Earliest Walker Genealogy 

Bold text denotes individuals in the Walker line who married. A double dash "--" indicates the just mentioned individual's second marriage and any resulting descendants of that marriage follow. An asterix indicates descriptive historical detail is available about that individual. Red text indicates that further ancestral or other family tree detail for this individual is available, but not included in the table. Individuals are indented at the start of a page when their details have already been listed, and names are noted to assist with the reader's following of lines of descent. Please report any errors of transcription or facts to myself, Bronwyn Johnson (nee Walker), at: .

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The lines below are all traced downward from Robert Walker, believed born before 1650, a wheelwright in Leith. He appears in column A. His son James is in column B. In column C, multiple individuals are listed, with Thomas being the only son whose descendants are known to me. Thomas had a son John Walker, b. 1755, who appears in column D. This John Walker appears in the Sandeman Genealogy as the earliest Walker ancestor listed.

John Walker, b. 1755, wharfinger, of Leith, married Catherine Lyon, b. 1757. It is through Catherine Lyon's lineage that the descendancy from King Robert the Bruce of Scotland is traced. John Walker's sister, Margaret Walker, m. 1770, George Sandeman, M.D., London, b. 1747, d. 1818. George Sandeman was a Physician to King George III. There was no issue from the marriage of Margaret and George. John Walker is believed to have had an elder brother James, b. 1753.

Of the two surviving children of John Walker and Catherine Lyon, the second was John William Walker, b. 1799, d. 1875. John William Walker "...was a merchant in Leith, the port of Edinburgh, trading mainly, if not exclusively, in the wine trade with France" (Walker, 1996: 132).

An elder sibling of John William Walker was James Thomas "JT" Walker (his nephew, son of John William Walker, would be a namesake, including the same nickname), who married Ann Walker (who was a relative, to some degree). Their children were Thomas (of Yaralla), Archibald, and Joanna. It is through this branch of the Walkers, who settled for a while around Rockhampton (esp. Gracemere), that somehow, someway, Gary's (my husband) branch of the Johnson family and my own Walker family connect, back in history. It is a tangled web I have not yet unwoven. The whole Walker-Archer-Johnson tangle centering on Gracemere is a messy one indeed.

John William Walker married first in 1824, Elizabeth Manning, d. 1825, and had one son, John William Manning Walker, born at Castlesteads, in Dalkeith in Scotland; d. March, 1848, Australia, due to a fall from his horse. Elizabeth Manning died in childbirth.

John William Walker, b. 1799, d. 1875; married second Elizabeth Waterston, b. 1805, d. 1863, and they had ten children. It is through Elizabeth Waterston that the main connection between the Sandeman and Walker families is traced; Elizabeth's paternal grandmother was Catherine Sandeman, b. 1755, d. 1831.

John William Walker married a third time, to Catherine Bell (sister of Imrie Bell, his son-in-law), b. 1827, and had two sons. One son was Charles, b. 1865, d. 1923, married in 1904 Maude Isabel Loraine b. 1874, d. 1925, there were no children from the marriage. The other son died at the age of 12.

It is the second marriage that is well traced, and my ancestry descends from this union. The ten children of John William Walker and Elizabeth Waterston and their descendants are listed in detail on the main Walker Genealogy page, with the ten children appearing in column F. On this page, only three of those ten children appear, to give a point of cross reference between the two tables. The generations are traced down to Scott McLeod Walker purely to give myself a point of reference when ferreting out genealogical snippets from "Glenlyon Connections".

The earliest generation of Walkers known is listed in column A. Each successive generation appears in the next column along. Individuals are numbered according to birth order (as best known), and their descendants are listed straight after them. Thus, James Thomas Walker and his descendants are all listed in the table below before John William Walker and his descendants. Reading from left to right across the columns, a unique numerical identifying code is thus obtainable for each individual.

The layout of the genealogy is based on that originally devised by Mr. David Peat, of Perth, b. 1807, d. 1874; the original compiler of the Sandeman genealogy. Genealogical information is taken from "The Sandeman Genealogy", "Glenlyon Connections", and my own personal notes.

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