city directories ----- Original Message ----- From: "N. Gabriele Harkey" <ngharkey@sbcglobal.net> To: <nynewyor@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [NYNEWYOR] Evergreen Cemetery > Robert E. WALKER b. abt 1806 - London d. 25 June 1865 > Sarah Elizabeth Walker nee BLUNT b. 1802 - London d. 25 Feb 1869 > > It is a mystery I have been revisiting for a few years now. > They came from England after spring of 1861 as I located > them in the Staffs census for 1861. Robert Walker dies > June 25, 1865 and is now buried at Evergreens, as of 1872. > > Sarah Walker dies Feb 25, 1869. Now also at Evergreens. > as of 1877. > > Plot is No. 2654 Path Side, both are there. > > I have not been able to pinpoint when between 1861 > and 1865 they came. A son Robert arrives in 1866, > another, Letford, in 1871. With the deaths in June of 1865 and > Feb of 1869 they fall into a census hole. > I have found nothing I can say for sure would be them in any > newspapers either. > > I went through all the death cards at the 42nd St Library and > found no trace of them. I looked through the 1865 census, nothing. > The only evidence I have they were even there is the cemetery deed and > the printed death cards which were in the possession of an old, now dead, > aunt. > > I did find a *good boy card* from the NY City schools for an *illegible* > Walker, > it was together with the deed and other documents. They were way to old > to > have > school aged children, perhaps there were other children besides the ones I > have in my > data that came before they did. I find it hard to believe Robert Walker > and > his > wife, over the age of 60, would just pick up and leave England for NY if > not following someone. I could be wrong. In England Robert was a Cabinet > Maker > and Victualler. > > Because of the *good boy* card issued by NY City schools I am leaning > towards them having resided in Manhattan or Bronx as opposed to > Brooklyn as Brooklyn was not part of NYC yet at that date. > Such a mystery... thanks for reading. > > Any idea on how to hunt them down in a census hole? > > Gabriele > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sue Maxwell > To: nynewyor@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:23 PM > Subject: Re: [NYNEWYOR] Evergreen Cemetery > > > Also, maybe it was a financial problem that prevented them from moving > both > parents at the same time. Sue > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sue Maxwell" <suemaxwell@comcast.net> > To: <nynewyor@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 9:53 AM > Subject: [NYNEWYOR] Evergreen Cemetery > > >> Often people are buried someplace first, if a cemetery didn't open until >> after their death- they were moved from one to another. And often people >> are moved from one place to another, inorder to have them together in the >> same place. I have some ancestors buried there, but that info is buried >> in >> some folder of a line I havn't worked on in a long time; if my memory >> serves me, they were buried there first and moved some other place. I >> agree- it does seem odd, and there may be reasons that you don't yet >> understand- problems in the family, indecision of the children about >> where >> to bury. It was inundated with people after it opened and many were moved >> to other cemeteries in NYC. >> >> The cemetery has been in use since 1851. >> >> Sue >> Jim Garrity, List Administrator >> jimgarrity@earthlink.net >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYNEWYOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > Jim Garrity, List Administrator > jimgarrity@earthlink.net > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYNEWYOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > Jim Garrity, List Administrator > jimgarrity@earthlink.net > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYNEWYOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I looked, no sign of them there either. I must have overlooked something somewhere..... Maybe just too many Robt Walker's in the directories but none had an occupation that made sense for this man. Gabriele ----- Original Message ----- From: Sue Maxwell To: nynewyor@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [NYNEWYOR] Evergreen Cemetery city directories