Christopher Parkhurst (George) is first on record on 2 May 1546 on a tax list of Saint Mary's Parish, Guildford, Surrey. He was assessed 4 pence for goods and 20 pence for lands and tenements. By a 1550 Feet of Fine, he and his sister sold land to his brother-in-law, probably property which he inherited from his father. Probably his mother had died at that time and this was the final settlement of the estate.
Christopher was probably born in the period of 1520-24, married about 1546, and had five known children by this marriage. His wife must have died about 1567 and he remarried, perhaps about 1568-9, and he had several more children almost a generation younger than first ones.
In 1561, Christopher Parkhurst was named Keeper of the Bishop's Palace in Ipswich, county Suffolk, by his brother who had been appointed Bishop the year before. He was probably the one of that name buried at Saint Lawrence, Ipswich, August 10, 1595.
