NOTES, ETC., RELATING TO FAMILIES OF PARKER. 47 
quietly enjoy one parlour and a chamber called the 
New Parlour and New Chamber, for her habitation, 
and convenient way and passage to and from the 
same at all times during her life, for her jointure. 
Witnesses : Rowland Morewood, Frances Robartes, 
Ja: Creswicke. 
1637. January 23rd. Will of John Parker the elder, of Little 
Norton, in the parish of Great Norton, co. Derby, 
yeoman—my eldest son John Parker—my eldest 
daughter Ann Eyre*—my daughter Elizabeth Dung- 
wortht—my daughter Jane Gest—my wife Ann Parker 
—my son William Parker—the latter sole executor. 
Proved at Lichfield by Wm. Parker 17th October 
1638. 
1637. 16 Oct., 13 Charles. John Hanson, of Hardwick, co. 
Derby gent. gives bond of £30 to prosecute grant of 
wardship and lease of lands of William Parker son 
and heir of John Parker yeoman, deceased, in the 
county of Derby. (Court of Wards and Liveries, 
Bonds, 65, page 214.) : 
1639. Nov. 29. John Parker, of Little Norton, yeoman, occurs 
as a trustee under a marriage settlement between John 
Barten the younger of Greenhill, yeoman, and Anne 
daughter of Humfrey Woodrove, of Woodsetts Dale 
in the parish of Norton. 
_ 1645. 29 April, 21 Charles. Will of Robert Parker, of Ruscoate, 
in par. Cardswell, co. Stafford, gent—I have an 
estate of inheritance in a certain demesne mansion 
house called Hardwicke house, in co. Stafford—my 
brothers Francis, Roger, and Thomas Parker—wife 
* She was the wife of Thomas Eyre, of Shatton, in the parish of Hope. 
_ Married at Sheffield 3rd Feb. 1629. (See Dugdale’s Visitation of Derby. C. 
34, fo. 66, in Coll. Arm.) 
+ Speaking of Morewood, a hamlet of the chapelry of Bradfield, Mr. 
Hunter says—‘*‘ This, like its neighbour Dungworth, and indeed all the little 
hamlets throughout Hallamshire, had its resident family of its own name. The 
Dungworths removed from the neighbourhood about the time of James I.” 
Hallamshire, page 273. 
