Parker


Hannah Maria Marker, born in Trinity in 1878, the daughter of George (1835-1907) and Betysy Jane (1839- ), with her husband Samuel Benjamin Shiers (1866-1931) and Angelina, Beatrice, Sam, Violet and Ted in about 1908. The couple had two further sons, Harry David, born in 1912 and Benjamin Raymond in 1915
Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Parker family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Parker, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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New records
From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.
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Origins of surname
The "parchier" or "parquier" was the keeper of the hunting parks of kings and wealthy landowners, and became parker when brought to Britain after the Norman Conquest.
Early records
An online tree suggests that George Parker and his wife Margery Carpenter, of Southampton, had two children baptised in Jersey in 1571 and 1575, but we have been unable to confirm this from Jersey records. Jean Parker and Jeanne Gaudin were married in Grouville in 1712. Another Jean married Marie Mauger in St Helier in 1724 and they had three children baptised in the parish from 1727 to 1734, but no further descendants are on record.
Variants
- Parker
Family records

Family trees

Church records
- Parker baptisms in Jersey
- Parker marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Parker marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Parker burials in Jersey

Great War service
- Parker family members who served in World War 1
- Presentation to Acting Staff Quartermaster Sergeant William Parker, MM, at the Town Hall

Family wills

Burial records

Family album
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Robert George Parker (1912-2000)
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Robert Thomas James Parker (1881-1954) and Mary Jane, nee Mills
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Gordon Parker (1929-) and his mother, Nellie Louise

Family businesses
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James Parker, barrel maker, born in Devon in 1838
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1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey

Family gravestones
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The grave of Great War casualty Charles Walter Parker at Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium
Tips
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We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling
The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.
New records
Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form
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