 1870 - 1953 (82 years)
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| Name |
Ann Louisa Parker |
| Birth |
09 Aug 1870 |
Abersychan, Pontypool, Monmouth  [1, 2] |
| Christening |
04 Sep 1870 |
Trevethin, Pontypool. Monmouthshire [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
11 Mar 1953 |
52 Leigh Sinton Road, Malvern Link, Worcestershire [3] |
| Person ID |
I513973360 |
Walsh - Wilson Family Tree | Marjorie |
| Last Modified |
25 Apr 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 [4] |
| 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 |
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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. |
 | 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. |
 | 1891 England Census - Ann Parker in Hutton
The 1891 census shows Ann Parker, a 77 year old widowed grocer, on the High Street in Hutton, Somerset. Visiting is Louisa Parker, age 20, born in Abersychan, Wales. This is assumed to be Ann Louisa Parker, her grand-daughter. 1891 English Census; Class: RG12; Piece: 1919; Folio 39; Page 4; GSU roll: 6097029. |
 | 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. |
 | 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]. |
 | Death Certificate of Ann Louise Parker - 11 Mar 1953
Death certificate shows Ann Louise Parker, an 82-year-old spinster, died on 11 Mar 1953 at 52 Leigh Sinton Road, Malvern Link. She is shown as "no occupation, daughter of Clement Parker, a gardener (domestic), deceased." Cause of death: (1) Left ventricular failure, (2) bronchopneumonia, (3) chroic bronchitis - after postmortem without inquest. Informant F. Wilson, nephew. |
 | 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. |
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| Sources |
- [S4932] Trevethin Parish Record Transcripts (Reliability: 3).
- [S4901] U.K. General Register Office, Year 1870; Qtr S; Vol 11A; Page 131; Pontypool Registration District (Reliability: 3).
- [S4901] U.K. General Register Office, 11 Mar 1953, Malvern Sub-District, 1953, Number 278 (Reliability: 3).
- [S4901] U.K. General Register Office, Axbridge Registration Office, 1897, J Qtr, Vol 05C, Page 969 (Reliability: 3).
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