Mother's Ancestors 1800's

A Memory of Hiscott.

My mother's family originated in Tawstock back in the early 1800's - PARKHOUSE. I've been doing a lot of genealogy the past few weeks and this is how I discovered that my gr-gr-gr-grandparents although born in Alescott and St. Giles in 1808/1813 respectively were living in Tawstock in the 1841 Census. James was a farm labourer and also his son John in the 1851 Census - John became my gr-great-grandfather. He married a Hanna Brace and their daughter Ellen or possibly another daughter Sarah became my gr-grandmother (there was an illegitimate daughter, Norah born and it's a little uncertain as to which one was her mother. Norah was my grandmother and she gave birth to Gladys E.M.Parkhouse Grey in 1912. Unfortunately this was also an illegitimate birth - although Norah was married at the time her husband was not the father!!!

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