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. 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]
  • 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]
  • Ellen Henrietta, married Thomas Philip Godsal.
  • Charlotte Josephine.
  • Mildred Margaret, married Henry Aubrey Cartwright of the 68th Light Infantry, son of Henry Cartwright.[12]

References
  1. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Bernard Burke, Volume 2, 1898
  2. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Parke, Charles Joseph" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. 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.
  4. Great Britain Army Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) (1920). The Rifle Brigade Chronicle. p. 276.
  5. Wellington College, Berkshire (1873). Register of Wellington College, for the Years 1859-1873, July. p. 29.
  6. Strehlow, T. G. H. (2015). Journey to Horseshoe Bend. Giramondo Publishing. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-922146-78-6.
  7. Lewis, Darrell (2011). Roping in the History of Broncoing. Boolarong Press. p. 77 note 7. ISBN 978-1-921920-24-0.
  8. "Personal Notes from England". Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931). 29 July 1901. p. 6.
  9. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Parke, Alfred Watlington" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  10. Burke, Bernard (1925). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke Publishing Company. p. 1325.
  11. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Kennaway, Charles Lewis" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  12. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929–30). Armorial Families. 1 (7th ed.). London: Hurst & Blackett. pp. 323–4.
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