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The Parris Family of Wrotham, Kent
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 16. William PARRIS [Parents]. Baptized 28/11/1828 in Stoke, Kent, William died in 1901. Occupation: Agricultural Labourer.
In the quarter ending December 1848, when William was age about 20, he married Ann BAKER in Hoo district, Kent Born 1828 in Halstow, Kent, it is not known when Ann died.
They had the following children:
i. William [39] (1849-?)
ii. James, born 12/1/1851 and baptized 16/2/1851 at St Helen’s Church, Cliffe at Hoo, Kent..
iii. George, baptized 27/6/1852 at St James’ Church, Cooling, Kent.
iv. Ann, born about 1855 in Cliffe, Kent.
v. Henry, born 1859.
vi. Sally, born quarter ending December 1861 in North Aylesford district, Kent.
vii. Emily, born 1863.
viii. Eliza, born quarter ending December 1865 in North Aylesford district, Kent.
ix. John [40] (1869-?).
x. Elizabeth, born 1872.
17. William PARRIS [Parents]. Born quarter ending December 1863 in Stone by Dartford, Kent. It is not known when William died. Occ: Metropolitan Police Constable (1891); Furniture Dealer (1901).
On 14/11/1889, when William was age about 25, he married Christina Caroline MINETT in Strand, London. Christina Caroline was born about 1860 in Leatherhead, Surrey. It is not known when she died.
They had the following children:
i. Norman Jack, born 8/8/1890 in Westminster, London. In 1915, when Norman was age about 25, he married his cousin Edith Ethel PARRIS in Lewisham, London.
ii. Reginald William, born quarter ending September 1891 in Westminster, London.
iii. Doris Marion, born quarter ending June 1893 in Croydon, Surrey.
iv. Archibald Charles, born 1894 in Liverton, Surrey. Charles died 15/7/1916 during the Battle of the Somme. Archibald is commemorated at the Thiepval Memorial, France. See his citation in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register.
18. Arthur PARRIS [Parents]. Born 1867 in Chislehurst, Kent. It is not known when Arthur died. Occ: Infantry private (1891); Horse keeper on farm (1901).
In the quarter ending December 1891, when Arthur was age about 24, he married Mary Ann GODDARD in Canterbury, Kent. Mary Ann was born about 1874 in Frimley, Kent. It is not known when she died.
They had the following children:
i. Ellen Annie, born quarter ending June 1892 in Canterbury, Kent.
ii. Edith Ethel, born 1/4/1895 in Ramsgate, Kent. In 1915, when Edith was age about 20, she married her cousin Norman Jack PARRIS in Lewisham, London. Edith died in 1975.
iii. Arthur Charles, born quarter ending March 1898 in Kingston, Surrey.
iv. Winifred May, born quarter ending December 1899 in Lewisham, London.
v. Millicent, born quarter ending March 1906 in Lewisham, London.
 19. John PARRIS [Parents]. Born quarter ending March 1868 in Sheerness, Kent. It is not known when John died but it was after 1901; he appeared in that year’s census.
In the quarter ending December 1888, he married Kate Jane SULLIVAN in Portsea, Hampshire. Kate was born about 1868 in Upnor, Kent.
They had the following children:
i. Violet May, born quarter ending March 1899 in Sheerness, Kent.
ii. Redvers John, born quarter ending June 1900 in Sheerness, Kent.
20. Ernest John PARRIS [Parents]. Born 21/1/1883 in St Saviour, Southwark, London. It is not known when Ernest John died.
In the quarter ending March 1903, when Ernest John was age about 20, he married Elizabeth Mary A DOWNS in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Elizabeth Mary was born quarter ending March 1883 in Portsea, Hampshire and died in 1966, age about 83.
They had the following children:
i. Cyril, born 1906.
ii. Reginald Charles [41]
iii. Victor, born 1910 and died 1996, age about 85.
iv. Alfred, born 1912 and died 1989, age about 76.
v. Harold, born 1918 and died 1990, age about 71.
21. William PARRIS [Parents]. Born 1852 in Halling, Kent. Occupation: Metropolitan Police Constable.
In the quarter ending March 1870, when William was age 18, he married Emma TAYLOR. Emma was born about 1853 in Dartford, Kent.
They had the following children:
i. Emma, born about 1872 in Halling, Kent. In the quarter ending June 1898, when Emma was age about 26, she married William James FRYER in Dartford, Kent. William James was born about 1864 in Forest Hill, London.
ii. Ada, born 13/12/1873 in Southwark, London and baptized 5/7/1882 at All Saints, Belvedere, Kent.
iii. William [42] born 19/2/1876 in Erith, Kent and baptized 5/7/1882 at All Saints, Belvedere, Kent.
iv. Lillie, born 26/11/1879 in Erith, Kent and baptized 5/7/1882 at All Saints, Belvedere, Kent.
v. Ethel M, born about 1883 in Belvedere, Kent.
vi. Mabel Sarah, born 30/41885 in Belvedere, Kent and baptized 5/7/1882 at All Saints, Belvedere, Kent.
22. Thomas P PARRIS [Parents]. Born in 1853 in Halling, Kent. Thomas died in 1892 age 39 and was buried 6/8/1892 in Halling.
On4/8/1884 when Thomas was 31, he married Rhoda TOMKIN in Halling, Kent. Born in 1865. Rhoda died in 89 Kent Road, Lower Halling in 2/1940, age 75. Buried on 8/2/1940 in Halling.
They had the following children:
i. Edward Thomas [43] (1885-1966).
ii. Arabella Frances, born 1888 in Halling. Arabella Frances died 1905 age 17 and was buried 15/5/1905 in Halling.
iii. Alfred George, born 1890 in Halling. Alfred George died in 1894 age 4 and was buried 2/8/1894 in Upper Halling.
iv. Albert William, born in 1892. Occupation: Army Vetinary Corps. On 8/1/1916, when Albert William was age about 24, he married Annie Clara EXCELL at the Parish Church, Halling, Kent.
23. James PARRIS [Parents]. Born 21/5/1857 in Halling, Kent. James died 25/5/1938. Occupation: Bootmaker.
In the quarter ending June 1879, when James was age about 22, he married Ellen Elizabeth DAWSON (nee SACKER) in Dartford, Kent. Born about 1843. Ellen died sometime between 1881 and 1882.
They had the following child:
i. Richard John [44] (1879-?)
In the quarter ending March 1883, when James was age 25, he married Minnie RAINER in Woolwich, Kent. Minnie was born about 1864 in Tunbridge, Kent and died quarter ending September 1900 in Dartford, Kent age 37.
They had the following children, all born Belvedere, Kent. :
i. Phyllis F E, born about 1884.
ii. Minnie, born quarter ending March 1886.
ii. James, born quarter ending September 1887.
iii. Vivien, born about 1889.
iv. Winifred Hilda, born quarter ending September 1891.
v. Arthur Albert, born quarter ending March 1897.
On 31/3/1902, when James was age 44, he married Lily PETERS at the Parish Church, Erith, Kent. Lily’s father was given as Thomas Peters, a Plasterer. Witnesses were T Peters and Ann Elizabeth May Hill. Lily was born 15/12/1880 in Crayford, Kent and died 21/5/1923.
They had the following children:
i. Lily Irene, born 22/2/1903 in Belvedere, Kent. Lily Irene died 24/3/1987.
ii. Doris, born 2/2/1910 in Belvedere, Kent. Lily Irene died 28/11/1998.
In 1924, when James was age about 67, he married Ellen DUDLEY. They had one child who is still living
24. Richard John PARRIS [Parents]. Born in 1859 in Halling, Kent, Richard died in 1942 age 83 and was buried 13/8/1942 in Halling cemetery, Kent. Occupation: Chalk labourer.
Richard's birth was registered quarter ending June 1859, North Aylesford district, Kent.
Richard John married Eliza. Eliza was born about 1859 in Snodland, Kent, died in 1913 age about 54 and was buried 12/4/1913 in Halling cemetery, Kent .
They had the following children:
i. Richard, born about 1882.
ii. Ebenezer, born about 1884.
iii. Rosina, born about 1885.
iv. Frederick, born about 1887.
v. Daisy, born about 1888.
vi. Ruth, born about 1890.
vii. Elsie, born about 1892.
viii. Herbert, born about 1893.
ix. William Leonard [45] born about 1898.
x. Edith, born about 1900.
25. Henry PARRIS [Parents]. Born quarter ending June 1861 in Halling, Kent. Henry died about 1918, age 57. Occupation: Labourer, chalk pit.
On 30/4/1883 when Henry was 21, he married Eleanor-Sarah Turner CRADDUCK, daughter of Thomas Turner CRADDUCK & Maria HOMEWOOD at St Mary’s Church, West Malling, Kent.
They had the following child:
i. Eleanor Maud, born 22/10/1883 in West Malling, Kent and died quarter ending June 1886 in Strood, Kent, age 2.
On 19/10/1885 when Henry was 24, he married Ellen TOMKIN, daughter of George Richard TOMKIN & Ansley TAPP, in Stansted, Kent. Born on 1/10/1863 in Dunks Green, Wrotham, Kent. Ellen was baptized in Plaxtol, Kent on 25/10/1863 and died in 1 Pilgrim Cottages, Upper Halling, Kent on 24/8/1943, age 79. Buried on 26/8/1943 in Halling, Kent.
They had the following children:
i. Emily Phyllis, born 3/8/1888, 11 Barn Meadow Cottages, Halling, Kent. On 11/10/1915, when Emily was age 28, she married Tom GREEN, son of William Green a retired Minister, at the Parish Church, Halling. Her sister Mary was a witness. Emily Phyllis died in 1964, age 75.
ii. Mary, born 1889. On 10/1/1914, when Mary was age 25, she married Edmund George DODGE at the Parish Church, Halling, Kent.
iii. Annie, born about 1891. Annie died 27/11/1979, age 89, in Halling, Kent. On 26/4/1911, when Annie was age about 20, she married Frederick Charles DODGE at the Parish Church, Halling, Kent. Frederick Charles died 4/3/1968, age 76, also in Halling.
iv. Emma, born 12/9/1891and baptized (as an adult) 1/12/1926.
v. Nellie, born 17/4/1896 in Halling, Kent and baptized (as an adult) 1/12/1926 . On 22/1/1918, when Nellie was age 21, she married Edgar STEVENS at the Parish Church, Halling.
vi. William, born about 1899. William (Bill) Parris was a Japanese prisoner in WW2.
vii. Rhoda, Born 29/6/1901 and baptized as an adult 6/4/1930 at St John the Baptist, Halling, Kent. Rhoda died 28/10/1965, also in Halling. She married Daniel George ROOTS.
viii. Leslie [46] (1904-1984)
ix. Evelyn Frances, born 20/2/1907 in Halling, Kent. On 23/8/1930, when Evelyn was age 23, she married George Rowland BLACKMAN at the Parish Church, Halling
26. Alfred George PARRIS [Parents]. Born 30/5/1863 in Halling, Kent and died in 1916 age 53. Buried 15/4/1916 in Halling.
Alfred George married Mary Ellen CAPON. Mary Ellen was born 1/10/1862 in Snodland, Kent.
They had the following children:
i. Ada Rebecca Capon, born 30/5/1883 in Snodland, Kent. On 28/11/1903, when Ada was age 20, she married Ernest John MAYATT, son of William MAYATT & Amelia MONK, at the Parish Church, Halling.
ii. Cicely M E, born about 1885 in Snodland, Kent.
iii. George Edmund Wood, born 4/6/1886 in Birling.
iv. William Henry James, born 4/6/1888 in Birling.
v. James Capon [47] born 26/12/1889 in Birling.
vi. Jane Frances, born 1/4/1892 in Hoxton, London.
vii. Rosalind May, born 13/9/1893 in Hoxton, London.
viii. Alfred Thomas, born 29/11/1894 in Hoxton, London. Alfred Thomas died in Snodland, Kent on 3/6/1984, age 89. On 27/3/1915, when Alfred was age 20, he married Alice Mary ALLINGHAM in Malling, Kent.
ix. Ernest Albert Victor, born 3/9/1896 in Upper Halling, Kent.
x. Violet Ruth, born 9/8/1898 in Upper Halling, Kent.
xi. Grace Evelyn, born 16/6/1900 in Upper Halling, Kent.
xii. Elsie Constance Naomi, born 17/7/1902 in Upper Halling, Kent.
xiii. Alfred Richard J, born 3/7/1904 in Upper Halling, Kent.
xiv. Augustus Claude, born 12/7/1906 in Upper Halling, Kent and died age 2 months. Buried 29/9/1906 in Halling, Kent.
27. Frances Elizabeth PARRIS [Parents]. Born 11/9/1865 in Upper Halling, Kent. Frances Elizabeth died on 8/1/1931, age 65. Buried on 24/1/1931 in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington. Lived at Gabriel's Hill, Maidstone at time of marriage (1885).
On 27/11/1885 when Frances Elizabeth was 20, she married James Robert JOHNSON, son of James JOHNSON & Mary Ann DOLMAN, in Maidstone Register Office, Kent.
28. Edward PARRIS [Parents]. Born quarter ending September 1874 in Halling, Kent. Edward died in 1915 age about 41. Occ: Lime Labourer.
In the quarter ending September 1897, when Edward was age about 23, he married Ada Emily EDMONDS. Ada Emily was born about 1868 in Hornsey, Middlesex.
They had one known child:
i. Edward William, born quarter ending March 1900 in Halling, Kent.
29. John Alfred Parris  [Parents]. Born 21/2/1852, in Halling, Kent and baptized 13/6/1852, John Alfred left England in 1858 with his parents to start a new life in Somonauk, Illinois, USA. John Alfred died in 1919 and was buried in Sandwich cemetery.
On 21/2/1887 on his 35th birthday, John Alfred married Elizabeth SMITH, daughter of Charles Smith, a native of New York in Sandwich, Illinois, USA.
They had the following children:
i. Eva Gladys, born in Illinois, USA.
ii. John Henry [48] (1888-1904).
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EXTRACT FROM "PAST AND PRESENT OF DE KALB COUNTY" page 533, believed to date from the early 1900s: “John Alfred Parris is one of the active and successful businessmen, farmers and stockraisers of Sandwich township, whose time and energies are now devoted to the cultivation and improvement of a tract of land of 120 acres situated about a mile from Sandwich. The neat and thrifty appearance of the place indicates his careful supervision and practical methods. He is numbered among the old settlers of the county, dating his residence in Illinois from 1858….. [He] was reared to manhood in La Salle and De Kalb counties and a common school education was afforded him. He started out to make his own way in life when only thirteen years of age, working by the month as a farm hand for a salary of $10 per month. He was ambitious to engage in farming on his account or to carry on business that would more directly benefit himself and after he had attained his majority he began cultivating land and also operating a threshing machine. He continued in the latter business for twenty-one seasons doing threshing for three counties and also operating a clover huller. Prior to his marriage he bought a small tract of land on which he erected a dwelling and cultivated and fenced the place, opening up a farm so that he had a home to which he brought his bride………. Mr Parris exercises his right of franchise in support of the republican party but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him as he has always preferred to give his undivided time and attention to his business affairs. His life has been quietly passed in the honorable pursuits of the farm but in his business interests he has became widely known and is generally esteemed by all with whom he comes in contact. He deserves much credit for what he has accomplished for he started out in life on his account at the age of thirteen years and has since been dependent in own labors - a self-made man whose example in many respects is worthy of emulation.”
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