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Re: Mary Parks
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 16 July 25 16:47 BST (UK) »
Well he must have been well into his 30s when he married Jane, so he may have been married before. But I don't think there were subequent marriages, not least because Jane outlived him and it seems they stayed in Stoke for most of their lives together.

Although James was born elsewhere, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that his father or grandfather had moved from Stoke originally. There were Park/e/s there from at least the mid 1700s with other, older family members called James, and I wonder if it was a name passed down various cousin lines from a single progenitor a few generations back.

Looking at censuses, the baptisms that list Rebecca and James as parents may be errors, as Rebecca seems to have been married to a John Parkes.
Bradbury (Sedgeley, Bilston, Warrington)
Cooper (Sedgeley, Bilston)
Kilner/Kilmer (Leic, Notts)
Greenfield (Liverpool)
Holyland (Anywhere and everywhere, also Holiland Holliland Hollyland)
Pryce/Price (Welshpool, Liverpool)
Rawson (Leicester)
Upton (Desford, Leics)
Partrick (Vera and George, Leicester)
Marshall (Westmorland, Cheshire/Leicester)