See also

Elizabeth GRANT (c. 1839- )

1. Elizabeth GRANT, daughter of unk GRANT ( -bef1851) and Mary UNK (c. 1801- ), was born circa 1839 in Nursling, Hampshire. She was a Laundress. She appeared in the census. She married Walter E WALLER.

 

Sadly, in the 1901 census, Elizabeth is listed as a pauper, aged 63.

 

Walter E WALLER, son of Thomas Walter WALLER (1808-1872) and Mary Ann UNK (1811-1879), was born circa 1840 in Southampton. He was a Cabinet Maker. He died on 9 August 1917 in Southampton. He was buried in Southampton Cemetery. He and Elizabeth GRANT had the following children:

 

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Walter Thomas H WALLER (c. 1862- )

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George Edward WALLER (1863-1955)

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Mabel Mary WALLER (1872-1960)

Second Generation

2. Walter Thomas H WALLER, son of Walter E WALLER and Elizabeth GRANT, was born circa 1862. He was buried in Southampton Cemetery.

 

3. George Edward WALLER, son of Walter E WALLER and Elizabeth GRANT, was born on 9 November 1863 in Southampton. He was an Outfitters' Manager. He married Emily Charlotte WILLIAMS in September 1885. He died on 4 February 1955.

 



Unfortunately no photograph of George appears to have survived. At various times of his life he worked as Clothier, Boot Warehouseman, and - by 1914 - as Outfitter's Manager. He and his wife Emily Charlotte were, in 1921, and when George was in his late fifties, termed "esteemed residents of Brondesbury [NW London]". It is not known why he left Southampton, where many previous generations of Wallers had lived, and made his home in North West London. He married a lady who had little in the way of prospects or connections, but who was known for her looks and been given the nickname "the Belle of Camberwell".

Information on George is fairly scanty, and comes mostly from census entries and from his daughter Ruby's wedding certificate.

 

George worked as an "Outfitter's Manager" and was later in life, together with his with wife (known as "the Belle of Camberwell") as "esteemed residents of Brondesbury (North West London).

 

Emily Charlotte WILLIAMS, daughter of Chas WILLIAMS ( -bef1871) and Emily HURLOCK (c. 1836-bef1929), was born on 3 September 1863 in Southampton. She died on 8 February 1949. She and George Edward WALLER had the following children:

 

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George E A WALLER (1886- )

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Emily Mabel "Girlie" WALLER (1888-1941)

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Vivian William Hurlock WALLER (1889- )

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Ruby Charlotte WALLER (1891-1972)

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Lilian Catherine Florence WALLER (1894-1901)

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Charles Sextus Hodsoll WALLER (1898-1983)

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Ernest Walter WALLER (1901- )

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Irene Octavia WALLER (1903-1974)

 

4. Mabel Mary WALLER, daughter of Walter E WALLER and Elizabeth GRANT, was born on 21 January 1872. She was a Tobacconist's Assistant. She died on 18 April 1960. She was buried in Southampton Cemetery.

Third Generation

5. George E A WALLER (known as 'Albert'), son of George Edward WALLER and Emily Charlotte WILLIAMS, was born on 18 July 1886 in Kennington, London.

 

Albert Waller lived in Worthing as an old man.

 

George E A WALLER had the following children:

 

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unk WALLER ( - )

 

6. Emily Mabel "Girlie" WALLER, daughter of George Edward WALLER and Emily Charlotte WILLIAMS, was born on 13 March 1888 in Camberwell. She died on 19 May 1941. She was buried in Golders Green Crematorium. She married Charlie James MARTIN.

 

She died relatively young (cause unknown); she came from a family of seven or eight children. Her daughter Iris was devoted to her and idolized her after her death, as much as she did not accept her father's remarriage.

 

Charlie James MARTIN, son of Thomas Charles MARTIN (c. 1859- ) and Margaret FRENCH (frm1861- ), was born circa 1892 in Brondesbury. He was a Civil Servant. He and Emily Mabel "Girlie" WALLER had the following children:

 

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Iris Margaret MARTIN (1920-2001). Iris was born on 21 February 1920 in Finchley, London. She was a Housewife. She married Peter Fiennes WILSON on 21 May 1949 in Ilminster Church. She died in December 2001 in Crowborough, E.Sussex.

 

7. Vivian William Hurlock WALLER, son of George Edward WALLER and Emily Charlotte WILLIAMS, was born on 15 November 1889 in Camberwell. He married Gwenith May BURNARD on 31 December 1913 in St. George's Presbyterian Church, Willesden Lane, Brondesbury. He married Bertha UNK.

 

He had 8 children in all and lived in Kinsdon, Yeovil.

 

Bertha UNK and Vivian William Hurlock WALLER had the following children:

 

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Rosalind WALLER ( - )

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Vivienne WALLER ( - )

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Peter John WALLER ( - )

 

Gwenith May BURNARD and Vivian William Hurlock WALLER had the following children:

 

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unk WALLER ( - )

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unk WALLER ( - )

 

8. Ruby Charlotte WALLER, daughter of George Edward WALLER and Emily Charlotte WILLIAMS, was born on 21 February 1891 in Camberwell. She was an Outfitters' Manager. She married Richard John EDWARDS on 7 January 1914 in St. George's Presbyterian Church. She died in 1972.

 

.. of 167 Brondesbury Park.

 

Richard John EDWARDS, son of Richard EDWARDS ( - ) and Rose BUNTING ( - ), was born on 28 February 1885 in 14 Bingfield Street, Islington, London. He was a Carpenter/Builder. He died in 1968. He and Ruby Charlotte WALLER had the following children:

 

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Eileen Dorothy EDWARDS (1914-1978). Eileen was born on 21 December 1914. She died in 1978.

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Cyril Llwellyn EDWARDS (1916-2004). Cyril was born on 14 May 1916 in 78 Hanover Road, Brondesbury Park, Willesden. He married Josephine Mary TORRANCE on 14 September 1963 in Torre Church, Torquay, Devon. He died on 20 September 2004 in Torbay Hospital, Torquay, Devon.

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June EDWARDS (1925- ). June was born on 28 June 1925 in Willesden, London. She married Eric WARD on 22 July 1950 in St. Albans Church, North Harrow.

 

9. Lilian Catherine Florence WALLER, daughter of George Edward WALLER and Emily Charlotte WILLIAMS, was born on 4 May 1894 in Camberwell. She died on 2 September 1901.

 

Died as a child.

 

10. Charles Sextus Hodsoll WALLER, son of George Edward WALLER and Emily Charlotte WILLIAMS, was born on 19 December 1898 in Willesden Green, London. He married Kathleen BUSFIELD on 1 October 1938 in Church of St. Albans, Golders Green. He died on 15 July 1983 in Summerlands Hospital, Yeovil. He married Terry LYDON.

 

Terry LYDON was born on 11 April 1919. She and Charles Sextus Hodsoll WALLER had the following children:

 

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Terence Charles WALLER (1948- ). Terence was born on 22 June 1948 in 21 Maxwelton Avenue, Mill Hill. He married Finola Mary WALSH on 21 August 1977 in St. Peter & Paul's Cathedral, Clifton Park, Clifton, Bristol.

 

Kathleen BUSFIELD and Charles Sextus Hodsoll WALLER had the following children:

 

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Terence WALLER ( - )

 

11. Ernest Walter WALLER, son of George Edward WALLER and Emily Charlotte WILLIAMS, was born on 17 August 1901.

 

Black sheep of the family!! - often "bailed out by Vivian William".

 

Probably lived near Worthing.

 

12. Irene Octavia WALLER, daughter of George Edward WALLER and Emily Charlotte WILLIAMS, was born on 13 January 1903. She married Victor Edward SHERLOCK on 12 October 1927 in St. George's Presbyterian Church. She died on 28 March 1974.

 

Victor Edward SHERLOCK and Irene Octavia WALLER had the following children:

 

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Patricia Frances Irene SHERLOCK ( - ). Patricia married Godfrey JENNISON on 5 September 1956 in St. John's Presb., Kenton.

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Barry SHERLOCK ( - )