Lottie Parker (Gay) was born 7/5/1896 in Seaboard, NC. At age 15 she married John Green Gay (1911), and started a family in North Carolina. They moved to Chesterfield VA and purchased Yellow House farm in 1919. By age 25 she had mothered five daughters including Margaret Gay Burgess. She died of TB at age 33 in 1930.

Her father Nathan Anderson Parker was born in Richmond Ind. in 1867. He lived in North Carolina until 1919 when he moved his family to Chester VA at the same time Lottie made this move. He purchased and lived the remainder of his life on property that was a part of Yellow House farm.

His father Cornelius (1838) and Grandfather Brittian lived in North Carolina. Their ancestors arrived in Virginia in the 1600s. The earliest trace is to Peter de Alcancotes, who was born circa 1290. His descendants took the name of Parker in recognition of their office as park-keepers of the Forest of Bowland, England. Richard Parker built Browsholme Hall in Yorkshire, England early in the 1500’s. This ancestral home continues to be owned by Parker descendants.

The first colonel Parker was Richard, who arrived in Virginia in the mid-1600s. He established a residence on Parker Creek in Nansemond County. Richard's mother was Catherine Buller of Cornwall England. Her ancestor families include Trethurette, Courtenay, De Bohun, and Plantagenet. This line links to King Edward I who ruled England from 1274 to 1307.

Lottie's Mother was Sarah Reese and Grandmothers were a Maddrey and a Stephenson. Other ancestral families include Smith, Taylor, Tadlock, Williams, Phillips, Stancell, Early, Smith, Vick, Joyner, Body and Monger. The Vicks are traced to Joseph Vick born in 1640 in Gloucestershire England.

Browsholme Hall - The Parker ancestral home in Lancashire England

Browsholme Hall is an historic house and the ancestral home of the Parker Family, Bowbearers of the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, who have lived there since it was built in 1507. Pronounced 'Brewsom', the hall was built by Edmund Parker following the grant of a new lease by the crown.

Browsholme Hall houses a remarkable family collection of portraits, a major collection of oak furniture, arms and armour, stained glass and strange antiquities from stone age axes to a fragment of a Zepplin. A unique accumulation of personal possessions acquired over five centuries and 15 generations of the Parker Family who have lived in the Hall since it was built.

Other Pages (Web Sites)

Browsholme Hall Web Site - Browsholme Hall, the Parker ancestral home

Parker from the files of Stephen M. Lawson - Richard Parker and his ancestors

Britannia.com - History of English Monarhs - Edward I and his geneology

WL Robbins - Stephenson Ancestors - William Stephenson (b1765) family