Richard PARSONS, Born 1828, Dorset

[Beg Clonrode...]

Do you have any idea who the "someone else" he was buried with?

Hello...

Not from the current Waikumete website so caveat emptor.


Anglican Division C

BERRY, Charles - aged 42 years - d.04 Feb 1892 - bur.06 Feb 1892 - Row 2 Plot 53
BIRCH, Mary Ann - aged 60 years - d.03 Aug 1887 - bur.05 Aug 1887 - Row 2 Plot 53

ANDERSON, John - aged 55 years - d.04 Aug 1887 - bur.06 Aug 1887 - Row 2 Plot 54
MCCOLL, Thomas - aged 57 years - d.05 Feb 1892 - bur.08 Feb 1892 - Row 2 Plot 54

COCKERTON, George - aged 50 years - d.27 Jul 1887 - bur.29 Jul 1887 - Row 2 Plot 55
KNEE, Jno - aged 71 years - d.22 Nov 1892 - bur.23 Jan 1892 - Row 2 Plot 55
WHITFIELD, John - aged 47 years - d.08 Sep 1908 - bur.10 Sep 1908 - Row 2 Plot 55a
TUCK, Mary Alice - aged 65 years - d.17 Jun 1931 - bur.19 Jun 1931 - Row 2 Plot 55b

PARSONS, Richard James - aged 61 years - d.07 Jul 1887 - bur.08 Jul 1887 - Row 2 Plot 56
WOODWARD, James - aged 58 years - d.30 Jan 1892 - bur.01 Feb 1892 - Row 2 Plot 56
TILBY, James - aged 82 years - d.08 Sep 1908 - bur.11 Sep 1908 - Row 2 Plot 56a
KING, Robert - aged 43 years - d.03 Sep 1908 - bur.05 Sep 1908 - Row 2 Plot 56b

WALKINGSHAW, Ivey - aged 30 years - d.28 Sep 1886 - bur.29 Sep 1886 - Row 2 Plot 57

ROBINSON, Henry - age not recorded - d.25 Sep 1886 - bur.29 Sep 1886 - Row 2 Plot 58

Regards
Beg

[Janette]

Using Beg's list and the cemetery database this is how it comes out

BERRY, CHARLES Plot: ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 51
BIRCH, MARY ANN Plot :ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 51

ANDERSON, JOHN Plot :ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 52
MCCOLL, THOMAS Plot :ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 52


COCKERTON, GEORGE  Plot :  ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 53
KNEE, JNO Plot  ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 53

WHITFIELD, JOHN Plot :ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 54

TUCK, MARY ALICE Plot :ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 55
PARSONS, RICHARD JAMES  Plot:ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 55A
WOODWARD, JAMES Plot : ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 55A
TILBY, JAMES Plot :ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 55B

KING, ROBERT Plot :ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 56

WALKINGSHAW, IVEY Plot :ANGLICAN DIVISION C Row 2, Plot 56A

Maybe the clue to this in the Walkingshaw burial where her occupation is given as destitute

Edited

On Google maps that row and 2/3rds of the next row has only a handful of headstones which may indicate those graves were for paupers

Cheers Janette

[BAC3]

Hello Beg and Janette,

Thank you for all your efforts.   I am so grateful.

Perhaps the enquiries for Richard PARSONS have now been exhausted and I feel there is sufficient detail to complete at least a pen portrait for him.  Just one doubt where the second christian name "JAMES" came from??

For the moment,

Tony

[minniehaha]

Hello,

Re: reply #2-

The death of this Mary Parsons (died 1869) was registered @ Christchurch...........


Minniehaha.

[BAC3]

Minniehaha,

I am not quite sure what you mean......if the death was registered at Christchurch are you saying it is the wrong person?

Please help!!

Tony

[minniehaha]

Hi Tony,

I don't know whether or not the Christchurch registration means it is the incorrect Mary Parsons. Just throwing a fact about the 1869 death into the mix; for further investigation maybe?

[I have not found her on the Christchurch City Council (cemeteries) website but she may have been buried further afield perhaps?]

Minniehaha. 

[mare]

Hi Tony  ...

Random thought re James as second name, he may have become Catholic before marrying in St Patrick's Cathedral and picked it up as a confirmation name  .. not obliged to use it of course and most don't but possibility he decided to as no other 2nd name...

  mare

[BAC3]

Hello mare,

Hope you are keeping well.

I had more or less finished researching Richard (James) PARSONS and was going to mark it "TOPIC COMPLETED".........but Minniehaha threw a spanner in the works with her reference to Mary's death being registered in Canterbury.   Then I thought again, probably she left him anyway, as he appeared to be a wife-beater (see PapersPast), although Canterbury is a fair distance from Auckland, or was in those days, except I have no way of finding out if that is what she actually did??!!

For now,

Tony

[minniehaha]

Sorry about that spanner Tony.