Name: c3585 -- My Family Tree

Updated: 09-05-2019 03:09:74. Owner: charles whiteford


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Charles Peter WALTON: Birth: 19 MAY 1862 in Woodside SA. Death: 31 JUL 1946 in Perth WA

  2. Mary Ann WALTON: Birth: 14 JUL 1866 in Burra SA. Death: 8 OCT 1954 in Mt Lawley WA

  3. Sarah Jane WALTON: Birth: 19 JUN 1871 in Burra SA. Death: 8 JAN 1955 in Port Pirie SA

  4. Ellen Emma WALTON: Birth: 21 AUG 1874 in Burra SA. Death: 19 MAY 1964 in Pinjarra WA

  5. Rachel Edith WALTON: Birth: 25 JUN 1877 in Burra SA. Death: 12 JUL 1938 in Kalgorlie WA

  6. Elsie Lucinda WALTON: Birth: 10 FEB 1880 in Burra SA. Death: 1899 in Cue WA

  7. Frederick Ernest WALTON: Birth: 19 OCT 1882 in Burra SA. Death: 25 FEB 1969 in Adelaide SA


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a. Note:   Her name may have been either Emily or Emma. In the Biographical Index of SA. Her name appears as Erwin Hartfield.
  From notes by Charles Whiteford:_ Emma Ellen who was born at Lobethal SA in the Adelaide Hills on March 30, 1843 Sometime about 1860, Emma Ellen Hatfield and Charles Valer Walton lived toge- ther in the Adelaide Hills. After the birth of their first child at Woodside & towards the mid 1860's the small family moved to Burra now only about and hour's drive north of Adelaide. They eventually settled in Redruth (now part of Burra) mostly inhabited by Cornish miners.
  After the disappearance of her husband and now left with a fairly young family, in due course she married Mr Thomas George Martin. Her choice was not very wise as, although he was a lay preacher her was a wardrobe drinker and was a cruel step father the the younger girls. Towards the end or the 1890's she departed with her yougest daughter Elsie for WA by ship to Fremantle then on the Geraldton. From there they journied by wagon for several days to the latest new and exciting gold discovery at Cue in the Pilbara. What a journey that must have been !!! Suffering from the heat, flies, poor food, water shortages, sleeping rough and with the ever present danger from unfriendly aboriginies and with a young teenage girl. she certainly proved to be a tough old lady. Emma ellen opened a shop in the main street of Cue, where unfortunately young Elsie contracted typhoid and died during 1899. she was buried in the Cue cemetery which was filling quickly due to an outbreak of disease caused by a lack of good water and food, together with poor sanitation. Emma eventually returned to Perth where she lived for some time before returning to Port Pirie SA, where she passed away on the 4th Feb, 1917, aged 74 years from stomach cancer, at her daughter's residence Mrs J. C. Jordan (nee Sarah Jane Walton) in Port Pirie West SA.

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