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| Name |
Alice Parker |
| Birth |
Abt 1873 |
Abersychan, Pontypool, Monmouth  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Person ID |
I513973359 |
Walsh - Wilson Family Tree | Marjorie |
| Last Modified |
6 Sep 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 [1] |
| 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 |
John L Thomas, b. Abt 1877, Magor, Monmouthshire |
| Children |
| | 1. Dorothy May S. Thomas, b. Apr 1905, Prescot, Lancashire [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
| | 2. Ethel J. S. Thomas, b. Abt 1907, Prescot, Lancashire [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
| | 3. Roger Llewellyn Styant Thomas, b. 14 Sep 1909, 16 Lonsdale Road, Didsbury/Chorlton, South Manchester, Lancashire, England d. 22 Feb 1992, Mandy Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, Wales (Age 82 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
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| Documents |
 | 1911 Welsh Census - John L. Thomas and his Family - 21 Gwendoline Street, Merthyr Tydvil, Wales
The census shows John L. Thomas (age 34, an Assistant Master in a Secondary School) living with his wife Alice Thomas (age 37) and three children: Dorothy M.S. Thomas (age 5), Ethel J.S. Thomas (age 4), and Roger L.S. Thomas (age 1). Alice and John have been married for 7 years (marriage circa 1904).
Source Citation: Class: RG14; Piece: 32468; Schedule Number: 33.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1911 Wales Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA), 1911.
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| Family ID |
F601968838 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
1 Sep 2013 |
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 | Birth - Abt 1873 - Abersychan, Pontypool, Monmouth |
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| Documents
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 | 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. |
 | Alice Parker - 1901 Census
The 1901 census report shows Alice Parker, age 28 [born approximately 1873], born in Abersychan, Monmouthshire, Wales. Living at 169 Commercial Street, Pontypool, a draper's shop. Employed as a draper's assistant.
Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 4944; Folio: 23; Page: 37.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1901 Wales Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1901. |
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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. |
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| Sources |
- [S4901] U.K. General Register Office, Axbridge Registration Office, 1897, J Qtr, Vol 05C, Page 969 (Reliability: 3).
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