Biography of Charles PARSONS
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Biography of Charles PARSONS
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Little is known of Charles Parsons that is certain, however, a story has been pieced together from circumstantial evidence.
It is believed that Charles was born in 1767 the parish of St.Thomas in Barbados, the son of Daniel Parsons who had emigrated from Oxford. A map of 1797 shows a Parsons plantation in that parish.
Between approximately 1787 and 1817, he appears to have lived in British Guiana as a sugar planter. A map of 1781 shows Demarara which is possibly where he was situated.
By 1817, Charles was living in Tuam in County Galway where he is recorded as having purchased property from Michael Morris, a former director of the recently bancrupted Ffrench's Bank.
That same year he married Honaria Potter and they had\two chilren, Kate born in 1818 and Ann. Honaria passed away in 1825. The inscription on her gravestone reads Here lies the remains of Honaria Parsons alias Power who departed this life on the 12th of May 1825 aged 26 years. This tomb has been erected by her loving and afflicted husband Charles Parsons Esq. for self and posterity.
Charles married Kate O'Connor of Shop Street in Tuam in 1830. They had two children, Daniel Walter born on 27 April 1831 and Charles.
Charles died in 1835. On his gravestone is the inscription Beneath this stone lies the mortal remains of Charles Parsons of Demerara Late of Tuam Esq. who departed this life on 13 July 1835 aged 68 years.
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