Richard WALKER

  General Notes:

REGISTER OF MIGRANTS-183641 dated 14/2/1840 (Adelaide Library)
no 7052 Emb no 4462 TURNER Joshua, of Sowerby Bridge aged 28
wife aged 26, 2 daus aged 4 & 2
no 7053 Emb no 4469 WALKER Richard aged 28 Carpenter of Salter Hibble, Halifax and wife aged 28, 2yr old son & 6 mnth old dau
no 7054 Emb no 4425 MELLOR Joseph aged 30 - address Brighouse, wife aged 30 and son aged 3. Occupation joiner
no 7055 Emb no 4426 MELLOR Delia aged 20, occupation milliner
no 7056 Emb no 4427 MELLOR Mary aged 22, occupation straw platter
no 7057 Emb no 4424 MELLOR Thomas aged 49, wife aged 48. Occupation farm labourer.
Shipping index 40/39A "FAIRLEE" arrived 7/7/1840

the Walker children were william and sarah (IGI index) but they must have died because they then had Mary Harriet 31/8/1841,William Henry 23/1/1844, Thomas 1/9/1846 and Sarah Elizabeth 27/1/1849
Elizabeth Walker(Mellor) b 7/1/1811 - was admitted to Parkside Mental Hosp on several occasions suffering chronic mania and she died there on 6/4/1894 aged 83 Richard Walker died 18/8/1884 and is buried West Tce. Occupation then was coachbuilder.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Carpenter, 1840, Adelaide, SA. From Fairlie passenger list

• Occupation, 1884, Adelaide, SA. Coachbuilder

Richard married Elizabeth MELLOR, daughter of Thomas MELLOR and Margaret "Peggy" THORNTON, on Nov 1, 1835 in Castleford, Yorkshire, England.¹ (Elizabeth MELLOR was born on Jan 7, 1811 in Yorkshire, England ⁴ and died on Apr 6, 1894 in Adelaide, SA ^{5 6}.) The cause of her death was Apolexy (20 years) and mania.