Canal Boatman Ancestors Walker and Pearton

[Girl Guide]

Just tried 45 North Wharf Road in the 1891 and 1901 census but no Walker family living there then.

[louisa maud]

I did find a Joseph Pearton with Sarah MMN King living Hillingdon, not so far from the canal basin I don't think but they didn't have a child  Mary Ann and Joseph wasn't a boatman , 2 baptisms 1851 for Charlotte Jane and 1855 for Thomas William,  So I am a little stuck with this family

Louisa Maud

[MichelleK12345]

Thanks for you help and reply’s.

Caroline is George and Mary’s Daughter and yes she married a Morris in Paddington, also boat people.

George is my great grandfather married to Annie Grantham another Boat Family.

But I cannot find any other trace so if anyone else has any ideas I would appreciate it 😊

Kindest regards, Michelle.

[bbart]

Hello and welcome, Michelle!

From the Islington Gazette 17 November 1892:

There is mention of a 40 yr old George Walker, boatman, of Medina-street, Kensal-road, Paddington being drunk and disorderly at Caledonian-road. 

Might be worth looking for that street in the 1891 census? 

[bbart]

One more from 04 April 1896 - West London Observer - London, London, England

A boatman, George Walker, was involved in a scuffle when the barge, Sarah, that he rented was being repossessed.  The barge had been the property of his father, and George was renting it from the widow, but hadn't kept up payments.

So IF this is your George, this would narrow his death date down from April 1896 to Caroline's wedding date.

[Girl Guide]

In 1891 George Walker and wife Sarah living at Modena Street, Paddington.  George is a boatman.

Registration district   Paddington
Archive reference   RG12
Piece number   10
Folio   90
Page   1

[Rosedrum]

Hi I also have this line in my family I believe George’s brother is my great grandfather Edward Walker whose father was an Edward but I have no mother name for George and Edward, I was told that the family were boat people and their children could have been baptised wherever they happened to have been moored. My Edward does have his father with him on the 1891 census and the fathers place of birth is given as Hertford, but like you now hitting a brick wall