Frank Vieland Parker plaque

Monsieur Vieland

This time he is in the paper as Monsieur Vieland .

Norfolk Chronicle 30 December 1937 

Jane Vlieland

Jane Vlieland 

George Vlieland Parker

The other son of Frank Vlieland Parker and Alice Emily Godden is named George Vieland (no L )Parker  

He is born on the Isle of Wight June 1910 (free BMD) George Vieland Parker lived on the Isle of Wight and died in his mid-90s.
2007 PARKER George Vieland 97 years 

1938 wedding photo George Vieland Parker born on the Isle of Wight June 1910 (free BMD)His marriage to Phyllis M.M. Cotton was in December 1938 
with his brother Len Percy Parker back left , and their mother Alice Parker neé Godden front left.

His marriage to 
December 1938 PARKER Vieland George COTTON Phyllis May Mary Register Office,
Nonconformist or RC Church With Registrar RO91/198

His marriage to 
December 1938 PARKER Vieland George COTTON Phyllis May Mary Register Office,
Nonconformist or RC Church With Registrar RO91/198

Phyllis M.M. Cottton was born in September 1914 on the Isle of Wight as daughter of Frederick Cotton and Elizabeth Fleming
1990 PARKER Phyllis May Mary 76 years 1913 - 1914 COTTON A57A/E37

Their marriage was in March 1914 .
1938 PARKER Vieland George COTTON Phyllis May Mary Register Office,
Nonconformist or RC Church With Registrar RO91/198

Percy Parker

Letters send but undeliverable

In a Dutch paper we find such a letter adressed to Percy Parker London.

Could this be Percy Jerome Parker ?

Queenie Isabel May Maple

Queenie Isabel May Maple was born, in May 1919, in Hackney London to Robert William Maple - a barman/waiter and Daisy Isabel (nee Mayes) who painted toys at Britains Ltd; the market leader and inventor of die cast lead soldiers. Money was tight and Queenie remembers her Gran (maiden name Fanny Adams) carrying over soup from her tenement room to feed her daughters family on a regular basis.

Fanny’s husband, Edward Mayes, had not returned from the Boer War. Lying about his age, he had joined the army at barely 15 and served in Scotland, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Malta and finally Egypt. In 1882 he was awarded the Egypt Medal and a Tel-El-Kebir clasp together with a Khedive's bronze star. On discharge he struggled to feed his large family as a labourer and rejoined the army.

Though the second Boer War ended in May 1902, he never returned. He is not shown in the casualty lists now published. The family believe that he took up with a native South African but there is currently no evidence of that. According to information given to Barnardo's in 1908, when his disabled son was to be looked after by them, he had died of endemic fever in Rhodesia in 1903 (but the person who advised Barnardos admitted that this information may well be incorrect - as people who knew him well had reported seeing him recently!)

During her school days Queenie learned to play the piano, getting all her certificates - unsurprisingly (given her tenacity) all the way to up to gold medal standard - before lack of money caused her parents to decide that they could not afford the last exam, let alone the piano! I cannot be sure but it seems little coincident that her parents afforded to send her younger brother to the famous Blue Coat School. Queenie doted on Laurie and her younger sister Marie and would not have begrudged the choice.

She had been going out with a pilot, Bert Way, who would be shot down in his Spitfire defending the ‘Desert Rats’ a couple of years after the war started but on the first of September 1939, hours before war was declared, she met her future husband Ethelbert Blomfield Dunn. You can see the story of their meeting and wedding in his story

Queenie had continued to work (as a buyer at John Lewis in the West End of London); staying there every night during the week in the bomb shelter which existed under there and DH Evans. Regent Street was so popular with people seeking a deep shelter that the police had to control the crowds. People queued for hours and the first seven hundred people gained access. Londoners got used to heading for the shelters every night.

Two weeks before her wedding, She had lost her job – or, more exactly, her office which the Luftwaffe blew to smithereens. Selfridges, Bourne & Hollingsworth and Peter Robinson were all badly damaged. John Lewis, though, was ablaze from end to end. Another time, walking down the road to the shops close to her parent’s home, a solitary German plane came into sight and fired at the passers by. She dived into a doorway and was grateful for a brandy from her concerned Mum when she got back.

Blom was minesweeping round the British coast and suggested that Queenie leave London behind and move to near where his ship was based ‘to avoid the bombing’. With no job to go to, she became the dutiful wife and followed Blom’s minesweeper around the country. Part of the war she spent on the isle of Arran with no electricity or mains drainage. Then in Greenock she was bombed out.

When bombed out of 19 Dunn Street Greenock (no relation), she and another Navy wife (a pregnant Mrs Dickinson) hitched a lift on the top of a dust cart to Glasgow; having heard from their spouses that their ship would dock soon. They had no place to go back to and needed to get more clothes – as both were in night attire, having lost all their money and possessions). No doubt the sight of two ladies in pyjamas sitting on top of a dustcart travelling to Glasgow was not that unusual in those troubled times.

From Greenock, despite her Mums advice to ‘come home’, Queenie moved on round the country to Blackpool (where she danced with the ships captain) and other places before getting to Plymouth, where she was bombed out again. Queenie finally returned home to London. Like most women, she had been called up and spent the war in the factory at Smiths Industries, Cricklewood London, doing paperwork. Not only was the Post Office Research Telecommunications factory just up the road, housing not only much of the Post Office’s technical advances (and best staff) but the basement housed one of Churchill’s bunkers and the German bombers returned again and again - mainly with incendiaries. Queenie had not left the bombing behind.

Visiting her sister in law she was bombed out again. The house had just been repaired and redecorated after being bombed earlier. Walking down the road to Hilda’s in Croydon on an earlier occasion, Queenie had been forced to dive for the pavement. This time she was blown halfway across the room and got concussion. She remembered a ‘wobbly’ kitchen shelf. The kitchen was decimated but the shelf still stood proudly on the one remaining wall. Her sister in law lost all her possessions.

Queenie told me of one other such bombing raid and clearly recalled the white light she saw “beckoning her from her bed” one night when she decided not to go to the shelter. She followed it and sat under the stairs. The house was hit and her bed piled high with debris. She saw a similar light the evening the door bell rang to announce the death of her brother. So did her sister, with her, who fainted.

Just after the War the couple had decided to go to Eastbourne but never made it. Her younger brother had survived service in the last months of the war (as an aircraftsman) and became a pilot only to be knocked down and killed on his motor cycle after peace was declared. His brother had also been killed in a motor bike accident years earlier and this new tragedy affected them greatly.

They stayed in London and Blom took a second job to make ends meet. Once their son went to senior school, in the sixties, she announced that she was going to get a job. She hadn’t worked for more than twenty years and her husband explained to her, forcefully, how she was virtually unemployable. Needless to say she got a job in Post Office administration on her first interview and very soon gained a promotion. Years later she treated herself to a brand new mini and learned to drive at fifty plus.

At fifty eight Queenie moved a hundred miles to Suffolk when her job relocated (Blom, now 68, had retired) and one memorable Monday saw her, in her personnel job for Post Office Research, signing in four new Doctors, an ambulance and defibrillator at 9:00. At 10:00 she didn’t feel well and her full blown heart attack saw her as the first user of both bits of equipment. In the seventies and eighties she had other heart attacks, one of them major. During that time she pushed Blom to move another three times; each time to different counties – the last just down the road from her son’s family near Cambridge.

At seventy plus she achieved her dream. She saved up enough money to buy a small bungalow. Needless to say, it involved her moving away yet again – to Wisbech Cambridgeshire, where the couple lived until Blom died. Her wanderlust had never fully been cured.

In her mid seventies, a crash in another new mini had seen both Queenie and Blom in hospital for weeks again. She was told that she would have smashed her hip had it not, already, been a replaced artificial one. This ‘banged up’ hip is still in place after another 20 years of walking but this crash did not stop her driving. She simply bought another mini to replace the ‘write off’.

Moving into sheltered housing at eighty five also became an adventure; again moving miles – this time close to her son again. Even years later at 94 in 2013, and after a number of falls, she is still a fighter.

Edgar Michael Brown

Edgar Michael Brown is born 1979 California .He is the son of Michael Edgar  Brown and Julia Ann  Vlieland.
He is married to Kimberley .

Name:	Edgar Michael Brown
Event Type:	Birth
Event Date:	Jan 1979
Event Place:	Riverside, California, United States
Gender:	Male
Mother's Name:	Vlieland

Michael Edgar Brown and Julia Ann Vlieland are now divorced .
In the obituary of her mother she is named Julia Ann Seibel as she married Kenneth Charles Seibel
Edgar  and Kimberley  have a daughter Ava Madeleine Brown, born December 2005.

Leonard Frank Maurice Parker

Leonard Frank Maurice Parker , was born on 25th September 1939 in Newport , Isle of Wight. 
Son of Leonard Percy Parker and Margaret Brown
He married Margaret Brown at Ryde , Isle of Wight on 26th December 1960 , exactly 22 years to the day after his parents were married. L.F.M Parker was also a very good footballer. 

He is still living in the Isle of Wight.
They have a son Leonard J.Parker .

L.F.M. Parker Visiting the Memorial with his fathers name 

Catharine Amy Marian Creighton

Catherine Amy Marian Creighton born September 1918 on the Isle of Wight .
daughter of Maurice Creighton and Gertrude Crutcher 
They married March 1917.

She married Leonard Percy Parker at St Mary's Church , Carisbrooke , Isle of Wight on December 26th 1938
Their son is Leonard Frank Maurice Parker.

Leonard Percy Parker died at the age of 28 at Dunkirk on the 31 May 1940.

Remembrance day

The son of Leonard Percy Parker visiting the war memorial in Dunkirk .

Where L P Parker's name is amongst many others.Remembrance day 

The son is Leonard Frank Maurice Parker , was born on 25th September 1939 in Newport , Isle of Wight. 

He married Margaret Brown at Ryde , Isle of Wight on 26th December 1960 , exactly 22 years to the day after his parents were married. L.F.M Parker was also a very good footballer. 

He is still living in the Isle of Wight.

Len Parker

Len Parker was a sporty type as we can see 

playing tennis 



Seaview Football Club 1938 isle of Wight 



He was a very good football player

L P Parker , pictured middle-left.

Leonard Percy Parker

Leonard Percy Parker is the son of Frank Vlieland Parker He lived in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Len was an automotive engineer (qualified car mechanic ) at Wight Motor Ltd , Ryde before joining the army at the start of WW11.

He married Catherine Amy Marian Creighton at St Mary's Church , Carisbrooke , Isle of Wight on December 26th 1938.

Seaview Football Club 1938

L P Parker , pictured middle-left.

Their son is Leonard Frank Maurice Parker.
Leonard Percy Parker died at the age of 28 at Dunkirk on the 31 May 1940.

His son visiting the memorial 

these pictures were taken on the day of his death in Dunkirk.

L P Parker obituary , Isle of Wight County Press , 15Th June 1940

Serendipity

Looking for information in the Canadian archives ,the name Parker pops up,as several members of the Parker family emigrated to Canada .

Not quite ready to publish and still searching in the Canadian  database we received a mail today from his great grandson Leonard J. Parker 

To quote Gilly it must be  `Serendipity `

He told us that Frank Vlieland Parker had a son Leonard Percy Parker , from the Isle of Wight , who sadly died aged 28 at Dunkirk , France during WWII. 

His son is Leonard Frank Maurice Parker .
And his son send us a mail ..
Frank Vlieland Parker's other son , Vieland Parker ( no 'l' ) also lived on the Isle of Wight and died in his mid-90s. 

I always wondered where his name originated from , and thanks to your wonderful family history blog , I now have my answer !

Thanks Len for this information.

The other sons name is George Vieland Parker and he is born on the Isle of Wight June 1910 (free BMD)His marriage to Phyllis M.M. Cotton was in December 1938

Leonard Percy Parker is born June 1913.He married in Dec 1938 and died aged 28 at Dunkirk.

And there is also a Kenneth Wallace .Parker born Sept 1914
And a Pearl Marjorie  Parker June 1919 marriage Edward S . Kitley in june 1938

And Eric Frederick  Parker  in March 1924

Francis Peter Mayes

013342-77 (Toronto) Francis Peter MAYES, 30, police officer, Cambridge England, Toronto, s/o John & Mary MAYES, married Annie MAHAFFY, 24, Cavan Ireland, Toronto, d/o Charles & Elizabeth MAHAFFY, witn: John HART & Mary PARKS, both of Toronto, 20 Sept 1877
their daughterSpouse's Name: Louisa MayesSpouse's Age: 22
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1874
Spouse's Father's Name: Francis MayesSpouse's Mother's Name: Annie Mahaffy

marriage 

Name: Arthur Heath Parker
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 17 Mar 1896
Event Place: Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Age: 25
Birth Year (Estimated): 1871
Father's Name: John Parker
Mother's Name: Maria Heath

Meidinger’s Praktische Franzosische Grammatik (1783)

Theory and Practice; or a Progressive, Clear, and Practical Course of the German Language. By J. N. Vlieland, many years Professor of French and German in King Edward the Sixth's Grammar School, Norwich, and Author of " French Theory and Practice," &c. [In a great measure translated from Meidinger's Grammar. It professes to be a practical book, and appears entitled to have " the claim allowed." The arrangement and exposition are clear ; the examples not only accomplish their direct purpose, but often suggest questions, the answer to which will establish a rule.] The Aphorisms of Napoleon. Translated by James Alexander Manning, Esq., Author of the "Lives of the Speakers of the Rouse-of Com- mons," &c. [A selection of remarks or opinions from the •writings and conversation of Napoleon Bonaparte. They are hardly worthy of his reputation; =ITV being■really little more than common or obvious thoughts, expressed in isea- tenees, rather than sententiously.]

History of the Grammar-translation Method

No full and carefully documented history of grammar-translation exists. There is evidence that the teaching of grammar and translation has occurred in language instruction through the ages (Escher 1928; Kelly 1969); but the regular combination of grammar rules with translation into the target language as the principal practice technique became popular only in the late eighteenth century. One of the best known of such teaching grammars was Meidinger’s Praktische Franz sische Grammatik (1783). The combination of brief presentations of grammar points and massive translation practice as a distinct teaching strategy was also applied in Ollendorff’s language courses which came into popular use around 1840. The sequential arrangement used by Ollen­dorff in his lessons became standard: a statement of the rule, followed by a vocabulary list and translation exercises. At the end of the course translation of connected prose passages was attempted (Kelly 1969:52). Ollendorff’s method was praised by contemporaries as an active, simple, and effective method, because as soon as a rule had been presented it was applied in short translation-practice sentences. Other textbook writers, for example, Seidenstcker and Ahn, in each course­book, chapter, or lesson, combined rules, vocabulary, text, and sentences to be translated as the typical pattern of the grammar­ translation method. In the mid-nineteenth century, Ploetz in Germany adapted Seidenstckers French textbook for use in schools and thus grammar-translation became the principal method of teaching modern languages in schools. In his elementary grammar (1848) Ploetz laid emphasis on the practice of verb paradigms, while in the more advanced Schulgrammatik der franzosischen Sprache (1849) systematic grammar was the central theme of the course. In the final decades of the nineteenth century grammar-translation was attacked as a cold and lifeless approach to language teaching, and it was blamed for the failure of foreign language teaching. The majority of language teaching reforms in the late nineteenth century and throughout the first half of the twentieth developed in opposition to grammar-translation.

In spite of many attacks, grammar-translation is still widely employed today, if only as a contributory strategy in conjunction with other strategies. A glance at many currently used textbooks, particularly in the less commonly taught languages, confirms the strong hold of grammar. translation. In language programmes in the universities in English ­speaking countries translation of texts from and into the foreign language has remained a standard procedure. In the early sixties Dodson (1967) reaffirmed teaching techniques based on a grammar. translation strategy under the name of “bilingual method”. The cognitive code-learning theory to be discussed later in this chapter (sec pp. 461 ff.) has taken up again some of the features of the grammar-translation method.

John Samuel Arnold

Kind John Samuel
Vader George Edward Arnold
Moeder Elisabeth Rouw

Plaats Delft
Geboortedatum 06-04-1853 he was the father of Elisabeth Maria Arnold 

She married Cornelis Pieter Vlieland 

Elisabeth Maria Arnold

E.M.Arnold was the wife of Cornelis Pieter Vlieland.

Their son Cornelis Pieter  was born in 1928.

He went to South Africa as a child and went to live in England at the age of 21.

Elisabeth Maria Arnold was born 1 november 1887 Oegstgeest Netherlands.

Birthdate of her sister Helena Arnold  is the same so they are twins. .

They are children of John Samuel Arnold and Helena Jacoba Maria van Randwijk .

John Samuel Arnold  was cigar seller.He was born in Delft April 6 1853

Helena Jacoba Maria van Randwijk  they were married in Scheveningen Oct 22 1884

other children are also  born in Oegstgeest 

Hermanus Nicolaas Arnold born 1885

Marianna Arnold born 1889

Louisa Arnold  born 1890 

certificate  in needlework

teacher in needlework

certificate as pharmacist assistant

established in Leiden

established in leiden

death of her twinsister

moved to Pretoria

death in leiden 

Carnarvon Castle P

VLIELAND	PIETER	1886	—	1935	Passenger lists	Cape, South Africa	Transcription Image
	Title MR Collections from Australasia, Great Britain, Ireland, United States Category Travel & migration Country SOUTH AFRICA Destination Port CAPE Record set Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960 Ship Departure Port SOUTHAMPTON Ship name CARNARVON CASTLE The ship Carnarvon Castle

Chindwin

VLIELAND	C P	1886	—	1923	Passenger lists	Rangoon, Burma	Transcription Image
	Title MR Collections from Australasia, Great Britain, Ireland, United States Category Travel & migration Country BURMA Destination Port RANGOON Record set Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960 Ship Departure Port LIVERPOOL Ship name CHINDWIN ship Chindwin

Ranchi CP

VLIELAND	C P	—	—	1932	Passenger lists	Singapore	Transcription Image
	Collections from Australasia, Great Britain, Ireland, United States Category Travel & migration Country SINGAPORE Destination Port SINGAPORE Record set Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960 Ship Departure Port LONDON Ship name RANCHI  The ship Ranchi

Cornelis Pieter Vlieland

In a passengerslist we find Pieter and Cornelis Pieter Vlieland .

Who is this Cornelis Pieter Vlieland  ?

Bruidegom: Cornelis Pieter Vlieland 

Geboorteplaats: Leiden 

Leeftijd: 26 

Vader bruidegom: 
Theodorus Ferdinand Vlieland 

Moeder bruidegom: 
Wilhelmina Romburgh 

Bruid: 
Anna Clara Lijbering 

Geboorteplaats: Amsterdam 

Leeftijd: 24 

Vader bruid: Klaas Lijbering 

Moeder bruid: Maria Anna Both 

Gebeurtenis: Huwelijk 

Datum: woensdag 28 mei 1879 

Gebeurtenisplaats: Oegstgeest

First we have this  Cornelis Pieter Vlieland born in 1853
his son is Cornelis Pieter Vlieland born in 1886 
and we have a Cornelis Pieter Vlieland born in 1928

The son of Cornelis Pieter Vlieland merchant and Anna Clara Lijbering was also a
Cornelis Pieter Vlieland was born in Leiden; Holland, 24/07/1886 and died in South Africa 08/08/1949.His son; also Cornelis Pieter, lived the greater part of his life in England.

He was born in Holland moved to South Africa when he was 7 years old with his grandfather and left when he was about 21 years old.


divorce
Forbes Lucy 11 jan 1927 C 10 
 Cornelis Pieter Vlieland (1866)
 Dit huwelijk was voltrokken in Rangoon Brits Indie (nu India) 

Anna Clara Lijbering, geliefde Echtgenoote van C.P. Vlieland komt op 14 oktober 1892 te overlijden. De familie was daarvoor al diep getroffen door het overlijden van hun jongste kind en hun broer Cornelis Jacobus Lijbering op de jeugdige leeftijd van 26 jaren.

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