Charles Joseph Parke
Charles Joseph Parke was a High Sheriff of Dorset in 1869 and a Lord of the Manor of Sturminster Marshall. He was born at Ham Common in Surrey and was the son of Charles Parke and Letitia Parke nee Alcock. In 1847 he married Ellen Mary Ethelston, daughter of the Rev Charles Wicksted Ethelston of Upplyme. Parke lived at Henbury, Dorset.Family
They had five sons and four daughters:
- Charles Ethelston Parke, eldest son, served in the Rifle Brigade in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War.
- Edmund William Parke. He was educated at Wellington College, and went to Henbury Station in Northern Territory, Australia, in 1876, where his brother Walter joined him.
- Alfred Watlington Parke, cleric; father of Wilfred Parke the aviator.
- Lawrence Parke of the 68th Durham Light Infantry, father of Walter Parke.
- Walter Parke, born 1863.
- Edith Letitia, married 1877 Rev. Charles Lewis Kennaway.
- Ellen Henrietta, married Thomas Philip Godsal.
- Charlotte Josephine.
- Mildred Margaret, married Henry Aubrey Cartwright of the 68th Light Infantry, son of Henry Cartwright.
