Parker, William, Hereford, joiner and cm (1771–96). On 20 June 1771 informed the public that he had ‘taken over the house, Stock, and Timber-Yard, late in the Possession of Mr. Moore, in the King's Ditch’. From here he intended to carry on the trade of joiner and cm and offered to supply ‘Building Timber, either squared or scantled’. He indicated that he had available for immediate offer oak, ash and elm floorboarding. On 11 February 1779 he advertised his move from King's Ditch to premises opposite ‘The New Inn’ in Widemarsh St. On 11 April 1796, however, his bankruptcy was announced. His son John Parker was app. to him and declared free in 1806. [Pugh's Hereford Journal, 20 June 1771, 11 February 1779; Billinge's Liverpool Advertiser, 11 April 1796, 4 July 1796; freemen rolls]