Recorder (Port Pirie, SA : 1919 - 1954) Mon 20 Apr 194243835

SPENT 59 YEARS
IN AUSTRALIA
Mr. Parasiers Was
Born In Kent
Mr. Isidore Hendry Michael Parasiers,
who died last week in Pii-ie Hospital and
was interred in Pirie Cemetery, was
numbered among the pioneers of this
town, where he had lived for the past
50 years.
He was born on February 14, 1866, at
Bexley Heath, Kent, England, and left
the Old Country in 1883 at the age of
17 years, sailing for Australia in the
steamer Glenfoil. Four months were
spent on the voyage. He made Ms first
Australian home in East Adelaide, but
he did not remain there long, and came
north to Pirie.
His first position was with Stevenson
Brothers, of Adelaide, and he later
joined the bootmaking firm of John
Hunter & Company. He came to this
town as an assistant, and it was not long
before he became manager of the
branch. When the firm ceased business
here he started cut on his own account,
and went in extensively for the manu-
facture of footwear. He specialised in the
heavier type of goods, as befitted an in-
dustrial centre and seaport.
He had a grcwn-up family. There are
alive today two sons and a daughter
Messrs. Claude and Percy Parasiers and
Florence (Mrs. Clifford). Another son,
Roy, was killed in action in the last
war. Mr. Claude Parasiers is a returned
soldier. _
Long Family History
The Parasiers family has a long his
tory, and one of the late Piriean’s
proudest possessions was the family crest
insignia. His grandfather was Feliy
Joseph Parasiers, of Belgian extraction.
He was Deacon of the Imperial Guard
of Brewers, Baron of the Roulon, and
Knight of the Golden Fleece of Spain.
His grandmother before her marriage
was Lady Mary Ann De Dryver, of
Malines, Belgium.
During the Franco-Prussian War Mr.
Parasiers' father, I. L. A. Parasiers,
migrated to England, where he married
a Londoner, Miss Lydia Dunford.
The "Parasiers family became scattered
all ewer the world. There was a notable
reunion in Adelaide on -Christmas Day,
1938, when the six remaining members
greeted one another after a separation
of up. to 50 years; There were present
Kate (Mrs. A. Drobble, Hyde Park);
Emily (Mrs. G. Crowthers, Melbourne),
Elizabeth (Mrs. A. Gander, England),
Beatrice (Mrs. G. Vesy, Glenelg), Miss
Gertrude' (England), and Isidore (Pirie).
Before his admittance to Pirie Hospital
about a fortnight before his death Mr.
Parasiers had been residing for some
time in Simpson street Solomontown.