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National Maritime Museum

Parks family collection


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 PKS

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Parks family collection

Date(s): 1843-1890

Level of description: Collection

Extent:

Name of creator(s): Parks | Murray Thomas | 1827-1877 | Commander
Parks | Abraham | d 1863 | Lieutenant
Parks | Murray Thomas | 1862-1932 | Captain

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The papers for Commander Murray Thomas Parks include official service documents 1843 to 1870, but are made up mainly of papers relating to the ENTERPRISE and the Arctic expedition of 1851.

The papers for Lieutenant Abraham Parks consist of photographs; copy of a poem 'The Mate's Lament'; details of his service by his daughter-in-law and a copy of the 'Navy List' for 1859 with annotations.

The papers for Captain Murray Thomas Parks includes official service papers 1876 to 1878; letters sent home 1878 to 1890; and a midshipman's log for the INVINCIBLE and CRUISER 1881 to 1882.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Parks family papers were presented to the Museum in two batches. The first batch were given by M T Parks in 1955, and the remainder of the collection was presented after Mr Parks' death by his cousin, Miss Rose Powell in 1973.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Expeditions | Travel
Ships logs | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Arctic

Personal names
Parks | Abraham | d 1863 | Lieutenant
Parks | Murray Thomas | 1827-1877 | Commander
Parks | Murray Thomas | 1862-1932 | Captain

Corporate names
Royal Navy

Places