In message <00c101c001ed$f60d0820$0de3883e@jane>, Jane Macgillivray <jane@providence2000.freeserve.co.uk> writes > >Dear Listers, >There was a family of Walkers in Auldearn in 19th century. Alexander Walker >was born in Monquhitter in 1796 or 97, and married Eliza Clark (daughter of >Clarks of Auldearn and McLellan or McLaren). The couple had several >children, John born 1847, Ann Watson1850, Alexander 1852, Elizabeth Clark >1854, Thomas James 1855, Margaret 1857 and Mary 1860. > >The 1881 census shows that only Alexander and Margaret were living in >Brightmoney, Auldearn with their widowed mother. Either Alexander or his >father Alexander senior were considered improving farmers and won prizes in >the Nairnshire Agricultural show for their produce. > >Daughter Eliza married my great-grandfather and went to Tobago, where she >died of a tropical disease at a young age. Daughter Annie married Allan >McDonald and when she had her son Alexander in 1871 was living in Croy & >Dalcross. I think her husband could therefore have been Allan McDonald born >in Croy and Dalcross, son of John MacDonald and Anne Dunbar, in 1837. They >may have emigrated after first child, because they are not in the 1881 >census in GB. > >Alexander Walker of Monquhitter and Auldearn is in the LDS registers on >line, three different entries - C reference for Christening in parish >register, and two entries from Submissions made by relative Walker, these >entries refer to Sealings for the Dead and Index of Heirs, and Endowments >for the Dead. Does anybody know what these mean? The information was >submitted by relative Walker, who I understand must therefore be a Mormon. >Many thanks for any info, >Jane > > > Hi Jane No this did not mean that they were Mormon. I do not have much information for you except that sometime in the 1870's Alexander bought an awful lot of burial plots in Auldern Church burial ground. Plots 128,129,130,131 Plots 151,152,153,154 Plots 179,180,181,182 I do not know if he ever filled them but I'm sure there must be someone in there. I have Alexander in the 1851 census for Auldearn aged 52, daughter Ann W aged 1, his wife Elizabeth aged 25, son John aged 2. There are quite a few Tullochs' in Auldearn around the same time. Regards George -- George D. Christie " Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better "