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Cabinet Portraits by William George Cox of Hastings

Studio Portraits of the Parris Family of Hastings  [Photographs Courtesy of Geoff Parris]

 
George Edmund Parris and his Family

George Edmund Parris was born out of wedlock on 3rd March 1845 in Wilmington, Sussex. George's parents were Eliza Parris and Frederick Carter. George Edmund Parris worked as a dairyman in Hastings for most of his working life.

George Edmund Parris married Mary Elizabeth Johnson in Hastings during the 4th Quarter of 1871. Mary Elizabeth Johnson was born in Patrington, Yorkshire in 1843, the daughter of Miriam and William Johnson, a farm labourer. (The baptism of Mary Elizabeth Johnson - who preferred to be known as Elizabeth - was recorded in Patrington on 27th May 1843).

George and Mary Elizabeth Parris produced two sons - George William Parris who was born in Hastings in 1874 and Charles Henry Parris, who was born in Hastings in 1878.

At the time of the 1881 census, George Edmund Parris and his family were living at 62 Stonefield Road, Hastings. Also residing at 62 Stonefield Road was George Parris's nineteen year old brother-in-law, John Johnson (Mary Elizabeth Johnson's younger brother). Both George Parris and his teenage brother-in-law were working as dairymen when the census was taken.

[At 63 Stonefield Road, next door to the Parris family at No. 62 , was the family of Benjamin and Matilda Cox. One of the four children living at 63 Stonefield Road was Benjamin and Matilda's eight year old son, William George Cox. Some 16 years later, in 1897, William George Cox established a photographic portrait studio at 63 Stonefield Road, Hastings. The young photographer was to take several portraits of members of the Parris family].

George Edmund Parris died in Hastings at the end of 1934, at the age of 89. ( George Parris's death was registered in the district of Hastings during the First Quarter of 1935).

[ABOVE]  A cabinet portrait of George Edmund Parris photographed by W. G. Cox of 63 Stonefield Road, Hastings. (c1900) [ABOVE]  A cabinet portrait of Mrs Mary Elizabeth Parris (photographed by W. G. Cox of 63 Stonefield Road, Hastings. (c1897)
[ABOVE]  A cabinet portrait of a mother and son, believed to be members of the Parris family, photographed by W. G. Cox of 63 Stonefield Road, Hastings (c1897). [ABOVE]  A cabinet portrait of a seated young woman in a white dress, possibly a bridesmaid or bride,  photographed by W. G. Cox of 63 Stonefield Road, Hastings. This photograph was probably taken in October 1903 to mark the marriage of George Parris senior's eldest son  George William Parris to Mary Chesterfield. [ABOVE]  A cabinet portrait of a seated young woman in a white dress, possibly a bridesmaid or bride,  photographed by W. G. Cox of 63 Stonefield Road, Hastings. This photograph was probably taken in October 1903 to mark the marriage of George Parris senior's eldest son  George William Parris to Mary Chesterfield.
 

To read more about the life and career of the Hastings photographer William George Cox, click on the link below:

William George Cox of Hastings

 
Cabinet Portrait by James Oakey Forster of 55 Queens Road, Hastings  

[Photograph Courtesy of Geoff Parris]

 
   
[ABOVE]  A cabinet portrait of George Edmund Parris and his wife Mary Elizabeth Parris (formerly Johnson), photographed by James Oakey Forster of 55 Queens  Road, Hastings. (c1907)    

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