First Generation

1. John Parkinson¹ was born on 27 Sep 1786 in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England. He died before 1841. SOURCE

MARRIAGE RECORD: Clitheroe, John Parkinson of this chapelry, and Mary
Wilkinson, of same, by banns, 28 May 1814; witnesses, Robert and John Read.

John Parkinson and Mary Wilkinson were married on 28 May 1814 in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England. Mary Wilkinson¹ was born in 1788 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. She died after 1853. SOURCE

CENSUS RECORDS: 1851 Census of Bradford, York, England, 62 Crown St.,
Susannah Myers, age 56, lodging house keeper, b. Wakefield, Ruth
Collinson, daughter, 19, power loom weaver, b. Wakefield, lodgers,
Mary Parkinson, widow, 63, assistant in the house, b. Bradford, Alice,
age 24, power loom weaver, b. Clitheroe, Eliza, age 22, power loom weaver,
b. Clitheroe, Jane Wainwright, 20, same, b. Wakefield, Joseph Smith, age
22, b. Cowling, Joseph Buckly, age 22, worsted dyer, b. Seerbottom.

1841 Census of Bradford, York, England, Bermondsey St., Mary Parkinson,
age 50, Y, John, age 20, wool comber, no, Elizabeth, age 15, no, Allice,
age 15, no. John Parkinson and Mary Wilkinson had the following children:

+2	i.	Thomas Parkinson.
+3	ii.	John T. Parkinson.
+4	iii.	Alice Parkinson.
+5	iv.	Elizabeth (Eliza) Parkinson.