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Argyllshire / Re: Still stuck on Robert Walker's parents
« on: Monday 24 January 22 16:08 GMT (UK) »
Hello ZerooreZ
Well, a surprise - I never came across Rootschat until today - and there you are!
I am tracing the family of Robert Watson Walker (1889-1950) who married my great aunt, Agnes Gardner Stark in 1922 and then emigrated to the USA about 1923, ending up in Yonkers, New York. By 1948 when my own parents emigrated from Scotland to Yonkers, several more members of both the Walker and the Stark families had settled there, too. I have wanted to know, why Yonkers ? and so have been following the story… I’m pretty old and there is no one in the family to help, so this has been a fun journey.
Robert Walker/Flora Buchanan - Robert Walker (1829-1909)m Margaret Watson (1832 -1894) -
2nd son William Watson Walker (1856-1938) m Isabella Aitkenhead Smith (1862- !949?) - eldest son Robert Watson Walker (1889-1950) m Agnes Gardner Stark (1895-1983)
So the Robert Walker you are looking at is the great-grandfather of my Robert Watson Walker, and I too have been stuck on confirming his parents. But I have followed all the leads that the previous Rootschat folk have supplied and had already ended up in the same position as yourself - all the same documents and records checked except that I had not known about the accident in the mine/quarry.
I wondered about your connection to the Walkers - are you happy to say?
And thanks to everyone who has helped along the way…
Well, a surprise - I never came across Rootschat until today - and there you are!
I am tracing the family of Robert Watson Walker (1889-1950) who married my great aunt, Agnes Gardner Stark in 1922 and then emigrated to the USA about 1923, ending up in Yonkers, New York. By 1948 when my own parents emigrated from Scotland to Yonkers, several more members of both the Walker and the Stark families had settled there, too. I have wanted to know, why Yonkers ? and so have been following the story… I’m pretty old and there is no one in the family to help, so this has been a fun journey.
Robert Walker/Flora Buchanan - Robert Walker (1829-1909)m Margaret Watson (1832 -1894) -
2nd son William Watson Walker (1856-1938) m Isabella Aitkenhead Smith (1862- !949?) - eldest son Robert Watson Walker (1889-1950) m Agnes Gardner Stark (1895-1983)
So the Robert Walker you are looking at is the great-grandfather of my Robert Watson Walker, and I too have been stuck on confirming his parents. But I have followed all the leads that the previous Rootschat folk have supplied and had already ended up in the same position as yourself - all the same documents and records checked except that I had not known about the accident in the mine/quarry.
I wondered about your connection to the Walkers - are you happy to say?
And thanks to everyone who has helped along the way…