WALKER FAMILY 1800-1919

It is hard to get a true idea of a family from a bunch of data and fact tables.  So, I thought that I would write a little history that pertains to my family....     The story of my Walker family begins in Bradmore, Nottingham.  Bradmore is a small agriculturally based village with a gypsum quarry (now a protected habitat) to the north.  The local church is a small stone building with no graveyard.  Its parent Church, St Mary the Virgin is located a few miles to the north in Bunny.

click here to go to the  webpage for the Village of Bunny. It has census, baptism, marriage and other information.

June 1999, Heather Faulkes   "St. Mary the Virgin" Many of the gravestones in this churchyard are from Bradmore residents.  My relatives travelled to Bunny to christen their children and for Marriages and Burials.

George Walker and his wife Caroline lived in this area in the early 1800's.  Their first child, Mary, was christened February 3rd, 1832 in Bunny.  Their first son, George, christened September 28th, 1833, also  at this church.  George died as an infant.  A couple of years later the couple had a second daughter, christened Elizabeth on November 16th, 1835.  Then came another son, also named George, christened April 15th, 1838.     Sometime before 1860 George married Mary, 2 years his junior. Mary was born in Eckington, Derby native.  In 1860 they had their first son in Eckington, Derby  In the family tradition, they named him George.

Soon after George's birth the family moved to Leeds, Yorkshire.  Their only daughter, named for George's mother, Mary was born in 1867.  Three boys followed;  Frederick William, 1870.  Arthur Valentine, 1873 and Albert Charles, 1876.  The 1881 UK Census finds the family living at 1 Enfield Terrace, Leeds.  George is a Ginger Beer cart driver.  His first son, now 21 years old & still living with the family is now  a Joiner (skilled carpenter).

Arthur Valentine Walker (b.1872) This is a picture taken during WWI when Arthur was in the Royal Engineers as a Sapper on the front lines in France.  Before and after the war Arthur was a postman in central Leeds.

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