Selected Families and Individuals in the Neve database


Simon Charles Jones [Parents]

Susan Griffiths

They had the following children:

  M i Charles LePatrouel Jones
  F ii Gemma Amanda Jones

Richard Morgan

Catherine Eve Jones [Parents]

They had the following children:

  M i Matthew Henry Morgan
  F ii Emma Victoria Morgan

Admiral Clement Greatorex [Parents] was born in 1869.

Became an Admiral in the Royal Navy. Believed to have married (twice) and had twin girls, one called Clementina, also a boy by his second wife. Awarded the CB (1916), MVO (1912). ADC to the King (1917).
He retired in 1922. Lived at 'Northolt', Lymington, Hants. He was a member of the MCC.

He had the following children:

  F i Clemency Dorothea Anne Greatorex MBE was born in 1916. She died on 17 Jan 1999 in Goudhurst.

MBE. Served in the WRVS for many years.

Samuel Hadden was born in 1793. He died on 25 Jan 1840 in Birmingham, West Midlands.

Death recorded on the Hadden Tablet.

He had the following children:

  F i Sarah Hadden died in 1891.
  F ii Ann Hadden died in 1899.

William Butler.William married Sarah Elizabeth Hadden on 21 Jun 1831.

Sarah Elizabeth Hadden died in 1866. She married William Butler on 21 Jun 1831.

Probably born between 1794 and 1799.

They had the following children:

  F i Sarah Elizabeth Butler died in 1891.
  F ii Katherine Butler died in 1891.

Samuel Parkes [Parents] was born in 1735 in Kidderminster. He died on 1 Apr 1811. He married Hannah Mence on 26 Sep 1759 in Old Swinford,Worcs..

Other marriages:
Freeman, Martha

He was a grocer. His son wrote a paper called "A Brief Memoir of the Life of Mr Samuel Parkes" which was published in the year of his death - 1811 and a copy is held at the British Library [ref:1037 i 26].

Hannah Mence [Parents] was born in Stourbridge. She died in 1780 in Stourbridge. She married Samuel Parkes on 26 Sep 1759 in Old Swinford,Worcs..

They had the following children:

  M i Samuel Parkes
  F ii Jane Parkes was born on 29 Oct 1764. She died on 16 Jan 1843.
  M iii Richard Parkes

Samuel Parkes [Parents] was born in 1735 in Kidderminster. He died on 1 Apr 1811. He married Martha Freeman in 1780.

Other marriages:
Mence, Hannah

He was a grocer. His son wrote a paper called "A Brief Memoir of the Life of Mr Samuel Parkes" which was published in the year of his death - 1811 and a copy is held at the British Library [ref:1037 i 26].

Martha Freeman was born in Bewdley. She died in 1800. She married Samuel Parkes in 1780.

Her sister married a well known lawyer - Johnathan Skey.


Samuel Parkes [Parents] was born in Bewdley. He married Hannah Mayo.

Son of a soap boiler.

Hannah Mayo [Parents] was born in Bewdley. She married Samuel Parkes.

She married a Mr Reader of Coventry after the death of Samuel Parkes.

They had the following children:

  M i Samuel Parkes
  M ii David Parkes was born in 1763. He died in 1833.

He is believed to have been a schoolmaster in Shrewsbury and may have had two sons - James and John (1804-1832).

William Mence

He had the following children:

  F i Hannah Mence

Samuel Parkes [Parents] was born on 26 May 1761 in Stourbridge. He died on 23 Dec 1825 in London. He married Sarah Twamley on 23 Sep 1794.

He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and the author of "A Chemical Catechism", 1806. He also published in Russia. The Russian Emperor gave him a valuable ring. He had an entry in the National Biography. He was Initially a soap boiler in Stoke in 1793 then moved to London and became a manufacturing chemist. He was a member of 21 learned societies and the author of a number of books and papers. The British Library hold a volume of his papers [ref: 1037 i 26], which includes a short memoir of his father. Lived at Mecklenburgh Square, St Pancras, London WC1 for about five years preceeding his death. The 5 October 1968 edition of 'Chemistry and Industry' p 1319 in a leading article "Chemists and their Writings" makes reference to him and makes comments on his many publications and their contribution to the historian. A portrait from a drawing by Wivell and engraved by Ambrose William Warren (1781? to 1856) was prefixed to the 12th & 13th editions of 'Chemical Catechism' written for his daughter.

Sarah Twamley [Parents] was born on 25 Feb 1766. She died on 14 Dec 1813. She married Samuel Parkes on 23 Sep 1794.

They had the following children:

  F i Sarah Mayo Parkes

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