FAMILY AU4

Sources: Australian Electoral Rolls 1912 -1937.

Origins FAM 9B ........See also AU5 for a Clement ...any connex ?

Information June 1996 from : Ivy Cunnington. Neville 2022

PARKER (657) Born 1857 Morborn Huntindonshire UK. He came from NSW to WA. He owned a Gold Mine at Southern Cross which he sold and bought a 4000 acre farm (possibly called Cundlebury / Cundleberry in Walebing as per ER) at Bindi Bindi for his sons. He returned to NSW. Earliest record found 1903 ER Coolgardie Sirius st publican.
He was married 1880 NSW to Elizabeth Yates. He died NSW 1937.

Children in NSW :
1882 Oct 6 CLEMENT (7551) at Wollongong NSW, 1913 married to Bessie Hambley at Plantagenet WA. He died 1942 age 56.

Children:
1915 Jan 3 NORMAN (7552) born Mount Barker W.A. Captured by Japanese during WWII, worked as a POW on Burma Railway and coal mines (Kyushu?) Post war he married Ivy A Styles (1923-2016).

Children :
unknown dates Cherryl Suzanne..married, 2 children
unknown dates MAXWELL JOHN(7553)..married , 4 sons

Children:
EDGAR JOHN (7554)
Phyllis

1886 ALBERT EDWARD (7555) Wollongong. Enlisted 1911 Mar 17, in Blackboy Hill service number 2034 age 30 a farmer married in WWI, no info. On return to the farm he married Annie Hambley (1889 - 1978) (sister to Bessie above, they were from Mt Barker WA) . 1910 Aust Electoral Swan Albert from Mt Barker railway employee. Died 1964 Aug 20 aged 78

Children :
1908 Vida Elizabeth born Plantagenet. 1937 married Owen Daley. 1988 Jan 11 died
1912 Feb 3 EDWARD ALBERT (Ted)(7556) Albany. Enlisted at Moora 1939 Nov 11, service number WX941, age 27 y 8 m, marital status - single, general farm hand. Captured at Crete in WWII he was a POW in Germany. After the war he married Margaret Heffernan and had children. Died 1965 Sep 13

Children :
unknown Annette , married Peter Gorman resides in Northam WA
1950 Nov 7 ALLAN (...) marrried with children, died in 2020
1954 Jan 10 Linda married George Odlin, Linda died 2014.

Children :
Caitlin

1920 Lucy born Moora. died 2010

1889 Evelyn M ... died NSW 1889

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