Birth: Circa 1869 Combe Martin, Devon, UK
Father: John Parkin 1840-1918
Mother: Mary Jane Hancock 1837-1919
Marriage: 4 December 1890 Ifracombe, Devon, UK
Wife: Louisa Blanche Willis 1874-1952
Death: 24 May 1941 West Down, Devon, UK
Elsie Jane Parkin [Bowen] 1893-1978
Louisa Blanche Parkin [Verney] 1894-1967
Beatrice May Parkin [Welch] 1896-1969
Gladys Lillian Parkin [Tanton] 1899-1982
Herbert John Parkin 1901-1983
Percy Parkin 1904-a1935
Ena Ivy Parkin [Pugsley] 1906-1986
Claude Bernard W Parkin 1909-1998
Ena Ivy Parkin 1906-1986
William Frederick Parkin 1911-1994
Winifred Audrey Parkin 1913
Geraldine O Parkin [Lynch] 1916
Another child had died before the 1911 census.
There is an entry for William John Parkin in FreeBMD in Barnstable in January-March 1867 in Barnstable (5b 509) and two entries in FreeBMD for the birth of William Parkin in October-December 1870 in Barnstable (5b 451 which is not on the typed orginal and 461 which is), but both of these are in the 1871 census so are not for this William Parkin.
In the 1871 census as William Parkin aged 3, born in Combe Martin, Devon, and living with his parents (John and Jane), and three sisters (Ellen, Mary A and Sarah) in Abbey House, Combmartin, Devon.
In the 1881 census as William Parkin aged 12, born in CombMartin, Devon, and living with his parents (John and Jane), three brothers (Alfred, George R and Richard) and sister (Mary A) at Hodges, Combmartin, Devon.
Marriage of William Parkin and Blanche Willis in FreeBMD in October-December 1890 in Barnstable (5b 950).
In the 1891 census as William Parkin aged 21, born in Combe Martin, Devon, a general labourer and living with his wife (Louisa B) in Lower Town, Berrynarbour, Devon.
In the 1901 census as William Parkin aged 34, born in Berrynarbour, Devon, a general agricultural labourer, and living with his wife (Blanche), son (Herbert) and two daughters (Beatrice and Blanche) in four rooms in Goosewill, Berrynarbour, Devon. His eldest daughter was living next door with her grandmother Lucy Willis.
In the 1911 census as William Parkin aged 44, born in Combe Martin, Devon, a farm labourer and living with his wife (L Blanche), three sons (Claude B, Herbert John and Percy) and four daughters (E Ivy, Frances May, Gladys L and L Blanche) in four rooms at Yelloways, West Down, Devon.
Death of William Parkin in FreeBMD in April-June 1941 aged 2 in the index, 72 on the typed original, in Barnstable (5b 1142).
Simon Fleming has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Parkin born in Combe Martin, Devon in 1869, parents John Parkin and Jane Hancock, his marriage to Louisa Blanche Willis on 4 December 1890 in Ilfracombe, Devon, his eleven children and his death on 24 May 1941 in West Down, Devon. There are several entries giving his birth in 1867 parents William Parkin and Elizabeth Hogg.
William Parkin was the father of William Frederick Parkin, husband of Fanny Eliza Read, Felicity's third cousin twice removed.
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