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Parkinson Tree
This branch of Rosie's line seems to have hopped backwards and forwards across the Yorkshire - Lancashire border for the last four generations. Christopher Parkinson was a loom teller in Lancashire. James Wolfenden was a coal miner in Yorkshire. James and Jane Parkinson were both cotton weavers working in the mills in the Pennine valleys of Yorkshire and Lancashire. James was born in Accrington, Lancashire. Jane (nee Wolfenden) was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. They were married at Halifax parish church in 1874.
Their children Christopher (1876), Jacob (1878) and Esther Ann (1880) were born in Yorkshire but by 1881 they were back in Lancashire living at 72 Healy Wood Road, Habergham Eaves near Burnley. They then had three more children Rose and Lily (1883) and John 1886, born in Bury Lane Rochdale. Christopher was born in Charlestown, Hebden Bridge in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1876 but soon moved to Burnley in Lancashire. He married Mary Burrows in St Pauls church Burnley on 4/1/1898. Between them they had four sons and two daughters: Thomas, Harold, Walter, Jack, Ellen (Nellie) and Lily. In 1901 they were living at 69 Rumley Road, Burnley at which time he was a plasterer by trade.
One family anecdote is
that Christopher kept chickens on an allotment nearby, he kept this hobby
for all of his life. One time he drank all of his wages and Poll
told him to ring the neck of a chicken as they had no money for any food.
It is said he cried all the way home with the poor dead bird. Christopher's son Thomas was also a plasterer.
Many thanks to Joyce Wade (grand-daughter of Christopher Parkinson (younger)) for the research on this line.
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< Christopher, Mary (Poll) (seated) and Lily Parkinson c1930. (Click
to enlarge)