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hi everyone thankyou so much for all your help i phoned my mum and relayed all the info to her and she said that my dads brother was called marcus straffendondale and his sister is patricia majorie and my dad was francis cecil henry so we have all harrys siblings names in josephs children i will buy the marrage cert and birth certs as i think that has got to be the right harry walker. in case your interested my dad francis had nine kids two boys and seven girls one of the boys had a son who has a career in the army and does not look like a family is on the cards. the other brother has two girls . uncle marcus had one girl and died in his forties. so it looks like this side of the family will die out. such a shame after all this hard work tracing them once again thankyou i shall have lots of fun tracingthem back.

Must say I have not seen on the 1911 census the references to where they were living written like that, there is an address where the family were living on the left-hand side near the bottom of the page normally., where they were born would be on the 8th column on the page, next to the 'Report Error'

There is a Harry Myers Walker birth registered Huddersfield Oct/Dec.18759a 337 . Now not sure if this is 'your' Harry Walker but he is the only Harry M. Walker I can find listed around that time.

The 1911 refs to Bath are where they were living,not where they were born.

Marjorie Louisa S. Walker was birth registered Burnley Apl /June 1902 8e 281.

Cecil was birth registered in Leicester! Jly/Sept.1897 7a 249..

Now you are armed with the previous information I would not take too much notice of the Bath, Somerset places of birth as you already know your grandfather was birth registered in the Bristol reg. dist (and that covers more of the central area of Bristol than Bath!) also on the previous census i.e.1901 looks like Harry was born Bredbury, Cheshire, 1911 he appears as Bath Somerset!!. Needs checking out on earlier census records.

Do you know if your grandfather had any brothers or sisters?if you do then maybe you could look for them on the 1901 census, providing of course they were born before 1901, difficult when they obviously moved from one County to another as your grandfather was born in the Bristol reg. district (sub-district of Westbury-on-Trym)

1901 Ancestry
Name: Harry Walker
Age: 27
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1874
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth
Gender: Male
Where born: Bredbury, Cheshire, England
Civil Parish: Colne
Ecclesiastical parish: Colne St Bartholomew
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Registration district: Burnley
Sub registration district: Colne
ED, institution, or vessel: 18

Household schedule number: 265
Household Members:
Name Age
Harry Walker 27
Elizabeth Walker 29 born Leicester
Cecil Leroy Douglas Walker 3

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 3887; Folio: 86; Page: 40.

1911 (pay per view)
WALKER CECIL HENRY DOUGLAS M 1898 13 Bath Somersetshire
WALKER ELIZABETH ANN F 1872 39 Bath Somersetshire
WALKER HARRY M 1874 37 Bath Somersetshire
WALKER MARJORIE LOUISA STRAFFONDALE F 1902 9 Bath Somersetshire
WALKER JOSEPH MARCUS EDWARDS M 1907 4 Bath Somersetshire

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Marriages Sep 1896
Booth Elizabeth Ann Leicester 7a 473
Walker Harry Leicester 7a 473

The marriage of Elizabeth Ann Booth to Harry Walker was registered in Leicester registration district Jly/Sept. 1896 Vol.7a page 473.

This is the only marriage I can see with the correct names.


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Marriages Sep 1896 (>99%)
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>>>Booth Elizabeth Ann Leicester 7a 473
Roberts Annie Augusta Leicester 7a 473
>>>Walker Harry Leicester 7a 473
WORLEY Jack Leicester 7a 473

If you have your great grandfather's marriage cert. if would at least give his age and his occupation at marriage together with address at marriage and his father's name and occupation which is a great help in finding Harry as a child with his parents. Unless of course who already know how old your great grandfather was when he married. Harry Walker is probably a very common name so this other info. might help in tracking him down.

Births Mar 1907 (>99%)
Walker Joseph Marcus E Bristol 6a 231
avonmouth westbury on trym.

Have you found their marriage ?
The 1911 census shows marcus in Bath Somerset, it might be worth getting a transcript to find them together Harrys age, either 1875 or 1883

harry walker married elizabeth booth they had my grandad joseph marcus edward walker in jan 1907 in avonmouth westbury on trym.does anyone have any info on harry as i know nothing about him and cant find any records please help