Frances Dykes Walker (1854 - 1913)

Born 2 Apr 1854 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 5 Jan 1913 at age 58 in Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire, England

Biography

Francis Dykes Walker, son of James Walker and Ellen Ballantine Dykes, was born on 2 Apr 1854 and baptized on 8 May 1854 in Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.^[1]

In the 1861 census Francis (age 7) was the son of Ellen Ballantine Dighes Walker at 9 Athol Crescent, Edinburgh St Cuthberts, Midlothian. He was a Scholar.^[2]

In the 1871 census Francis (age 17) was the pupil of Arthur W Headlam in Whorlton, Durham, England.^[3]

In the 1881 census Francis (age 26) was a officer in "New Infantry Barracks" Fulford Rd York, Gate Fulford, Yorkshire, England. He was a Lieutenant.^[4]

Francis Dykes Walker (age 27), child of James Walker, married Helen Louisa Hodson on 1 Mar 1882 at St Paul's church, Manningham, Yorkshire, England.^[5]

In the 1891 census Francis (age 37) was the lodger of Rebecca Wilkinson in Harrogate, Bilton with Harrogate, Yorkshire, England.^[6]

In the 1901 census Francis (age 46) was the head of household in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England.^[7]

In the 1911 census Francis (age 57) was the married head of household in Dales Cotage Harrogate Yorkshire, Harrogate, Yorkshire-West Riding, England. He was a Reverend Army Mill Pensioner Writer Board Captain Machanist.^[8]

He died 5 Jan 1913 in Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire, England. He was buried in Brompton Cemetery, West Brompton, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England;^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ "Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, (Ancestry Record 60143 #26553922 : accessed 3 May 2023), Francis Dykes Walker baptism on 8 May 1854 (born 2 Apr 1854), son of James Walker & Ellen Ballantine Dykes, in Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; citing Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah FamilySearch, 2013.
2. ↑ "1861 Scotland Census," database, (Ancestry Record 1080 #1193972 : accessed 3 May 2023), Francis Dykes Walker (7) son, Scholar, in household of Ellen Ballantine Dighes Walker (49) at 9 Athol Crescent, Edinburgh St Cuthberts, Midlothian in St George registration district. Born in Edinburgh; citing Parish Edinburgh St Cuthberts, ED 47, Page 4, Line 4, Roll CSSCT1861_124, Registration Number 685/1, Household schedule number 9, Roll CSSCT1861_124.

   Ellen Ballantine Dighes Walker Head F 49 Landed Proprietor Cumberland, England

   Lillias Margaret Walker Step-daughter F 27 Landed Proprietor Edinburgh

   Mary Ellen Walker Daughter F 9 Scholar Edinburgh

   Francis Dykes Walker Son M 7 Scholar Edinburgh

   Mary Prunrose Campbell Servant F 42 Domestic Servt Crossgates, fifeshire

   Christina Gibb Servant F 24 Domestic Servt Libberton, Midlothian

   Euphemia Goodall Servant F 48 Domestic Servt Guvercsk, Midlothian

   Mary Shaw Servant F 25 Domestic Servt Crieff, perthsh

   Christina Gordon Servant F 25 Domestic Servt Golspie, sutlewlandsh

3. ↑ "1871 England Census," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 7619 #6939694 : accessed 4 May 2023), Francis Walker (17) pupil in household of Arthur W Headlam (64) in Whorlton in Teesdale registration district in Durham, England. Born in Scotland; citing The National Archives, Kew, London, England, 1871 England Census, Class RG10, Piece 4945, Folio 104, Page 1, GSU roll 848023, ED, institution, or vessel 18, Household schedule number 1.

   Arthur W Headlam Head M 64 Wycliffe, Yorkshire, England

   Agnes S Headlam Wife F 41 Great Stainton, Yorkshire, England

   Arthur C Headlam Son M 8 Whorlton, Durham, England

   James W Headlam Son M 7 Whorlton, Durham, England

   Rose G Headlam Daughter F 6 Whorlton, Durham, England

   Lionel W Headlam Son M 1 Whorlton, Durham, England

   Arthur W Leatham Pupil M 18 Heath, Yorkshire, England

   Octavius Leatham Pupil M 16 Hemsworth, Yorkshire, England

   William W Aldam Pupil M 17 Clayton, Yorkshire, England

   Francis Walker Pupil M 17 Scotland

   Dorothy Robson Servant F 32 Berwick-Upon-Tweed

   Marianne Hodgson Servant F 26 Cockerton, Durham, England

   Jane Brown Servant F 19 Ripon, Yorkshire, England

   Ann Alderson Servant F 20 Gainford, Durham, England

   Sarah A Bowe Servant F 18 Braithwaite, Cumberland, England

4. ↑ "1881 England Census," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 7572 #25974109 : accessed 4 May 2023), Francis Dykes Walker (26) officer, Lieutenant, in household of Francis Dykes Walker (26) in "New Infantry Barracks" Fulford Rd York, Gate Fulford in York registration district in Yorkshire, England. Born in Midlothian, Scotland; citing Class RG11, Piece 4727, Folio 90, Page 1, GSU roll 1342143, ED, institution, or vessel New Infantry Barracks.

   Francis Dykes Walker Officer M 26 Lieutenant Midlothian, Scotland

5. ↑ "West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 2253 #10880676 : accessed 4 May 2023), Francis Dykes Walker (27) marriage to Helen Louisa Hodson on 1 Mar 1882 in Manningham, St Paul, Yorkshire, England; citing West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
6. ↑ "1891 England Census," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 6598 #5735813 : accessed 4 May 2023), Francis Dykes Walker (37) lodger in household of Rebecca Wilkinson (85) in Harrogate, Bilton with Harrogate in Knaresborough registration district in Yorkshire, England. Born in Scotland; citing The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England, Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891, Class RG12, Piece 3520, Folio 86, Page 8, GSU roll 6098630.

   Rebecca Wilkinson Head F 85 Kirton, Lincolnshire, England

   Christina Wilkinson Daughter F 51 Hoxton, London, England

   Sarah Rose Eastwood Servant F 19 Leeds, Yorkshire, England

   Francis Dykes Walker Lodger M 37 Scotland

   Helen Louisa Walker Lodger F 31 Leeds, Yorkshire, England

7. ↑ "1901 England Census," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 7814 #25808606 : accessed 4 May 2023), Francis D Walker (46) head of household in Harrogate in Knaresborough registration district in Yorkshire, England. Born in Scotland; citing Class RG13, Piece 4052, Folio 14, Page 18, ED, institution, or vessel 07, Household schedule number 106.

   Francis D Walker Head M 46 Scotland

   Helen L Walker Wife F 42 Bradford Manningham, Yorkshire, England

   Harriett J Stokes Servant F 21 Peckham, London, England

   Martha Chalmers Servant F 28 Scotland

8. ↑ "1911 England Census," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 2352 #38591969 : accessed 4 May 2023), Francis Dykes Walker (57), married, Reverend Army Mill Pensioner Writer Board Captain Machanist, head of household in Dales Cotage Harrogate Yorkshire, Harrogate, Yorkshire-West Riding, England. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland; citing The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England, Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911, Registration District Number 489, ED, institution, or vessel 07, Piece 25912.

   Francis Dykes Walker Head Married M 57 Reverend Army Mill Pensioner Writer Board Captain Machanist Edinburgh, Scotland

   Helen Louisa Walker Wife Married F 53 Bradbury, Yorkshire, England

   Mary Elllen Kingcote Visitor Widowed F 59 Edinburgh, Midloe, Scotland

   Mary Hannah Saynor Servant Married F 45 Poor House Maid (Domestic) Hornby, Yorkshire, England

   Olga Dorothea Saynor Servant F 14 Beautician Maid (Domestic) Darrington, Yorkshire, England

   Rabel Broad Saynor Servant Single F 28 Cook Washington Radway, Fitling Corriga

9. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/221983371/francis-dykes-walker: accessed 04 May 2023), memorial page for Francis Dykes Walker (2 Apr 1854–5 Jan 1913), Find a Grave Memorial ID 221983371, citing Brompton Cemetery, West Brompton, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England; Maintained by ! woowoo (contributor 49949980).

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WALKER OF DALRY.

WALKER, JAMES, Esq. of Dairy, Mid-Lothian, b. 21 Jan. 1830; m. 29 April, 1859,

Hon. J Yelverton, 5th dau. of Viscount ?v??m???, and issue,

1. Cecil-Ellen.

II. Lillias-Adelaide.

Lineage = This family, though settled for a considerable period in East-Lothian, is stated to be descended from Walkers of St. Fort, in Fifeshire.

JOHN WALKEB, Esq., who resided at Beanston, co. Haddington, is thus noticed In the Statistical Account of Scotland :?  ??Mr. John Walker, who possessed considerable property in this parish, is celebrated as the person who first introduced the ?system of fallowing land, and of thereby raising wheat crops ?far more extensively than formerly. He was descended from ?the family of Walker of St. Fort, in Fife, and flourished about ?the time of the Revolution." He was father of ?

Francis WALKER, Esq. of Mainshill, ??. Haddington, who ?had several sons, one of whom, John, having entered the ?military profession, was killed in battle in the East Indies.

 ?Another of the sons, ?

James WALKER, Esq, of Dairy, one of the principal clerks of ?Session in Scotland, m. 1st, 13 July, 1780, Jane, dau. of Richard ?Hay-Newton, Esq. of Newton, ??. Haddington, 3rd son of ?Lord William Hay, of Newhall (who was 3rd son of John, 2nd ?Marquess of Tweedale, by the Lady Anne Maitland, his wife, ?only child of John, Duke of Lauderdale) and by her had ?issue:

1. Francis Walker, who m. Margaret, dau. and heir of Sir John- ?Forbes Drummond, Bart, of Hawthornden, and at the decease ?of his father-in-law, in I829, s. to the baronetcy and estate of ?Drummond of Hawthornden (see BURKE'S Peerage and ?Barontage).

II. JAMES, of Dalry. ?

I. Jane, m. in 1805, to James Hope. Esq of Wardie Lodge, ?Mid-Lothian. ?

II. Anne.

III. Helen ?

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Mr. Walker m. 2ndly, 1797, Marion-Anne, dau. of John Hope, ?M.D.. professor of botany in the University of Edinburgh, and ?by her had an only dau,,

Juliana, m. to Sir John Hall, Bart, of Dunglass- ?

The 2nd son, ?

JAMES WALKER, Esq. of Dairy, J.P. and D L., b. 1790, was ?called to the bar in 1811, and filled the office of sheriff of ??. ?Wigton from 1818 till 1843, which he then resigned on being ?appointed one of the principal clerks of Session in Scotland.

He m. let, 28 Oct 1825, Lilias, youngest dau. of Roderick ?Mackenzie, Esq. of Scotsburn, ??. Ross (grandson of Sir Kenneth ?Mackenzie, Bart, of Scatwell), by his wife, Anne, dau. of ?Alexander Chisholm, of Chisholm, The Chisholm, and by her (?who d. in Nov. 1833) has issue,

I JAMES, b. 21 Jan. 1830, now of Dalry. ?

I. Jane-Anne, m. 1851, Major John-Fcrgusson Home, H.E.I.C.'s ?service, and s. p. 1852.

II. Henrietta-Mackenzie, d. 1847 ?

Ill. Lillias -Margaret. ?

He m. 2ndly, 1848, Ellen Ballantine, 3rd dau. of Joseph-Dykes ?Ballantine-Dykes, of Dovenby Hall, ??. Cumberland, d. 6 May, ?1856, and by her had issue,

William-Fretcheville, d. 1860;

Francis-Dykes; and

Mary-Ellen.

Mr. Walker d. May 6, 1856.

Arms?Or, three pallets, gu., on a saltire, arg., a heart of the ?2nd chief, az., thereon a crescent, between two mullets, of the ?3rd.

Crest?A cornucopia, ppr. ? (same as Walkers of St. Fort)

Motto?Cura et industria.

Seat-?Dairy, Edinburgh.

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This person was created through the import of Jim Walker gedcom 4 Wikitree may 22 2011.ged on 24 May 2011.