GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY NINE GENERATIONS FR OM ARTHUR AND MARY PARKE 1 720-1920 1 1 9 8335 PR EFACE I t is an ordinar occurrence to hm the oli ician who as ires to y p t , p ain vo es for himself and fr ends to rea wi h ridicu e the enealo is g t i , t t t l g g t. He hinks it eases the mmo co n eo e. The edi rees of horses do s t pl p pl p g , g and fan c i eons he admi s have a cash v An et far m y p g t alue. d y ore import ant for the s uden of human affairs are the ed rees of mn B no t t p ig e . y ' b e possi l ingenuity of legislation can a society made up of ruflians and boors be raised to the intellectual and moral level of a society made up of we -bred mer han s and eomen c arsons and aw ers . One mi h as ll t y , p l y g t we ex ec to see a dra horse win the Derb ll p t y y. ' In ofiering this Historic Genealogy of our branch of the American Parke fam to m kindred I do it wi h the assurance ha m s or is ily y , t t t y t y far m n m h e fro com ete. Our ki s en man of hem in eir v rnacu ar pl , y t , t l went back or over the mountain in the early days and esteemed it their duty to make n t N r rt a ears to have been o to wri e his or . 0 evious effo , t , t y p pp made oward wri in a Parke h s or hou h here are livm oda mem t t g i t y , t g t g t y e Al hou h bers of the ninth generation fromArthur and Mary Park . t g his w ork ma be crude an d imerfect the com i er felicimtes h mse f ha t y p , p l i l t t his kin o h r I mos cordia hank m man dred are n t without a isto y . t lly t y y re a o e l ti ns for their very grea t assistanc . WALLACE JOHN P . anuar 1 J y , Key to the Characters R epresenting Each Generation fromArthur and Mary Parke is First generation represented by a large number, as 1 , 2, 3, etc. Second generation is represented by a small number as 1 2 3 4 5 Third generation is represented by a large capital let B . ter in bold black type , as A, , C, etc Fourth generation is represented by a large capital let ter in light face type, as A , B , C , etc . Fifth generation is represented by small letter , bold b c . face type , as a, , , etc Sixth generation is represented by a small letter, light . face type , as a, b , c , etc Seventh generation is repres ented by letter in pare n a . theses , as ( ) , (b) , (c) , etc no . Eighth generation , s ymbol I . Ninth generation , four children , whom shall name PARKE FAMILY HISTORY The descendants of Arthur and Mary Parke are of Sax on-Scotc h origin whose ancestors immigrated into Bally b egley , County Donegal , Ireland, after 16 10. Their name was orig inally written Park but some one during the early s lifetime of Joseph Parke , E q . , the second son of John ’ introduced the present method of writing the name . Squire i Parke had eleven children who all used th s method , which , of course , helped to introduce it . The two brothers of Jos . 2 eph Park , Esq , Arthur d and John 2d , never changed the spelling of their names and those who removed west still adhere to the old Park . However , the many descendants in Chester County of John 2d and Arthur 2d , have for years surrendered to the wheels of progress . I n 1720 our branch of the Parke family consisted of Wil liam , Arthur , Samuel , David and Jane Parke . All , perhaps , w were mar ried , with families , except Jane , who al ays lived with her brother, Arthur Parke . William Parke married Jane Hood , daughter of John Hood , the mathematician . They had eight children and always resided in Ireland . 1 . John Parke . on 2. Samuel , who was drowned during a storm Lough L evithy . : 3. Robert Hood Parke , the father of twelve children ’ John , the Fagg s Manor school teacher Elizabeth , who died P er civan C . in infancy ; Robert , Jr Madaline , John , Ethel , a . Hessie , Annie , Samuel , Eliz beth , William and James Parke r . Of these children , Robert J , had a daughter, Alice, who i married a man by the name of Ewing, and they had f ve children . Their uncle , John Parke , the first child of Robert r 20 1818, Hood Parke , J . , made his will on June , leaving 187 these children $6300 and a farm in Luzerne County , of “ acres , with instructions to his executors to inter his body ’ i in Fagg s Manor Cemetery beside my friends , w th a decent 4 , 17 7 , grave stone , inscribed with the year of my birth and that I lived to instruct , as teacher of youth , three genera $ tions of children . He left a legacy to the Treasurer of the PARKE FAMILY HISTO RY Presbyterian General Assembly , for the teaching of young n Indians to read the Scriptures and o e to the s on of Mrs . McCarter who had lost a leg . This David McCarter was a teacher in schools managed by Rev . James Latta , Pastor of Upper Octoraro Church . He afterward became a Presby terian Clergyman and lived and died in Columbus , Ohio . This John Parke gives his residence as in Upper Oxford Township , Chester County , P a . , near Russellville . His will 2 was witnessed by his d cousin , John Parke , 2d , and by his two sons , Arthur (3) and John (3) of wha t is now Highland P a d Township , Chester County , . , descendants of Arthur an Mary Parke . 4. Martha H . McKay No children . 5. Jane Parke married Thomas Crocket, nine children William Y . , Henry , Janie , Samuel , Margaret , James , Ezek iel , Robert and Thomas Parke . 6 . Margaret Montgomery had four children : Robert , William , John , a physician , and Margaret . 7 . Mary Parke , unmarried . 8. William Parke had four children : E . J . Alexander, H cKa r William . , Matilda M y and Marge y . Old William ll l n Parke , of Ba y b eg ey , County Donegal , Irela d , was a child at the time of the siege of Derry in 1690 and narrowly escap ’ ed being slain by a French officer in King James army . I quote the above data from a typographical family rec ord sent to Samuel R . Parke , about 1895, by J . J . Elder , of Woodstock , New Bruns wick , who claims to be a great, great , great grandson of old William Parke through a branch of this family which located in New Brunswick , Can i ada , n 1834, from whom the mos t of our early Parke his a ll b l re tory has been obt ined . The Ba y eg ey homestead mained in the Parke family until quite recently . The last owner was a Samuel Parke . s Armthur and wife , Mary Parke , and son , Joseph , John and Sa uel , and Margaret who married William Noblitt , ’ Arthur s sister , Jane , and her brothers , David an d Samuel , with their families , removed to Fallowfield Township , Ches un ter Co ty , Pa about 1720. Arthur Parke died in the lat w ter part of January , 1739 , and his ife , Mary died about 1760. At the head of his grave in Octoraro Cemetery is a ’ memorial stone , legible within the writer s recollection . Mr . and Mrs . Noblitt wi th their three daughters , Annie , 4 Margaret and Agnes , after 17 0, removed to northern Geor gia and there made their permanent home . Samul R . Parke , PARKE FAMI LY HISTORY v while visiting the Atlanta , Ga Exhibition in 1894, called on Robert Parke , a descendant of Joseph Parke , son of Arthur and , who interested himself in getting temporary p os “Mary sessi on of an ancient book containing the Noblitt genealogy from the days of Arthur and Mary Parke , prized most high l Nobl itts y by the of the present generation . A cursory reading indicated many descendants . Arthur Parke in his will devised his land estate to h is two sons , Joseph and John Parke , subeet to payment of leg acies to the other heirs . The two sons divided the real es tate between them , Joseph taking the southern part , about 25 v 0 acres , with the impro ements , entailed by a lifetime residence there of his mother and Aunt Jane . John took the northern part of 300 acres without improvements of u m ch value . Jos eph resided at the time and for some time after the death of his father on his father’ s farm along the Susquehanna River , then occupied his Fallowfield estate for a time and afterward removed to South Carolina . His 1 0 mother and Aunt Jane both dying about 76 , he returned and sold his property in Chester County , Pa . During the Revolutionary War , his property in South Carolina was very a w as much damaged and his son , John Arthur P rke , killed n in battle ; s o wrote George , so of Joseph Parke , to his cous ’ i 1783.