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Joseph Parker - Craven/Greene/Lenior/Pitt b 1705-d 1791 Alexander Parker - Pitt County 1810-1820 census Isaac Parker - Pitt County 1820-30 census Franklin Parker - Pitt County, NC and Hardeman County, TN 1820-70 Franklin Parker - Umpire, AR 1878-95
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Hello Steven,
Good to see you posting again. Hope you have been doing OK.
Wayne
Hi Steven,
Did you travel I55 south into the state of MS when you left Memphis,TN?
If you did, i grew up in Winona, MS (about 80-100 miles south of Memphis) and P280 and P353 Parker families are also from the same area of MS. P280 Parker family is still living there but P353 Parker family moved on to AR.
Cuz Wayne
Hello Steven,
So good to see you on PH today. Have you make any break in your brick wall yet?
Wayne
Hello, Stephen – This is a followup to our earlier exchanges on Wilday and Alexander. I am having trouble connecting them, hope you can help me. I accept that Fouts' book blends a number of Parker lines, but her land data is often inescapable --
In Fouts’ book, page 25 and 26, she reviews certain vitals of Richard4 as born 1676. Francis5 Parker (son of Richard4) made his will in 1791. I wish my Word version would enable superscripts :).
Son Wilday Parker was given all of his father’s lands and plantations in Pitt County on Little Contenteney (sic) Creek. The remainder of all lands and holdings were to be sold, with proceeds divided equally between his wife Feraby Parker and other their children. In 1795 when the estate was finally divided, the six children were named and included Bethany, Polly, Edith, Salley, Abigail, and Miles. As his Pitt County part had been already specified earlier in his father’s 1791 will, Wilday was neither named in the division nor included in the proceeds.
In Francis5’s will, the inventory, the division of his estate, or the 1807 will of the widow Fereby Parker, there was no mention of a son named Alexander who would have been a brother of Wilday. In fact, the only reference to an Alexander Parker made by Fouts at all in FTL was set in the Rich Square area of Northampton County. There Joseph Parker and wife Sarah had four children, including Jeremiah, Josiah 1769, Alexander 1771, and Judith. Joseph Parker died there 1792.
Alexander Parker, son of Joseph and Sarah above, married Mary Hicks in Jack Swamp Monthly Meeting in 1795. They had children Mary, Sarah, Judith, Mildred, Elizabeth, Rebecca, and Joseph. Alexander Parker died in 1814.
Josiah Parker was a son of Joseph and Sarah Parker and was also a brother of Alexander Parker above. Josiah Parker married Martha Peele in 1792 and had eight known children. The family was active in the Rich Square Quaker community, but after Josiah’s death in 1833, his widow followed her adult Parker children when they moved to Rush County, Indiana. In later generations, sizeable collections of Josiah Parker’s papers were donated to Eastham College there. They are all online today.
Are you and I talking about the same Wilday Parker and the same Alexander Parker?
Looking forward to hearing from you. .
Patricia Ross Parker, researcher for FG#7
Hello, Steven - Hope your research is going well.
Do you have any notion about the similarities between your Wilday Parker of Pitt Co and the Dildy or Dilday family of Hertford Co.? Penelope Dildy/Dilday married Elisha Parker of FG#7 ca. 1815 or so. Her Dilday parents lived nearby. She had a Dildy/Dlday brother whose given name I cannot recall. Fouts' book, Following The Land, mentions your Wilday Parker of Pitt Co. as son of Francis and 'Febury' Parker. Fouts discusses the similar speling of Dilday, but maintains them as two different words. See p. 25 if interested. Have you seen your Wilday Parker named and listed elsewhere in your research?
Cannot recall if I have asked you this before. Patricia Ross PArker for FG#7
Hi Steven,
I have. Actually I am going to sumbit my raw data from 23andme and see the next steps on that. From my current results my haplogroup is R1a1a so we will see. Regarding My father's & grandfather's, Weldon, I have found anything past that (or heard anything) to suggest it was family name. Same for my g-grandfathers middle name of Braxton. if anything pops up, I will keep you posted.
Thanks!
Russell
Hi Steven: I have Parker ancestors who lived in Hardeman County, TN, also. I don't have a Franklin showing up as a relation but that doesn't mean he isn't. I would love to know more about your Hardeman Cnty Parkers. Thanks!