George Clement Parker b. Jan 1875 Pontypool. Monmouthshire d. 2 May 1906 Tonk, Rajputana, India: Lucies Family History Site

1875 - 1906 (31 years)

Name	George Clement Parker
Birth	Jan 1875	Pontypool. Monmouthshire [1]
Gender	Male
Occupation	1902	Karnal, Punjab, India [2]
	Punjab Irrigation (canal engineer), Karnal. From the Times of India notice of his daughter's birth, 23 Oct 1902.
Occupation	1906	Tonk, Rajputana, India [3]
	State Engineer, Tonk State (a princely state ruled by a Nawab).
Death	2 May 1906	Tonk, Rajputana, India [4, 5]
Notes	INDIA (added 2 Nov 2026). Married Gertrude Verschoyle Rose at St Paul's, Umballa, 20 Nov 1901. Children: a daughter born at Karnal 23 Oct 1902, a daughter at Kasauli 27 Jul 1904 and a son at Meerut 6 Dec 1905 (names not in the notices). In 1902 he was in Punjab Irrigation at Karnal. He died at Tonk, Rajputana, on 2 May 1906, State Engineer, aged 31. The Argus notice calls him the "elder son" of Clement Parker, i.e. the elder of the two sons who survived. George was himself a twin: his twin brother William Charles died in 1876, aged 1 (GRO indexes, see the family note). FAMILY STORY (Aunt Min's letter, c1977): George was meant to be a teacher. He stowed away on a ship to the West Indies, helped the captain when a mutiny broke out, and did well. He went to Ceylon and India, was first librarian and secretary to a Maharajah, then joined the Indian Civil Service, became an engineer and helped build the canal system in the Punjab. He married, had several children and died young, about 1906; his wife and children went back to her family and contact was lost. How the records fit: the engineering, the Punjab canals, the marriage, the children and the 1906 death are all CONFIRMED. The stowaway and mutiny are NOT FOUND. "Librarian and secretary to a Maharajah" is NOT FOUND, although he did end up in a princely state's service (Tonk, ruled by a Nawab). His August 1900 photograph (media 502) was taken by a photographer in the Central Provinces. Strictly, an irrigation engineer was in the Public Works service, not the ICS; the letter uses the term loosely.
Person ID	I513973361	Walsh - Wilson Family Tree \| Marjorie
Last Modified	3 Nov 2026

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 [6]
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.
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

Family Gertrude Verschoyle Rose

Marriage 20 Nov 1901 St Paul's Church, Umballa, Punjab, India [7, 8]

Notes

NAMES FOUND 4 Nov 2026: Findmypast, British India Office Births & Baptisms index (father George Clement Parker) lists three children: KATHLEEN GERTRUDE CLEMENT PARKER, 1902, Umballa (Bengal Presidency series); MARJORIE DORIS CLEMENT PARKER, 1904, Kussowlie [Kasauli]; LIONEL ST GEORGE CLEMENT PARKER, 1905, Meerut, St John's. Birth dates and places are from the newspaper birth notices (Karnal 23 Oct 1902; Kasauli 27 Jul 1904; Meerut 6 Dec 1905); the index gives only the year. Kathleen was born at Karnal and presumably baptised at Umballa, where her parents had married. All three carry their grandfather Clement's name. Full transcripts are behind Findmypast's higher subscription tier and were not opened. Next: what became of them after their mother took them home in 1906 (her family, the Roses).

Children

	1. Kathleen Gertrude Clement Parker, b. 23 Oct 1902, Karnal, Punjab, India
	2. Marjorie Doris Clement Parker, b. 27 Jul 1904, Kasauli, Punjab, India
	3. Lionel St George Clement Parker, b. 6 Dec 1905, Meerut, United Provinces, India d. 1995, New Zealand (Age 89 years)

Family ID F601969440 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 3 Nov 2026

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Birth - Jan 1875 - Pontypool. Monmouthshire

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Photos

George Clement Parker - August 1900
This photograph was taken by G.S. Nands & Co., General Photographers and Oil Painters, Central Provinces. Photo courtesy of Susan Milroy.

Documents » Slide Show		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.
		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.

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.)

Sources

[S4907] Free BMD Index, Jan-Feb-Mar 1875, Volume 11a, Page 155 (Reliability: 3).
District: Pontypool; County: Gwent, Monmouthshire
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.
[S90935] Times of India BMD notices (FIBIS index), (FIBIS), Times of India, 3 Nov 1902, Births; FIBIS record 1091197 (Reliability: 3), search.fibis.org.
[S90935] Times of India BMD notices (FIBIS index), (FIBIS), Times of India, 11 May 1906, Deaths; FIBIS record 1152931 (Reliability: 3), search.fibis.org.
[S90935] Times of India BMD notices (FIBIS index), (FIBIS), Times of India, 11 May 1906, Deaths: "George Clement Parker, State Engineer, aged 31 years", at Tonk, Rajputana, 2 May 1906. FIBIS record 1152931 (Reliability: 3), search.fibis.org.
[S90934] South Wales Argus, Tue 8 May 1906, p. 2, Deaths: "PARKER.-On May 2nd, 1906, at Tonk, Rajputana, India, George Clement, elder son of Clement and the late Mrs. S. A. Parker, Springfield Lodge, Newport." (Newspapers.com image 1143761935) (Reliability: 3), Read on Newspapers.com.
[S4901] U.K. General Register Office, Axbridge Registration Office, 1897, J Qtr, Vol 05C, Page 969 (Reliability: 3).
[S90935] Times of India BMD notices (FIBIS index), (FIBIS), Times of India, 30 Nov 1901, Marriages: at St Paul's Church, Umballa, by the Rev. C. Mayhew, Chaplain of Umballa, by special licence, George Clement Parker to Gertrude Verschoyle, elder daughter of F. E. Rose Esq., late Executive Engineer, Punjab. FIBIS record 1075530 (Reliability: 3), search.fibis.org.
[S90936] India Select Marriages (Ancestry), (Ancestry.com), George Clement Parker, father Clement Parker, and Gertrude Verschoyle Rose, 20 Nov 1901, Umballa (record 32753) (Reliability: 3).