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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: bozzo2 on Monday 03 June 24 23:00 BST (UK)
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Hello everyone..I posted in the wrong section hope I am in the right one now.
I am looking for a Matha Walker she is buried in the St. Lawrence Cemetry in Qld I can find her death notice in Trove which says she died on 10th December 1878 aged 56 and she was well know in Rockhampton.I can't find her death entry in BMD .On her gravestone it says she was a born in Aberdeen Scotland. Hope someone can help in my search for this lady. Thanks.Judy
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Was Walker her married name?
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60104735/martha-walker
If you are researching her Scottish ancestry you would need to know her maiden name
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https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=883224.msg7560664#msg7560664
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Hello Carol
Unfortunately I don't know her maiden name or if this is her maiden name,was hoping to find her death entry but their appears to be none.
I do find a Joseph Walker living in St Lawrence on the electrol Rolls of 1903 and 1905,if they were connected I don't know.Thankyou Judy
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"she was well know in Rockhampton"
Can you expand on this. In what capacity was Martha a familiar name in Rockhampton......civic matters?....... charity work?........ association with her church?.....and when?
What is the earliest connection you see for Martha and Rockhampton?.
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I am only going on her death notice in a Rockhampton paper in Trove saying she was well known in Rockhampton. I wish I knew more info.
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If the only information you have about Martha Walker is the death notice, and the inscription on the headstone.........what is your interest in her?
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I have researched all the old peoples graves in our small little cemetery for a project in our town and Martha is the only one that nothing can be found on her. Why would her death be not recorded or has she been missed by the people who transcribed the documents. Is there away of finding out if she has been missed out?
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Thank you for this good information. It helps to have some context to your enquiry.
Martha might have used the name WALKER, but have another name? Just a possible line to follow...
Using QLD BDM for Martha died December 1878 finds -
EATES Martha died 11 Dec 1878 ps. Joseph EATES / Evaline STACHEL 1878/C/263
where ...."C"......is country area......
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Joseph and Eveline EATES are mentioned here in 1880, I don't think Martha WALKER can be related to them.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/902368
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I did notice this - unclaimed letter at Rockhampton for Miss M WALKER in 1873:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51795374
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Thanks...if she used Martha Walker as a second name would that be on her death cert with her correct name,just grasping at straws here. There must of been someone in her life here in Australia to put a stone on her grave. Did you see the 50 gold shares she had in 1876 ?
Thanks for your help.
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When Martha WALKER dies, 1878, there is someone around with enough interest in her to place a death notice in the newspaper.
For all that Martha is said to be well known in Rockhampton, I do not see anything in the newspapers for her before or after 1878.
And there is someone around to put a headstone on her burial plot? The headstone is large.....so intended for burials later that 1878 suggesting....other WALKER family?
Martha is the first?...and only?....burial in this plot?
Apart from inscriptions on the headstones, do you have access to cemetery records?
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Do you see a headstone to the left...and to the right...of the headstone for Martha WALKER?
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I have been up to the cemetery this morning to see if I could decipher anything else on the headstone,but unreadable. There are a few graves around will check again tomorrow ,but I know there are no more Walkers buried there.
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Cemetery records have been destroyed .....unfortunately
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Have you tried contacting QLD archives to see if they hold a will for Martha? Not all wills are on line so could be worth a try maybe. Only suggesting this as it was previously mentioned she owned gold shares.