I recently wrote a Blog on my Hatch ThruLines. I thought that I would write another on my family’s Parker ThruLines.
My 4th great-grandfather Isaac Parker married Prudence Hatch, so I am following a theme.
My Parker ThruLines
I show three matches to descendants of William Henry Parker. Our common ancestors would be Isaac Parker and Prudence Hatch. For some reason, I match td by DNA more closely than James or Barbar.
Joel and td
I’ll start with td. His tree is pretty good:
I notice he has the Davis family also. However, td has this family being from Ireland, so apparently not the same Davis family that my ancestor William Parker married. It should be easy to trace td’s ancestry.
I’ll make my own tree. Here is the Parker family in Boston in 1930:
For some reason, the father was not with the family in 1930. The birth record for William Jr. shows that his father was a leather salesman. The marriage record for William Sr., shows that his father was another William H. Parker:
In 1900 this family was living in Boston:
Ancestry suggests that the next generation had a Robert Dean Parker. However, td’s tree shows a Pardon C. Parker which sounds like a better choice to me. td has Pardon in Boston as a barber in 1870:
I do recall seeing this record in the past. This 1865 Charlestown birth record clears things up:
This shows that Ancestry hints are not always right. This gets us back to Nantucket (the birthplace of Pardon). It looks like I duplicated a little effort, as my Hartley tree already had down to this William Henry:
The connection has been made, so I can start my Parker DNA/Genealogy Chart.
Parker DNA/Genealogy Chart
It seems like my ThruLines are changing as I am writing this Blog:
Here are the other three matches:
Notice that there is a William Henry Parker boron 1886 and a William H Parker born 1889. I think I see what happened, but will need to check.
Joel and James
Here is what James has for his tree:
Remember the Robert Dean Parker hint that I didn’t take above? He shows up in James tree. Let’s see if that is right. It is also interesting that William Henry Parker Jr. marries a Grace M Parker. James has the family in Wareham in 1930:
William H is doing odd jobs as a laborer. This is what James has for the 1920 Census:
It appears that 7 children were born between 1920 and 1930. Also William and Grace appear to have had a son in the 1920 Census named Paul that I do not see in the 1930 Census. From these two sources, William H. Parker should have been born between about 1887 and 1889.
This appears to be William’s birth record in 1886 in Wareham:
His father shows as being born in Fairhaven and his mother (Elizabeth V Bumpus) in Wareham. All this seems to be steering me away from the ThruLines on this side.
Joyce’s Parker ThruLines
Joyce is my father’s 1st cousin:
Joyce shows the two William H Parkers. I already have Lindsay in my yellow Parker Chart. Next I’ll look at Linda. The family tree that Linda posted on Ancestry goes back to the Bumpus Line that I looked at above:
Here is some information on William Betts:
The 1905 Brockton marriage record for Clifford and Annie shows that Annies mother was a Bumpus:
When I check other family ThruLines, they seem to be a combination of the ThruLines from my yellow chart above and other Parker families.
Summary and Conclusions
- I set out to look at my familiy’s Parker ThruLines
- Only one family went back to common ancestors of Isaac Parker and Prudence Hatch
- That family was td, his daughter Lindsay and his sister Barbara
- There is confusion in the Parker family genealogy as it is a fairly common name and there are two families with the name of William Henry Parker in Massachusetts.