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US Lookup Requests / Re: Alexander Constable in Sacramento
« on: Wednesday 23 March 11 14:50 GMT (UK)  »
Lisa, that's kind of you but don't worry. I'm not sure the Mountain View Cemetery would have any specific information about Anna Constable either on a headstone or in other records. However, the information on that website is taken from a book called Oakland 1852-1938, ed Hinkel and McCann (Publ Oakland Public Library), which is available in the reference sections of several Oakland and California libraries. I have written to Oakland Libraries to ask if they can tell me anything more. 

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Alexander Constable in Sacramento
« on: Wednesday 23 March 11 11:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Lisa, Thanks for the Mission links. There are some good links from the Wiki site, though some are old and you have to go looking for the document title from scratch. This is the site where Anna's death is mentioned:

http://www.oaklandgenealogy.com/transcriptions/ForeignPioneers/FP_SCO.html

"ANNA CONSTABLE, who was born in SCOTLAND in 1819, was interred in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, on April 29, 1869, at the age of fifty. (M. V. C.)"

I don't know if Mountain View Cemetery has any further information.

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Alexander Constable in Sacramento
« on: Tuesday 22 March 11 19:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Lisa. Thanks very much for your response. Ann/Anna Constable dies in Oakland, California, in 1869, but I've no indication that she ever found her husband. And my guess would be that "the Mission" means the San Francisco district, rather than any particular building.

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US Lookup Requests / Alexander Constable in Sacramento
« on: Monday 21 March 11 14:20 GMT (UK)  »
I'm looking for information about Alexander Constable, a jeweller/watchmaker from Scotland who arrived in Sacramento in 1848. He's listed along with his wife Ann or Anna in the censuses for 1850 and 1860 but then he disappears. There's even a news item in the Sacramento Daily Union for 17 October 1862 that says that his wife, returned to Sacramento after a two-year visit home to Scotland, can't find him and reports his last known whereabouts as near the Mission in San Francisco. I have been unable to find a death record. There is also a notification in the same newspaper of an action for Forcible Entry and Detainer brought in the District Court by Andrew Bates against Alexander Constable and scheduled for 20 November 1860 (damages laid at $600). Can anyone suggest where I might find a record of the outcome of this case?   

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London and Middlesex / Re: Nelson Walker
« on: Tuesday 02 June 09 19:09 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Jorose. That's a whole lot of new leads!

inarcadia

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London and Middlesex / Re: Nelson Walker
« on: Tuesday 02 June 09 13:56 BST (UK)  »
Yes, thanks for that, Hepburn. I had to order the book from Canada to read the whole thing. Some of the pages are missing online.

inarcadia

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: St. Pancras Marriage 1803/Birth 1804/5
« on: Tuesday 02 June 09 12:18 BST (UK)  »
Hi Ian and DaisyPetal,

Thank you both very much for your help on this. This particular Constable line seems to come to an end here, but who knows? It would be interesting to discover if Alexander Constable did any gold- or silver-smithing in California (plenty of gold around) but I think that will have to wait for a trip to the US.

Laurence (inarcadia)

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London and Middlesex / Re: Nelson Walker
« on: Tuesday 02 June 09 12:05 BST (UK)  »
Wow! Thanks Rob (Snowball) and thanks Hepburn. That's him all right. Rob, did you have a special interest in Nelson Walker, or are you just very good at ferreting things out? As always, this kind of information (bankruptcy) makes you wonder what happened to a man of so many talents and abilities. And I'd have thought that his pay as a surveyor/draftsman for the Royal Engineers can't have been bad by the standards of the day. So what went wrong? And I wonder what happened to his daughter Georgenia?

Thanks again. Any other titbits on Nelson Walker gratefully received.

Laurence  (inarcadia) 

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London and Middlesex / Nelson Walker
« on: Monday 01 June 09 17:52 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone have a connection to Nelson Walker, who was born in Montreal, Canada, on 21 March 1799 and worked as a silversmith there and designed propellers for steamboats. He later appears in the UK census in 1861 in Plumstead, Kent, along with his daughter Georgenia, 27, when his occupation is given as "surveyor draftsman". He was then working for the Royal Engineers Surveyors Office and his signature appears on several documents at the NRO in Kew. His last appearance is in the London directory for 1863 and although I have searched for a death record I have been unable to find one. Perhaps he died at sea. Does anyone have any information?

inarcadia

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