Caroline Howard (Gibbon) Walker (bef. 1827 - 1904)

Born before 5 Nov 1827 in Littlehampton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Walker — married 1858 in London, Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 20 Mar 1904 after age 76 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Daughter of Edward Howard Howard-Gibbon (1799-1849) and his wife Amelia Dendy (1802-1864), married Dec 28, 1824. Granddaughter of Mary Ann Gibbon, longtime mistress (1795 to 1815) of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. They were rumoured to have been married by Catholic priest when Charles' 1st wife was still alive in an insane asylum. (name hyphenated 1843)

Caroline was baptized Jan 19, 1828 at St Mary's Littlehampton, 3 miles by footpath from Arundel Castle.

Caroline moved with her mother Amelia from Sussex England to Ontario between 1856 and 1858.

Caroline married widower Benjamin Walker, Barrister of Belleville, Ont., in 1858 and they had one daughter together. Benjamin previously had several children in Jamaica with Maria Lynch who died in 1855.

Caroline was an artist. A detailed description of her photocollage work can be found in a 2019 MA Art History thesis, with colour picture reproductions of Caroline's work[1].

She moved to be with her daughter's family in Erindale Ontario and taught school to her 5 grandchildren and their 3 cousins.

See daughter's and son in law profiles for more references and details of later life.

Caroline died in Toronto, but was buried in Erindale at St. Peter's Anglican Churchyard.

Sources

• England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5HV-RJD : 11 February 2018, Caroline Gibbon, 19 Jan 1828); citing SAINT MARY,LITTLEHAMPTON,SUSSEX,ENGLAND, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 416,749, 416,755, 918,462, 416,723.

• St Peter's Erindale[2]

• Wikipedia for grandmother[3]

• Wikipedia for grandfather, Duke of Norfolk[4]

• THE LAST OF THE GREYSTOKES (The Howard-Gibbon Family) by Howard Gibbon Schreiber -1961, Revised and Edited by Sharry Reynolds and Janet Smythe 1976

• Dow, Hilary, 'Multiple authorship and polyvalence in the Victorian- Canadian photocollage album: the work of Caroline Walker and Hannah Sarah Howard' A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Art History Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario[5]