Dorothy Parker

Rev Robert Parker, Parents unknown, was born say 1564 Wilton, Wiltshire, England died Spring of 1614 at Doesburg, Netherland while acting as preacher in the English garrison.

He married (once) in Patney, Wiltshire Dorothy Stevens before 1593

His widow Dorothy left a will dated 10 Oct 1649 at “Midenhall in Wiltshire” link

Children

1. Sara Parker bp 15 Apr 1593 Patney, Wiltshire m/1 John Woodbridge m/2 Thomas Baylie
2. Rev Thomas Parker b 1595 Wilton, Wiltshire died 1677 Newbury, MA unmarried
3. Elizabeth c1597 Wilton, Wiltshire m Timothy Avery remained in England

Origins

One note on wife Dorothy Stevens/Stephen and her brother Richard.Their parents aren't known yet. It appears to me the only evidence of her maiden name is that she names her brother Richard Stevens in her will. As much as we might like Nicholas Stephens to be ancestor to her I can't find evidence of it.

Citations

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parker_%28minister%29 Under Family: It has been claimed[27] that Dorothy and her brother the Revd. Richard Stevens (and possibly Anne) were children of Nicholas Stephens (d. 1611) and his wife Frances Brydges, daughter of Sir Richard Brydges, of Burderop Park, Chiseldon, Wiltshire.[28] However their names do not appear as children of Nicholas Stephens in his will or pedigree.[29]
• Claim: J.J. Currier, "Ould Newbury": Historical and Biographical Sketches (Damrell & Upham, Newbury, Mass. 1896), p. 165. See Noyes & Noyes (1904), Genealogical Record I, p. 45, who at first rejected the claim, but after further research accepted it.
• Claim refuted: For Stephens of Burderop see 'Chiseldon: Manors and other estates', in R.W. Dunning, K.H. Rogers, P.A. Spalding, C. Shrimpton, J.H. Stevenson and M. Tomlinson, A History of the County of Wiltshire Vol. 9, ed. E. Crittall (V.C.H. London, 1970), pp. 6-
• British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol9/pp6-23
• 'The Society's MSS. Chiseldon and Draycot' (continued), Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine Vol. 30 for 1898-99 (1899), pp. 126-142. https://archive.org/stream/wiltshirearchaeo30arch#page/126/mode/2up
• Also: Will of Ann (Parker) Noyes https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalreco001noye#page/44/mode/2up