Marriage of Emma-Elizabeth-Tivey-and-Walter-James-Walker

Transcription: 1894 Marriage solemnized in the Church in the Parish of Worthington in the County of Leicester, Entry No 168 August 1st (1894) Walter James Walker, Aged 23, Bachelor, Miner, of Worthington, Son of Joseph Walker, Miner: Emma Tivey, Aged 21, Spinster, of Worthington, Daughter of John Tivey Deceased. Marriage after Banns, both signed, as did witnesses Thomas Thompson, Jane Tivey and Mary Alice Hewitt

Emma's father John was not deceased at the time of her marriage, he did not appear with his family after the 1871 census which was taken on the day of his marriage to Fanny Newbold. Though a divorce has yet to be discovered, Fanny his wife, married again as a "spinster" in 1886 to Joseph Huner, a man nearly half her age. John who was mysteriously "deceased" on this certificate, actually died in Osgathorpe in 1907, In 1901 he was in Yorkshire working on a farm.

Emma and Walter had 3 children Ernest, Joe and Thomas and resided in Gelsmoor, a village close to Worthington, Breedon on the Hill, in the Ashby de la Zouch District of Leicestershire. Emma died aged 40 in 1913, her monument at Breedon on the Hill churchyard, reads " In loving memory of Emma, the beloved wife of Walter Walker who died October 13th 1913, aged 40 years, Not gone from memory or from home, But gone to our father's home above."

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