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This site is dedicated to those wanting to know more about the Parkin family in South Africa and also provide a forum for all descendants of John Parkin to share information about the family.


John Parkin, an 1820 settlers, was the first Parkin to set foot in South Africa, in Algoa Bay on 20th May 1820. He was accompanied by his wife Elizabeth Abraham (nee Howard) and his first four children, William, John, Jane and Robert. Initially settling on the farm designated by the British Government to the Parkin party, some 14km south west of Bathurst in the Eastern Cape, he moved into Port Elizabeth soon after and during the early years of the cities existence, quickly acquired a large portfolio of the Port Elizabeth real estate.


Today, not much (if any) of his original land remains in the Parkin name, with only a few items in the city remaining as an acknowledgement of his input into the beginnings of Port Elizabeth, namely Parkin Street in North End and a memorial plaque in a park in Stella ave Fernglen, close to where his original homestead was.


Marrying a second time, John Parkin's offspring could have made up a rugby team, all of 15 kids. Upon his death in 1856, his estate was never settled as a number of his children had moved on from Port Elizabeth and some thought to be dead. In the years that followed, some of his property was purchased from the estate by the government of the day for in order to build the Port Elizabeth Railway Station, where it still stands today. In the 1960's, a descendant of John Parkin, (N.P. Sellick) interested in determining who still had a claim to the estate, researched the Parkin genealogy in conjunction with the HSRC and wrote a book "John Parkin of Baakens River farm and his family, 1820 to 1970", which gave the basis for the family tree that can be found on another site.


The editor of this blog also manages this comprehensive Parkin family tree starting with John Parkin's parents in Exeter, Devon England which links to some of John's sibling's descendants still living in Exeter. It contains the names of over 3700 of William's descendants and their spouses. If you are a descendant of William Parkin born 1745 in Exeter, Devon England and would like to see how you fit into the tree and/or willing to share some details about your close family to add to the tree, please make contact through the details on this blog page.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Family Tree

You can download the latest gedcom file with John Parkin's family tree from the link on this page.


There are 292 Surnames and over 1200 individuals detailed in this family tree. Check out if you recognise any.




Abraham, Adams, Allen, Anderson, Andriesen, Baker, Barnard, Barnsley, Basset-Adams,
Beckford, Becks, Behr, Bester, Board, Booysen, Booysens, Botha, Bouwer, Bowden,
Bowestead, Bradfield, Brake, Breen, Brickhill, Bronkhorst, Brune, Budd, Bull,
Bullen, Burke, Buxton, Caithness, Campbell, Canelli, Carlson, Carter, Caughey,
Cawood, Clarkson, Clerk, Coetzee, Coetzer, Connellan, Cooper, Cowie, Cox, Craven,
Crawcour, Crawley, Crichton, Crompton, Crooks, Crossley, Crous, Daniels, Daverin,
Dawson, de Lange, de Reuck, de Wit, Deacon, Dewar, Diamond, Dippenaar, Dover,
du Plessis, du Plooy, Edwards, Ferreira, Fick, Field, Finch, Fisher, Flannery,
Fodisch, Forbes, Ford, Forte, Foster, Fourie, Fowler, Fox, Foxcroft, Frames, Frost,
Gallow, Garrs-Horrace, Gibbon, Gibson, Gillies-Baker, Gird, Golding, Goodyear,
Gough, Graetz, Gray, Green, Gregory, Greyling, Gronau, Gunn, Haines, Hainman, Hale,
Hands, Harris, Hartley, Hartman, Haupt, Hawkins, Haynes, Heap, Heidler, Hibbert,
Hill, Holderness, Holmes, Holtzhausen, Hooper-Box, Hope, Howard, Humphries, Hutton,
Inggs, James, Jarvis, Jefferson, Jenkins, Jewell, Joel, Johns, Johnson, Johnston,
Jones, Joubert, Keir, Kempson, Kerr-Fox, King, Kok, Korsten, Kovacs, Kramer,
Kritzinger, Kritzmer, Kruger, Lane, Lansdell, Laufs, Laverick, Law, Lawrence,
le Roux, Lean, Leslie, Lloyd, Loft, Londt, Longworth, Loxley, Mackay, Maclean,
Maconnel, Magennis, Maliepaard, Marsh, Marshall, Martin, Masters, Matthews, McAvoy,
M'Crystal, Mills, Moller, Monaghan, Monk, Moorshead, Moran, Morris, Mouat, Muller,
Munnik, Munro, Murray, Nagel, Naude, Neill, Nelson, Newton, Nielson, Nixon,
Owen-Smith, Page, Papendorf, Parkin, Paterson, Patterson, Paul, Peechy, Peinke,
Pellew, Peterson, Pettit, Pitt, Porter, Poultney, Pretorius, Prideaux, Pugh,
Pullinger, Pyke, Quin, Raffin, Redelinhuys, Reid, Rens, Reynolds, Rheeders,
Richardson, Roberts, Robertson, Rogers, Roos, Ross, Rossouw, Rubidge, Sangerhaus,
Savage, Scheltema, Schoonraad, Scott, Scott-Parkin, Sellick, Shimmins, Silber,
Slack, Smart, Smith, Smith, Snetler, Somers, Spence, Spencer, Steinberg, Stephenson,
Stewart, Sutherland, Taylor, Tee, Terblanche, Thewles, Thomas, Thompson, Thuynsma,
Timms, Titterton, Treasure, Trollip, Tunbridge, van Deemter, van den Berg,
van der Merwe, Van Der Ryst, van der Walt, van Loggerenberg, van Niekerk, van Os,
van Rooyen, van Schalkwyk, van Staden, Van Vuuren, Venter, Vermaak, Walker, Walton,
Waud, Webb, Webber, Webster, Wells, White, Whitehead, Wilhelm, Will, Williams,
Willis, Wilmans, Wilmot, Wilson, Winstone, Woolacott, Young
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  1. Keith ParkinOctober 4, 2010 at 8:42 PM

    New names are being added on a regular basis. Please check the latest tree on the link provided on this blog

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