hi elzables. didn't think of carolina,
what a twit i am,
grandad parker? actually died in a london hospital, quite how that happened i don't know. according to aunt martha who was 6 when he died, they were lvng in toddington, and he was working as a groom for a doctor there, so maybe he became ill and the doctor got him there. i seemto remember my gran telling me years ago he died of asthma, but then she told me lots of stuff that aren't necessarily so.
from what i can gather they were travelling around the beds, northamptonshire, herts area where the older girls were born , but at somepoint, perhaps because of g.grandads health they stopped in toddington and got a house. after he died, lavina moved to markyate with her girls. she must have met poppa john mead soon after because her first son, johnny was born around 1939. i don't know when they married but it must have been around then, presumably in markyate.
the luton priscilla parker could be right, she married a parker traveller man and had loads of kids apparently and died young, 1963 would make her in her 40's.
the only thing with stephen and susan is that the children's names don't quite fit, i know that doesn't necessarily mean anything, but I'm sure they had a lot and at least one was charlie as my dad (not related to them except by marriage) remembers back in the 70S taking Lavina and a couple of her girls to Lavina's brothers funeral in hitchin and he was called charlie. cousin will also remembers uncle charlie loverdge too. goodness it is complicated isn't it. thanks for your help with this elzabels.
tracey
