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Gladys Parkes, b 25/09/1918, featherston, west Yorkshire, mother was Mary Parkes of 11 George street Featherston, - Father is blank, Gladys had sister called Rose, Rose married Albert Hinks, think Gladys father was Joe Parkes ? Gladys married Harry Monks about 23/12/1939 st Mary church sth elmsall, , think Gladys died about 22/o5/200, anybody help please x

am looking for father of Gladys Parkes x

If the father isn't named on the birth certificate I'm not sure you'll ever know.

Mary is on the electoral register in 1920 still at 11 George Street:

West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers

Year: 1920-1921
County: West Yorkshire
Parliamentary Division: Normanton
Place of Abode: 11 George Street

Mary Parkes
Philip Cummings
William Watson
William Faulkner
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Philip Cummings and William Watson are listed at the address in 1919
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Gladys in 1939:

Simmons Household 51 Harewood Lane , Hemsworth R.D., Yorkshire (West Riding), England

Frank Simmons 14 Sep 1876 Male Coal Hewer Below Widowed
Gladys Monks (Parks) 25 Sep 1918 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Single

If Mary was unmarried when she had the baby then it's highly unlikely that a Mr Parkes was the babies father

With no father named on the birth cert then it's not possible to look for anyone I,m afraid

First name(s) GLADYS
Last name MONKS
Gender Female
Birth day 25
Birth month 9
Birth year 1918
Age -
Death quarter 2
Death year 2000
District Pontefract
District number 0981A
Register number A32D
Entry number 188
Date of registration mm/yy 0500
County Yorkshire
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007

Ah, there's a tree on Ancestry that has the Rose that married Albert Hinks as the daughter of Mary/Polly Wakefield and Jobe Parkes.

On the marriage the address for Rose is the same as Gladys's was in 1939.

Name: Rose Parkes (51 Harewood Lane)
Birth Year: abt 1915
Marriage or Bann Date: 20 Apr 1935
Parish: South Kirkby, St Margaret and North Elmsall, West Yorkshire,
Spouse: Albert Hinks
Father: Job Parkes (deceased)
Spouse Father: John Thomas Hinks

Witnesses: Luke Parkes & Joseph Parkes.
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Ah- Job/ Jobe dies in 1917 (so can't be the father of Gladys).

Mary remarries in 1921 to Frank Simmons and then lives with him at 13 George Street. (Frank is also at 13 George Street in 1919- next door to Mary)

Frank Simmons is also with Gladys in 1939
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This is Mary (Polly) and Jobe in 1911:

(Surname Parkes on image)

Name Polly Parker
Age in 1911 30
Estimated Birth Year abt 1881
Relation to Head Boarder
Gender Female
Birth Place Featherstone, Yorkshire, England
Civil parish Darfield
County/Island Yorkshire-West Riding
Country England
Street Address 20 New Street Darfield Nr Barnsley
Marital Status Married
Registration district Barnsley
Registration District Number 507
Sub-registration district Darfield
ED, institution, or vessel 3 Piece 27605
Name Age
Ernest Edward Eyre 37
Elizabeth Ann Eyre 32
Albert Edward Eyre 10
Ethel Eyre 5
Walter Eyre 4
William Henry Eyre 2
Job Parker 34 (married 9 years- 5 children, 2 still living)
Polly Parker 30
Lake Parker 5
Joseph Parker 4/12

So these are the children born to the Wakefield/ Parkes marriage:

PARKES, JOHN THOMAS WAKEFIELD
GRO Reference: 1904 M Quarter in PONTEFRACT Volume 09C Page 135

PARKES, LUKE WAKEFIELD
GRO Reference: 1905 S Quarter in PONTEFRACT Volume 09C Page 120

PARKES, JOSEPH WAKEFIELD
GRO Reference: 1911 M Quarter in BARNSLEY Volume 09C Page 297

PARKES, ROSE WAKEFIELD
GRO Reference: 1916 M Quarter in PONTEFRACT Volume 09C Page 220
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Possible death of mother:

Deaths Jun 1938
SIMMONS Mary 58 Pontefract 9c 144

Job Parkes must be the grandfather of Gladys. I would think

Not sure how that is possible Shirley?

He was a bachelor aged 24 when he married Polly/ Mary in 1902:

Name: Jobe Parkes
Birth Year: abt 1878
Age: 24
Marriage or Bann Date: 1 Mar 1902
Spouse: Polly Wakefield
Father: Joseph Parkes
Spouse Father: Thomas Wakefield

Ah ok I didn't pick up the age

Note though his dad was Joseph Parkes

Not unknown for a grandads name to be on a marriage cert as dad when the child was illegitimate . It's face saving

Have that scenario in my family tree for a cousin of my dad who married in the 1930's

Thank you all so very much, reading between the lines- me thinks that Jobe, Gladys father was illegitimate ?, was trying to place him in my tree, but can't find any connection, thank you all for info :-)

if rose parkes 1916 mother wakefield is the sister of Gladys parkes then mothers name wakefield would be on Gladys birth cert.

Malyon

The poster has the birth cert and the mother is Mary Parkes

This is the ref for Gladys

Births Dec 1918
Parkes Gladys Parkes Pontefract 9c. 173

No father named on the cert

Thank you so much , info not for me as such, is for my friend since birth Lynda Monks, daughter of Gladys and Harry Monks, , Thank you all so much xx :-)