Clement Parker b. 10 Oct 1846 Hutton, Somerset d. 25 Dec 1922 Meadow at Longmead, Caterham Military Depot, Surrey: Lucies Family History Site

1846 - 1922 (76 years)

Name Clement Parker

Birth 10 Oct 1846 Hutton, Somerset [1]

Gender Male

Occupation 1881-1882 Pontypool. Monmouthshire

The 1881 census shows Clement Parker, and members of his family, living at Hill Grove, Upper George Street, Pontypool. His employer is Edwin Fowler, then age 45, a draper.

The 1 Jun 1882 article from the Western Mail indicates that Clement Parker's employer was E. Fowler.

Other information indicates Edwin Fowler was a local magistrate (1901). Alice Parker is shown on the 1901 census as a draper's assistant, living and working in the draper's shop.

Census 5 Apr 1891 St Mary's Cottage, Clytha Park, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales [2]

1891 census, St Mary's Cottage, Clytha Park, St Woollos, Newport: Clement Parker, head, 44, gardener (employed), born Hutton, Somerset; wife Sarah A., 47; children Sarah A. 14, Alfred J. 11 and Amelia G. 6. Neighbours: Rosemont (Edward F. Davies, miller's agent), Oakfield (William Graham, surveyor) and Broughton. His employer is not named.

Residence 1896 [3]

Address from prayer book, per Rosalind Bowman

Address:
Springfield
Waterloo Road
Newport

Occupation 1901 Springfield, Waterloo Road, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales [4]

Domestic gardener, almost certainly to Theophilus John Beynon, shipowner, of Springfield (1901 census: Clement lived in Springfield Lodge, next to the house).

Census 31 Mar 1901 Springfield Lodge, Waterloo Road, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales [5]

1901 census, Springfield Lodge, Waterloo Road, Newport: Clement Parker, head, 54, gardener (domestic), worker, born Hutton; wife Sarah Ann, 57; daughter Sarah A., 24, assistant teacher in an elementary school. The big house next door, SPRINGFIELD, was the home of THEOPHILUS JOHN BEYNON, 60, widower, SHIPOWNER and employer, so he was almost certainly Clement's employer (a second gardener, William Rees, 23, lived in at Springfield). Next door again, at 1 Stow Park Avenue, lived HORACE SAMPSON LYNE, 40, solicitor (president of the Welsh Rugby Union 1906-1947), and his wife Mary.

Occupation 02 Apr 1911 Caterham, Surrey

The 1911 U.K. census shows Clement Parker as a "gardener - domestic."

Address:
7 Foxton Lane
Caterham, Surrey CR3
United Kingdom

Residence 02 Apr 1911 Caterham, Surrey

Address from 1911 Census Report

Address:
7 Foxon Lane Gardens
Caterham, Surrey CR3
United Kingdom

Occupation 1921 Knaresdale, Caterham, Surrey, England [6]

Working gardener to A. H. Wallis, private gentleman (1921 census).

Census 19 Jun 1921 The Cottage, Knaresdale, Caterham, Surrey, England [7]

1921 census, The Cottage, Knaresdale [house name uncertain; also read Knavesdale], Caterham: Clement Parker, head, 74, married, born Hutton, Somerset; WORKING GARDENER, employer A. H. WALLIS, private gentleman, place of work Knaresdale, Caterham. Wife Harriett Sarah Parker, 46, born Bridport, Dorset, home duties. Daughter Ruth Parker, 9 years 5 months, both parents alive, born Caterham (Foxton Lane), at school full-time.

Death 25 Dec 1922 Caterham, Surrey

Cause of death (on post mortem): apoplexy.

According to the Surrey History Centre in Woking, "We do hold collections of coroner?s inquest papers here at the Surrey History Centre, however, very few of these records have survived from earlier than 1925. A search has been made in the listings we have for the coroner's records prior to this date on your behalf and although no inquest papers survive for the Reigate area prior to 1925, there is a register of deaths and inquests (Ref: 629/1/1) in which I have located Clement Parker."

Register of natural deaths and inquests, giving case number, date, name, place, verdict, occupation, cause of death and costs (April 1912 - June 1933) [Ref: 629/1/1]

Number	1735
Date	29th December 1922
Name	Parker, Clement
Place	Caterham
Verdict	Natural causes
Age	76 years
Occupation	Domestic Gardener
Remarks	Apoplexy
Disbursements	£4 2/-

Please visit the Surrey History Centre online at: http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/surreyhistorycentre

Death 25 Dec 1922 Meadow at Longmead, Caterham Military Depot, Surrey [8]

Notes

EMPLOYERS (researched 2 Nov 2026). (1) By 1881 and in 1882: Edwin Fowler, draper and magistrate of Pontypool (1881 census; Western Mail, 1 Jun 1882, the orchids). (2) 1891: gardener living at St Mary's Cottage, Clytha Park, Newport; the employer is not named in the census. (3) 1901: Springfield Lodge, Waterloo Road, Newport, next to Springfield, home of Theophilus John Beynon, shipowner, almost certainly his employer. (4) 1921: working gardener to A. H. Wallis, private gentleman, Knaresdale, Caterham. He died in 1922 at The Cottage, Longmead, Caterham.

LADY LYONS OR LINES? Aunt Min's letter remembered a grand lady, "Lady Lyons - or perhaps Lines", as godmother to Clement's eldest daughter Minnie. In 1901 the Parkers' next-door neighbours but one, at 1 Stow Park Avenue, were Horace Sampson Lyne, Newport solicitor and later president of the Welsh Rugby Union, and his wife Mary. INFERENCE ONLY: the remembered name may be a memory of the Lyne family, Newport gentry whom the Parkers knew as neighbours. Minnie was born in 1868, when Horace was a boy, so if a Lyne was her godmother it would have been an older woman of that family. Not proven.

HUNTLEY & PALMERS: family lore of a connection with the biscuit family has not been found in any record so far.
HIS DEATH, from the newspapers (found 4 Nov 2026, Findmypast). On Christmas Day 1922, at about a quarter past four in the afternoon, Clement, aged 76, carried two pails of food out to the pigs he looked after, in a field next to The Cottage, Longmead, Upper Caterham, where he worked as gardener. He did not come back. His wife Harriett Sarah raised the alarm with his employer, who went out and found the buckets and, a few yards away, Clement lying unconscious. A doctor was called but could only pronounce him dead. The London Daily News (29 Dec 1922, "A Pigsty Fatality") reported that his face was badly injured, "believed to have been caused by either the pigs or rats attacking him", and that he was thought to have stumbled over a bucket, cut his forehead and lain stunned; other papers ran it as "Pig-sty Tragedy: Dying Man Attacked by Animals" (Liverpool Weekly Courier, 30 Dec 1922). INQUEST: held by F. J. Nightingale, coroner, at the Blacksmith's Arms, Caterham, on Friday 29 December 1922 (Croydon Times, 3 Jan 1923, "Dead in a Field: Sad Case at Caterham"). Witnesses were his son Alfred Parker, his widow, his employer and Dr Carroll of Caterham, who found an injury below the right eye and, at the post-mortem, a cerebral haemorrhage: death from apoplexy, from natural causes. (The employer's name is garbled in the scanned text - it reads like "F. R. Mason" - so it is not certain; the 1921 census has Clement working for A. H. Wallis.)

Person ID I513973355 Walsh - Wilson Family Tree | Marjorie

Last Modified 10 Oct 2009

Father	George Parker, b. 1814/1816 d. 30 May 1848, Mark, Somerset (Age 32 years)
Mother	Ann Binning, b. Abt 1814, Mark, Somerset d. 30 Nov 1891, Somerset, England (Age 77 years)
Marriage	18 Sep 1837	St John, Bedminster, Somerset, England [9]
Family ID	F505778194	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 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 [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

Family 2 Harriett Sarah Seal, b. Abt 1875, Bridport, Dorset, England

Marriage Between Apr 1911 and Jun 1911 Godstone district, Surrey, England [11]

Notes

Clement's SECOND MARRIAGE (found 2 Nov 2026). On census night, 2 April 1911, Clement, 64, was a widower at 7 Foxton Lane, Caterham, with a 74-year-old housekeeper. A few weeks later, in the April-June quarter of 1911, he married Harriett Sarah Seal, born about 1875 at Bridport, Dorset, nearly thirty years younger (GRO index, Godstone 2a 456; the bride's name is from the same index page and the 1921 census). Their daughter Ruth was born at Caterham early in 1912. So Clement became a father again at 65, and Ruth was a half-sister to Sarah Ann Wilson and an aunt five years YOUNGER than her nephew Frank Todd Wilson. Harriett and Ruth were with him at The Cottage, Knaresdale, Caterham, in 1921, the year before he died. To confirm: the marriage certificate (it will give Harriett's father and her age).

Children

1. Ruth Parker, b. 21 Feb 1912, Caterham, Surrey, England

d. 30 Jan 1972, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England

(Age 59 years)

Family ID F601969441 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 3 Nov 2026

Event Map

	Birth - 10 Oct 1846 - Hutton, Somerset
	Occupation - The 1881 census shows Clement Parker, and members of his family, living at Hill Grove, Upper George Street, Pontypool. His employer is Edwin Fowler, then age 45, a draper. The 1 Jun 1882 article from the Western Mail indicates that Clement Parker's employer was E. Fowler. Other information indicates Edwin Fowler was a local magistrate (1901). Alice Parker is shown on the 1901 census as a draper's assistant, living and working in the draper's shop. - 1881-1882 - Pontypool. Monmouthshire

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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.
		1861 England Census - Ann Parker and Her Family - Hutton, Somerset The 1861 census shows Ann Parker (age 45, a married shopkeeper as head of household) living in Hutton with her four children: Mary (age 18), Amelia (age 17), Clement (age 14), and George (age 12). 1861 England Census; Class: RG9; Piece: 1671; Folio: 52; Page: 5; GSU Roll: 542848.
		1851 England Census - Ann Parker and Family The 1851 census shows Ann Parker (age 36, widowed, a charwoman) living with her children Gilbert (age 9), Amelia (age 6), Clement (age 5), and George (age 2). 1851 England Census; Class: HO107; Piece: 1936; GSU roll: 221095.
		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.
		Clement Parker Birth Certificate Born on 10 Oct 1846 in Hutton, Somerset.
		Clement Parker - 1911 U.K. Census Report The 1911 census report shows Clement Parker, age 64, a gardener - domestic and widower, born in Somerset (Hutton). He is living with Agnes Styles, age 74, a widow, his housekeeper. She was born in Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire. They are living at 7 Foxton Lane, Caterham, Surrey - a dwelling with three rooms.
		Clement Parker Death Certificate - Christmas Day 1922 Clement Parker, age 76, died of apoplexy in a meadow at Longmead, Caterham M.D. (Military Depot?) on Christmas Day 1922. He lived at The Cottage, Longmead, and was shown as a gardener (domestic). The Coroner for Surrey, F. J. Nightingale, held an inquest on 29 Dec 1922.
		The Bath and West of England Show at Cardiff Article from the Western Mail, Cardiff, 1 Jun 1882, issue 4074. "Mr. Clement Parker, gardener to Mr. E. Fowler of Pontypool, exhibits nothing but orchids. These are of very fine quality, and prsent an almost infinite variety of colour, but it is a pity Mr. Fowler did not instruct his gardener to thoroughly unpack the flowers before staging them. As on Tuesday morning there was wool around them."
		Ros Bowman - Parker family history notes, Sep 2009 - page 1 Email from Ros (Rosalind) Bowman to Craig Walsh, 9 Sep 2009, subject "Alfred Parker": identifies the people in the 1925 Parker family photograph (standing left to right Joan, Will (Bill), Percy, Alfred, Clemence, Charles and Norah; seated Molly in front of Alfred, and Kathleen in front of Catherine (Kathleen)); mentions a Western Mail article on Clement Parker showing his orchids, and finding "Morgan marrying Morgan". Attachments: Parker Family 1925.jpg; Parkerfamilyhist.2009doc.doc (her Parker family history table, the following pages).
		Ros Bowman - Parker family history notes, Sep 2009 - page 2 Page from Ros Bowman's Parker family history table (Sep 2009): Molly Morgan Parker, her marriage to Reginald Morton Douglas Dexter, and their descendants. Secondary research notes; individual facts should be checked against certificates.
		Ros Bowman - Parker family history notes, Sep 2009 - page 3 Page from Ros Bowman's Parker family history table (Sep 2009): Clement Parker's census addresses (1891 St Mary's Cottage, Clytha Park, St Woolos, Newport; 1901 Springfield Lodge, Waterloo Rd, Newport; 1911 7 Foxton Lane, Caterham) and his children. Secondary research notes.
		Ros Bowman - Parker family history notes, Sep 2009 - page 4 Page from Ros Bowman's Parker family history table (Sep 2009): Clement Parker's death at Longmead, Caterham (25 Dec 1922) and Alfred James Parker's family (Hornsey; Sanderson print works; Cross Keys Inn, Cranfield). Secondary research notes.
		Ros Bowman - Parker family history notes, Sep 2009 - page 5 Page from Ros Bowman's Parker family history table (Sep 2009): George Parker (died 1848, blacksmith) and Ann Binning, and their children baptised at Hutton. Secondary research notes; several readings differ from TNG and are unverified.
		Ros Bowman - Parker family history notes, Sep 2009 - page 6 Page from Ros Bowman's Parker family history table (Sep 2009): baptisms and marriages of Clement Parker's siblings at St Mary the Virgin, Hutton. Secondary research notes.
		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.

Histories		Everybody Lied - True Stories from Our Family Tree An illustrated dossier: 25 years of certificates, manifests, and court files behind the family's best-loved stories. Fifteen documents, one running theme - almost nobody ever filled out a form honestly, and every lie was a door.
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

[S4901] U.K. General Register Office, Axbridge Union Registration District, Sub-district of Banwell & Weston; 1846-Qtr D; Vol: 10; Page 0 (Reliability: 3).
[S90939] 1891 Wales Census, (The National Archives (via Ancestry)), RG12/4376, St Woollos, district 33, schedule 16 (Reliability: 3).
[S5031] Rosalind Bowman.
[S90940] 1901 Wales Census, (The National Archives (via Ancestry)), RG13/4957, district 15, page 6 (Reliability: 3).
[S90940] 1901 Wales Census, (The National Archives (via Ancestry)), RG13/4957, Newport, district 15, page 6, schedules 35-37 (Reliability: 3).
[S90941] 1921 England Census, (The National Archives (via Ancestry)), Godstone, Caterham, ED 53, schedule 2 (Reliability: 3).
[S90941] 1921 England Census, (The National Archives (via Ancestry)), Godstone RD, Caterham UD, ED 53, schedule 2 (image 3337_0375) (Reliability: 3).
[S4901] U.K. General Register Office, 01 Jan 1923, Volume 2A, Page 280, Godstone Registration District (Reliability: 3).
Death certificate indicates Clement Parker, age 76, of The Cottage, Longmead, Catherham M.D., a gardener (domestic), died of natural causes/apoplexy, in the meadow at Longmead. The cause of death was determined by a post mortem: certificate received from F. J. Nightingale, Coroner for Surrey. An inquest was held on 29 Dec 1922.
[S5004] Ancestry.com, 18 Sep 1837, Bristol, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 (Reliability: 2).
George Parker and Ann Vowles Binning, married 18 Sep 1837, St John, Bedminster; her father William Binning, his father John Parker. Registered Sep qtr 1837, Bedminster.
[S4901] U.K. General Register Office, Axbridge Registration Office, 1897, J Qtr, Vol 05C, Page 969 (Reliability: 3).
[S4901] U.K. General Register Office, GRO marriage index, Apr-Jun 1911, Godstone, vol. 2a p. 456: Clement Parker; the same page lists Harriet S. Seal (Reliability: 3).