62 NOTES, ETC., RELATING TO FAMILIES OF PARKER. 
dated 2nd day of this instant Sept. upon a marriage. 
then intended (and since taken effect) between Mr. 
John Ellison of Thorne* and my dau. Harriet, I 
became engaged to pay as a marriage portion 
4£5,000.—to my dau. Maria 43,200 and a further 
£2,000.—to my son George, estate in the parishes 
of Addle, Horsforth, and Guiseley, co. York, which I 
purchased of Sir Wadsworth Busk, £43,000 at 21, and 
one of the two Tontine Inn Shares for which he is 
nominee—Wife Alice, coach and chaise and harness 
and use of household goods, plate, &c.—my wife by 
deed dated 21st Sept. inst. hath appointed to me and 
my heirs her real estates lying at Horsforth, Brook- 
foot, and Cookridge, Asholt, and Yeadon, in the 
parishes of Horsforth, Addle, Guiseley, and Otley, 
co. York, devises them to his said son George— 
residue of estates real and personal to his son Hught 
—both then under age. Wife and brother-in-law 
George Woodhead { Exors, Proved at York 17th 
April 1794. Witnesses, John Stacye—-H. Cheney — 
George Littlewood. 
1837. Will of George Parker, of Streetthorpe, co. York, dated 25 
May 1837—my dear wife Diana Elizabeth—our two 
sons—my brother Hugh Parker esq.—my brothers- 
in-law George Cooke esq. and Richard Harvey Cooke 
esq.—Witnesses Thomas Walker—James Dunhill— 
John Crawshaw— Proved at York 6 Nov. 1839. 
* See pedigree of Ellison, in Hunter’s South Yorkshire Vol I. p. 179. Mr. 
Ellison died in 1810, and his widow 27 October, 1849. 
+ Admitted of Lincoln’s Inn 12th June 1790. Called to the Bar 21st June 
1797. Died 15 Nov. 1861. (See Biographical Memoir of him in Gent: Mag : 
of that year.) His eldest son, the Right Hon. John Parker, was admitted of 
Lincoln’s Inn 3rd Feb., 1821, and called to the Bar 3oth June, 1824. 
Representative in Parliament for Sheffield from 1832 to 1852. Died 5th 
Sept., 1881, in the 82nd year of his age. (See Biographical Notice of him in 
“‘ The Reliquary,” Vol. 22, p. 139.) 
+ George Woodhead esq. of Highfield, in par. Sheffield, died 17 Nov. 
1813, aged 81. Sarah his wife, sister to John Parker, esq., of Woodthorpe, 
died 15th June, 1813, aged 80, (Mon: Jus: Hansworth Church.) 
