he owned of land in Waimea County, valued at £550. He died on 29 June 1898 in Motueka as a man who had become moderately wealthy. A newspaper obituary describes him as having "retained his mental faculties till the last". Charles and Hannah had 13 children: Charles (1838–1903), Frederick (1839–1905, married Anne Jane Sutcliffe), Elizabeth (1840–1912, married Thomas Boyes), Henry (1842–1866), Ellen (1844–1845), Edward (1845–1845), Walter (1846–1911), Thirza Ann (1849–1929, married Robert William Skilton), Edmund (1851–1923, married Annie Morris), Emily (1853–1923), Jessie (1855–1904), Arthur William (1857–1946, married Eliza Jane Wilson), and Horace (1859–1867). He was buried at Motueka cemetery on 2 July 1898. His wife Hannah died 14 December 1889, and is also buried at Motueka cemetery. Their gravestone reads: Our father and mother Charles PARKER died 29 June 1898 aged 90 years Hannah PARKER died 14 December 1889 aged 75 years also our sister Jessie PARKER died 6 December 1904 aged 49 years. References |- 1809 births 1898 deaths English emigrants to New Zealand People from Newent People from Motueka Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives Members of the Nelson Provincial Council New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates New Zealand justices of the peace