FAMILY AU4

Origins FAM 9B ........See also AU5 for a Clement ...any connex ?

Information June 1996 from : Ivy Cunnington Unit 25 Seschenault
Village 22 Hayes Street Bunbury 5230 W A

PARKER (657) Born in UK. He came from NSW to WA. He owned a Gold
Mine at Southern Cross which he sold and bought a 4000 acre farm
at Bindi Bindi for his sons. He returned to NSW.
He was married 1880 NSW to Elizabeth Yates. He died NSW 1937.

Children in NSW :

1882 CLEMENT (7551) Married to Bessie Hambley. He died age 56
        during WW2.

                Children :
                
                NORMAN (7552)Captured by Japanese during WW2,
                worked as a POW on Burma Railway and coal mines
                (Kyushu?) Post war he married Ivy........Children :
                        Cherryl Suzanne..married, 2 children
                        MAXWELL JOHN(7553)..married, 4 sons

                EDGAR JOHN (7554)

                Phyllis

.... Elizabeth (Vida?) believed never married, early life as
        a nurse in Sydney.

1885 ALBERT (7555)Participated in WW1, no info. On return to
        the farm he married Annie Hambley (sister to Bessie
        above, they were from Mt Barker WA)

        Children : no info

1889 Evelyn M ... died NSW 1889

.... EDWARD (7556) Captured at Crete in WW2 he was a POW in
        Germany. After the war he married and had 3 children.

.... Lucy

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