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Elizabeth Miriam Walker
« on: Saturday 04 July 09 15:08 UTC (UK) »

Elizabeth Miriam Walker or Pitt-Walker emigrated to Victoria Australia. Documents from there give her place of birth as Welland Worcestershire. She died in 1927 aged 88,so would have been born about 1839. She would have arrived in Australia before 1863, as she married in that year.
I would be grateful if anyone can find either her parents/birth or in an early census.

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Re: Elizabeth Miriam Walker
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 07 July 09 19:44 UTC (UK) »

Hello Eric
               Am I correct in thinking there is no fathers name on marriage cert?

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Re: Elizabeth Miriam Walker
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 07 July 09 20:30 UTC (UK) »

Hello Jackie
At the moment I have not got a copy of the marriage certificate, hoping for reply from Melbourne soon.
I, like I suspect you, think that she could have been illegitimate, possibly with father Pitt and mother Walker or possibly she was born Elizabeth Pitt and her mother married again after her father died. There is a "possible" Pitt/Walker marriage in 1840 I think, at least the 2 surnames are  together on the same GRO vol & page no. Haven't so far found them on immigrants to Victoria.

From what I have from the Victoria registry there is no mention of the Pitt name at the wedding. The Pitt-Walker name only appears on another web site, submitted by a descendant.

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Re: Elizabeth Miriam Walker
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 01 August 09 17:30 UTC (UK) »

Hi Jackie
Thanks for your reply.
I have a bit more information on Elizabeth Mirriam Walker from Australia.
On the marriage cert. it says that her father was William Walker and her mother Susan Pitt, her father was a carpenter, and it says Elizabeth was born in Welland in Worcestershire.

Welland was in the Upton on Severn reg dist, and as I said before there is on FBMD a page for Upton on Severn Reg Dist for Sept Qtr 1840 vol 18 page 508 among the 8 names a William Walker and a Susannah Pitt. However the only William and Susannah Walker I can find on the 1841 census, are both listed as 60 years old!!!. I don't have access to the 1851 census at the moment to see if the couple were still alive and what William's occupation was.
The registers for Welland don't appear on the IGI. I would be grateful if someone could see if they can find more details of this possible marriage and of Elizabeth Mirriam's baptism.

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Re: Elizabeth Miriam Walker
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 01 August 09 22:34 UTC (UK) »

The registers for Welland don't appear on the IGI.

Yes they do  Smiley

Have a look at Hugh Wallis' IGI Batch Nos., searchable by individual parish http://www.rootschat.com/links/06tb/

Have had a quick look at Welland can't see baptism for Elizabeth under Pitt or Walker  Undecided

1841 census details (for anyone else searching)

HO107/1204 book 2 folio 4 page 2
Bushley Green, Bushley

Wm. Walker  60  Sawyer  Y
Susannah Walker  60  -  Y

occupation not too distant from carpenter  Undecided


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Re: Elizabeth Miriam Walker
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 02 August 09 20:55 UTC (UK) »

Hi Keziah
Sorry, don't know how I missed Welland   ---advancing years.
I see there is another marriage between a William Walker and a Susannah Best in Bushley 1838, which is presumably the couple in the 1841 census, and so not the ones I am looking for.
Have ordered marriage cert for the William Walker marriage to possibly Susannah Pitt in 1840, in the Upton on Severn district, so will have to wait and see.
I didn't find this couple in the 1841 census, but would like to know if they were around in 1851.

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Re: Elizabeth Miriam Walker
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 02 August 09 21:21 UTC (UK) »

The only William/Susan combination I found is this one

1851 HO107/2040 folio 194 page 5
Lime Kilns, Eastham, District of Bockleton

William Walker  Head  Mar  46  Ag. Labourer  Worcester Orlton
Susan Walker   Wife  Mar  53  -  Worcester Hanley Child
Thomas Walker  Son  U  22  Ag. Labourer  Worcester Eastham
Elizabeth Walker  Daur  U  17   At home  Worcester Eastham
Eliza Walker  Daur  -  13   At home  Worcester Eastham
Edmund Walker  -  Son  8  At home  Worcester Eastham


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Re: Elizabeth Miriam Walker
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 11 August 09 14:11 UTC (UK) »

Hello Keziah
I thought you might be interested. I have now received the marriage cert I had sent for.
Aug 24 1840 William Walker  carpenter  father Charles  cabinet maker
                      Susannah Pitt                    father Henry

ages only given as "of age"

This all lines up with the details on the marriage cert of Elizabeth Mirriam Walker when she married in Victoria AUS in 1863.

Still can't find the family in 1841 or 1851. Having looked at some enumerators copies for 1841 in Worcestershire they are extremely faint and I wonder if the names have become illegible.
Possibly one or both parents died when she was very young. 2 possible Susannah Walker deaths registered in Worcester in 1840 and 1843.

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Re: Elizabeth Miriam Walker
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 11 August 09 16:12 UTC (UK) »

Hello Eric

Good that you now have the marriage certificate, but no further forward  Undecided

Have had a look for Henry Pitt in 1841 without success, what occupation was he given on the certificate?

The two deaths can probably rule out, certainly the first one! - From the burial index, the Susannah Walker who died in 1840 was aged 77, buried 17th July; the other was aged 55 buried Great Malvern 6th September 1843.

It looks like Elizabeth Miriam Pitt/Walker was born before the marriage, as you suspected.

Keziah  Smiley

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Re: Elizabeth Miriam Walker
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 13 August 09 19:26 UTC (UK) »

Hello Keziah
I think we are some way further forward, although no sign of Elizabeth Mirriam Walker yet. As no one seemed to be able to find her in the parish records or censuses, there was some suggestion that she had been a little "economical "with the truth when it came to her marriage cert. But she said her father was a carpenter named William Walker and her mother was Susan Pitt, whose father was Henry Pitt. The marriage cert for William and Susannah substantiates this.

I have been in touch with a lady in Canada who put a request on this board last year for a marriage look up in Upton on Severn who was looking for a husband for her Susannah Pitt, whose father was Henry Pitt,and she has given me details of the Pitt family, who roamed from Leicestershire to Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Henry Pitt was a shop keeper. He died in 1837 I think it was in Herefordshire
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This afternoon I have found William and Susannah Walker in the 1841 census. They were living in Tewkesbury (HO107  380  5  5), but there is no child with them. So perhaps if Elizabeth Mirriam was being economical with the truth it was more to do with her age. Did she make herself older than she really was to get to Australia and to get married?Huh?

I'll keep digging!!!
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