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This particular tree is a far flung one for me, but it does shed some light on the ancestry of Sarah Strieve PARKE. Sarah was the mother of Amelia Lydia DARE who in turn married Thomas JACKSON.
The success of Sir Thomas Jackson's career with the HSBC lay not only in his native talents but also in the wealth of his connections in Ireland, England and the Far East. The international connections of Amelia Lydia Dare's parents and other relatives would have added immeasureably to this wealth.
Sharon Oddie Brown. August 6, 2004.

There are some errors in this tree which will still need fixing - but I need time to doublecheck my sources before I do that. Fortunately, there are others out there setting me straight. Mark Sherbrooke, a helpful reader has pointed out:

At 5.iii and 5.iv you have
iii. LYDIA HURST BALL, m. JOHN PHILIPSON STOWE.
iv. JOSEPH BALL.
Notes for JOSEPH BALL: Ran away (presumably to sea) and never heard from again.
The Lydia here is the same as the one at 3.vi - thus actually Lydia Hurst PARKE
And I believe that the Joseph should be Joseph PARKE, a sibling of Lydia's.

This will all get fixed in the fullness of time. I have a great stack of material to enter in other areas which has first call on my attention at this time. Sorry! Sharon Oddie BROWN, August 21, 2004

Descendants of John Tollemache 

Generation No. 1

 

1.  JOHN4 TOLLEMACHE  (NICHOLAS3, WILLIAM2, LIONEL1)1 was born 1710, and died 19 May 17772.  He married MARY3

Notes for JOHN TOLLEMACHE: "Of New Place" formerly Gyppeswick Hall, Ipswitch.

Children of JOHN TOLLEMACHE and MARY are:

2.                i.    ELIZABETH5 TOLLEMACHE, b. 1756.

                  ii.    WILLIAM TOLLEMACHE3.

Generation No. 2 

2.  ELIZABETH5 TOLLEMACHE (JOHN4, NICHOLAS3, WILLIAM2, LIONEL1)3 was born 1756.  She married WILLIAM JOSEPH PARKE4. He was born Abt. 27 November 1742 in Stoke by Nayland5, and died 3 September 1821 in Saffron Walden.

Notes for WILLIAM JOSEPH PARKE:

SOURCE: Heather MacAllister

More About WILLIAM JOSEPH PARKE:

Baptism: 27 November 1742, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk

       

Children of ELIZABETH TOLLEMACHE and WILLIAM PARKE are:

                   i.    MARGARETT6 PARKE, b. Abt. 1774, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England. 

More About MARGARETT PARKE: Baptism: 16 January 1774, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England

 

                  ii.    SAMUEL FENNING PARKE, b. Abt. 1776, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England.  

More About SAMUEL FENNING PARKE: Baptism: 4 June 1776, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England

 

                 iii.    ELIZABETH PARKE, b. Abt. December 1777, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England.

More About ELIZABETH PARKE: Baptism: 5 December 1777, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England

 

                 iv.    JOSEPH PARKE, b. Abt. October 1780, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England. 

More About JOSEPH PARKE: Baptism: 3 October 1780, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England

 

3.               v.    WILLIAM TOLLENMACHE PARKE, b. 1790; d. Capetown, South Africa.

Generation No. 3

 

3.  WILLIAM TOLLENMACHE6 PARKE (ELIZABETH5 TOLLEMACHE, JOHN4, NICHOLAS3, WILLIAM2, LIONEL1)6 was born 1790, and died in Capetown, South Africa.  He married ELIZABETH BUSHE6.  She died in Capetown, South Africa.

 Notes for WILLIAM TOLLENMACHE PARKE:

From Heather MacAllister, I learn that he and his wife became the owners of Parkes Hotel which eventually became the famous Grand Hotel in Cape Town

PARKE - Some rough notes:

William Parke was the son of Joseph Parke, born 27.11.1742 Stoke by Nayland, and died  3.9.1821 Saffron Walden. Reg. Parish Churches; and of his wife Elizabeth daughter of John  Talmash of New Place (formerly Gyppeswick Hall) Ipswich, who died 19.5.1777 aged 66.

Reg. Parish Church Stoke by Nayland.

The name Talmash is spelt variously Talmasb, Talmasch, Tollemache. The family has a tag: "Before the Normans to England came Bentley was my seat and Talmash my name."

William Parke and his wife had, besides Mary Bush who married Captain James Sedgwick, five other daughters: Elizabeth - John Tyars, whose descendants live in the Union.

Anne Buncher - Captain Henry Wilson of the Mercantile Marine.

Sarah Shrive - Captain Dare of the Honbi. East India Company. As far as I know there are no descendants in the Union. Their daughter married Sir Thomas Jackson, Baronet, General Manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.

Eliza Lake - Captain William Walker Ball of the Honbl. East India Company. A pleasant account of her and of Captain Ball may be read in the Memoirs and Reminiscences of Sir John Kotze. Many of their descendants remain in the Union. Two of their daughters married overseas: Anne Elizabeth to Major Archibald Arbuthnot son of Sir William Arbuthnot, Bt., and of his wife Gertrude Sophia daughter of Viscount Gough. And Emily Lydia to Charles Francis Henry Spencer, grandson of Viscount Churchill. Lydia Hurst - John Philipson Stowe (uncle of the first baronet, who also married a Capetonian,  Florence Henchman). They have descendants in the Union. William Parke and Elizabeth also had an only son, Joseph. He ran away, it was surmised  to sea, and was not again heard of.

When William Parke brought his family back to the Cape after the disaster at Grahamstown he had intended to take ship for England, his small capital having been expended. He was, however, persuaded to stay, and in order to make a livelihood he and his wife took in paying guests. This venture developed into their launching forth into the hotel trade, and they opened Parke's Hotel at the corner of Strand Street. This hotel became known in course of time as the Grand Hotel, which still exists. An amusing story is told of William Parke, amusing at this long distance of time, but it gives some idea of the terror that prevailed in Grahamstown. His daughters were handsome young women, or rather girls, and it was brought to his ears that the Kaffir Chief then besieging the town had made it known that he would have his choice among them when he got into the town. William Parke ordered his six daughters to accompany him to the powder magazine where he made them kneel down in a row and swear to accompany him there again to be blown up with the magazine should the Kaffirs succeed in entering the town. Fortunately this histrionic effort proved to be unnecessary.

       

Children of WILLIAM PARKE and ELIZABETH BUSHE are:

                   i.    MARY BUSH7 PARKE, m. CAPT. JAMES SEDGWICK. 

Notes for CAPT. JAMES SEDGWICK:

SOURCE: Heather McAlister. Of Sedgwicks Wholesale Wine and Spirit Merchants. One can still today buy Sedgwicks Old Brown Sherry. SEDGWICK - some rough notes

Captain James Sedgwick, father of Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus's wife, and founder of the Cape family of Sedgwick, was descended from the Sedgwick's of Dent in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where the family had been identified with the district for several centuries. An account of the family will be found in the Life and Letters of Professor Adam Sedgwick, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Professor Adam was also of Dent, and cousin to Captain James. Professor Adam Sedgwick, junior, nephew of Professor Adam, senior, visited the Cape in the last generation, bent upon scientific enquiry. The son of Professor Adam, junior, Mr. Romney Sedgwick, recently held office as Deputy High Commissioner in the Union of South Africa for His Majesty's Government.

Captain James was one of a large number of brothers and sisters. Three of his brothers also made some mark. Thomas, in the service of the Honourable East India Company, died in Bombay at the age of 28, "but not before he had earned the thanks of the Honourable Company for his services in promoting the growth of mulberry trees, and thus encouraging the production of silk." Charles went to Boston, U.S.A., where his descendants still live, and became prominent in the journalistic world. William entered the medical profession, and was a medical student at the then new University College Hospital where, by the particular desire of the great surgeon Lister, he was appointed Lister's dresser, and as such assisted him at the first operation in London performed under anaesthetics, December 21st, 1846. As a result of impaired health he made several voyages to the East, via the Cape, as surgeon to the troops. It gave him the opportunity of studying cholera in its worst forms, and when in 1854 London was visited by an epidemic of cholera he gave distinguished service. He made a number of important contributions to the medical literature of his day. After Captain James Sedwick had retired from sea and settled in Cape Town he founded the firm of James Sedgwick and Company, wholesale wine and spirit merchants. He was the author of The True Principle of the Laws of Storms and of Hints to Young Mariners.

                  ii.    ELIZABETH PARKE, m. JOHN TYARS.

                 iii.    ANNE BUNCHER PARKE, m. HENRY WILSON.

Notes for HENRY WILSON: Of the Mercantile Marine

4.              iv.    SARAH STRIEVE PARKE, d. 1879.

5.               v.    ELIZA LAKE PARKE.

                 vi.    LYDIA PARKE, m. JOHN PHILIPSON STOWE.

 

 

Generation No. 4

 

4.  SARAH STRIEVE7 PARKE (WILLIAM TOLLENMACHE6, ELIZABETH5 TOLLEMACHE, JOHN4, NICHOLAS3, WILLIAM2, LIONEL1) died 18797.  She married CAPT. GEORGE JULIUS DARE, son of PHOCIAN DARE and CAROLINE JULIUS.  He was born 18078, and died 1856 in England.

Notes for CAPT. GEORGE JULIUS DARE:

Lived in Dorset. SOURCE: Note from Brian MacDonald: Captain George Julius Dare R.N.

SOURCE: p 243 History of Hongkong Shanghai Bank, HH King. "Captain George Julius Dare, a well known Singapore resident who died in England in 1856" 

SOURCE: AN ANECDOTAL HISTORY OF OLD TIMES IN SINGAPORE From the Foundation of the settlement under the honourable the East India Company on February 6th, 1819 to the transfer of the Colonial Office as part of the Colonial Possessions of the Crown on Arpil 1st, 1867. Charles Burton Buckley. Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaya Press, 1965.

p. 373 … Captain George Julius Dare was a well known Singaporean. He had been a navigating officer, in those days called the master in the Navy, and married at the Cape when on the Station. His grandfather, Mr. Julius, then helped him to build a vessel of his own, and he afterwards built others, trading out to China with three different vessels of his own. In this year he was passing through Singapore, on his way from Bombay to China, and left his wife on shore at a boarding house kept by Mrs. Clarke at the south west corner of North Bridge road and Middle Road, where the baby Julius, who has been mentioned, was born. About two months afterwards Mrs. Dare left in the unfortunate  Viscount Melbourne for Macao, with the two children, to join her husband there. Captain Dare sold his vessel for a very handsome price, remitting home the money at the exchange of about six shillings to a dollar! In 1845 he went home, and returned and settled down in Singapore in February 1848. These particulars are found in the evidence he gave in favour of Sir James Brooke, on the famous enquiry related under the year 1854. He commenced business in Singapore as a shipchandler and commission agent in the Square. There were then four shipchandlers' firms, namely, W.S. Duncan, John Steel & Co., Whampoa & Co., and Mr. Dare. …In 1855 Mr. Dare went to England, leaving a man in charge, whose name there is no necessity to mention. He was a very plausible man, with a particularly pleasant manner, but he turned out untrustworthy and ruined the business, as well as his employer. Mr. Dare died in London, 50 years of age in 1856. He had a family of nine children, one of his daughters married Mr. William Ramsay Scott; another Captain C.J. Bolton, very well known and a great favourite in Singapore, who commanded Jardine Matheson & Co.'s crack opium schooner, and when steam came, the Glenartney. He is now living in Essex. Another daughter was married to Mr. Whitworth Allen who was in Singapore and Penang for many years, now retired from business. Another to Mr. Jackson, now Sir Thomas Jackson K.C.M.G., of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank; and another daughter to Dr. William Hartigan of Hongkong.

 

SOURCE: Heather McAlister: "Of the Honbi. East India Company"

Children of SARAH PARKE and GEORGE DARE are:

                   i.    GEORGE MILDMAY8 DARE, b. 1840; d. 1907; m. ANNIE DOROTHEA CAROLINE EARNSHAW; d. 1928.

                  ii.    JOHN JULIUS DARE, b. 1841; d. 1879.

Notes for JOHN JULIUS DARE: Died of cholera. SOURCE: An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore.

 

                 iii.    ALFRED HENRY DARE, d. 1924; m. LENA FIELDEN.

Notes for ALFRED HENRY DARE: An A.H. Dare was a junior at HSBC Yokohama in 1878 - recruited in the East p232 History of Hongkong Shanghai Bank, Frank H.H. King "The last junior to be recruited in the East was A.H. Dare, a relative of Thomas Jackson's wife, and his entire career (with the exception of a year in Amoy in 1883) was spent in Japan, although he received leave to England and was on the Eastern, not the "Local British Staff". He resigned in 1893; the COurt subsequently learned that the reason had been health and consequently voted him a gratuity of 1,000 pounds."

 

                 iv.    BLANCHE EMILY DARE, m. WALTER R. SCOTT.

Notes for WALTER R. SCOTT: Could be "William Ramsay Scott" SOURCE An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore.

 

                  v.    LOUISA CAROLINE DARE, m. CAPT. C.F. BOLTON.

Notes for CAPT. C.F. BOLTON: Could be C.J. Bolton see "An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore"

                 vi.    SARAH ELIZABETH DARE, m. J.C. ABELL.

Notes for J.C. ABELL:

NOTE: P. 109 "The History of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation" by Frank H.H.King refers to a John Abel-Smith, MP in London in reference to lobbying in support of the HSBC.

                vii.    ANNA MARIA DARE, d. 1931; m. W. ALLEN.

Notes for W. ALLEN: NOTE: A T.S. Allen - possible connection - was an employee of HSBC - p 241 History of the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation by Thomas HH King. He has an unpublished history of Brown, Janson & Co. held in the archives of Lloyds Bank.

Could be "Whitworth Allen" Source: An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore.

 

6.            viii.    AMELIA LYDIA DARE, b. Abt. 1851, Singapore; d. 10 April 1944, Herringfleet Hall, Lowestoft.

                  ix.    FLORENCE GERTRUDE DARE, d. 28 June 1938; m. DR. WILLIAM HARTIGAN.

Notes for FLORENCE GERTRUDE DARE: Transcription of Miss McCready's news clippings saved in a diary at Gilford Castle. HARTIGAN -  June 28, 1938, at Oatlands Park Hotel, Weybridge Surrey, Florence Gertrude Hartigan, widow of William Hartigan.

Notes for DR. WILLIAM HARTIGAN: NOTE: From History of Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation by Frank HH King:

p 243 "Dr. Hartigan of Hong Kong who was (at least in 1890) doctor for the Hongkong Bank - his recommendation that European staff be provided summer accomodation on the Peak is on record."

p 579  "Dr. William Hartigan, Bank Doctor, Hong Kong then London" but not a member of bank staff. See: Charles B. Buckley "An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore, 1819-1867", Singapore 1902. Rpt Kuala Lampur 1965.

 

5.  ELIZA LAKE7 PARKE (WILLIAM TOLLENMACHE6, ELIZABETH5 TOLLEMACHE, JOHN4, NICHOLAS3, WILLIAM2, LIONEL1)  She married CAPT WILLIAM WALKER BALL

Notes for CAPT WILLIAM WALKER BALL: Honbl. East India Company. See also Memoirs and Reminiscences of Sir John Kotze. "Biographical Memoirs and Reminiscences". Cape Town. (nd) 2 volumes. Sir John Gilbert Kotzé.

Children of ELIZA PARKE and WILLIAM BALL are:

                   i.    ANNE ELIZABETH8 BALL, m. MAJ ARCHIBALD ARBUTHNOT.

                  ii.    EMILY LYDIA BALL, m. CHARLES FRANCIS HENRY SPENCER. 

Notes for CHARLES FRANCIS HENRY SPENCER:

Grandson of Viscount Churchill

                 iii.    LYDIA HURST BALL, m. JOHN PHILIPSON STOWE.

                 iv.    JOSEPH BALL.

Notes for JOSEPH BALL: Ran away (presumably to sea) and never heard from again.

 

Generation No. 5

6.  AMELIA LYDIA8 DARE (SARAH STRIEVE7 PARKE, WILLIAM TOLLENMACHE6, ELIZABETH5 TOLLEMACHE, JOHN4, NICHOLAS3, WILLIAM2, LIONEL1) was born Abt. 1851 in Singapore, and died 10 April 1944 in Herringfleet Hall, Lowestoft.  She married SIR THOMAS JACKSON9,10 19 September 1871 in H.M.B. Legation, Yokohama, Japan11,12, son of DAVID JACKSON and ELIZABETH OLIVER.  He was born 4 June 1841 in Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim13, and died 21 December 1915 in Bank of Hong Kong, 9 Gracechurch Street, London.

More About THOMAS JACKSON and AMELIA DARE: Marriage: 19 September 1871, H.M.B. Legation, Yokohama, Japan14,15

Children of AMELIA DARE and THOMAS JACKSON are:

                   i.    KATHLEEN MCCULLAGH9 JACKSON16, b. 7 July 1872; d. 2 June 1959, Marks Barn, Braintree; m. MAJOR ALBERT MAITLAND TABOR, 29 October 1910, St. Mary's, Stansted; b. 1872; d. 12 November 1941, Bovington Hall, Bocking, Essex.   

                  ii.    EDITH BRADFORD JACKSON17, b. 1873; d. 7 September 1874. 

Notes for EDITH BRADFORD JACKSON: SOURCE: Mary Cumisky.  Edith died as a baby. 

More About EDITH BRADFORD JACKSON: Burial: Jackson Family Plot, Creggan Graveyard

 

                 iii.    AMY OLIVER JACKSON18, b. 27 May 1874; d. 1962; m. BRIGADEER GENERAL JOHN HENRY LLOYD, 4 August 1900.

Notes for AMY OLIVER JACKSON: Her great grandson was R.H. Lloyd who worked for the HSBC 

                 iv.    SIR THOMAS DARE JACKSON18, b. 14 June 1876, Japan19,20; d. 2 February 1954; m. MARY LILIAN VERA MASSY LLOYD, 1 January 1919, St. Mary-le-Tower Church, Ipswitch; b. 12 May 1891; d. 1 April 1975. 

                  v.    BEATRICE MINNIE SHRIEVE JACKSON21, b. 19 December 1879, Hong Kong21; d. 19 May 1972, Beech Walk, Honiton; m. LT. COL. RAYMOND JOHN MARKER, 21 November 1906; d. 4 November 1914, War. 

                 vi.    GEORGE JULIUS JACKSON21, b. 4 June 188321; d. 21 February 1956; m. NESTA KATHERINE BARCLAY, 12 January 1909, St. Paul's Church Knightbridge. 

Notes for GEORGE JULIUS JACKSON:

The title (originating with Sir Thomas JACKSON) moved to George Julius JACKSON because of the deaths of his cousins, Thomas & Julius.(SOURCE: email Brian McDonald) 

                vii.    DOROTHY ST. FELIX JACKSON21, b. 26 July 1887, Chislehurst, Kent. 

Notes for DOROTHY ST. FELIX JACKSON: Died unmarried.

 

               viii.    WALTER DAVID RUSSELL JACKSON21, b. 8 March 1890, Chiselhurst, Kent; d. 15 December 1956; m. KATHLEEN HUNTER, 15 March 1915, Elsdon, Northumberland; b. April 1895; d. 6 July 1975, King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst. 

                  ix.    CLAUDE STEWART JACKSON21, b. 30 January 1892, Chiselhurst, Kent; d. 9 October 1917, near Ypres, Belgium; m. LAURA EMILY PEARSON, 5 May 1916, Brompton Parish Church. 

 

Endnotes

 

1.  Amy Lloyd's Family History.

2.  email from Heather MacAlister July 24, 2004.

3.  Amy Lloyd's Family History.

4.  Amy Lloyd's History of the Jackson Family.

5.  email from Heather MacAlister July 24, 2004.

6.  Amy Lloyd's Family History.

7.  An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore.

8.  Ian MacDonald email #.

9.  Peerage and Baronetage, 1434-1435, The ancestor of this family in Ireland came from co. York in Cromwell's Army and was granted lands in co. Carlow for his services. This estate called Mount Leinster, was sold in 1745 by his descendant George Jackson who settled at Urker, Crossmaglen, co. Armagh.

10.  Gitte Priscilla Collins JACKSON's research.

11.  Wendy Jack Website Jack/McCullagh families.

12.  Amy Lloyd's Family History.

13.  1990 Journal Of The Creggan Local History Society  article by Mary Cuminsky.

14.  Wendy Jack Website Jack/McCullagh families.

15.  Amy Lloyd's Family History.

16.  Gitte Priscilla Collins JACKSON's research.

17.  Sir Thomas Jackson, Journal of the Creggan Local History Society, 1990, 53.

18.  Gitte Priscilla Collins JACKSON's research.

19.  Birthday book of Jeannie Moorhead.

20.  1891 Census of England, Born in Japan - student at Cheltenham.

21.  Gitte Priscilla Collins JACKSON's research.

 

 

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