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From: Michele Waldron-Berry <>
Subject: Re: Elijah & Mary Walton Buriel Geelong
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 10:54:59 +1000


Hi Pam,
I found out last night Elijah & Mary Walton, also had a daughter Henrietta,
she was the younger sister of Elijah Walton, I don't know if she married,
or where she died.
Thanks again for all your Help
Michele.

Michele Waldron-Berry wrote:

> Hi Pam,
> Thanks for the info,re my G.G.G.Grandparents Elijah Samuel
> Walton(1802-1889)
> m Mary Ann Lee(1806-1894) buried -Geelong-1889 &1894.
> You sent it to me on the 26/3/00. to my old Email no.see new above.
> re the burial info did it have an address where they lived?
> Also was there any info reany of their children ?
> Do you know if I can access their deaths via internet?
> Do you know how I find out which Church Elijah's son , also called
> Elijah Walton
> paintings would be either in the church or manse, I an not sure if it
> was a CofE or RC church, it is just a story handed down. I have some of
> Elijah's paintings done
> before he left Australia, as his sister Sarah was born in 1840, he would
> have been
> born around that time also, we think he left Australia in his 20's
> approx. approx-1860's, we know he died or consumption at aged 32ys
> while painting the Swiss Alps. He also did a book, on "The life of a
> Camel", a big book with
> lithograph's of his drawings on Camels.plus he also did the book "Peaks
> and Valleys
> of the Alps" by Elijah Walton with text by Rev.T.G.Bonney, published in
> London in 1867. Elijah was also reputed to have some of his paintings
> hanging in the Tait Gallery in London, I have not yet been able to get
> copies of either of these books,
> or confirm the Tait Gallery. I did see a copy of the Camel Book in the
> Melbourne
> Library during the early 1960's, and I have seen the Alps Book, but
> unfortunately
> most of the paintings were taken out and distributed amongst the family
> in times past.
> I don't know if Geelong library might have got copies of the books in
> those days, or
> who might have them.
> Thanks for you help so far , any assistance would be great.
> Michele Archer Waldron Berry.
>
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