Hi, Robert PARKER was a sailor. He lived at Potter’s Field, Surrey, England, according to the 1841 London census. Robert Parker was also known as Robert GOSLING. Robert Gosling married Sinagh PRICE at Saint Botolph’s Without Aldgate, London in 1829. Robert was born around 1789 and Sinagh was born ca. 1810. Robert and Sinagh had six children. The oldest two were baptized at Saint Saviour’s, Surrey, England; the younger four at Saint John Horseleydowns, Bermondsey, London, England. All of the children were given the double surname, Parker Gosling. By 1844 the Parker family migrated to Newark, New Jersey. I have no evidence that the Gosling surname was used after that. I don’t know why Robert Parker also used the name Robert Gosling. My current thinking is that Parker was his original name. There is some circumstantial evidence in the IGI pointing to Norfolk. The name Sinagh Price suggests roots in Shropshire or Wales. I’d be happy to hear from anyone who has a record of a person with that first name. A _descendancy_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=mbc157588&id=I86) list for this family is pasted below. I’ve uploaded the gedcom file to Rootsweb WorldConnect at _http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=mbc157588&I11.x=8&I11.y=4_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=mbc157588&I11.x=8&I11.y=4) or go to _http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/_ (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/) and type in database name mbc157588. Thanks, John F 1 _Robert Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I147) b: ABT 1789 d: ABT 1870 + _Sinagh Price_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I153) b: ABT 1810 d: ABT 1884 2 _Edward Robert Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I138) b: 1831 d: BEF 1872 + _Ellen M. Price_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I152) b: ABT 1835 3 _Emma J. Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I140) b: ABT 1856 3 _Ida J. Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/i gm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I144) b: ABT 1858 3 _Marion Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I145) b: ABT 1860 d: AFT 1930 3 _Edward P. Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I137) b: ABT 1862 + _Mary J. Ryan Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I146) b: 1865 4 _Edward J. Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I136) b: ABT 1893 4 _Helen May Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I142) b: OCT 1893 4 _Agnes C. Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I134) b: ABT 1896 3 _Florence Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I141) b: ABT 1864 3 _Ellen Agnes Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I139) b: ABT 1866 d: AFT 1930 3 _Edaretta Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I135) b: ABT 1868 2 _Honor Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I143) b: APR 1833 d: 1904 + _Francis King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I88) b: MAY 1830 d: 1897 3 _Laura A. King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I97) b: 1854 d: FEB 1936 3 _Ella J. King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I86) b: ABT 1859 + _Andrew(?) Bodeman(?)_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I10) b: ABT 1868 4 _Helen M. Bodeman(?)_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I12) b: ABT 1896 4 _Charles A. Bodeman(?)_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I11) b: ABT 1901 3 _Elizabeth A. King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I85) b: 1863 d: DEC 1919 3 _Eva Frances King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I87) b: MAR 1870 d: 1933 + _Ira G. Fredericks_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I62) b: 7 OCT 1867 d: 1943 4 _Mabel I. Fredericks_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I64) b: 1 NOV 1892 + _Wallace H. Van Nostrand_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I179) b: BET ABT 1880 AND 1900 d: BEF 1930 5 _Walter Van Nostrand_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I180) b: 17 MAR 1917 d: 31 MAY 2002 5 _Gilbert Van Nostrand_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I178) b: 28 MAY 1918 d: 21 NOV 1987 4 _Frederick Gerard Fredericks_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I58) b: 29 OCT 1896 d: 1948 + _Elizabeth Dugan_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I23) b: 1897 d: 1966 5 _John Gerard Fredericks_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I63) b: 28 FEB 1922 d: 1976 4 _Honor Madeline Fredericks_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I61) b: 22 FEB 1900 3 _Charles H. King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I83) b: 1871 d: FEB 1902 + _Mrs Anna A. King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I101) 4 _Francis E. King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I91) b: ABT FEB 1893 d: 29 JUL 1893 4 _Ada A. King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I78) b: ABT 1895 4 _Matilda King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I100) b: ABT 1897 4 _Roland P. King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I104) b: ABT 1899 + _Florence McCollum_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/c gi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I112) b: ABT 1899 5 _Kenneth R. King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I96) b: ABT 1922 5 _Roland P King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I103) b: ABT 1923 4 _Charles H. King_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I82) b: ABT 1901 2 _Samuel George Parker Gosling_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I73) b: FEB 1835 d: DEC 1840 2 _Thomas Mather Parker Gosling_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I75) b: ABT MAY 1838 d: DEC 1840 2 _Sinagh Elizabeth Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I148) b: MAY 1841 + _Samuel Reight_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I154) b: ABT 1835 2 _William Joseph Parker_ (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbc157588&id=I149) b: JUN 1843