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William Parker
b.3 Jan 1778
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, by Sir Bernard Burke. London: 1912.
- ↑ Dickason, G.B. Irish Settlers to the Cape: History of the Clanwilliam 1820 Settlers froom Cork Harbour. Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1973.
p. 84.
- ↑ Dickason, G.B. Irish Settlers to the Cape: History of the Clanwilliam 1820 Settlers froom Cork Harbour. Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1973.
p. 85.
- ↑ Source (12). (Name: Transcriptions on cards by persons unknown, found in church vestry. Transcribed by Marian Press and Daireen Foott, 2003.;).
- ↑ Source (12). (Name: Transcriptions on cards by persons unknown, found in church vestry. Transcribed by Marian Press and Daireen Foott, 2003.;).
- ↑ Ffolliot Index. (Name: FHL Film #0537921;).
- ↑ Douglas Church, Cork, Ireland
- ↑ Rev. Giles Lee
- ↑ "At Douglas Church Cork...Miss Alice Eleanor Somerville, 7th dau. of the late Thomas Somerville Esq of Castle Haven" Ffolliot Index.
"...following William Parker's appointment as Resident [at Fort Marlborough, Sumatra] p. 151. (The British in West Sumatra." - towards the end of 1810.
"William Parker died at his house Canning Place, Passage after 12 month severe illness." (Catherine Parker genealogical notes).
William Parker, Esq. Liver complaint and dropsy. October 18, 1837. (Cards in St. Mary's Church, Marmullane, Passage West P:50/1).
One of her husband's many sisters, Alice, had married a Mr. William Parker of Queenstown (then named Cove) who appears to have owned a shipbuilding yard there. The story as it comes down to us…is confused and indistinct… It appears that Thomas III backed a bill for his brother-in-law, William Parker - (the sum of three thousand pounds has, I believe, been mentioned) - on the security of the shipbuilding yard. …shortly after Thomas III's untimely death, William Parker became a bankrupt and Thomas's executors were called on to meet the claims of the creditors of the ship-building business. …it was not possible for the estate to yield it instantly in cash. The creditors insisted on their rights…bailiffs were sent to Drishane…auction was called..the house was gutted to make good the ship-building yard's defecations.” Edith OEnone Somerville and Boyle Townsend Somerville. Records of the Somerville Family of Castlehaven & Drishane from 1174 to 1940. Cork: Guy & Co., 1940.
"Reference has been made in a former chapter to a Mr. William Parker, the head of a large Irish party of settlers which landed at Saldanha Bay in 1820. This worthless man seems to have lost his head in consequence of some casual notice which, for political purposes, had been taken of him by certain titled people in England and Ireland. Finding, when he arrived in the Colony, that his alleged recommendations from the King - no intimation of which had been received through offical channels at the Colonial Office - did not procure for him the privileges and distinction he considered his due, he commenced his campaign of falsehood and malignity against Colonel Bird as the author of his disappointment. Having quarrelled with most of the respectable people with whom he sailed from Cork and having culpably abandoned the whole part shortly after landing, he turned his attention to the visionary scheme of founding a "City of New Cork" at Saldanha Bay." (Cory, G.E. The Rise of South Africa. New York, Longmans, Green, 1913, pp. 306-7.
There is much information on William Parker's part in the British Settlers of 1820 to South Africa, none of it complimentary. See his file.
[Passage West] owes much of its importance to W. Parker, Esq.; but this spirited gentleman having engaged in foreign speculation, and for a time removed to the Cape of Good Hope, the improvements remained stationary, until a few years since... (Passage West, Lewis' Topographical Dictionary, 1837)
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