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To Ralph Connors
Thank you for the interest shown in my enquiry. Regarding your request to ‘post your research results to my genforum message’ – if by that you mean ‘here’, I have some incremental advances in information to add.
Newspapers:
1) The Telegraph (Westport?) 18/2/1852: At Westport, after a short illness, William H. Parker, Esq., J.P.
2) The Telegraph, 24/3/1847: March 13, at Westport, at an advanced age, Elizabeth, relict of Robert Parker, Esq., of Westport.
3) The Telegraph, 23/8/1837: On Thursday last, in Westport, rather suddenly, Wm Parker, Esq., Collector of Customs at that Port. Mr Parker was young in years and by his amiable and engaging manners and agreeable and gentlemanly qualities, had endeared himself to all who had the honour of his acquaintance, to whom his decease has been a source of deep regret. His decease was, we believe, caused by an affection of the heart.
From your own organisation, the IFHF.
4) Church Burial Record:
Name: William H. Parker
Date of Death: 10/02/1852
Age: 65
Parish: Oughaval C of I
Address: Westport. Co. Mayo
Denomination: Church of Ireland (nothing further)
So, we have William Hamilton Parker born abt 1787, seemingly from a family of Parkers in or near Westport. He was a Justice of the Peace, the local agent for Lloyds and in 1846 he lived at North Mall, Westport. Another William Parker, possibly his son, died young in 1837 when he was collector of customs at Westport. Margaret Parker, who married at Tuam in late 1805 was born also about 1787 and is highly probably the sister of William Hamilton Parker in view of his being appointed an executor of her husband’s estate.
I have somehow failed to record what I recall as someone reporting that there was the death of a Robert Parker in Co Mayo. Above we have the death of (presumably) his widow, at Westport, and therefore we have the high probability that the parents of William Hamilton Parker and Margaret Parker were Robert and Elizabeth Parker.
From what you report, I am unlikely to find the Church of Ireland records for the marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Parker or the baptisms of William Hamilton Parker and Margaret in the 1780s.
We know (from other sources) that Margaret married in December 1805 in Tuam (C of I) and possibly William married within a decade or so of that (usually in the parish f his unknown bride), resulting in the birth of young William shortly after.
Again, many thanks for your interest. I hope one day we may be able to advance further in research into this family.
Bill.
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