Miss Annie Luker professional diveréswimmer

[grubheam]

To Smokey

Actually Ann Elizabeth Vidler was John's third wife. Ann's sister Sarah Ann Vidler was John's second wife.

John have 9 children - three with Sarah Shepherd, two with Sarah Ann and four with Ann Elizabeth.

Grub

[Smokey807]

Yes you are quite right- I knew about his 3 wives- I just got a little mixed up.Thanks for straightening out the information.

[christinalindsay]

Hello there, John Pearson Luker had a bust of Captain Webb. On his death in 1915 it went to his son Henry Blackford Luker who was born in 1875, the year JP Luker trained Captain Webb. Apparently this was destroyed by a bomb in WW2. My father is HB Luker’s son.
Can anyone send me a copy of the press article about Annie Luker/Parker from 1932? I’m also trying to find a death for her. Thanks, Christina

[grubheam]

Hello,

Cannot believe this thread is interesting.... no surprise there....still hunting for Annie's death..... my earlier thread was a mistake abt newspaper 1932, nothing about Annie, just a flagged bit. So, back to 1915s.....where her last address was. I keep thinking she drowned without report aor ended up in prison and her names may be wrong on prison register

Don't give up! Lots of people wanted to know too!

 

[Annette7]

Hi Doug and other rootchatters

I am also a relative of Annie Luker the diver - Annie's half-sister May Luker (not Baby May Waters) was my great grandmother. I also heard about Captain Webb, my grandfather told me about it. But I don't see any evidence. I saw Annie's diving medal though. Annie left her things to her niece Joan.

Like Doug, I can't find her death. I have asked Joan's relatives but they don't know, too young to remember at that time. Doug have found an article on Annie  - newspaper dated 1932.

I couldn't find any more after that, which is mystery. She appeared on so many papers in 1900s then quietly then popped up in 1932.

Grub

Can I ask who Joan's parents were?   Just trying to figure out her role as niece to Annie, where she lived, etc. as if she received Annie's medal one would assume Annie must have died around the same area.  Just a thought.

Annette

 

[christinalindsay]

Hello there, Joan Marion Luker was the daughter of Arthur Ernest Luker. Joan was born in 1919 so would that mean Annie was alive then?
Joan’s birth and death in 2002 are both in Tonbridge Wells.

Here’s all I’ve found on Annie so far
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/46367264/person/122044761152/facts

All the best, Christina

[grubheam]

Hello,

Over the years i have been looking for Annie’s death, wondering why she was not found. My theory that when John and Ann’s house on Quarry Road, was cleared out by their sons Alfred and Arthur after Ann’s death, (Annie Luker’s swimming career highlighted when John and Ann were alive,)supposedly Annie left her things in their house before she moved to London, and married , supposedly, Arthur and Alfred found her things and stayed with Arthur. Until Arthur passed away, his daughter Joan looked after Annie’s things. When Joan passed away, Annie’s stuff have passed to Joan’s family, so no one know when Annie passed  away. I saw the medal myself.

Still a mystery, i cant find her on 1921 census either.

 

[christinalindsay]

Dear Grub, I can’t imagine her storing her stuff there when she went to London. She was living here from around 1889. I live a few streets away from Englefield Road and her house is a large four storey Victorian house. Huge in comparison to Quarry Road which is a two up two down. Unless she had died and they kept her things.
As you’ll know Annie is no longer on the electoral roll after 1915 so she either married again or died.
I’ve sent off for a number of certificates in the hope they might be her but none of them match. Although we know she knocked off a few years on the 1911 census which I took into account. Nothing under the name Hagar Parker either.
I thought about trying to look at Islington archives but haven’t found time yet.
I read on a feed someone had said she was a suffragette and there was a prisoner in Holloway around 1916 called Annie Parker but as it’s such a common name I can’t be sure.
I will keep on looking.
Best wishes, Christina

[cockney rebel]

Hi
I have nothing to do with this family but read the postings out of interest because of her profession and because the original post was over ten years ago!
In my own research, I have had births that have not been registered but deaths seem to have been taken a bit more seriously!
There are 33 Family Trees at Ancestry for Hagar Ann Luker, a couple of them give the death as being registered in Abingdon in 1916
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1030/?name=hagar_Luker&count=50&name_x=s&pcat=42
Annie Parker aged 47 III/1916
Age right, area right.
Perhaps just risk the 3 quid on a digital certificate ? If a profession is noted, that should clear things up. Also the person who registered the death might be of interest.
Hope I'm not meddling!
Rebel