Parke's Castle 2
by Calry N.S.
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We did a huge amount of work on this project, here is a small selection of that work:
The Parke Family
The Parke Family were English Planters from Kent. The first of the Parkes to come to Ireland was Sir Roger Parke who came over to Sligo in 1601 with Sir Roger Jones.
Roger Parke married Sir Roger Jones’s sister, Alice in 1609 and they had two sons- Robert and William.
It was the elder son Robert, who resided at Parke’s Castle (or Newtown Castle which is its correct name).
The other son, William, lived at Dunally, near Sligo town. One of William’s descendants was Surgeon Major Parke, whose statue stands outside the Natural History Museum in Dublin.
Robert, who lived at Newtown Castle, has no descendants named Parke. He married Ann Povey (from Roscommon) and they had three children- a daughter Ann, and after a long gap of possibly fifteen years, a son Robert (1661) and a daughter Mary (Maggie, 1663). Sadly, both Robert and Maggie were drowned on Lough Gill in 1677 when Robert was 16 years old and Maggie was 14 years old. This left Ann Parke as Captain Robert Parke’s only successor and heiress.
Ann married Sir Francis Gore.

Name: Robert Parke
Sex: Male
Name Prefix: Captain
Father: Roger Parke
Mother: Alice Jones
Birth: 1610
Occupation: Member of Irish parliament
Death: 1688 (Age: 60-61)

Name: Ann Povey
Sex: Female
Father:- unknown
Mother:- unknown
Birth: year unknown Birth place: Roscommon
Death:1688