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Researching Waltons originally from England and India who emigrated to New Zealand about 1900, who descend from a Leslie-Walton marriage circa 1860.
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1881 census, Tunbridge, Kent
Edward Cranston Walton, age 6, born 1875, Sind, India. Mother, Harriet Frances Walton, age 34, born Down, Newry, Ireland.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27W-ZG4Y
Edward married Emily Beatrice Webb, 1900, Barton Regis, Father Hubert Isaac Walton
Son Robert Leslie Walton born 1905
Hubert Isaac Walton married to Harriet Frances Leslie, 1870, Hastings, Sussex
Hubert born 1833, Hampton, Middlesex, father William Walton, mother, Elizabeth Louisa (Plunkett)
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That marriage in 1900 describes him as a Settler in Kansas USA
Father deceased. Superintendent of Indian Govt Telegraphs
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NZ births I expect you have.
1910/24201 Walton Graham Francis Emily Beatrice Edward Cranston
1909/25403 Walton Edward Cranston Emily Beatrice Edward Cranston
1912/14549 Walton Mabel Beatrice Emily Beatrice Edward Cranston
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Death of Emily Beatrice 1934
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19341004.2.4?items_per_page=10&query=Edward+cranston+Walton+&snippet=true
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1851 census, Hampton, Surrey
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGKZ-GZ8
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WW1
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19411105.2.28?items_per_page=10&query=Edward+cranston+Walton+&snippet=true
Regularly stood in local body elections
Eg
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19241216.2.160.2?items_per_page=10&page=4&query=Edward+cranston+Walton+&snippet=true
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October 1910 sold land in Canterbury
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NOT19101008.2.16?items_per_page=10&page=8&query=Edward+cranston+Walton+&snippet=true
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1900 US census
occupation Farmer
age 25
Birth Mar 1875 India
residence. Wilson, Rice, Kansas
Immigration year 1893
married
wife Emily Walton
her immigration year 1900
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I wonder if this is him in 1897
Going to Sterling, Kansas. Occ Farmer
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G1DC-9LBQ?i=874&cc=1368704&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AJXW3-WP6
And in 1893
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G1DH-93KW?i=159&cc=1368704&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AJ6YD-WZ7
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Mrs E Walton (a Lady)
Master R and Miss S Walton both children
to NZ per Ionic left UK 6 March 1908 from London
Robert's death gives dob 24 June 1903
his police record (theft &forgery) says he was born America. Also a photograph apparently. There was a thread on here recently about how to look at those.
So baptised at Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire but born in the USA Address at Baptism given as Sterling, Kansas, USA
Miss S not baptised at same time unfortunately.
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Death:
1963/28561 Walton Edward Cranston 88Y
Elected mayor [1923]
https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24672095
Minniehaha.
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Cemetery record:
WALTON, EDWARD CRANSTON
Details M: Died 25-11-1963: Aged 88:
Place Hillsborough
Location Area 10 Block C Lot No 31
Remarks transcribed inscription reads "In loving memory of Emily Beatrice beloved wife of Edward Cranston Walton died 3 Oct 1934 aged 61 Here also repose the ashes of Isabella Jane beloved second wife of the above died 9 Aug 1956 Also Edward C Walton died 25 Nov 1963 ."
Information
Officiating
NZSG map
Trans number
[2 of 2]
Name WALTON, EDWARD CRANSTON
Details M: Died 25-11-1963: Aged 88: Date of burial - 4 Dec 1963
Place Hillsborough
Location Area 10 Block C Lot No 31
Remarks ASHES Headstone: Yes
Information Occuptation - retired: Residence - 394 Mt Eden Rd: Anglican: Native place - India: Last from Cornwall Hospital: Years in NZ - 57
Officiating Informant - Mr E C Walton Jur
NZSG map A10 R21
Trans number 5880
Minniehaha.
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WALTON, EMILY BEATRICE
Details F: Died 03-10-1934: Aged 61:
Place Hillsborough
Location Area 10 Block C Lot No 31
Remarks transcribed inscription reads "In loving memory of Emily Beatrice beloved wife of Edward Cranston Walton died 3 Oct 1934 aged 61 Here also repose the ashes of Isabella Jane beloved second wife of the above died 9 Aug 1956 Also Edward C Walton died 25 Nov 1963 ."
1956/20001 Walton Isabella Jane 75Y
Name WALTON, EMILY BEATRICE
Details F: Died 03-10-1934: Aged 61: Cause of death - sarcoma of liver: Date of burial - 5 Oct 1934
Place Hillsborough
Location Area 10 Block C Lot No 31
Remarks Headstone: Yes
Information Occuptation - married: Residence - 34 Liverpool St, Epsom: Anglican: Native place - England: Last from Bristol, England: Years in NZ - 26
Officiating Officiating Clergy - Rev Smallfield: Informant - W Sibun
Minniehaha.
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Mayors during Birkenhead Borough Council
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead,_New_Zealand#Mayors_during_Birkenhead_Borough_Council
19231925 Edward Cranston Walton
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Graham Francis Walton:
https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=17016001
1994/41989 Walton Graham Francis 5 October 1910
1995/51878 Walton Edward Cranston 25 April 1909
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Record for Graham Francis Walton
Date of birth
Unknown
Occupation
Retd
Date of death
31 May 1994
Age at death
83 years
Gender
Not recorded
Region
South
Cemetery name
Manukau Memorial Gardens
Remains type
Ash
Date of cremation
2 June 1994
Funeral director
Lambert R Fountain Ltd
Minniehaha.
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Surname WALTON
First Names Edward Cranston
Age 86 Years
Gender Male
Date of Death 22 Nov 1995
Religion Anglican
Serial No 42287
Funeral Director Davis Funeral Services, P O Box 56013, Mt Eden, AUCKLAND
Cemetery Purewa Cemetery
Location Block X Row 66 Plot 82
Date of Service and/or Interment 28 Nov 1995
What Buried? Ashes
Minniehaha.
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Marriage:
1933/9692 Mabel Beatrice Walton John Gifford Male
Death:
2003/4901 Male Mabel Beatrice 30 September 1912
Added:
Record for Mabel Beatrice Male
Date of birth
Unknown
Occupation
Homemaker
Date of death
26 February 2003
Age at death
90 years
Gender
Not recorded
Region
South
Cemetery name
Manukau Memorial Gardens
Remains type
Ash
Date of cremation
3 March 2003
Funeral director
Davis Funeral Services Ltd
Minniehaha.
P. S.. If you wish, I can send the death notices for Mabel Beatrice Male.
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Death of spouses:
1987/49584 Walton June Aidney 26 September 1916 [wife of Graham Francis]
2002/671 Walton Eileen May 8 January 1916 [wife of Edward Cranston]
Minniehaha.
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Researching Waltons originally from England and India who emigrated to New Zealand about 1900, who descend from a Leslie-Walton marriage circa 1860.
What information do you have and what are you looking for please?
Cheers Janette
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Edward Cranston Walton was born in Karachi,Bombay on the 11 Mar 1875 to Hubert Izaak and Harriet Frances Walton and baptised 2 Apr 1875 in Christ Church Karachi.
Cheers Janette
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Further to reply #10.....
Death:
1978/48742 Walton Robert Leslie 24 June 1903
Marriage:
1928/6980 Doris Mabel Hayman Robert Leslie Walton
Cemetery details for wife?
Record for Doris Mabel Walton
Date of birth
Unknown
Occupation
Home Duties
Date of death
23 March 1982
Age at death
77 years
Gender
Female
Region
West
Cemetery name
Waikumete Cemetery
Remains type
Ash
Date of cremation
30 March 1982
Funeral director
Rodney Funeral Home Ltd
Minniehaha.
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Following Mckha's lead in reply #10:
Robert Leslie Walton, trial 1934
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19340726.2.173?items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=robert+leslie+walton&snippet=true
Police photographs of Robert Leslie Walton:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZPG19340801.2.13.2.43?end_date=31-12-1934&items_per_page=10&query=robert+walton&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1934&title=NZPG
Minniehaha.
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These posts in 2009
https://www.ancestry.it/boards/localities.oceania.newzealand.auckland/572
1931/9757 Sybil Doreen Walton Howard Milo Vincent
1980/33178 Vincent Sybil Doreen 13 June 1907
Record for Sybil Doreen Vincent
Date of birth
Unknown
Date of death
14 May 1980
Age at death
73 years
Gender
Female
Region
North
Cemetery name
North Shore Memorial Park
Remains type
Ash
Date of cremation
17 May 1980
Funeral director
Dils Funeral Services Ltd
Minniehaha.
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William Walton, b 1794, Reading, Berkshire son of William Walton & Philadelphia
Died Kingston, Surrey, 1889. Retired Schoolmaster
1851 Census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGKZ-GZ8 (posted earlier)
1861 Census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2MP-QMLJ
1871 Census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRN6-K96
1881 Census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q277-17DC
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William's wife, Elizabeth Louisa Plunkett, baptised 1801, Dalston, Cumberland, daughter of Valentine Plunkett & Sarah Evatt
Died 1866, Kingston, Surrey.
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There is marriage notice for Hubert Isaac Walton to Diana Jane Pulteney Dalziel in 1864, Dundee Courier, Scotland. Possibly his first wife? No marriage on SP.
OK marriage took place in India, 1863
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGNX-HML
Diana Janie Dalziel born, Bombay 29/12/1844.
Diana died after childbirth in Bombay, India, 1868
Hubert would marry again 2 years later. 1870
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Well popcorn1, there is a wealth of information on these 4 pages about The Waltons for you to digest.
Enjoy!
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As mentioned in replies #10 & 22 this is the death of:
1978/48742 Walton Robert Leslie 24 June 1903
Can anyone find cemetery details for this man?
I wondered if the link below could be him, maybe? Second Christian name is incorrect.
https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/cemeteries/Pages/RecordDetails.aspx?recordId=42D2E4D4501806227BB9003317ABADCA
And while looking, I came across this burial. Because of the names I thought he must fit into your Walton family tree somewhere.....
Record for Robert Frederick Cranston Walton
Date of birth
Unknown
Occupation
Retired Garage Owner
Date of death
18 January 1998
Age at death
66 years
Gender
Male
Region
North
Cemetery name
Te Kapa Cemetery
Plot location
Te Kapa Cemetery, Public Burial Area, Section 1, Row A, Plot 3
Remains type
Body
Date of burial
22 January 1998
Funeral director
Jason Morrison
Probated will:
https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=25236365
Minniehaha.
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Robert Leslie and family. Tragic.
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That is very sad.
Here is the report of the death of the schoolboy....
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19430407.2.69?end_date=31-12-1943&query=walton&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1943&title=ALG%2cACNZC%2cAS%2cAKTIM%2cDSC%2cFRTIM%2cKWE%2cNZH%2cNZHAG%2cNZ%2cTO%2cPWT%2cROTWKG
Added: 1943/18247 Walton Terrence Raymond 7Y
Added: Death notice:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19430407.2.7?end_date=31-12-1943&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=r.+l.+walton&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1943&title=ALG%2cACNZC%2cAS%2cAKTIM%2cDSC%2cFRTIM%2cKWE%2cNZH%2cNZHAG%2cNZ%2cTO%2cPWT%2cROTWKG
Added: 1933/11563 Walton NR 2D
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This proves the link in reply #29 relates to the burial of Robert Leslie Walton (Shown incorrectly as Robert Lester Walton).......
Record for Terrance Raymond Walton
Date of birth
Unknown
Date of death
6 April 1943
Age at death
6 years
Gender
Male
Region
North
Cemetery name
Birkenhead/Glenfield Cemetery
Plot location
Birkenhead/Glenfield Cemetery, Old Portion - Anglican, Block 1, Plot 041
Remains type
Body
Date of burial
7 April 1943
Funeral director
Sibuns Funeral Services
Minniehaha.
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A Justice of the Peace [1923]
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19230825.2.85?end_date=31-12-1950&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=cranston+walton&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1905
Member of the Auckland District Education Board [1915]
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TO19150717.2.41.3?end_date=31-12-1950&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=cranston+walton&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1905
President of the Birkdale Fruitgrowers & Ratepayers Association [1923]
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19230428.2.15?end_date=31-12-1950&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=e.+c.+walton&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1905
Photograph of Mr. E. C. Walton [1929]
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19290422.2.12.2?end_date=31-12-1950&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=e.+c.+walton&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1905
Engagement of Robert Leslie Walton & Doris Mabel Hayman [1929]
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19270627.2.11.2?end_date=31-12-1950&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=e.+c.+walton&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1905
Minniehaha.
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Headstone photograph- Edward Cranston Walton:
https://billiongraves.com/grave/Edward-Cranston-Walton/30793738
Source of English obituary for first wife of Edward Cranston Walton:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZQ-1MFQ
Minniehaha.
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Further to the death of this man mentioned in reply #29......
1998/1702 Walton Robert Frederick Cranston 7 March 1931
The announcement of his birth:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19310309.2.2?end_date=20-03-1931&query=walton&snippet=true&start_date=07-03-1931
Minniehaha.
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Birth announcement of Terrence Raymond Walton: [1936]
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19360415.2.2.1?end_date=31-12-1936&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=r.+l.++walton&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1936&title=ALG%2cACNZC%2cAS%2cAKTIM%2cDSC%2cFRTIM%2cKWE%2cNZH%2cNZHAG%2cNZ%2cTO%2cPWT%2cROTWKG&type=ARTICLE
Minniehaha.
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I wonder if popcorn1 is not getting notifications as none of the other posts on different boards have been replied to either
Cheers Janette
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Mmmmm, perhaps. However I note that popcorn1 was on-line yesterday.
While a lot of effort has been put in by Rootschatters, and we enjoy what we do, it is disappointing not to receive any feedback from the original poster.
Minniehaha.
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I AGREE
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There's probably very good reasons why the OP hasn't responded given the pressure many are under at present.
I would advise patience.
Spades
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There's probably very good reasons why the OP hasn't responded given the pressure many are under at present.
I would advise patience.
Spades
Well said. I would also like to add that I hope you and yours stay safe and keep well.
Take care.......
Minniehaha. :)
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Well said. I would also like to add that I hope you and yours stay safe and keep well.
Take care.......
Minniehaha. :)
I second that from up here in Jaffaland
Cheers Janette
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There's probably very good reasons why the OP hasn't responded given the pressure many are under at present.
I would advise patience.
Spades
Patience seems to be wearing out on some of his other threads,several pages of replies and no response what so ever although popcorn1 has logged in daily.
Cheers Janette