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Mungo Park Line
Known as the Mungo Park line in honor of the Scotch Explorer of Africa, born 1771, it traces back to an Archibald Park in Scotland (1682 – 1768). The immigrant ancestor is David Park (1833 England – 1913 probably Ontario, Canada) who married in 1854, Julia Ann Gardiner in England. David (1I1) Park (engineer) came to Chatham, ONT in 1866. This is an immigrant line.Ten children, six of whom were born in England, the remaining four in Ontario or Muskegon, MI. We have issue only for one.
David Gardiner Park (1855 England – 1892 Ontario) married Jane Robertson, three children
Other children were: Archibald (1856), married Albertina Amada Thompson; John Mungo (1860), married (1) Emma (unknown), married (2)Annie Jane McDonnald; Janet Gardiner (1862), married H. Gordon Gorham; Jane Murray (1863); George Paton Gardiner (1865); Augustus (1869); James (1871); Marion Jemima (1873), married Dr. Joseph Work;and George, married Annie May (unknown).
Source Material
Membership applications. There are probsably other references found in the member's files, but they have not been researched as yet. Represented: PS#1065, 705,248D, 1077R)