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1851 Boston, Rowley Regis
John Parkes Head 37 Nailor b. Rowley Regis
Mary Parkes Wife 34 Nailor b. Rowley Regis
Maria Parkes Daur 15 Nailor b. Rowley Regis
Matilda Parkes Daur 8 Scholar b. Rowley Regis
George Parkes Son 4 b. Rowley Regis
Reuben Parkes Son 1 b. Rowley Regis

Snap!

Oh, we're good, us Night Shift!!!

Notice all the Tromans next door?

1841 Rowley Village
John Parkes 28 Nailer
Maria Parkes 5

Next door are:
Ann Lowe Nailor 80
Mary Lowe 20
Elen Lowe 14

All born Staffordshire

It looks possible that George may have been illegitimate.

Night shift..
Yes heaps of Tromans
so Matilda would also be illegitimate

... seems to be a common practice in this Lowe family. I think this "Elen Lowe" might be the same one who seems to have had 4 illegitimate children before she married my 1C4R, Thomas Perry in 1877:

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=bcconnections&pid=7538&bpid=7538&bview=0&view=0&ccpid=7538&rand=204176676

Both submitted

George Parkes
Birth: 1847 Rowley Regis
Father: John Parkes
Mother: Mary Hibbs

Matilda Parkes
Birth: 1843 Rowley Regis
Father: John Parkes
Mother: Mary Hibbs

Did this Mary die and John took up with Mary Lowe

MARY HIBBS
Marriages:
Spouse: JOHN PARKES
Marriage: 24 MAY 1835 Saint Thomas, Dudley

and this
Maria Parkes
Birth: 1836 Rowley Regis
Father: John Parkes
Mother: Mary Hibbs

Then these this one, I don't see a death that fits for Reuben b 1840

Submitted
Reuben Parkes
Birth: 1840 Rowley Regis
Parents:
Father: John Parkes
Mother: Mary Hibbs

Reuben Parkes
Birth: 1851 Rowley,Regis
Parents:
Father: John Parkes
Mother: Mary

This is amazing work!!

trying to follow it

So are you saying that George Lowe has mother Mary Lowe and that George and Matilda are her kids and illegitimate?

So she is living next door to John Parkes and then marries him.

So those bapts saying for George and Matilda father John Parkes and Mary hibbs are a load of wotsit?



Oh and any chance...please...please someone could fill in connections on this cos this is brill!

Extracted.

JOHN PARKES.
MARY HIBBS.
Marriage. 24 MAY 1835. Saint Thomas, Dudley, Worcester,

On the face of it looks to me, there's a possibility that John Parkes 1st wife was Mary Hibbs, she died or moved on, tho I haven't found a death for her, then he took up with the neighbour Mary Lowe. There's something odd about this..

I'll add it to BCC and it might become clear.

Thanks FS... to me it looked like they are the kids of John Parkes but then why isnt he on the marriage as the father why her name...odd

Nightshift...you have done sooo well with this

Could this be the death for Mary Parkes (Hibbs)

Death 1847
PARKES Mary Rowley Regis Sandwell Register Office RR/5/446

Extracted.

John Rose Parkes.
Father: Joseph Parkes.

Spouse: Mary Lowe.
Father: Samuel Lowe.

Marriage, 27 MAY 1849. Rowley- Regis, Stafford,