Parker,+Harry

Harry Parker

Recorded on Oxenhope war memorial as one of the war dead, chronologically he should have died on 10th or 11th April 1918. There is no suitable listing on CWGC list. The only possible record is " H. Parker. Private 29560 died 13-4-1918.of the Yorkshire Regiment.Age unknown "

Harry Parker was born in Oxenhope in 1898, the son of Miles (born 1874 ) and Ada (nee Taylor).

Miles was a woolsorter and related to the millowning Parkers of Whin Knoll through his grandmother Paulina ( Paulinah ). Both she and Betty Heaton (nee Parker, who married John P Heaton and built Manorlands) were granddaughters of Thomas Parker, founder of Parkers mills and an accomplished local singer. Miles lived for a time with his Grandmother Paulina at Holmfield at Back Leeming.

Mr and Mrs J P Heaton lost their younger son Thomas Herbert in WW1 in 1916.