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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?

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Re: Nelson Walker
« Reply #1 on: Monday 01 June 09 18:32 BST (UK) »
Ive seen quite a bit about him (Googling)as a silversmith and his steam boat propellers, but everyone is as much in the dark as you,they have him 1799 birth and after 1855 for his death !!
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Re: Nelson Walker
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 02 June 09 00:17 BST (UK) »
Hi - it appears there was a move to Plymouth, Devon, followed by bankruptcy. This looks like him in 1864: - first column http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/22844/pages/2161

...and 1866: - second column: http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/23187/pages/6304

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Rob

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Re: Nelson Walker
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 02 June 09 00:21 BST (UK) »
Free BMD deaths:

Nelson Walker, Plymouth, Dec 1865, 5b 176

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Re: Nelson Walker
« Reply #4 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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Re: Nelson Walker
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 02 June 09 12:10 BST (UK) »
Hi Laurence,
                 brilliant piece of detective work off Snowball......
Ive been looking for Nelsons daughter without any luck,was her name really Georgenia ?
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Re: Nelson Walker
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 02 June 09 12:22 BST (UK) »
RG10/96/18/page 30.1871..
Westminster,Hanover square
Georgenia Walker age 25 boarder, working as a milliner born Canada.
This has to be her (dosen't it) even though the age is wrong...

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Re: Nelson Walker
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 02 June 09 13:46 BST (UK) »
stoke on trent. carson,wain,leese,shaw,key,scalley,mitchell,<br />james,<br /> nottingham,pollard,grice,<br />derbyshire,vallands,turton,howe.<br /> new zealand,turton<br /> canada,carson.<br />australia,mitchell,scalley,<br />

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Re: Nelson Walker
« Reply #8 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.

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