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- . 1903 Sep 30 - Ontario Marriage Registration # 40, Wellington Co.
John Clifford Walker, Age 50, 1853, Erin village, Manufacturer,
son of Jane Thompson & John S Walker. Banns at Erin Village,
married Lilian Gardenier Peer, 29y 1874, Banns at Halton Co.,
d/o Alice Gardenier & Levi L Peer.
Note1: John C seems to have lightened his age a little for the occasion. Census & ON. Death Certificate confirm birth as 1949 - PJA).
. 1871 Census Guelph Town, Wellington Co.
John Walker, Age 24 / 1847, Born Ontario, English, Moulder, Wesleyan Methodist.
Ontario Directories
. 1881 Walker, John, moulder, bds. 45 Cork bet. Norfolk & Dublin; 45 Cork St.
. 1881 Walker, John C, moulder, 45 Cork; miller,
. 1883 12 Wellington St,
. 1885 moulder at Crowe's 45 Cork St.
. 1887 moulder, Cambridge St. Guelph.
. 1875 Jun 29 - Jul 10, Private John W Walker, Pay at 60¢ per day, $7.20, 30th Wellington Rifles, Camp at Guelph, Ontario.
Ref: Canadian Nominal Rolls & Paylists for the Volunteer Militia.
. 1871 Dec 2 - John Walker married at Plattsville, ON. to Emma Horning.
Ref: Elora Observer, published 1871 Dec 7.
. 1906 WELLINGTON COUNTY ATLAS:
Walker, John Sible, B. Durham, England. Landed 1827 Hamilton with his father Thomas Walker & family.Thomas returned to England.
... John C., b. in Erin Village, went to school to Arthur Lindon & Mr. Leitch. He was in the 47th Lancashire Foot Regiment when stationed in Hamilton & served in the Fenian Raid at Ridgeway, for which he has a medal. He went to Halifax & West Indies with his regiment, in which he was a bugler. His family bought his discharge for him to come home & he became a bugler major of the 30th Wellington Rifles then being organized.
Mr. Walker finished learning the moulding trade & worked with the Crowe Iron Works, Guelph, for 19 years.
After travelling 2 years for the Diamond Compound Company of Newark, New Jersey he, in 1895, started the Electric Boiler Compound Company of Guelph.
In January, 1905, he bought the Guelph Soap Works & runs both. Mr. Walker is a member of the Board of Trade, an Odd Fellow, & a member of the Ancient Order of the United Workmen.
His 3 sons, Charles H., Sherwood F., & E. J. Clifford & a grandson are in the Electric Boiler Compound Company Ltd. & one son E. J. Clifford in the Guelph Soap Co.
Charles H., is cashier in the G.T.R. in Guelph; Sherwood T. is with the Westinghouse Co. in Hamilton; E. J. Clifford is Secy of both the Compound Company & Soap Company.
EXTRACTED SUMMARY for John Clifford Walker:
. 1849 Jun. 7th, born Erin, Ontario
. 1856-58 - Guelph, Ontario
.47th Lancashire Regiment of Foot Soldiers (Nick name of the Reg. is Wolfe's Own - thus a very distinguished troop for a Canadian to belong):
.The 47th Reg. wore a black line in gold lace of their full-dress uniform as a sign of permanent mourning for Gen. Wolfe. It was customary for the regimental band to play 'Wolfe's Lament' just before the playing of the National Anthem.
- 1861 - Trent Affair: When 2 Confederate representatives were forcibly removed by Union authorities from the British steamer Trent in 1861, Lincoln released them in response to British pressure. - Stationed in New Brunswick & were transported by sleigh to their stations.
Ref: The Illustrated London News, London, Saturday, December 21, 1861.
. 1863 Feb 16 - Halifax to reinforce Canada's defenses during the tense times of the Trent Crisis. - 1863-66 stationed Montreal;
. 1866 June 2 - Battle of Ridgeway, just west of Fort Erie. Afterwards on the afternoon of Tues., June 5th, in Toronto, a company of the 47th was in waiting with ambulances to convey the wounded out of the boat to cabs. Six coffins were brought down & at 3:30 p.m. the procession started from the Drill Shed to the Cemetery, preceded by the Band of the 47th Regiment, playing the Dead March. (As bugler for the 47th Reg. , John C. Walker must surely have been present. - PJA)
. 1867-68 NS - 1868-9 Barbados, West Indies, (then the Regiment returned to England).
.Jul 20, 1866, the 30th Wellington Battalion of Rifles was established. The headquarters of the 30th Battalion was at Guelph. The annual training encampment was usually held in the last 2 weeks of June in Elora, Ontario. In 1871, the 16th day annual encampment was held with other battalions at Goderich. They left Guelph's Great Western station to Goderich station. It was 2:30 AM by the time the men had spread their bed rolls & still no sign of food. For most of the men, it seemed that only a few minutes had passed when the bugler summoned them out of their tents at 5:30 AM.
. 1872 - Estimated date of 1st marriage to Emma Winslow Newell Horning
. 1873 - Sep 15 - son Chas H Walker born.
. 1874- 1893 - Crowe Foundry, Guelph.
. 1875-77 - Guelph City Directory: John C., moulder, h Cambridge St.
. 1882 - Walker, John C, molder, H 45 Cork, Guelph.
. 1885 - Walker John C, Moulder at Crowe's, h 45 Cork.
. 1889 - Guelph City Directory, Temperance: Order of the Iron Hall, Chief Justice J C Walker, Vice Justice J C Crowe & - John C Walker, 45 Cork, molder.
. 1892 - Walker J C, traveler, 45 Cork, Guelph.
. 1893-95 - Travelling Diamond Compound Co., of Newark, NJ.
. 1895 - Electric Boiler Compound Co., Guelph.
. 1903 - Sep 30 - Married 2nd wife Lillie Gardiner Peer.
. 1905 - Guelph Soap Works.
. 1922, Mar 13 - died Guelph.
NORFOLK ST. METHODIST CHURCH:
. Father-in-law was living with the Walkers:
. HORNING, Charles was born in 1806 in England 1871 shoemaker living Guelph 1856-1858 (Norfolk St. Pewholder),
. 1881 - shoemaker living with the John C. Walker family in Guelph.
Note2: The Norfolk St. Church was a short couple of blocks away from his home on Oxford St.
.1892 Ontario Gazetteer & Directory - Guelph Soap Co. - (Adam Linton), Soap Manufactures, Waterloo.
.1901 Census Guelph, Wellington Co.
John Walker. M., Relationship to head, Father; Widow, Born 7 JUN 1850, Age 50.
.1911 Census, Guelph
John C Walker, Age 60, Methodist, Manufacturer, Employer, Soap Works.
. Wellington Co., Index to WILLs: Walker, John C. Will # 3929 Gts/?.
. Ontario Death Registration # 54 Wellington Co.
John Clifford Walker, died 13 Mar 1922, 65 Oxford Street, Guelph, Ontario; Aged 72 years, 9 months, 5 days, Born 7 Jun 1849, Erin.
Occupation: Soap Manufacture; Trade Soap. Length of Residence 50 years. [1867]
Son of John S. Walker & Margaret Thompson. Born Erin.
Note3: Should read his Mother's is Jane Thompson? J S Walker JR's grandmother was Margaret Sibbald. This also implies his son Ed J C Walker was not too familiar about his grandmother. - PJA
Informer: E J C Walker, 183 Norfolk St., Burial, Tuesday, Mar 14, 1922.
Medical attendance from 1919 to 1922. Arteriosclerosis, Contributory: Cerebral Hemorrhage for 6 months. Dr T M Sadage, Guelph.
. Recorded for further research:
Walker, Miss Eliza A, school teacher, bd s cor. Dublin & Cork, later 30 Norfolk Guelph
Walker, Miss Mary, school teacher, 30 Norfolk, Guelph. - - -
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1849 - 1922 (72 years)