Ellen WALKER [Nell or Helen]

1870 - 1934  (64 years)

• Name	Ellen WALKER
  Known As	Nell or Helen
  Birth	12 Feb 1870	Milton, Otago, New Zealand   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	05 May 1934	Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia   [2, 3, 4]
  Probate	17 Aug 1934	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia   [4]
  Person ID	I8707	NZ Genealogy Project | WALKER Descendant
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Alexander WALKER [Alex],   b. 10 Sep 1838, Tibbermore, Perthshire, Scotland d. 07 Sep 1909, Milton, Otago, New Zealand (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Isabella BROUGH [Isabella Brown],   b. 1837, Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland d. 09 Feb 1914, Milton, Otago, New Zealand (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	29 Sep 1858	Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland   [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Residence	1893	Milton, Otago, New Zealand   [10]
  Documents		1858 Marriage Register
  Family ID	F20	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John STANLEY
  Children	+ 1. Coralie Hope Isobel Seymour WALKER [Coralie Hope STANLEY],   b. 11 Feb 1893, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
  Family ID	F2983	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2024

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 12 Feb 1870 - Milton, Otago, New Zealand Death - 05 May 1934 - Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Probate - 17 Aug 1934 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

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  Ellen WALKER

  
  

  Histories

  1894 Reform Dress Wedding In 1894 James Reeve Wilkinson and Kate (Katrine) Walker were married in Christchurch, New Zealand. Both were strong supporters of dress reform for women. Reports of the wedding attracted considerable attention because of the unusual dress of the wedding party.

  
  

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  Walker, Alexander and Isabella (10) Photographs of Alexander Walker (1838-1909), his wife Isabella Brough (1837-1914) and their children.

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY Ellen Walker, known as Nellie or Helen, was born in 1870 in Milton, the fouth child of Alexander and Isabella Walker born in New Zealand. It is thought that Helen was living in Dunedin in 1893 when she had a daughter. Her daughter's birth was registered in Dunedin and the 1893 electoral roll has Hellen Walker living at Castle Street with occupation "Domestic Duties". The father of her child was not recorded on the birth registration. In October 1895 the Otago Witness reported that Helen had married John Stanley in September at Sydney, Australia. John was a surveyor. This appears to be untrue, as no record of the marriage can be found in New South Wales marriage registers, and the Rev. Thomas Fielding, reported to have married the couple, does not appear in NSW newspaper reports available on TROVE to have performed any marriages in 1895. Helen and John are not recorded at the same address in NZ or NSW Electoral rolls. After this announcement in the Otago Witness Helen and her daughter both used the surname STANLEY. Based on the school attendance of Helen's daughter Coralie, Helen appears to have lived and worked in various locations around New Zealand between 1902 and 1909, Auckland, Invercargill and Canterbury, with Coralie sometimes being cared for by her grandparents in Milton. In 1915 Helen was very ill with goitre in Auckland. Her sister and niece (both called Charlotte) from Gisborne visited her. In 1919 Helen wrote a letter from Rakauroa, Gisborne, while visiting her siter, to the Surgeon General asking if her nephew George Redpath could obtain treatment for alcoholism. A subsequent followup letter was sent from an Auckland hotel. Based on shipping records and newspaper reports about her daugter Coralie, it appears that Helen frequently accompanied her daughter as she moved with her carear. In 1920 she accompanied Coralie to Sydney, in 1931-1933 they were recorded living together in London Electoral Rolls, and in 1934, when Helen died, they were living together in Sydney. The following newspaer report is of Helen's death. Her Heart Was Breaking While She Sang Over Air Over the air last night from station 2UW came the brightest of radio sketches - the Frolics of 1934 - replete with the jolliest of songs, of laughter, and merry interchange of wit, and the most effervescent of them all was the principal actress - Mrs. Coralie Stanley McKellar, the writer of "Beachcombings" in "The Sunday Sun" - though her eyes were streaming with tears and her heart was breaking. At 6 o'clock Mrs. McKellar's mother, Mrs. Helen Stanley, died at her home In Billyard-avenue, Elizabeth Bay, and at 8 o'clock Mrs. McKellar was to appear in the sketch written and arranged by herself. Frequently it has fallen to the lot of some artists that in a moment of their greatest sadness they have had to serve their public, and their friends. So, bravely, last night, Mrs. McKellar declared that the show must go on. Before the microphone, her fellow actors and actresses were tense with anxiety. They feared that the task would be too much for her. Charlie Lawrence, that inimitable jester, grave and silent, placed a supporting arm about her shoulders. For a moment Mrs. McKellar swayed, then in a flash was the artist again, singing, laughing, dancing - the gayest of the gay. There was a brief respite during a pianoforte solo. Wearily, she rested on a couch. Then back to the microphone - kiddies' sketch. Then a rest again. Agony of Strain And so it went on for the duration of a sketch that occupied 55 minutes. To the public listening-in a happy diversion, to the artist providing their pleasure, an agony of strain. All the time through the window of the studio office watched, whitefaced, Mrs. McKellar's daughter, Gloria. Her eyes brimmed with tears as she watched her mother's every gesture. Her quivering lips heard on several occasions the hard-fought catch in her voice. Then it was the end. Gloria took her mother In her arms and together they sobbed quietly. "Was the show all right?" Mrs. McKellar asked, anxiously. For her daughter the gesture was too courageous to allow her to answer. Source: The Sun (Sydney), 6 May 1934, Page 2.

  
  

• Sources

  [S17] David Bryant, NZSG Index, (New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc., 2005). School Admission, Progress, Withdrawal Registers [S1147] NSW BDM - Dates. Name Helen STANLEY, father's given name Alexander, mother's given name Isabel, district Sydney, registration number 5480/1934, date of death 05/05/1934 [S2201] Trove - The Sun (Sydney), (National Library of Australia). Her Heart Was Breaking While She Sang Over Air. ... At 6 o'clock Mrs. McKellar's mother, Mrs. Helen Stanley, died at her home In Billyard-avenue, Elizabeth Bay. .... - 6 May 1934 page 2. [S2202] NSW State Archives, (Museums of History New South Wales, https://mhnsw.au/). [S28] Registry of Birth, Deaths and Mariages, Melbourne., Birth Certificate (Victoria) (Reliability: 2). Married 1858 in Comrie, Scotland [S31] Family Search, (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), none. ISABELLA BROUGH and ALEXR. WALKER, Marriage: 29 SEP 1858 Comrie, Perth, Scotland. Source Information: Batch No.: M113411 sheet 00; Source Call No.: 6035516 REGISTER ; Type: FILM. [S216] General Register Office for Scotland, Scotts Origin - OPRI & SRI records, (http://www.scotsorigins.com). Marriage Record Alexander Walker and Isabella Brough, 1858, Comrie, Perth. Registration district code 341, Registration district entry 0010 [S41] General Register Office for Scotland, Entry of Marriage, Scotland, (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk). 1858 Marriages in the Parish of Comrie in the County of Perth. #10. On the 29 September 1858 at Milutuim, Comrie. Marriage (After Banns) was solemized between us according to the Forms of the United Presbeterian Church of Scotland. GROOM: Alex. Walker, 20, Residence Milutuim Comrie, Miller Bachelor. Father: Alexander Walker, Labourer. Mother: Charlotte Leslie. BRIDE: Isabella Brough, 22, Residence: Milutuim Comrie, Spinster. Father: William Brough, Miller. Mother: Christine Drummond. Witness: Peter Brough, James Mitchell. [S36] Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages New Zealand, NZ Death Registration. [S30] Diane Wilson (Compiler), 1893 NZ Electoral Roll, (New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc. 2004). (1) Surname WALKER; Given Name Alexander; Number 2827; Electorate Bruce; Voting Qualification Freehold; Residential Address Milton; Occupation Miller; Property Detail Sec. 83, block 7, Milton. (2) Surname WALKER; Given Name Isabella; Number 2830; Electorate Bruce; Voting Qualification Residential; Residential Address Milton; Occupation Housewife