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Note: His great grandmother, Charolette Durand, a French Huguenot, came to England to escape religious persecution and married an Englishman.
Charles was diagnosed to have TB and was advised to move to a warmer climate in order to recover. He was an accountant when he left England for a similar job in South Australia. On arrival he found that the job wasn't there any more, because the firm had crashed in the depression of the 1880s. The SA government was advertising for educated ladies and gentlemen to act as school teachers. He got a job as a school teacher at Yakalilla in the Adelaide Hills ( he later became a teach at Innman Valley, Manoora, and Bridgewater). Charles took his responsibilities as a school teacher so seriously, that he gave up smoking and drinking alcohol - so as to be a good example to his pupils. He boarded with a family there. The lady that he was going to board with wanted her husband to make a toilet (dunny), but he said no, he can go out in the bush like the rest of us, so she set to and built the dunny herself, so that the gentleman from London wouldn't have to go out in the bush. Esther went to work in London to earn enough money for her and Millie and Regie to come to South Australia. They lived in Yankalilla, but his salary wasn't enough for them to live on. They had had another baby, Connie. So when Connie was a few months old Esther got a job teaching music at the nearby school. However, she could not ride a horse to get there so her son Regie, who was eight or so, rode one horse and led the horse his mother rode to her school. Millie was left to look after Constance and to to school there. When she was about twelve or fourteen, she became a pupil teacher; teaching younger children while being a student. By the time the First World War, Charles had retired, but came out of retirement to resume teaching, because of the lack of teachers.
-Source: R. Barrows of South Australia.
-the connection between Charles Walker and Thomas Walker was made through information received from Mr. Barrows and reference in letters from Nellie (Eleanor Louisa) Walker about having French Huguenot ties on the Pridmore side of the family and information about the immigration of several Walker brother to Australia and other parts of the world. The is also information from letters written by Alice Hauser Ferguson, daughter of Ethel Ada Walker Hauser, about her Uncles in the Adelaide area of South Australia.
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