{"id":18126,"date":"2021-08-22T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T12:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/?p=18126"},"modified":"2021-08-22T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T12:17:37","slug":"nantucket-newspapers-and-my-parker-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/2021\/08\/22\/nantucket-newspapers-and-my-parker-ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nantucket Newspapers and My Parker Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have written some on my Parker ancsestors in the past. I have a web page here on the Parker famil<\/a>y. I found an interesting part in the Parker family history was the ship repairing business that Isaac Parker had in Nantucket in the early 1800’s. I found many records relating to Isaac Parker which I have on my Parker Web Page.<\/p>\n

Nantucket Newspapers<\/h2>\n

Recently I noticed in an NEHGS Newsletter that there are now many Nantucket Newspapers available online.<\/p>\n

Spotlight: Newspaper Archive, Nantucket Atheneum, Mass.<\/em><\/h1>\n

by Valerie Beaudrault<\/em><\/h2>\n

Nantucket is an island located about 30 miles south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.<\/strong> The Nantucket Atheneum has made a Digital Historic Newspaper Archive available on its website with a keyword searchable database containing the following titles: The Inquirer and Mirror (1821\u20132013, published under several titles); Nantucket Gazette\/Nantucket Commerce Gazette (1816\u20131817); Nantucket Weekly Magazine (1817\u20131818); Nantucket Journal (1826-1828; and 1878\u20131899); The Islander (1840\u20131843); Daily Telegraph (1843\u20131844); Morning Telegraph (1844\u20131845); The Warder (1846); Island Review (1874\u20131878); The Daily Nantucket (1889\u20131899); Nantucket Light (1964\u20131965), and a few other smaller Nantucket newspapers (1842\u20131985). The Search and Browse buttons are in the upper right corner of the newspaper archive homepage.<\/em><\/p>\n

Isaac Parker moved to Nantucket probably around the year 1800. He died in 1842, before the the Nantucket fire of 1846. That means that I would be interested in the earlier newspapers.<\/p>\n

Lydia Parker<\/h2>\n

The first relavent entry I found while searching for Isaac Parker was a sad one:<\/p>\n

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This would be Isaac’s youngest daughter:<\/p>\n

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If Saturday\u00a0 was July 25, 1929, then Monday would be 5 days earlier or the 20th of July.<\/p>\n

More Sad News<\/h2>\n

Here is a death notice for Prudence Parker:<\/p>\n

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Silas Parker<\/h2>\n

I mention Silas Parker on my web page on the Parkers. He was the uncle of Isaac Parker:<\/p>\n

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Some Business for Isaac Parker in 1825<\/h2>\n

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I’m not sure what this was all about. Apparently Charles Calder died while owing a lot of money. I would also assume that he did not owe money to Isaac Parker, but I’m not sure.<\/p>\n

Sale of Isaac Parker’s Nantucket Land<\/h2>\n

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Isaac died in 1842. It took over a year after his death to sell the property. The Nantucket Fire of 1846 likely burnt down the house. I have more information on the sale of this property in this Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More On Isaac’s Children<\/h2>\n

I had that Isaac’s youngest was Benjamin, but he died as a baby in 1802.<\/p>\n

Elijah Parker and Family<\/h3>\n

I have Elijah born next in 1803. He was my third great-grandmother’s brother. The 1850 Nantucket Census has him as a ship master. Perhaps this is him:<\/p>\n

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From what I can tell, Callao is in Peru. Here is Elijah’s wife and two children in 1855 in the Census in Nantucket:<\/p>\n

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They were living with Betsy and Elizabeth Joy. I assume that these were relatives. I also assume that Elijah was out at sea at the time.<\/p>\n

Alan P Folger, Grandson of Captain Elijah Parker<\/h4>\n

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This article gives us some more family information than I had on my web page:<\/p>\n

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By checking around on Ancestry, I see this:<\/p>\n

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Ann ended moving to Australia.<\/p>\n

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I assume that she followed her daughter Leila to Australia. .<\/p>\n

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it looks like Leila died before her mother.<\/p>\n

Here is Aukland and Sydney:<\/p>\n

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This part of the Parker family really got around.<\/p>\n

Isaac Parker Junior Born 1808<\/h3>\n

My web page has a very incomplete picture:<\/p>\n

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It turns out that Isaac Junior’s wife was a very interesting person:<\/p>\n

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Looks like I missed 8 of their children on my web page. The newpaper article has her dying in Nantucket, but her death record makes it appear that she died in Weymouth:<\/p>\n

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The death certificate also has her buried in Rochester:<\/p>\n

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She was apparently buried in the Sherman Cemetery where many of my Hartley ancsestors were buried. She was born in Wareham, married in Nantucket, died in Weymouth. I wonder why she was buried in Rochester.<\/p>\n

My DNA Match Through Pardon Parker Born 1845<\/h3>\n

AncestryDNA shows ThruLines. Here are mine with Isaac Parker Sr:<\/p>\n

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This shows that I am a 5th cousin to td and share 42 cM.\u00a0 According to the Boston Census of 1870, Pardon was a barber:<\/p>\n

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William Henry above was born in Malden.\u00a0 So of all the Parker paths, I could have shared DNA with, this is the one that shows up. Of course, a descendant had to have taken the test for me to match. 42 cM is a large amount for 5th cousins to share.<\/p>\n

Charles Henry Coffin Parker Born 1839<\/h3>\n

I had on my web page that Charles was born in 1849, but I think 1839 is more accurate.\u00a0 It looks like Charles was also a barber – at least in 1880:<\/p>\n

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Summary and Conclusions<\/h2>\n

These newpapers articles tend to take me back to the time when all this was happening. There was not a lot in the newspapers about this family, but the family was not on Nantucket for too long and mostly left after the great fire in Nantucket. I found out a lot more about this family – what they did and where they went. I looked at one 5th cousin who matched by DNA. I was also able to better fill in my Parker family tree. This could lead to more ThruLine connections at AncestryDNA.<\/p>\n

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I have written some on my Parker ancsestors in the past. I have a web page here on the Parker family. I found an interesting part in the Parker family history was the ship repairing business that Isaac Parker had in Nantucket in the early 1800’s. I found many records relating to Isaac Parker which … <\/p>\n

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