Sarah Ann Morgan b. 24 Dec 1843 Sowhill, Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire, Wales d. Between Jul 1902 and Sep 1902 Axbridge district, Somerset, England: Lucies Family History Site

1843 - 1902 (58 years)

Name	Sarah Ann Morgan
Birth	24 Dec 1843	Sowhill, Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire, Wales [1]
Christening	28 Apr 1858	Trevethin Parish Church, County of Monmouth, Wales [2]
Gender	Female
Baptism	28 Apr 1858	Trevethin Parish Church, County of Monmouth, Wales [3]
Baptism	Baptism record shows father's name Charles Morgan and mother's name Anne Morgan. Residence at Cwmffrwdwr, father's occupation collier. Sarah Anne's date of birth is shown as 24 Dec 1844, but her birth certificate shows 24 Dec 1843.
Death	Between Jul 1902 and Sep 1902	Axbridge district, Somerset, England [4, 5, 6]
Notes	DEATH (added 2 Nov 2026): PROBABLE, not yet proven by a certificate. Aunt Min's letter says she died in 1902. The only matching GRO entry is Sarah Ann Parker, Jul-Sep 1902, Axbridge district, Somerset, age 58, which fits her birth on 24 Dec 1843. Axbridge district covers Weston-super-Mare and Hutton (Clement's birthplace), and she was in service in Weston in 1861. No Sarah Ann Parker of the right age died in Newport or Pontypool districts in 1902. A death certificate would give the exact date and place. FAMILY TRADITION (Aunt Min's letter, from "Auntie Louisa"): she was said to descend from the old Princes of Wales and was proud of it; one forebear served under Nelson on HMS Victory, so that branch was called "the Victory Morgans". She had friends in landed and titled families but had "married beneath her": they called on her in their carriages but had nothing to do with Clement, and dropped the family when she died. One of them, remembered as "Lady Lyons - or perhaps Lines", was godmother to her daughter Minnie. None of this is supported by records found so far: her father Charles Morgan was a collier at Sowhill, Trevethin. The letter also says Minnie spoke of visits to great-aunts who were Quakers in Weston-super-Mare, probably Clement's aunts (Min's guess).
Person ID	I513973356	Walsh - Wilson Family Tree \| Marjorie
Last Modified	3 Nov 2026

Father	Charles Morgan, b. Abt 1821, Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire d. Mar 1888, Pontypool. Monmouthshire (Age 67 years)
Relationship	Birth
Mother	Ann Morgan
Relationship	Birth
Marriage	25 Sep 1841	Trevethin Parish Church, County of Monmouth, Wales [7, 8]
Marriage Witnesses	25 Sep 1841	Trevethin Parish Church, County of Monmouth, Wales [9]
Marriage Witnesses	Witnesses: John Morgan, James Saunders
Documents		Marriage certificate of Charles Morgan and Ann Morgan - 25 Sep 1841 Married in Trevethin Parish Church after Banns. From the Pontypool Register Office
Family ID	F505778199	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Clement Parker, b. 10 Oct 1846, Hutton, Somerset d. 25 Dec 1922, Meadow at Longmead, Caterham Military Depot, Surrey (Age 76 years)

Marriage 10 Jun 1867 Emmanuel Church, Weston Super Mare, Somerset [10]

Type: After Banns

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.

Children

+	1. Minnie Parker, b. 13 Jul 1868, Weston Super Mare, Somerset d. Mar 1948, Tiverton, Devon (Age 79 years)
	2. Ann Louisa Parker, b. 09 Aug 1870, Abersychan, Pontypool, Monmouth d. 11 Mar 1953, 52 Leigh Sinton Road, Malvern Link, Worcestershire (Age 82 years)
+	3. Alice Parker, b. Abt 1873, Abersychan, Pontypool, Monmouth
+	4. George Clement Parker, b. Jan 1875, Pontypool. Monmouthshire d. 2 May 1906, Tonk, Rajputana, India (Age 31 years)
	5. William Charles Parker, b. Jan-Feb-Mar 1875, Pontypool, Monmouthshire d. Apr-May-Jun 1876, Pontypool, Monmouthshire (Age 1 year)
+	6. Sarah Ann Parker, b. 18 Apr 1876, High Street, Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire d. 02 Feb 1953, 54 Buddle Lane, Exeter, Devon (Age 76 years)
+	7. Alfred James Parker, b. 05 Apr 1880, Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire d. 04 Jun 1946, Cross Keys Inn, Cranfield, Bedfordshire (Age 66 years)
	8. Amelia Gertrude Parker, b. Abt 1884, St. Woollos, Newport, Monmouthshire d. 1910, Godstone, Surrey (Age 26 years)

Photos

Clement and Sarah Parker
Photograph taken at Garrett & Lockyear, Newport, Monmouthshire. Courtesy of Susan Milroy.

Documents

» Slide Show

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

Last Modified 11 Jul 2008

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Documents » Slide Show		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.
		1871 Welsh Census - Clement Parker and Family The 1871 census shows John Clement (age 24, a gardener) with his wife Sarah Ann (age 27), and daughters Minnie (age 2) and Ann Louisa (age 7 months). They are living at Railroadside in Trevethin. 1871 Wales Census, Class: RG10; Piece: 5333; Folio: 40; Page: 15; GSU roll: 848441.
		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.
		Ann Louisa Parker - Birth Certificate Ann Louisa Parker was born in Abersychan, Trevethin, on 9 Aug 1870. Her father, Clement Parker, was a gardener, and her mother was Sarah Ann Parker (formerly Morgan). Pontypool Registration District, 1870, column 116.
		Birth Certificate of Sarah Ann Morgan Born 24 Dec 1843, Sowhill, Trevethin, Pontypool, Wales. Father Charles Morgan, collier. Mother Ann Morgan (formerly Morgan). Birth reported by Ann Morgan, by her mark, on 24 Jan 1844.
		The 1861 English Census - Sarah A. Morgan The 1861 England census shows Sarah A. Morgan, age 17 [estimated birth year 1844] as a "domestic servant" in Weston Super Mare. Her place of birth is Pontypool, Monmouthshire. She is also shown as the niece of the owner of 16 Park Place, Weston Super Mare, Thomas Lilley. He is age 41 and a "lodging house keeper." He was born in Kingston, Surrey. His wife, Sarah Lilley (42), was born in Pontypool, Monmouthshire. Class: RG9; Piece: 1672; Folio: 76; Page: 22; GSU roll: 542849. Ancestry.com. 1861 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1861. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England.
		1851 U.K. Census - Charles and Ann Morgan and Family - Sowhill, Trevethin, Monmouthshire The 1851 census shows Charles Morgan (age 30, born in Trevethin) a coal miner, living with his wife Ann (age 29, born in Nantey [sp? could be Nantyden, six miles south east of Abergavenny]). With them are their children Charles (age 9), Sarah A. (7), James (5), Mary A. (2), and Rachel (8 months). The five children are all born in Trevethin, and are all students. Class: HO107; Piece: 2449; Folio: 127; Page: 43; GSU roll: 104188-104189. Ancestry.com. 1851 Wales Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1851.
		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.

Sources

[S4971] Pontypool Register Office, 24 Dec 1843, Number 206 (Reliability: 3).
Volume 26, page 115 on FreeBMD. England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office.
[S4932] Trevethin Parish Record Transcripts, 28 Apr 1858 (Reliability: 2).
Baptised on same date as brother James Morgan (born 6 Aug 1846) and sister Mary Anne Morgan (born 22 May 1848).
[S4932] Trevethin Parish Record Transcripts, 28 Apr 1858 (Reliability: 3).
[S4901] U.K. General Register Office, GRO death index, Jul-Sep 1902, Sarah Ann Parker, age 58, Axbridge district, vol. 5c p. 286 (Reliability: 3).
[S90934] South Wales Argus, 8 May 1906, p. 2: her son George's death notice calls her "the late Mrs. S. A. Parker" (Reliability: 3), Read on Newspapers.com.
[S90938] Aunt Min's letter c1977, page 3: "when she died in 1902" (Reliability: 3), Family papers.
[S4971] Pontypool Register Office, 25 Sep 1841, 7512/14 (Reliability: 3).
[S4932] Trevethin Parish Record Transcripts, 26 Sep 1841 (Reliability: 2).
Records of the Trevethin Parish Church show marriage on 26 Sep 1841, marriage certificate shows 25 Sep 1841.
[S4932] Trevethin Parish Record Transcripts, 26 Sep 1841 (Reliability: 3).
[S4901] U.K. General Register Office, Axbridge Registration Office, 1897, J Qtr, Vol 05C, Page 969 (Reliability: 3).