Eleanor Nembhard later Rose (née Parke)

Daughter of William Parke of the Thicketts (d. 1813) and his wife Eleanor (daughter of Samuel Baldwin Crosse of Jamaica), both of whom q.v.

1. "Eleanor Parke the daughter of William Parke and his wife Eleanor was baptized [in St Ann, Jamaica] on the 10th day of August 1801."

2. Eleanor married John Frederick Nembhard, 20/01/1821 at the Hermitage, St Ann, Jamaica. They had four children, all born in Jamaica: Ellen Nembhard (born 21/03/1822, died 1838), John Frederick Nembhard (born 18/04/1823 died 10/03/1856, became a soldier in the Bengal Infantry), Eliza Jane Nembhard (born 04/04/1825, married in London in 1846, died 26/03/1896 in Bournemouth), Edward Nembhard (born 16/10/1826, died 12/10/1851, also a solider in India). John F. Nembhard of the Hermitage was buried 26/12/1827 in St Ann age 32. Eleanor went on to marry William Bromley Rose, 28/11/1836.

3. Eleanor Parke's sister Mary married Samuel Whitehorne Rose 06/01/1801 in St Ann.

4. Eleanor Rose, wife of W. B. Rose of Mount Pleasant, St Ann, was buried 10/09/1841 age 40 in St Ann.

1. familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880, St Ann, Baptisms, marriages, burials 1768-1839, Vol. 1, Image 62 of 233.

2. See Mabel Nembhard, Nembhard of Jamaica (privately printed), available at http://archive.org/stream/nembhardofjamaic00nemb#page/n3/mode/2up [accessed 22/03/2013] for a family tree of the Nembhards including Eleanor Parke, extracts of the wills of her sons and extracts from the diary of her sister-in-law Mrs Charles Parke with details of the lives of her children. See also separate entry for William B. Rose. For a detailed and fully sourced family tree of the Rose family see http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/42005042/person/19893071163?msg=ama [accessed 23/04/2013].

3. Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880, St Ann, Baptisms, marriages, burials 1768-1839, Vol. 1, Image 59 of 233.

4. Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880, All Parishes, Burials 1841-1849, Vol. 3, Image 6 of 214.

We are grateful to Andrea Azan for her assistance in compiling this entry.