Steve & Pauline Jones’s Family History
The Parris Family of Wrotham, Kent
This page 2 of 8 showing the descendants of John Parris and Jane Neville from Wrotham, Kent and the links by marriage to the Beadle, Harris (of Halling), Homewood, Luchford, Mayatt, Monk, Neville, Payne, Roots, and Tomkin families. If you have a connection to any individual or family featured on this site, or if you want to leave us your feedback, please contact us. The Parris home page is here.
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Fourth Generation
7. John PARRIS [Parents]. Born about 1804 in Snodland, John died quarter ending
June 1877 in Bromley. Occupation: Agricultural labourer.
On 12/10/1834, when John was age about 30, he married Eliza FISHER in Ash-
They had the following children:
(1) Phoebe, baptized 9/8/1836 at Borough Green Baptist Church, Wrotham. (2) William
[10]. (3) Katherine, born about 1838 in Stansted.
(4) John [11].
8. James PARRIS [Parents]. Born 1797 in Stansted. Occupation: Agricultural labourer.
On 3/11/1823 when James was age about 26, he married Mary Ann HARRIS, daughter of
John HARRIS and Hannah CARTER, in Halling, Kent. Mary Ann was born 4/8/1805 in Aylesbury,
Buckinghamshire and was baptized at St Mary Aylesbury on 22/9/1805. Mary Ann died
sometime between 1891 and 1901 but the exact date is not known.
They had the following children:
(1) Mary Elizabeth, baptized 15/8/1824 and died about 1825 age 17 months. Buried
2/1/1826 in Halling. (2) Mark, baptized 25/12/1825 in Halling and died 1828 in Halling,
age 2. Buried 22/10/1828. (3) Eliza, baptized 26/8/1827 in Halling and died 27/1/1918
in Snodland, age 90. On 22/7/1848 when Eliza was 21, she married Edward Humphrey
BEADLE, at St John The Baptist Church, Halling. (4) William [12]. (5) John Alfred
[13]. (6) James G. [14]. (7) Harriet, baptized 16/5/1834 in Halling. On 4/6/1853,
when Harriet was age 19, she married Charles BEADLE at the Parish Church, Halling.
(8) Henry, born about 1837 in Halling. (9) Jane, born about 1839. About 1860, when
Jane was age about 20, she married Alfred MONK. (10) Hannah, born 1841. Hannah died
in 1903, age 62. On 29/6/1861 when Hannah was 20, she married William ROOTS, son
of John & Hannah ROOTS, in Halling. (11) Dorothy, born quarter ending December 1844
in Halling. On 19/11/1864, when Dorothy was age about 20, she married Ambrose HOMEWOOD,
son of William & Eleanor HOMEWOOD, in Halling. (12) Amos [15]. (13) Esther, born
1847. In the quarter ending June 1869, when Esther was age about 22, she married
John NEVILLE, son of George NEVILLE and Harriet LONGLEY, in Malling. John and Esther
were probably unaware that before their marriage they were third cousins once removed.
Fifth Generation
9. William Robert PARRIS [Parents]. Baptized 17/3/1805 in Meopham. William Robert
died quarter ending December 1869, age 64. Occupation: Agricultural labourer.
On 11/9/1826 when William was 21, he married Margaret DULLER in All Saints Church,
Frindsbury. Born in 1810 in St Margaret’s Hoo, Margaret died 1873, age 63.
They had the following children:
(1) William [16]. (2) Matilda, baptized 9/5/1830 in Cooling and died there 1842,
age about 12. (3) Mary, baptized 18/3/1832 in Cooling. (4) Elizabeth, baptized 6/4/1834
in Cooling. (5) Margaret, baptized 6/9/1835 in Cliffe at Hoo. (6) Sarah, born 1839.
(7) Rebecca, born 21/11/1841 and died quarter ending June 1912 in Cliffe at Hoo.
On 25/2/1860, when Rebecca was age 18, she married Edward PAYNE, son of James & Ellen
PAYNE, in Frindsbury.
(8) Sophia, born 1849 in Cliffe at Hoo and died 16/3/1917. Sophia
was buried in St Helen's Church, Cliffe at Hoo.
10. William PARRIS [Parents]. Baptized 24/1/1837 at Borough Green Baptist Church,
Wrotham. William died quarter ending June 1914 in Chislehurst, age 77. Occupation:
Labourer.
In the quarter ending September 1861, when William was age 24, he married Sarah MUNN
in Dartford. Born about 1833 in Swanscombe, it is not known when Sarah died.
They had the following children:
(1) Sarah, born quarter ending September 1862 in Swanscombe. (2) William [17]. (3) Arthur [18]. (4) Annie, born 1873 in Chislehurst.
11. John PARRIS [Parents]. Born quarter ending June 1840 in Stansted, John died quarter
ending September 1886 in Lambeth, age 46. Occupation: Ordinary seaman in the Royal
Navy and variously described as a Navy pensioner (on his children’s birth certificates),
a rigger in a naval dockyard and a greengrocer (in the census).
In the quarter ending June 1867, when John was age about 27, he married Ellen BLAKE
in Sheppey, Kent. Ellen was born about 1850 in Jersey, Channel Islands and died quarter
ending September 1880 in Sheppey, age about 30.
They had the following children:
(1) John [19]. (2) Ellen Catherine, born quarter ending June 1869 in Sheerness. (3) Ada
Elizabeth, born quarter ending September 1870 in Sheerness.
(4) Catherine, born quarter
ending September 1874 in Chatham. (5) Flora, born about 1878 in Strood.
In the quarter ending December 1880, when John was age 40, he married Elizabeth Julia
SULLIVAN in Sheppey. Elizabeth Julia was born about 1856 in Upnor, Kent.
They had the following children:
(1) Ernest John [20]. (2) Reginald, born 16/8/1884 in Peckham. (3) Victor, born quarter
ending September 1910 in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Victor died in 1996, age about 86.
(4) Alfred, born 1912 and died 1989, age about 77.
After John’s death in 1886, Elizabeth married Cyrus TIPPER in the quarter ending March 1891, in Portsea.
12. William PARRIS [Parents]. Baptized 3/5/1829 in Halling, Kent. William died quarter
ending March 1889 in Strood, age about 59. Occupation: Chalk Digger.
On 20/5/1850 when William was 21, he married Mary LUCHFORD, daughter of William &
Mary LUCHFORD, in Halling. Mary was baptized 15/7/1832 in Snodland and died quarter
ending June 1914, age 81.
They had the following children:
(1) William [21]. (2) Thomas P. [22]. (3) James [23]. (4) Richard John [24]. (5) Henry
[25]. (6) Alfred George [26]. (7) Frances Elizabeth, born 11/9/1865 in Upper Halling,
Frances Elizabeth died on 8/1/1931, age 65. Buried on 24/1/1931 in Abney Park Cemetery,
Stoke Newington. 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.
(8) Frederick Charles, born 1868 in Halling, Kent. (9) Mary, born about 1870. (10) Albert,
born about 1873. (11) Edward [27].
13.
John Alfred PARRIS [Parents]. Baptized there 27/6/1832. It is not known when John
died but he was known to be alive in 1919.
On 30/7/1849 when John Alfred was 18, he married Eliza HARRIS , daughter of John
HARRIS and Eliza HEATH, in Halling. Born in 1832 in Halling, Eliza died 1911 in Sandwich,
DeKalb Co, Illinois, age 78. At the time of his marriage (1849) John Parris is stated
to be "under-
They had the following children:
(1) John Alfred [28]. (2) Mark [29]. (3) Henry J. [30]. (4) William [31]. (5) Amos Theodore [32]. (6) Albert Ernest [33]. (7) Celia, born about 1864 in Illinois. On 22/5/1895, when Celia was age about 30, she married Charles BURK in Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois. (8) Melvin [34]. (9) Ella A, born 1868 in Illinois. Ella died in 1959, age 91. (10) Ralph, born about 1869 in Illinois.
14.James G. PARRIS [Parents]. Born 1/8/1831 in Halling. James died in Winamac, Pulaski
Co, Indiana in 1904, age 72. Buried in South Lawn, Winomac, Indiana.
On 28/9/1856 when James was 25, he married Fanny Mae BUTLER, in Parish of St Margaret,
Rochester. Born on 14/2/1838 in Kent, Fanny Mae died in Winamac, Pulaski Co, Indiana,
USA on 12/5/1907, age 69.
They had the following children:
(1) Francis, born 18/7/1860 in Illinois. Francis died in Oklahoma. Occupation: Methodist
Minister. (2) Fanny M, born 28/1/1862 in Illinois. Fanny died in 12/1928, age 66.
(3) Sarah Ellen, born 10/10/1863. Sarah Ellen died in 1873, age 9. (4) Jane Esther
[35]. (5) Cora, born 21/9/1866 in Illinois. Cora died in 1949, age 82. (6) James
William [36]. (7) Mary Ann, born 12/11/1869 in Illinois. Mary Ann died in 5/1927,
age 57. (8) John Butler [37]. (9) Alice Victoria, born 8/9/1877 in Illinois. Alice
Victoria died in 1959, age 81.
15. Amos PARRIS [Parents]. Baptized 9/6/1844 in Halling. Occupation: Labourer (1871,
1881); Shopkeeper/grocer (1882); Publican (1891, 1901).
On 16/6/1866 when Amos was 22, he married Mary Ann EVEREST, in Halling. Mary Ann
was born 1847 in Luddesdown.
They had the following children, all born/baptized in Halling (unless stated otherwise):
(1) Amos Edwin, born 1868. Died April 1901, age 33. (2) Alice, born 1870. Alice married Arthur COKER. (3) Minnie, baptized 31/3/1872 and died age 13 months. Buried 1/4/1873. (4) Charles, born 1874. (5) Maude Mary, baptized 5/8/1878 and died age 4 months. Buried 11/8/1878. (6) Victoria, baptized 27/2/1880, died in 1887, age 7. (7) Arthur, baptized 5/3/1882. (8) Cyril James John, baptized 18/11/1883 at St Margaret’s, Rochester and died 1884, age 11 months. (9) Lizzie, baptized 12/4/1887. (10) Cecil, born 1888.
