Individual Details
John PARKIN 58
(Bef 12 Jan 1794 - 3 May 1881)
History of Salisbury 1774-1984, by George Taylor, Barnes-Hopkins Ltd., 1984.
Pages 42-43.
"When John Parkin bought the land on which Jaques Tavern was located in 1836 and moved from Parkindale to Salisbury to build a home, he was in his early forties and had been in New Brunswick 19 since arriving from the Yorkshire district of England. on his arrival in the province he had first lived in Hillsborough, where he had married Elizabeth Mclean, of Loyalist descent, and then at Thriftyville, later known as Parkindale. The couple was to have a large family and it was concern about lack of educatonal opportunities that prompted the move to Salisbury.
"Humphreys says the trip that saw the family move from Parkindale to their new home in Salisbury was marked by Parkin having to stop at every farm on the road down little River to let down bars or open fences that barred passage where property lines intersected the roadway.
"The Parkin house in Salisbury, a large building, no doubt, to house a growing number of children that eventually totalled thirteen, was located on the river side of Main Street between today's shopping plaza and McNaughton Brook, probably closer to the brook than the plaza. The house burned early in the 1900's. The fire is reported to have been ignited by a spark from a nearby grist mill owned by Albert Price. (fn 8, interview Basil Eagles of Salisbury, Jan. 18 and 19, 1983)
"Elizabeth Parkin died in 1862, John in 1881 at the advanced age of 86. Their large family dispersed over the region and the country as well as the U.S. Oddly enough, a son who did remain home to run the apparently very successful family farm, Watson Parkin, married but had no children. As a result the Parkin name in the village disappeared when he died in 1926 at the age of 96."
[paragraphs on Sir George Parkin omitted]
"Some members of the family of the original Parkin pioneers are buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, while others rest in a small family plot in a stand of old spruce trees overlooking the intervale on what was once the Parkin farm. Another daughter of Sir George, Maude Erskine (Parkin) Grant, was buried there as recently as 1962. (fn 10 = Parkins of NB, by Steeves)
"Arrangements were made in 1983 by a Parkin descendant in western Canada to have the family cemetery maintained on a regular basis.
"Stockford Lewis, father of Drury Lewis, bought that piece of the Parkin farm where the house once stood about 1920. (fn 11, interview Basil Eagles, op cit.)
rom Sir George Parkin, by Sir John Willison, 1929.
His father was John Parkin of Yorkshire, a dalesman of the yeoman class, whose people had been settled for many generations on the upper waters of the Tees.
...
[Quoting George Parkin:] "My father's native place was Lunesdale, which is on the Yorkshire side of the Tees, and he spent most of his boyish days in Middleton and Michleton, two small villages in the lead-mining district, a few miles above Barnard Castle. There are none of our name in the vicinity who are near connections, so far as I could find, but several cousin of father of other names I found in different parts of the Dale country." He [George Parkin] was told by an old clergyman of Lunedale, when he visited the neighbourhood in 1873, that in the church registers of the adjoining villages there was record of ten John Parkins in direct succession.
...
His father was oron in 1795 and could recall the celebrations throughout England over the victory of Waterloo and the slow recovery of the British people from the consequences of the long struggle for the overthrow of Napoleon.
When John Parkin decided to emigrate he followed in the track of other adventurous spirits of the neighbourhood who had settled in New Brunswick. A three months' voyage in a sailing ship brought him to the shores of the Bay of Fundy, where a few English communities had been established, for the most part upon lands formerly occupied by the Acadians. John Parkin made his way to Hillsborough in Albert County, where a year or two later he married Elizabeth McLean of Nova Scotian birth and Loyalist descent.
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Parkin's father was by birth an Anglican, but at Salisbury the only ordinances of religion had been those provided by itinerant Baptist preachers, and these John Parkin had gladly accepted. His son was brought up in that communion and frequented its services till his arrival in Fredericton. Here his family traditions, his instinctive love of seemliness and dignity in worship, and above all the character and influence of the Bishop [Medley], brought him back to the Church of England, into which he was baptized in the Cathedral. His early religious training seems to have been mainly in the hands of two devout elder sisters, who remained Baptists and who till late in life, on his return from Fredericton, or Oxford, or the Continent, questioned him searchingly to know whether amid the temptations of the world he had retained his faith and his morals.
Pages 42-43.
"When John Parkin bought the land on which Jaques Tavern was located in 1836 and moved from Parkindale to Salisbury to build a home, he was in his early forties and had been in New Brunswick 19 since arriving from the Yorkshire district of England. on his arrival in the province he had first lived in Hillsborough, where he had married Elizabeth Mclean, of Loyalist descent, and then at Thriftyville, later known as Parkindale. The couple was to have a large family and it was concern about lack of educatonal opportunities that prompted the move to Salisbury.
"Humphreys says the trip that saw the family move from Parkindale to their new home in Salisbury was marked by Parkin having to stop at every farm on the road down little River to let down bars or open fences that barred passage where property lines intersected the roadway.
"The Parkin house in Salisbury, a large building, no doubt, to house a growing number of children that eventually totalled thirteen, was located on the river side of Main Street between today's shopping plaza and McNaughton Brook, probably closer to the brook than the plaza. The house burned early in the 1900's. The fire is reported to have been ignited by a spark from a nearby grist mill owned by Albert Price. (fn 8, interview Basil Eagles of Salisbury, Jan. 18 and 19, 1983)
"Elizabeth Parkin died in 1862, John in 1881 at the advanced age of 86. Their large family dispersed over the region and the country as well as the U.S. Oddly enough, a son who did remain home to run the apparently very successful family farm, Watson Parkin, married but had no children. As a result the Parkin name in the village disappeared when he died in 1926 at the age of 96."
[paragraphs on Sir George Parkin omitted]
"Some members of the family of the original Parkin pioneers are buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, while others rest in a small family plot in a stand of old spruce trees overlooking the intervale on what was once the Parkin farm. Another daughter of Sir George, Maude Erskine (Parkin) Grant, was buried there as recently as 1962. (fn 10 = Parkins of NB, by Steeves)
"Arrangements were made in 1983 by a Parkin descendant in western Canada to have the family cemetery maintained on a regular basis.
"Stockford Lewis, father of Drury Lewis, bought that piece of the Parkin farm where the house once stood about 1920. (fn 11, interview Basil Eagles, op cit.)
rom Sir George Parkin, by Sir John Willison, 1929.
His father was John Parkin of Yorkshire, a dalesman of the yeoman class, whose people had been settled for many generations on the upper waters of the Tees.
...
[Quoting George Parkin:] "My father's native place was Lunesdale, which is on the Yorkshire side of the Tees, and he spent most of his boyish days in Middleton and Michleton, two small villages in the lead-mining district, a few miles above Barnard Castle. There are none of our name in the vicinity who are near connections, so far as I could find, but several cousin of father of other names I found in different parts of the Dale country." He [George Parkin] was told by an old clergyman of Lunedale, when he visited the neighbourhood in 1873, that in the church registers of the adjoining villages there was record of ten John Parkins in direct succession.
...
His father was oron in 1795 and could recall the celebrations throughout England over the victory of Waterloo and the slow recovery of the British people from the consequences of the long struggle for the overthrow of Napoleon.
When John Parkin decided to emigrate he followed in the track of other adventurous spirits of the neighbourhood who had settled in New Brunswick. A three months' voyage in a sailing ship brought him to the shores of the Bay of Fundy, where a few English communities had been established, for the most part upon lands formerly occupied by the Acadians. John Parkin made his way to Hillsborough in Albert County, where a year or two later he married Elizabeth McLean of Nova Scotian birth and Loyalist descent.
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Parkin's father was by birth an Anglican, but at Salisbury the only ordinances of religion had been those provided by itinerant Baptist preachers, and these John Parkin had gladly accepted. His son was brought up in that communion and frequented its services till his arrival in Fredericton. Here his family traditions, his instinctive love of seemliness and dignity in worship, and above all the character and influence of the Bishop [Medley], brought him back to the Church of England, into which he was baptized in the Cathedral. His early religious training seems to have been mainly in the hands of two devout elder sisters, who remained Baptists and who till late in life, on his return from Fredericton, or Oxford, or the Continent, questioned him searchingly to know whether amid the temptations of the world he had retained his faith and his morals.
Events
| Birth | Bef 12 Jan 1794 | Middleton-in-Teesdale, Durham, ENG | |||
| Baptism | 12 Jan 1794 | Middleton-in-Teesdale, Durham, ENG | |||
| Immigration | 1817 | To Canada |  | ||
| Marriage | 21 Oct 1820 | Hillsborough, Westmorland, New Brunswick, CAN - Elizabeth MCLEAN 59 | | ||
| Census | 1851 | Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada | | ||
| Resided | 1867 | Salisbury, Westmorland, New Brunswick, CAN | | ||
| Census | 1871 | Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada | | ||
| Census | 1881 | Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada |  | | |
| Death | 3 May 1881 | Salisbury, Westmorland, New Brunswick, CAN | | ||
| Burial | Parkin Cemetery, Salisbury, Westmorland, New Brunswick, CAN |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth MCLEAN 59 (1802 - 1862) |
| Child | William Parkin (1822 - 1885) |
| Child | Ann Parkin (1823 - 1917) |
| Child | Jane Parkin (1824 - 1873) |
| Child | Mary Parkin (1825 - 1911) |
| Child | John E. Parkin (1828 - 1871) |
| Child | Alice Parkin (1829 - 1898) |
| Child | Watson Parkin (1830 - 1926) |
| Child | Elizabeth Parkin (1831 - 1921) |
| Child | Eliza PARKIN 29 (1833 - 1868) |
| Child | Olivia Parkin (1835 - 1922) |
| Child | Charlotte Parkin (1837 - 1873) |
| Child | James Lewis Parkin (1845 - 1927) |
| Child | George Robert Parkin (1846 - 1922) |
| Father | William PARKIN 116 (1758 - ) |
| Mother | Elizabeth RAW 117 (1754 - ) |
| Sibling | Ann Parkin (1788 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Parkin (1789 - 1865) |
| Sibling | Ann Parkin (1790 - ) |
| Sibling | William Parkin (1791 - 1861) |
| Sibling | Robert Parkin (1795 - 1823) |
| Sibling | Richard Parkin (1798 - 1826) |
Notes
Census
Endnotes
1. Leon Parkin Steeves, The Parkins of New Brunswick (1971), 5.
2. Leon Parkin Steeves, The Parkins of New Brunswick (1971), 6.
3. 1851 Census of Canada.
4. Hutchinson's New Brunswick Directory, 1867-1868, image viewed on ancestry.com.
5. 1871 census of Canada, image viewed at ancestry.com.
6. Canadian census 1881.
7. Daily Telegraph, Saint John, via Daniel F. Johnson.
8. Christian Visitor, Saint John, via Daniel F. Johnson.
9. New Brunswick Reporter and Fredericton Advertiser, Fredericton, via Daniel F. Johnson.
10. New Brunswick Reporter and Fredericton Advertiser, Fredericton, via Daniel F. Johnson.
11. Chignecto Post via Daniel F. Johnson.
12. The Times, Moncton, via Daniel F. Johnson.
13. Saint Croix Courier, Saint John, via Daniel F. Johnson.