Martha Walker

[maddys52]

Joseph and Eveline EATES are mentioned here in 1880, I don't think Martha WALKER can be related to them.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/902368

[maddys52]

I did notice this - unclaimed letter at Rockhampton for Miss M WALKER in 1873:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51795374

[bozzo2]

 Thanks...if she used Martha Walker as a second name would that be on her death cert with her correct name,just grasping at straws here. There must of been someone in her life here in Australia  to put a stone on her grave. Did you see the 50 gold shares she had in 1876 ?
Thanks for your help.
 

[wivenhoe]

When Martha WALKER  dies, 1878, there is someone around with enough interest in her to place a death notice in the newspaper.

For all that Martha is said to be well known in Rockhampton, I do not see anything in the newspapers for her before or after 1878.

And there is someone around to put a headstone on her burial plot?  The headstone is large.....so intended for burials later that 1878 suggesting....other WALKER family?

Martha is the first?...and only?....burial in this plot?

Apart from inscriptions on the headstones, do you have access to cemetery records?

[wivenhoe]

Do you see a headstone to the left...and to the right...of the headstone for Martha WALKER?

[bozzo2]

I have been up to the cemetery this morning to see if I could decipher anything else on the headstone,but unreadable. There are a few graves around will check again tomorrow ,but I know there are no more Walkers buried there. 

[bozzo2]

Cemetery records have been destroyed .....unfortunately

[giblet]

Have you tried contacting QLD archives to see if they hold a will for Martha? Not all wills are on line so could be worth a try maybe. Only suggesting this as it was previously mentioned she owned gold shares.