Afternoon all Can anyone help me out with the Kidson / Parke connection please ? Ok here's how it goes. I found on NAAIRS a photograph of a A. Kidson1787-1843 daughter of J.Parke and settler. Who was J. Parke and who was the Settler ? Is he the Joseph Parke born in 1780 below ? could not be as the girl above J. Kidson was born in 1787 I then have come across a Fenning Parke Kidson whose death notice was lodged in 1857 - below there is a Samuel Fenning Parke who as far as I am aware never came to South Africa. His Brother William did and he lived in Grahamstown for a while and then moved to Cape Town where he owned the Parkes Hotel which then became the Grand Hotel. His Daughter Mary married Capt. Sedgwick who founded James Sedgwick and Company, wholesale wine and spirit Merchants. Does anyone know know of any other PARKE related families that were here in the early 1800's ? The other Parke connection I have is that of Samuel Parke Osborne also spirit and wine dealer of Cape Town who married Hannah Cressy. Samuel Parke Osborne mother was a Mary Anne Parke but from where ? Samuel Parke. I am sure that these Parke families are related. William Cressy born in October 1810 was the brother of Hannah Cressy and was first referenced in 1839 as having a liqour store in Heerengracht Street, Cape Town. In 1844 he requested that his liquor licence be altered to be used at "The Three Cups" in Rondebosch. One of the residences at UCT is called Driekoppen. He then reappears in Harrington, Street, Bree and Waterkant and eventually dies at the Red Lion. William's other sister Mary married Michael Mann who was also a publican, brewer and liquor dealer in Cape Town in Cape Town. Michael Mann also lived in Rondebosch and sold his land called "Zorvliet" to Cecil John Rhodes. Michael was found lying drunk in the streets of Cape Town on 12 August 1855 If any one has any contacts to these families I would love to hear from you Descendants of William Joseph Parke 1 William Joseph PARKE Born: Abt. 27 November 1742 in Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England Baptism: 27 November 1742 Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England Died: 03 September 1821 in Saffron Walden .. +Elizabeth TOLLEMACHE ... 2 Margarett PARKE Born: Abt. January 1774 in Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England Baptism: 16 January 1774 Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England ... 2 Samuel Fenning PARKE Born: Abt. June 1776 in Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England Baptism: 04 June 1776 Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England ... 2 Elizabeth PARKE Born: Abt. December 1777 in Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England Baptism: 05 December 1777 Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England ... 2 Joseph PARKE Born: Abt. October 1780 in Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England Baptism: 03 October 1780 Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England ... 2 William Tollemache PARKE Born: 19 May 1790 in Saffron Walden, Essex Died: 01 February 1851 in Cape Town Burial: St. Pauls Cemetery, Rondebosch, Cape ....... +Elizabeth BUSH Born: 11 December 1790 in Essex, England Died: 13 December 1881 in Cape Town Burial: St. Pauls Cemetery, Rondebosch, Cape ......... 3 Mary Bush PARKE ............. +Capt. James SEDGWICK ......... 3 Elizabeth PARKE ............. +John TYARS ......... 3 Anne Buncher PARKE ............. +Henry WILSON ......... 3 Sarah Schrive PARKE ............. +Captain DARE ......... 3 Eliza Lake PARKE ............. +William Walker BALL ......... 3 Lydia PARKE ............. +John Philipson STOWE the descendants of all these children have not been added yet as I only discovered this family link this morning Descendants of Richard Cressey 1 Richard CRESSEY Born: in England Occupation: Labourer .. +MARY ... 2 Mary CRESSY Born: 1815 in Marylebone, London, England Baptism: 16 June 1816 Bermondsey, St. Johns Horsleydowns London Occupation: servant ....... +Michael MANN Born: 1816 in England Died: 04 June 1887 in Cape Town Occupation: Publican & Brewer ......... 3 Henry William MANN Born: 1837 in London Died: 22 December 1900 in His residence The Elms in Rondebosch Burial: 24 December 1900 Occupation: Landed Proprietor Reference:: MOOC ref: 4637 Cape Town Archives ............. +Sophia LANE Born: 1842 Died: 25 March 1896 in Rondebosch Burial: St. Pauls Rondebosch ......... 3 Hannah Maria MANN Born: 13 November 1839 in 2 Molineux Street, Marylebone, London, England Baptism: 13 November 1839 Died: 1890 in Cape Town ............. +Thomas EVANS Born: 1836 in Wrexham, Denbigh, Wales Occupation: Fireman at Gasworks ... 2 Hannah CRESSEY Born: 1825 in Suffolk England Died: 16 July 1898 in Observatory Road Cape Town. Signed by H.W. Mann (nephew) ....... +Samuel Parke OSBORNE Born: 13 February 1829 in London Baptism: 13 December 1846 St. Dunstans, Stepney, London Died: 19 December 1870 Burial: Somerset Road Cemetery, Green Point Occupation: Canteen Keeper ......... 3 Eleanor Angeleanor OSBORNE Born: 1852 in Worthing, London Died: 12 September 1913 in Rondebosch Cottage Hospital Rondebosch Reference:: Births Free BMD ............. +Herman August Wilhelm GENTZ Born: 1838 in Germany Died: 19 December 1896 in Observatory Road Cape Town ......... 3 Selina Ann OSBORNE Born: January 1855 in London, England Died: 08 December 1929 in 20 Strubens Rd, Mowbray ............. +John MARTIN Occupation: Engineer in 1929 ... 2 William CRESSY Born: 21 October 1810 Died: 08 September 1874 ....... +Christina Antonetta NOTHLING Died: 15 February 1893 Burial: St. Peter's Observatory ......... 3 William James CRESSY Born: 1843 in Wynberg Died: 18 February 1875 in The Red Lion, Cape Town ............. +Johanna Fredericke RORICH ... 2 Elizabeth CRESSY kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society/socweb.htm