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William's wife is not buried in Milton Road Cemetery. Out of interest the burial register records that William's place of death was Wadham Street, WsM and that he was a grocer.

I will email a copy of the relevant section of the map.

My research continues:

1. I have discovered that the eldest of the 5 "brothers" (if that is what they were), Charles PARKER, married Sarah Ann COLES at Aller on 2 October 1855. Witness 1 was Samuel PARKER (presumably his youngest "brother"). Interestingly Charles is described as a "Yeoman" which suggests that he had moved a couple of rungs up the social ladder. Despite that I still haven't managed to find him in any census record.

2. As already mentioned, Sarah, the widowed mother of the 5 "brothers", re-married on 17 July 1842 to John MERRIOTT. At the time of the 1841 they were living with what appeared to be 2 children of the marriage - Thomas (9) and John (7) - as well as Samuel PARKER. I have been unable to find a baptism for Thomas MERRIOTT, but I have found a baptism for Thomas PARKER "son of Sarah" at Aller on 30 January 1842. In 1861 Thomas was living in Yatton and was in service to the same family (the LAVERs) that his step-brother, George, had been with 10 years earlier.