Ernest Glencoe Parkes

[avm228]

Unsurprisingly, Josiah Collar was not Mary Parkes’ father (as was recorded in the 1901 census).  That may have been a cover for cohabitation.  Her father was William Francis Parkes, who died in Lambeth Sep qtr 1904 aged 74.

[Christine53]

Sherwood Foresters info :

https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/sherwood-foresters-nottinghamshire-derbyshire-regiment/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Foresters

[Ellenmai]

Thank you all so much for the information you have found and the links to the Sherwood Foresters. It does indeed look like Mary Parkes was perhaps cohabiting with Josiah Collar and had the two children Ernest & Alice. Perhaps Alice may have been adopted later as I can't ever remember mention of her. The information you have given me gives me something to works on Thanks again 

[Annette7]

Think you'll find that Alice Parkes died as a single lady in 1981 - probably may never have known she had a second name of Victoria as only 6 when her mother died and swiftly put into an institution.

Alice Parkes b.26/1/1901 (which ties in with birth reg'd in Mar.1901) died in Jun. 1981 in Surrey SW.

Electoral rolls show she lived at 82 Leigham Vale, Lambeth from 1930 to 1939.

Annette

[barryd]

I found a marriage on Free BMD  for Ernest G. Parkes in 1922, Wales.

I found no birth.

Croydon with an O is in Surrey/London.


Penge seems to move from place to place. Kent/Surrey.

[barryd]

Birth Date (available after June quarter 1969):
07 Nov 1899, Family Search. Died Wales. Birth information from Death
Registration.

[Ellenmai]

Thanks Annette not only did she probably not know she had a middle name, but did she know she had a brother Ernest?
Thanks Barry I did know about the marriage as he married my Gran's sister Mary and I got some information from their headstone, even though the birth year was a year out.