Tricia's Mother's Family

1. JOSEPH PARKIN (1811?-1886), aged 59 in 1871, when he was staying with his brother. He had been born in Kilburn (then sometimes spelt Kilbourne), Derbyshire. He married Hephzibah Eyers at nearby Horsley on 24 April 1833. His wife was from Ripley, and two years older than him. Joseph was a cordwainer, and in 1861 was in Town Street, Kilburn, employing three men. (A newspaper article records that he was fined 7s for being "drunk and riotous" on 21 November 1866. He was also summoned by John Sitdown, another cordwainer, for assaulting him on the previous day. This case was settled out of court, Joseph paying the complainant's costs and the police fees.) In 1881 he was at 45 King Street, Alfreton, still active as a cordwainer. He died at the end of 1886. Hephzibah died in the second quarter of 1887, aged 79.

1.1 HEPZIBAH PARKIN (1833?-?), aged 7 in 1841. In 1851, she was in service to a chemist and druggist, Thomas Hollis, at 19 Ford Street, Derby. She married John Crofts Taylor in 1855. She was 22, he was 35.

They moved to Birkenhead. John was a boilermaker, and Hepzibah was a dressmaker. In 1861 they were at 17 Mathews Place, Birkenhead, with Hephzibah's sister, Annie M Parkin. The family was childless, and ten years later, we find them with a "nurse child", the two-year-old, Joseph Kelly. In 1881, Joseph was described an "adopted son". The family was at 6 Eton Place, and Hephzibah is now described as an underwear machinist. In 1891 the family was at 51 Lansdowne Road, and Joseph Kelly had become Joseph Taylor.

1.2 HANNAH MARIAH PARKIN (1837-?), also known as Annie, born in the last quarter of 1837, and aged 3 in 1841. She was staying with her sister, Hephzibah Taylor in Birkenhead in 1861.

1.3 WILLIAM CROFTS PARKIN (1839-1903), born in the first quarter of 1839 and aged 12 in 1851, when he was working as a coal miner. He married at the beginning of 1864 in the Belper registration district, but was later widowed. He remarried, to Mary Jane Gee from Blackburn at Chorlton in the third quarter of 1890. In 1891, he was a colliery undermanager living at Bottles, Denby. He died at Chorlton, Lancashire, in 1903.

1.4 JOSEPH PARKIN (1840-?), aged 6 months in 1841 and 10 in 1851.

1.5 HERBERT PARKIN (1844?-?), aged 6 in 1851.

JAMES ISAAC PARKIN (1830-1900), was born in Denby, Derbyshire around 1830. He married Matilda Langton, aged 43 in 1871, born in Riddings, near Alfreton, at Belper at the end of 1847. In 1851, they were at Thorn Hill Lane, Alfreton. James gave his age as 26 In 1861, they were living at Smithy Houses, Denby, and in 1871 and 1881 at Green Hillocks, Ripley.

By 1851 James had taken up his brother Joseph's profession of boot and shoe maker.

A news item in the Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald of 26 September 1863 describes a poaching incident at Kilburn, involving a "desperate struggle" with police and gamekeepers, and the seizure of a dog and some twenty rabbits. The poachers "whose names are James Parkin, alias Cloggy, a shoemaker from the Ripley district, and Thomas Howson, of Heage", and a Mark Tomlinson, were committed to trial at the Assizes and remanded on bail. (Another, slightly different, and more graphic report appeared in the Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal of 2 October 1863.)

At the December Assize, it was noted that "the educational condition of the prisoners, as shown in the calendar, is a very inferior one." The three were found guilty of night-poaching, and the judge, Baron Martin, sentenced them to nine months' hard labour.

Another serious case, also of poaching, in 1868, led to stones being thrown and the gamekeeper being wounded. James, aged 38, was remanded in custody and was sentenced at the July Assizes to eighteen months in Derby jail with hard labour

HO140/1: Nisi Prius, before Baron Bramwell

An article in the Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal for 14 December 1866 notes:

Late on Wednesday se'nnight, or early on Thursday morning, the shop of Mr. James Parkin, boot and shoe-maker, Smithyhouses, was broken into, and property to the value of £7 carried away, consisting of leather, butts, &c., &c.; also, several pairs of boots, some of them in an unfinished state. A considerable portion of the leather having only been on the premises a day or two, having come in by the railway, and lain at the station, it possibly may have attracted the attention of the midnight marauders. It is rather remarkable that the same person's shop was robbed some years ago, admittance being then gained the same as now, by picking the lock. The police are actively engaged in trying to trace the stolen property, and surely success will crown their efforts.

The Nottinghamshire Guardian of 1 September 1871 reports from the Ilkeston Petty Sessions that:

James Parkin, shoemaker, Ripley, David Moore, merchant, Manchester, and William Albert Fennell, draper, Ripley, were charged by Thomas Kelly, publican, Bradford, Yorkshire, with having on the 18th inst (i.e. August), assulted him... The defentants, Moore and Fennell, called at the Royal Oak, Marehay, Ripley, on the day named. Moore asked the landlady, Miss Webster, if his traveller, Nelson, of Heanor, had deposited any money with her. She repied no, when complainant, who had come from Bradford the same day, and was in the house, commenced to pull at Moore's whiskers, and then to take off his coat to fight. Moore and Fennell left the house, and in ten minutes returned to it, accompanied by the prisoner Parkin. When Parkin saw Kelly he struck him on the head with a stick, knocking him down, and making him senseless. Fennell then struck him with a whip stock, and Moore kicked him so severely that he lost much blood, and was bruised all over his face and body. - Parkin was ordered to be imprisoned for a month; Moore and Fennell were fined £2 and costs each.

Matilda died at the end of 1872, and James remarried, to Ellen, some twelve years younger than him. She had two daughters, Ellen and Mary Ann Lovely, and a son, John.

A report in the Derbyshire Courier of 23 July 1892 tells of another assault. It was reported that James and a Ripley miner, William Woodward, kept pigs at Street Lane, Ripley. In June, James moved to Kilburne, and on the 30th he came to remove the pig cote. A dispute ensued as to which parts belonged to whom, and this led to violence. James was fined 2/6d, with 35/- costs. His counter claim for theft was dismissed - he was told that if he wanted to take the dispute further, he should go to the County Court.

1. JOHN PARKIN (1851-1855), died under tragic circumstances. The Derbyshire Courier of 3 February 1855 reported:

Inquests before Mr Busby, Coroner
On Tuesday, the 30th January, at Riddings (Alfreton), on the body of John, son of James Parkin, shoe-maker, Riddings, aged three years. On Wednesday, the 10th January, deceased's father went out for a few minutes, and when he returned he saw the deceased running down the yard, with his frock on fire. It appeared that he had been to the fire to warm his hands, and his pinafore had caught fire. He lingered till the 29th, and then died from the burns. Verdict, "Accidental death".

2. WALTER PARKIN (1852-19??), born at Codnor Park, near Alfreton. He married Eliza Wain from Hartshay in the second quarter of 1872. He was a coal miner, and in 1881 was in Providence Street, Ripley.

Eliza died early in 1884, and he remarried, to Lucy Alice Wood in the third quarter of 1885. Lucy had a four-year-old son, James.

In 1891 he was in Lower Hill, Ripley, describing himself as a coal miner and shoe maker. In 1901 and 1911, he was a coal hewer, first at Outram Street and in 1911 at Briars Hay, Alfred Street, Ripley. Walter and Eliza had children:

2.1 ALBERT PARKIN (1874-??), born on 13 February 1874. In 1891, he was an engine fitter, boarding at 11 Hugglescote Lane, Coalville, and in 1911 was a mechanical engineer in an iron works, living with his family at Church Lane, Ravenstone in Leicestershire. He married Maria ? from Ibstock. In 1939, they were at 36 Avenue Road, Coalville, and Albert was now an engineer's fitter at a brickworks. The couple had children including:

2.1.1 IVY CATHERINE PARKIN (1905-), born in the second quarter of 1905.

2.1.2 DOROTHY ELIZABETH PARKIN (1907-), born at the end of 1907.

2.1.3 WALTER PARKIN (1910-), born on 15 September 1910. In 1939 he was living at home and following in his father's career as engineer at the brickworks.

2.2 CATHERINE PARKIN (1877-??)

2.3 ANNIE PARKIN (1880-19??). She was a dressmaker, living at home in 1911.

Walter and Lucy had two daughters:

2.4 BERTHA ELIZA PARKIN (1885-??), born soon after their marriage.

2.5 ALICE PARKIN (1886-??), born in the third quarter of 1886.

3. HANNAH PARKIN (1857-19??), born in Denby, Derbyshire.

4. HENRY PARKIN (1862-1949), born in Waingroves, near Ripley. See below.

5. AGNES PARKIN (1863-19??), born in Ripley.

6. WILLIAM PARKIN (1867?-19??), born in Green Hill Lane, Ripley. According to National Registration, he was born on 8 August 1864. In 1881, he was a coal miner. He married Sarah Ann Lowe in the spring of 1888. Sarah Ann died at the beginning of 1900. In 1901 and 1911, the widowed William and his children were living with his mother-in-law, Frances Lowe, a provision dealer, at Nottingham Road, Somercotes, Alfreton. At the date of National Registration in September 1939, he was living with his son, Arthur in Alfreton. William had issue:

6.1 ALBERT ERNEST PARKIN (1892-??), born at Lea Brooks, Derbyshire in the first quarter of 1892. He was a coal loader in 1911.

6.2 ELSIE PARKIN (1894-??), born at Lea Brooks, Derbyshire in the first quarter of 1894.

6.3 ARTHUR LEONARD PARKIN (1895-??), born at Lea Brooks, Derbyshire on 8 September 1895. He was a pit pony driver in 1911. He married Emma Hydes, born on 17 June 1896, in the second quarter of 1922. In 1939, he was incapacitated, and living with his father at Nottingham Road, Alfreton. He and Emma had a son:

6.3.1 WILLIAM D PARKIN (1924-??), born on 23 November 1924. In 1939 he was a colliery banksman, working above ground.

6.4 WILLIAM PARKIN (1897-??), born at Lea Brooks, Derbyshire on 24 March 1897. He was an errand boy in 1911, and in 1939 was a coal miner, living at 15 Church Street, Belper. He married Ellen Canner at Belper in the spring of 1920. They had a son:

6.4.1 ALFRED A PARKIN (1920-), born on 26 November 1920.

7. ELIZA PARKIN (1870?-19??), born in Ripley, and aged 10 in 1881.

The family seem to have moved to Belper between 1887 and 1889. By 1891, Henry had taken up his father's trade, and was a shoemaker at Victoria Terrace, The Gutter, Belper. The family probably moved to Kilburn some time between 1891 and 1895, and then to Kirkby in Ashfield by 1897, where Henry opened a booat and shoe repair business in a wooden hut at the junction of Portland Street and Low Moor Road. In 1901 they were at 20 Victoria Road, Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Ten years later the family was at a six-roomed house in Station Street, East Kirkby, Kirkby in Ashfield. Henry described himself as a boot manufacturer and dealer, retiring in 1920. He was an active member of the Primitive Methodist Church for many years.

Sarah died at the age of 67 on 5 January 1930, and Henry remarried. in 1939, he was at 259 Radford Road, Nottingham, and described hiself as a retired gardener. Henry lived to be 95, becoming Kirkby's oldest male resident, and died on 20 February 1957. Henry and Sarah had issue:

1. ALICE OLIVE PARKIN (1884-1952), known as Olive. She was born in Ripley on 10 June 1884. She married John William Smith (known as Jack) in the second quarter of 1905. He worked below ground as a colliery onsetter. In 1911 they were living at Welbeck Street, East Kirkby, Nottinghamshire. In 1939 they were in Diamond Avenue, Kirkby-in-Ashfield. John was in partnership with his son as haulage contractors and bus proprietors. Alice died in the third quarter of 1952. They had a son:

1.1 CYRIL LEONARD SMITH (1908-??), known as Len, born in East Kirkby on 16 May 1908. He married Dorothy Smith, born on 13 July 1911, in the first quarter of 1937. He worked with his father in the haulage and bus business. He had a daughter:

1.1.1 CAROL SMITH

2. JAMES HENRY PARKIN (1887-1955). He was born in Denby at the beginning of 1887 and baptized at St Peter's Church, Belper on 27 January 1891. He married Annie Marie Higham at the beginning of 1906. She was from Shutlanger, near Towcester in Northamptonshire. In 1911, he was a boot and shoe manufacturer and living at 67 Fern Terrace, The Hill, Kirkby in Ashfield. In 1921 he was a lorry driver for the Butterly Colliery Company, living at 76 Station Street, East Kirkby. In the year he, with his brothers-in-law, John Smith and Arthur Evans, borrowed £1000 from his father to start a haulage business. He went to Canada at the end of the 1920s, but returned. He died in the Basford Registration District in the first quarter of 1955. James and Annie Marie had issue:

2.1 JOHN HENRY GORDON PARKIN (1907?-??).

2.2 ETHEL EVA DOREEN PARKIN (1910-??), aged 6 months on census day 1911.

3. JOHN LEONARD PARKIN (1889-1949). He was born in Belper on 2 April 1889. In 1911 he was a boot shop manager, but not at his father's shop. He married Ethel M Mellar in the second quarter of 1913 in Aston. Ethel was some six years older than John, having been born on 25 September 1883. In 1939, the couple were living at Boughton Road, Southwell. John was a master boot salesman and repairer. He died in the second quarter of 1949 in the Mansfield registration district. Ethel died in 1963.

4. THOMAS CYRIL PARKIN (1890-1968), known as Cyril. He was born in Belper on 1 December 1890. In 1911 he was Henry's assistant boot shop manager. He married Minnie Robinson, who had been born on 6 August 1893, in the third quarter of 1915. In 1939, he was living at 110 Wilford Road, Basford, and kept a grocer's shop. Later he is remembered as having a sweet shop in Ruddington. He died in the third quarter of 1968. He and Minnie had a son:

4.1 BASIL HENRY PARKIN (1919-2001), born at Basford on 30 August 1919. In 1939, he was an articled clerk in an accountancy practice in Nottingham. He married Hilda M Lowe in Nottinghamshire in the first quarter of 1942. He died at Stockport in 2001.

5. EVA EMMA PARKIN (1895-1962?). She was born in Kilburn, Derbyshire, in the fourth quarter of 1895. She married John Joseph Dovey at the end of 1916. He died before 1921 and she later married Arthur Evans, a coal miner at Low Moor Colliery, owned by the Butterley Colliery Company. They lived with their father , and in 1921, Arthur Evans, John Smith and James Henry Parkin asked their father, or father-in-law, Henry Parkin for a loan of £1000 to start a haulage business. This led to an acrimonious family dispute which ended up in Derby County Court at the end of 1931. They had a daughter:

5.1 ETHEL OLIVE DOVEY (1917-??), born at Kirkby in Ashfield on 29 December 1917. She took her stepfather's surname as Olive Evans, and in 1939 was a shorthand typist living with him, 46-year-old Arthur Evans, by now owner of a haulage business, at 160 Diamond Avenue, Kirkby-in-Ashfield.

At the end of 1939, she married Alfred Holland, foreman in a hosiery factory.

Alfred was a hosiery factory foreman. He had been born on 11 April 1919. At the time of National Registration in 1939 he was living with his family at 35 Horley Street, Kirkby-in-Ashfield. During the war, he served in the RAF as a leading aircraftman.

Several births are recorded in Mansfield between 1937 and 1943, but it is unlikely that any of them were to this couple. They had a general store. In 1965, this was in School Lane, Harby. Alf and Olive had one daughter:

5.1.1 CAROLE ANN HOLLAND (1945-), born in Grantham in the second quarter of 1945. She may have been at 110 Alexandra Road, Grantham in 1958, when she passed her primary grade pianoforte examination. She married James Anthony Pacey (known as Tony) at St Mary's Church, Harby at the spring bank holiday in 1965. Patricia and Roger Drew were pages at the wedding. The couple lived at Tennyson Way, Melton Mowbray.

6. CHARLES GORDON PARKIN (1897-1975), known as Gordon, born in Kirkby in Ashfield on 1 December 1897. He wanted to be a carpenter, but his father expected him to take over the family business, so he became a bootmaker. He married Ethel May Cecilia Cirkett on 19 March 1930. In 1939, the family were living at 74 Station Street, Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Gordon described himself as a boot and shoe retail dealer and repairer. The business was at number 72. Around 1962, Gordon and Ethel sold the business in Kirkby and moved to a new bungalow at 166 Drayton High Road in Drayton, a suburb of Norwich.

Gordon died in November 1975. Ethel went to live in the Methodist care home at Cromwell House, Norwich. She died on 2 June 1980. They had a daughter:

6.1 SHEILA MAY PARKIN (1934-2019), born on 15 September 1934. She attended Nottingham Girls' High School, and trained at Miller's Business College in Mansfield in secretarial studies. After working as a secretary for the Cooperative Society, she managed her father's shoe shop from 1955 until her first child was born in 1958. She married Royle Drew on 2 June 1956 at Kirkby-in-Asfield.

in 1960 the family moved to Norwich. From 1965 to 1975, Sheila ran a typing and duplicating business from home while continuing to look after the children. After 1975, she was a medical secretary, and from 1980 to 1991, full-time practice manager. She moved to Hethersett, and as she grew older, moved into sheltered accommodation there. Increasing infirmity led to her moving to a care home in Norwich. She eventually needed more active care, and moved to a Methodist care home at the Martins, Bury St Edmunds in 2017. She died there on 4 December 2019.