21 March 2004
Robert
Grieve Wallis
Robert was christened at
St Cuthbert's Darlington on the 21st of April 1833, son of Thomas
Wallis and Elizabeth
Grieves.
In 1841 he was living
with his family at Bondgate, Darlington.
In 1851 Robert Wallis,
aged 18, was employed as a cabinet maker and a visitor at 29 Bondgate,
Darlington when the census was taken.
He married Elizabeth
Wade at Holy Trinity Church, Darlington on the 3rd June 1854. He was employed as
a cabinet maker and living at Archer Street at the time. He was of full age and
Elizabeth was a minor. Witnesses to the marriage were his brother in law Joseph
Kearton and a Margret Barron.
According to the 1861
census he was living with his wife and 3 children at 5 Archer Street, Darlington
and employed as a cabinet maker. The census shows :-
5 Archer Street-
Robert Wallis 28 cabinet maker born Darlington
Elizabeth wife aged 28
Robert son aged 6
Thomas son aged 4
Mary Ann daughter aged 2
The 1871 census shows:-
264 Brunswick Street, Darlington
Robert Wallis 38 joiner born Darlington
Bessy 37 born Darlington
Mary A 12 born Darlington
William M Wallis 10 errand boy born Darlington
Henry G Wallis 8 born Darlington
Sarah 6 born Darlington
Ruth 4 born Darlington
James 11 months born Darlington
In
September of 1886 he was elected member of the Town Council, and continued to
hold that position until 1891, when he was defeated by Mr Thomas French. In 1892
he was re-elected, and on the 25th November 1893, he was appointed
chairman of the Market and Fairs Committee, which position he occupied until his
death.
Members
of Darlington Council 1894
Members of Darlington Council 1896.
Robert
was a councillor for the North West Ward of Darlington in 1896 along with T
Stairmand and Robert Imeson.
Robert Wallis' last
committee meeting appears to have been -
Parliamentary Powers
Committee 24 July 1896
Present = Councillor
Wallis (in the chair), Aldermen Barron, Sedgewick and Wilkes, Councillors Manson
and Marshall.
Chairman resolved that
Councillor Wallis takes the chair.
Accounts
- Various accounts amounting to £1044 16s
11d are examined and passed.
Robert died at Greenbank Road, Darlington on the
6th of October 1896 aged 63 years. The cause of death was apoplexy, certified by Thos Wall, MD. Robert was listed as a builder + merchant. His son James, of Greenbank Road, was with him when he died and registered the death on the 7th of October 1896. Robert was buried at Darlington's West Cemetery on the 10th of October 1896.
Newspaper reports on Robert's death - click for
more
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addresses.
Robert and Elizabeth had
at least 9 children-
 | Robert Wallis, eldest
child of Robert Grieve Wallis and Elizabeth. LDS site shows him being born in
Darlington on the 25th March 1855 and baptised at Holy Trinity Church,
Darlington on 30th December 1855.Died in Darlington, aged 14, on 26 May 1869.
Buried at Darlington's West Cemetery. |
| Thomas Wallis -
Born c1857. Baptized at Holy Trinity, Darlington on the 19th of March 1858 - son of
Robert, cabinet maker and Elizabeth. Died December 5 1862. Buried at
Darlington's West cemetery. |
| Mary Ann Wallis- Born
on the 9th of January 1859 in Archer Street, Darlington. Baptised at Holy
Trinity Church, Darlington on the 21st of September 1859 - daughter of
Robert, a joiner and Bessy. Mary Ann married John Elliott at Darlington
Registry Office on the 13th of October 1879. Click
HERE for more details from David Warncken, the Great Grandson of Mary Ann. |
| William Martin
Wallis- Baptised at Holy Trinity Church Darlington on the 18th of
October 1861- son of Robert, cabinet maker and Bessy. Died at Winstone
Street, Darlington aged 24 years and buried at Darlington's West Cemetery on
the 6th of June 1885, grave reference ECC 154. |
| Henry G Wallis born
c1863. Was a plumber in the 1881 census. Initial search in the 1901 census
shows Henry Wallis, 38 born Darlington a plumbers manager in Gt Grimsby,
Lincolnshire. |
| Sarah Wallis born c
1865. A Sarah Wallis was married in Darlington in the March quarter of
1888. Cross referencing it on FreeBMD shows a Henry Hodgson. Free BMD shows
the birth, in Darlington, in the December quarter of 1899, of Robert Greaves
Hodgson. Initial searches
on the 1901 census shows Sarah, Henry and Robert Hodgson still in Darlington. |
| Ruth Wallis born c
1867.St Catherine's Index shows Ruth Wallis born Darlington in the March quarter of 1867.
In 1891 was living with her parents at 2 Greenbank Road, Darlington.
On the 9th
March 1898, Ruth Wallis, 25 of Greenbank Rd (father Robert ) married Walter
Robson, 25, a police constable of Witton Park ( father John Robson deceased
blacksmith), at Holy Trinity Church Darlington |
| Tom Wallis - born
1868. Died
March 2nd 1869, aged 14 weeks. Buried at Darlington's West Cemetery. |
| James
Wallis born c 1870. Click on his name for more. |