Walker Family

Alma, wife of Frederick Walker, died 8 May 1932, aged 75; also her son Freddy, died 25 August 1884, aged 2 years; also Frederick Walker, died 21 March 1942, aged 86.

Historical information

FATAL ACCIDENT AT WAIKOMITI.

A little boy named Frederick Walker, aged two years, son of Mr Walker, fellmonger, in the employ of Mr Lake, was drowned at Waikomiti yesterday afternoon. The intelligence was forwarded to Dr Young, medical superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, who transmitted it by telephone to the Auckland police authorities. Mounted Constable Kelly was out yesterday in the district on duty, and will probably bring full particulars of the sad occurrence on his return to town.

(NZ Herald, 26 August 1884, p. 5)

ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED

CORONERS INQUEST.

From news brought to town by Mounted Constable Kelly we learn that an inquest was held yesterday afternoon, before Mr Andrew Bonar, Coroner of the district of Waikomiti, and a jury of eight, upon the body of a child named Frederick Charles Walker, aged 2 years 9 months, when a verdict was brought in of accidental drowning. From the evidence of the mother it would appear that the child was last seen alive by her at half-past twelve on Monday, at which time he went outside to play. About a quarter of an hour afterwards she was prompted by the unnatural silence to go out and look for him, when, to her horror, he was discovered lying motionless, and face downwards, in a waterhole. She immediately pulled him out, and took him into the house, where every means were applied to restore animation, but without avail. The father, coming in about the time, immediately sent in search of a doctor, but by this time the poor little fellow was evidently dead. The father is a fellmonger at Waikomiti, and lives about two miles from Henderson's Mill, and had but lately moved into the house when the accident occurred. Great sympathy is felt for the bereaved parents, and the sad event has cast a general gloom over the neighbourhood.

(NZ Herald 27 August 1884, p. 5)

Mrs Alma Walker, 74, who lives at Great North Road, Avondale, and who was knocked down by a motor car on Sunday afternoon while she was crossing the Great North Road at a point near Station Road, Avondale, and received severe head injuries, is reported by the Auckland Hospital authorities to-day to be still in a serious condition.

(Auckland Star 27 April 1932, p. 7)

INJURIES FATAL

PEDESTRIAN KNOCKED DOWN,

Mrs Alma Walker, aged 74, who was seriously injured as the result of being knocked down by a motor car while crossing New North Road, near Station Road, on April 24, died in the Auckland Hospital yesterday.

(Auckland Star, 9 May 1932, p. 3)

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