chester - Francis Wilson abode at 35 The Woodlands, Birkenhead at time of his death. Widow Sarah Ann Wilson granted letters of administration. Value of estate Stg 140.0.0. Document dated 4 Mar 1913. |
 | Passenger List of R.M.S. Celtic of the White Star Line - Sailing from Liverpool on 17 Apr 1913, arrive Port of New York (Ellis Island) on 27 Apr 1913.
Passengers shown are Minnie Louisa Parker, age 40, a dress maker from Birkenhead (thought to be Ann Louisa Parker); Sarah Wilson, age 35, a widow from Birkenhead; and Frank Wilson, age 5, a child (and Sarah's son). They are all heading to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. All show their nearest relative as Mrs J. C. Thomas, sister of Louisa and Sarah, living at 16 Gwendoline Street, Merthyr Tydvil.
Source: Year: 1913; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715; Microfilm Roll: 2062; Line: 20; Page Number: 35. Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Page 2 of the manifest (Ancestry image NYT715_2062-0068, lines 15 and 19-20): Louisa and Sarah were going to join "Uncle James (Jas) Morgan, 3 Lee Park Ave, Hanover Township, Wilkes-Barre". Passage paid by: Uncle. Sarah had $280. None had been in the United States before. James Morgan (1845/46-1918) was the brother of their mother, Sarah Ann Morgan. An Ellis Island clerk's handwritten note crosses lines 16 and 19-20 and has not been read. The "Mrs J. C. Thomas" above is the sister they left behind in Merthyr Tydfil. |
 | Passenger list of British citizens on R.M.S. Majestic of the White Star Line, sailing from New York and arriving in Southampton on 8 Jun 1913.
Shown on the passenger list are Mrs Sarah Wilson, housewife (age 35); Louise Wilson (age 40 - no occupation shown; this should be Louise Parker); and Frank Wilson (age 30 - but actually age 6).
Source: Ancestry.com. UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
Original data: Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces. Class: BT26; Piece: 570; Item: 25. |
 | Frank T Wilson and Family - 1939 Register
The 1939 Register, taken on 29 September 1939, provides a snapshot of the civilian population of England and Wales just after the outbreak of the Second World War. Details of around 40 million people were recorded in in more than 65,000 volumes (transcript books).
The Wilson Household lived at Elettre Bereweeke Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire UK.
Frank's DOB is shown as 16 MAY 1907, single, occupation Assistant Relieving Officer. He's also shown as AFS, presumably a member of the Auxiliary Fire Service.
He's living with Sarah A Wilson, DOB 18 APR 1876, widowed, a retired school teacher, his mother; and Ann L Parker, DOB 9 MAY 1870, shown as single with "unpaid domestic duties," his aunt. |
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| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
| Histories |
 | The Widows' Tree - Marjorie's family, from the Bull Oak to Adelaide
An illustrated family saga for the Wilson siblings: Samuel Crumpler and the Bull Oak (1849), the Boyts of Arne, Constable Charles Feltham of N Division, Clement Parker the orchid grower, George Parker in India, Francis Wilson drowned at East London (1912), and the 1913 visit to Uncle James Morgan in Wilkes-Barre. Every story documented. (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.) |
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| Sources |
- [S4901] U.K. General Register Office, 29 May 1876, Pontypool District 1876; J Qtr; Volume 11A; Page 165; Column 459 (Reliability: 3).
- [S4901] U.K. General Register Office, 29 May 1876, Application 338890-1; Pontypool District, 1876; Column 459 (Reliability: 3).
- [S4932] Trevethin Parish Record Transcripts (Reliability: 3).
- [S4981] 1911 England Census (Reliability: 3).
- [S4901] U.K. General Register Office, 03 Feb 1953 (Reliability: 3).
Registration district: Exeter; Sub-district: Exeter.
- [S5004] Ancestry.com, 6 Mar 1953, England and Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 (Reliability: 2).
Sarah Ann Wilson, died 2 Feb 1953; probate granted at Exeter, 6 Mar 1953.
- [S4901] U.K. General Register Office, Axbridge Registration Office, 1897, J Qtr, Vol 05C, Page 969 (Reliability: 3).
- [S4907] Free BMD Index, Jan-Feb-Mar 1903, Newport, Monmouthshire - Vol 11a - Page 255 (Reliability: 3).
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=iFKFYbyfKbFXldMGtGaCHg&scan=1
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