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Esther PARKES

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Presbyterian Marriages solemnized in Scots Church, Elizabeth Street, Sydney in the County of Cumberland N.S.Wales in the Year 1833
No. 11
I, - do hereby declare that I am a Member of, or hold Communion with, the Church [signed] -
I, - do hereby declare that I am a Member of, or hold Communion with, the Church [signed] -
I, the Revd. John McGarvie, of Sydney N.S.Wales, Minister of the Scots Church there, do hereby certify that John Peake, Bachelor, of Sydney and Esther Parkes, Spinster, also of Sydney, were joined together in Wedlock by me on the Twenty-sixth (Tuesday) day of March 1833, at Sydney by Banns, in the presence of William Phillips and Elizabeth Phillips, both of Sydney.
Parties signed: John Peake, Esther her x mark Parkes [signed] John McGarvie Minr.

NSW Death 3105/1888 PEAKE ESTHER - - ESTHER - HURSTVILLE * 18 May 1888

The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Sat 19 May 1888 p.24
Funerals.
... Moorfields Cemetery.

Peake (Parkes) Esther 18 May 1888 72 dau/John & Margaret (Southern); b. Petersham, NSW; w/John Robert Moorefields Uniting Church NSW

Is ACI correct with pob and parents for Esther ?
 

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John Robert Peake b 27 Feb 1815 died 12 Aug 1886 Hurstville buried Moorefields Methodist Cemetery – parents John Peake & Elizabeth Beecham Bates nee Alcock
Esther nee Parkes b 1817 died 18 May 1888 – both on findagrave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187247455/john-robert-peake

tree suggests Esther b 1815 Tempe to John Thomas Parkes (Convict 1767-1839) & Margaret Southern (1783-1859) – she was convicted 27 April 1803 Lancaster received 7 yrs for shop lifting departs Nov 1803 arrived NSW 7 May 1803 – ships Coromandel & Experiment – on findagrave has Margaret Parkes b Lancashire died 24 March 1859 buried St Peter’s Cooks River Cemetery

John Parks convicted 11 March 1797 Worcester sailed Sept 1797 on “Barwell” - cert of freedom 20 Feb 1811 married June 1806 Sydney to Margaret Southern
https://www.monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/settlement/display/21077-john-parkes

https://australianroyalty.net.au/tree/purnellmccord.ged/individual/I22381/John-Parkes
 

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Thanks Val.

No Parks/Parkes in the index in 1815.

No marriage in 1806 in the index.

No burial in the index in 1839.

No death for a Margaret Parks/Parkes in 1859.
 
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