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1879 – PARKER Robert Townley, Esq.
Personal Estate under £80,000
20 September. The Will of Robert Townley PARKER, late of Cuerden Hall in the County of Lancaster, Esquire who died 11 August 1879 at Cuerden Hall was proved at Lancaster by Robert Grey Tatton and Reginald Arthur Tatton, both of Wythenshawe in the County of Chester, Esquires, the Grandsons and Henry Jobling of Burnley in the County of Lancaster, surveyor, the Executors.

Picture of a memorial to the above inside St Peters Church
http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/ima ... e_1652.jpg

Cuerden Hall
http://www.cuerdenvalleypark.org.uk/history.htm

From Ancestry.co.uk – Oxford Alumni, 1500-1886

PARKER, Robert Townley, s. Thomas Townley, of Leyland, Lancashire, arm. CHRIST CHURCH, matric. 17 Oct., 1811, aged 18; of Cuerden Hall, Lancashire, high sheriff 1817, M.P. Preston 1837-41, 1852-7, constable of Lancaster Castle 1874, died 11 August 1879. See Foster’s Lancashire Collection & Eton School Lists.

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?ht ... pid=303474

Postcard of Cuerden Hall
http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/Pho ... 20Hall.htm

PARKER Jane Burnley widow A. Mar 1835

PARKER William Chapel House Little Marsden Whalley Farmer Apr 1837

Taken from a book at Rochdale that indexed Lancashire and Cheshire Wills, I think this should be available from the LRO at Preston.

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