The Parks Family of Hastings County,Ontario,CanadaUpdated July 17, 2006 |
Dr.James Edward (Ted) Parks D.C.,U.E. ted.mag@rogers.com |
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| The history of the Park/e/s ancestors spans a period in time from circa 1400A.D. to the present.Noted ancestors of this line include Charlemagne,King Alfred The Great of England,King Kenneth I MacAlpin of Scotland,and Hugh Capet.More recent dignitaries are Diana,Princess of Wales,Humphery Bogart and Nelson Rockefeller.Another Park/e/s ancestor,albeit from a different line,gained notoriety of a different sort.Col.Daniel Parke was,at one time,appointed Governor of the British Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Sea,with Antigua as the Capitol.In 1710 some chiefs and officials with opposing views revolted against his rule and resorted to violence resulting in Col. Parke's overthrow and eventual torture and death. ROBERT PARKE(1580-1664),the progenitor of my line,sailed from Cowes on the Isle of Wight,England on March 29,1630 aboard the Flagship "Arabella" with Governor John Winthrop and a fleet of 10 ships and approximately 500 passengers.They landed in Boston,Massachusetts on June 17,1630.Later he moved to Weathersfield,Conn.,New London,Conn. and Mystic,Connecticut where he died February 4,1664.He was a close friend and Secretary to Governor Winthrop. CYRENIUS PARKE U.E.,a direct descendant of Robert Parke,was my gt,gt,gt great grandfather.He was a colonist who remained faithful to the Crown during the American War of Independence (1775-1783),otherwise known as The American Revolution,and joined General Burgoyne's British Forces to fight the rebels along with his brother James Parke.They were driven from their homesteads by the rebels and were forced to flee the country leaving all their possessions behind.They sailed from New York,reached Lachine,Quebec and continued to Sorel where they wintered in tents and hastily built cabins. The final stage of their journey was on flat-bottomed boats called "bateaux" and they travelled from Lachine up the St.Lawrence River to land at Adolphustown on June 16,1784. Cyrenius,a UNITED EMPIRE LOYALIST,was granted a large tract of land from the Crown because of his position in the Army and settled at Hay Bay,near Napanee,Ontario,Canada.He had eight children by his first wife.She died and he remarried and his second wife bore him twelve more children.Of those 20 children, 18 reached adulthood,married and thus propagated Ontario with Parke descendants. WILLIAM ARTHUR PARKS,F.R.S.,a descendant of Cyrenius Parke,graduated from Natural Sciences at the University of Toronto at the age of twenty and became employed as a chemist at the Canadian Copper Company.He later returned to the academic world when offered a staff appointment in the Geology Department of the University of Toronto,which he would eventually head in 1922.When the Royal Ontario Museum was established in 1912,he was offered the distinguished position of Director of the Museum of Palaeontology.From 1918 until his death,he organized a number of expeditions to the "Badlands of Alberta",the Red Deer River Valley,in search of dinosaur bones.Among the specimens he studied,possibly the most important was a new dinosaur later renamed PARKSOSAURUS in his honour and now displayed in the Dinosaur Gallery.With this distinction plus the honour of being the first Director of The Royal Ontario Museum of Palaeontology,William Arthur Parks holds the most time-honoured place in the history of dinosaur hunting at the R.O.M. I am also researching the names COLLINS,REED,SAYERS,BATES,DUNLOP and LESLIE Any information would be appreciated.I am willing to share data,upon request. |
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