SEARCH Now you can search for words and names on all registers. The search engine is very powerful but it is useful to understand a few practical tips. When you search for a name, (first and last name) you will return all references to both names. All returns are linked to the name Parker. Note that '*' and '?' wildcards are supported. Descendants of WARREN WESLEY PARKER 1864-1938 WARREN was born March 7, 1864 on Parker's Island, New Brunswick, Canada and died April 10 1938 in N. Carver, MA. He married SELENA CATHERINE GROSS, October 25, 1890 in Carver, MA by Rev. Nehemiah Lincoln.
Descendants of CONRAD KRüSER 1720 - 1801 (The "Gross" Family). Conrad Krüser arrived at Halifax, N.S. in 1752 on the ship GALE from Palantine, Germany. Conrad , had been a farmer in Zwienbrucken, age 32, brought his wife Maria Magdalena. Johan Heinrich Wagner, from Palantine, Germany, age 27, a smith by trade brought his wife, Anna Margaret and a daughter, Maria Barbara. Maria was one of twelve children born during the voyage. She was the only newborn to survive.
It would to be five generations later that the two lines would merge in the marriage of George Robert Gross Jr. and Mary Jane Wagner (Mother and father of Selena Catherine Gross Parker - Webmaster's Grandmother) Descendants of THOMAS PARKER, 1773-1868 The Nova Scotia Parkers is a record of the descendants, by birth or marriage, of Thomas Parker and his wife Ann Mears. Thomas and his siblings were the children of Loyalist Benjamin Parker, born 1745 (m Rachel Thropp) left New Jersey and emigrated to New Brunswick after the American Revolution. Some of these children stayed in New Brunswick but others crossed the Bay of Fundy to Nova Scotia. Thomas was one of those who moved and his descendants intermarried with many of the other early families.
The Nova Scotia Parkers are linked to Elisha Parker as follows: Thomas 1773 is the 3rd Great Grandson of Elisha Parker. Descendants of Robert PARKER, 1630??-1684 Robert Parker of Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, and his two wives had twelve children in the years 1658 to 1681. Two tenth generation descendants of sons Daniel and Benjamin met on the internet and now match on 38 markers in their respective Y Chromosome DNAs. Robert's brother Elisha has descendants who match on many markers with these sons (see family group #5 for listings P01, P67, P145 and P180 web.utk.edu/~corn/parkerdna/park6.htm). Genealogical research and genetic DNA matching are merging family lines! |
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Warren emigrated to Carver in 1887. After the marriage Warr
en and Selena moved to Pleasant Street, Plympton, MA where their four oldest children were born (see 1900 census). Later they moved to Crescent Street, Plympton where six more children were born and Selena died in 1918. In 1926 the home on Crescent Street burned. Kenneth Bourne, husband of Irene Parker built a five room cottage to replace it. At that time, only Warren and the two youngest daughters, Olive and Barbara, were at home. In 1931, Theodore Parker and his family moved into this house; Warren moved to a two room house on Center Street across from Bonny's Pond and the two girls had married and moved. Warren is the 5th Great Grandson of Elisha Parker and the Webmaster's Grandfather. 
