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Australia / Re: Charles Thomas WALKER born c1878 lived in South Australia
« on: Saturday 29 February 20 20:37 GMT (UK)  »
I wonder if Charles Thomas WALKER changed his name and intentionally melted into the wider Australian population.

That’s exactly what we’ve been thinking but hoped that he slipped up somewhere and was able to be identified.
Do you know much about SA electoral rolls? They seem to be few and far between on Ancestry and making it harder to track the various members of the family in order to confirm some of the stories.

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Australia / Re: Charles Thomas WALKER born c1878 lived in South Australia
« on: Saturday 29 February 20 10:32 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for the reply Sue.

Yes, as odd as it seems I do understand the weirdness. It seems that the 1920 daughter (I won’t mention names in case it upsets living relatives) didn’t get on at all with her mother and step-siblings and was pretty much ignored by them all. The younger boy (Davis-Walker) is believed to have been fathered by a different man, likely to have been a DAVIS. When Beatrice was able to claim war medals for her first husband she signed over consent for a G A DAVIS to collect on her behalf. All very strange and as I’m typing this I see that you had posted a later reply. Beatrice shunned her daughter (and young granddaughter) when they turned up on her doorstep looking for help in the mid 1940’s not long before her death. It must have been a nasty family feud to have given up on a married and also abandoned daughter/sister to the point where she wasn’t even named in the death notice.

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Australia / Re: Charles Thomas WALKER born c1878 lived in South Australia
« on: Friday 28 February 20 23:06 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Jamjar on Friday 28 February 20 22:10 GMT (UK)
Only one SA birth:

WALKER Charles Thomas father Frederick Charles WALKER Adelaide 186/172 1877   

Jamjar

Thank you Jamjar but that is the family I have already discounted in post #1 with that particular Charles Thomas dying in QLD in 1898.

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Australia / Re: Charles Thomas WALKER born c1878 lived in South Australia
« on: Friday 28 February 20 20:50 GMT (UK)  »
There are two shipping records for that C T Thomas, one in 1913 with wife and children, the other in 1930 so it seems unlikely to be the same man.

I also found another with same initials leaving Victoria heading for London Jan 1908. Unfortunately needing yet another subs to view what should be public records IMO.

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Australia / Re: Charles Thomas WALKER born c1878 lived in South Australia
« on: Friday 28 February 20 20:06 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: TreeSpirit on Friday 28 February 20 11:40 GMT (UK)
This might be a dead duck, but a C T Walker, civil engineer arrives in 1910 from Colombo on the China:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS8D-BS7H-4?cat=2673164 (page 1 and 3)

Very interesting, thank you. I will do some searching in English records to see if it’s possibly the same man. He was described as a labourer when Beatrice was claiming maintenance but that’s always possible if he couldn’t find employment in his field.

Sandra

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Australia / Re: Charles Thomas WALKER born c1878 lived in South Australia
« on: Friday 28 February 20 10:51 GMT (UK)  »
Oh thank you SO MUCH TreeSpirit, I really appreciate it. Off to see what else I can find now I have his dad as well. 😃

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Australia / Charles Thomas WALKER born c1878 lived in South Australia
« on: Friday 28 February 20 09:27 GMT (UK)  »
I’m trying to trace details of this man that married Beatrice May THOMAS (widow, nee GULLY) in 1918. 275/109 Adelaide. I know that he is NOT related to the candle/soap making WALKER family as that man of the same name died in Qld around 1898.   
Charles and Beatrice’s daughter was born in 1920 and he had left the family (which included 5 children from Beatrice’s first marriage) the following year. Source SA Police Gazette 23 Nov 1921 gives age 43 therefore born c1878.

There are no electoral rolls that I can find, no death, birth place, YOB, parents all unknown.

Is there any way that more information can be found without the need to purchase the marriage certificate?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Could someone please decipher this name?
« on: Sunday 17 March 19 21:14 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you so much everyone for the replies. Mods deleted the original pic as I had neglected to crop out a ©️ reference so I hope to go back and add a cropped version to the original post.
I would never have picked Stirling and certainly don’t recognise it as a family name but will do some further searching.
The idea that it could say Dr rather than Wm is certainly very possible given the location (asylum).
Walter’s parents were Rowley (in actuality originally Kirk but I haven’t discovered why it was changed) and Salvin. Neither of the two younger sisters married a Stirling, though the d/c for the father (James Kirk/Rowley) states a 3rd daughter that I’ve never been able to locate ANY records for.

I have a few more ideas to follow up now. Thanks for the help everyone. 😃

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Could someone please decipher this name?
« on: Sunday 17 March 19 01:31 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there,

I’m trying to identify the name circled on red on this document. It appears to be “Wm ...ing” but I really have no idea. The item refers to a cousin and I have been unable to identify any recognisable family member where the surname ends in “ing” for that time (1880’s)
Walter Rowley appears to be blaming a cousin being in collusion with his (Walter or Wm)’s sister and mentions an aunt but not by name.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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