Parker of Norton Lees
William Parker and his family were landowners and scythemakers in the Parish of Norton. The dam which powered their grinding wheel at Whitley Hall later was an ornamental pool.
Thomas Parker, of Norton, living in the reign of Richard, married Elizabeth Gotham, of Lees Hall, heiress, and had Robert, who married Elizabeth Burley, of Barnes, whose son John, married Ellen North, of Walkeringham, whose son John married Elizabeth Eyre of Offerton, by whom he had three sons:
- John who married Dyonisia Bright (baptised 1581 d. 1604),daughter of Thomas Bright of Bradway and Joan, and had John, the last of the Norton Lees Parkers, whose heiress, Anne, married a Barker
- George who married Grace Bateman, and had William (from the Park Hall branch) and Thomas, who was father of the famous Chancellor.
- and William
Richard Parker of Brampton appears in the Court Rolls of the Manor of Ecclesfield for 1591, together with his daughters:
- Agnes, who married Thomas Shiers
- Catherine, mother of William Simpson, then aged 14 years
- Anne who first married Godfrey Shawe and then Thomas Bloome.
Thomas Parker, born about 1519 at Whitley Hall was the father of Ann Parker(about1542-1609) who married John Stacye of Ballifield in 1564.
Frances Parker, son of William of Whitley Hall, married Anne, daughter and heir of Richard Hewet of Killamarsh.
Thomas Shiercliffe purchased Whitley Hall in 1616.