Bonnie and Clyde superstars with the most titillating trademark of all—illicit sex. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were wild and young, and undoubtedly slept together. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in Rowena, Texas (south of Abilene and southwest of Dallas), the second of three children. Her father, Charles Robert Parker (1884–1914), was a bricklayer who died when Bonnie was four. Her mother, Emma (Krause) Parker (1885–1944) moved her family to her parents' home in Cement City, an industrial suburb now known as West Dallas, where she worked as a seamstress. As an adult, Bonnie found expression writing poems such as "The Story of
Barrow boy Barrow boy "Barrow boy" is a British expression with two meanings, occupational and social. Street traders since the 19th century (and perhaps earlier) sold seasonal goods (especially vegetables) from two-wheeled barrows. London street traders were called costermongers (from costard, the mediaeval word for apple) and more generally barrow boys, since anything could be sold from a barrow (including clothes, crockery, etc.) London's banks and investment brokerages were since their foundation privileged enclaves of wealth and high social standing. After modernisation in the 1980s they ceased to be reserves of class privilege, and employed Cockneys of proven ability as traders; such