Charles Joseph Parke
Charles Joseph Parke (4 December 1820 – 8 March 1893) was a High Sheriff of Dorset in 1869 and a Lord of the Manor of Sturminster Marshall . He was born at Ham Common in Surrey and was the son of Charles Parke and Letitia Parke nee Alcock whose brother was Thomas Alcock (MP) . In 1847 he married Ellen Mary Ethelston, daughter of the Rev Charles Wicksted Ethelston of Upplyme. Parke lived at Henbury, Dorset . [ 1] [ 2]
Family
They had five sons and four daughters:[ 3]
Charles Ethelston Parke (born 1850), eldest son, served in the Rifle Brigade in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War .[ 4] He married Mary Louisa Coventry, daughter of St John Coventry, and Mary Elizabeth Todd and step-daughter of George William Culme Soltau Symons .
Edmund William Parke (1853–1901). He was educated at Wellington College ,[ 5] and went to Henbury Station in Northern Territory , Australia, in 1876, where his brother Walter joined him.[ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
Alfred Watlington Parke (born 1854), cleric; father of Wilfred Parke the aviator.[ 9] [ 10]
Lawrence Parke of the 68th Durham Light Infantry , father of Walter Parke .
Walter Parke, born 1863.
Edith Letitia, married 1877 Rev. Charles Lewis Kennaway,[ 11] a grandson of Lewis Way .
Ellen Henrietta, married Philip Thomas Godsal .
Charlotte Josephine.
Mildred Margaret, married Henry Aubrey Cartwright of the 68th Light Infantry, son of Henry Cartwright .[ 12]
References
^ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Bernard Burke, Volume 2, 1898
^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Parke, Charles Joseph" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource .
^ Burke, Bernard; Burke, Ashworth P. (Ashworth Peter) (1894). A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland . London : Harrison. p. 1559.
^ Great Britain Army Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) (1920). The Rifle Brigade Chronicle . p. 276.
^ Wellington College, Berkshire (1873). Register of Wellington College, for the Years 1859-1873, July . p. 29.
^ Strehlow, T. G. H. (2015). Journey to Horseshoe Bend . Giramondo Publishing. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-922146-78-6 .
^ Lewis, Darrell (2011). Roping in the History of Broncoing . Boolarong Press. p. 77 note 7. ISBN 978-1-921920-24-0 .
^ "Personal Notes from England" . Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) . 29 July 1901. p. 6.
^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Parke, Alfred Watlington" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource .
^ Burke, Bernard (1925). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry . Burke Publishing Company. p. 1325.
^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Kennaway, Charles Lewis" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource .
^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929–30). Armorial Families . Vol. 1 (7th ed.). London: Hurst & Blackett. pp. 323–4.