Ragged school immigrant Robert Conning Walter 1854

[Dundee]

His name was Robert Conning Walter and he was sponsored again by the ragged school organization
Regards Allan

In 1851 Richard and Robert are at Christ's Hospital School - it wasn't a 'ragged school', more about the conditions of entry here:

http://www.victorianlondon.org/education/christshospital.htm

Debra 

[CaroleW]

Rebecca left a will - executor/administrator was son Richard

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills

EDIT - this reply refers to Rebecca senior who died 1879

[CaroleW]

Rebecca Canning Walter never married and you will find her on the 1911 census in Kent

Deaths June qtr 1926 
Rebecca C Walter  80    Tonbridge    2a   918

She left a will - see https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills

[CaroleW]

An interesting 1901 entry - 19 London Rd Southborough Kent

Ann Rochester 48 single - school mistress b Scotland
Rebecca C Walter 55 - adopted sister-  living on own means b St Mildreds London
plus 2 servants
RG13 Piece 756 Folio 91 Page 26

In 1891 she is in lodgings in Kent  RG12 Piece 680 Folio 138 Page 38

[Vatersay]

Thanks' for your replies

How very confusing, is nothing straight forward

 I have discovered a personal account of the shipwreck written by Robert Canning Walter in late 1853. He begins the narrative ( I became an inmate of Bloomsbury school about the 15th of March 1853, l will Pass over that portion of time from my first entering the school as an orphan to the time I left to go to Canada ) Leaving me in no doubt it was a sponsored emigration by the ragged school and he returned after the shipwreck to the shelter of the ragged school organization in Bloomsbury. Then he finishes his narrative ( Since my return I have been enabled by a few kind friends to procure a passage to Australia, I may yet live to bless the day I first entered a ragged school )

The supervisor finishes ( He has sought help again of the ragged school committee which with the assistance of a lady in Cheltenham, has been afforded so as to secure him a passage to Victoria. He sailed a few weeks since for Melbourne at which place he has a sister.
 

So as clear as mud, looks like Robert came back or never went.

I am not on ancestry at the moment so could somebody PM Carol Jackson for me.

Regards everybody
Allan

[Vatersay]

Hello everybody again

I did that last post in a hurry, just to correct something I did not discover the document a very clever lady  a roots chatter from Canada to whom I am forever indebted found it.

And I will also correct, could somebody please PM Carol Jackson for me if she is related to Robert I think she will be interested.

Regards again and thanks for your patience and help.

Allan

[jennifer c]

Rebecca and Ann Rochester are still living together later are single and shown as 'Ladies', so Richard in the will must be her brother not her son.

Jennifer

[CaroleW]

Hi Jennifer

The Rebecca living with Ann Rochester was b 1846 - daughter of Richard & Rebecca and sister of Richard b 1838.  Her executors were Ann Rochester and James Hughes Cooksey (town clerk)

Richard b 1838 was the executor/administrator of his mother Rebecca's will 1879

Because of the sequence of the replies it could read either way - I should have been clearer

[jennifer c]

One of my senior moments Carole .

Jennifer