Tracing Family Branches

Elizabeth Walden is my 1st cousin five times removed.  The daughter of Mary Walden and an unknown father she was born in Suffolk, England in about 1841, with the birth registered at Risbridge, Suffolk. Elizabeth was baptised on the 17th October 1841 at Great Wratting, Suffolk, Entry No. 352. Source: Find My Past Record set England & Wales births 1837-2006 Category Life Events (BDMs) Record collection Births & baptisms Collections from United Kingdom & Record set Suffolk Baptism Index (part 3) Category Life Events (BDMs) Record collection Births & baptisms Collections from United Kingdom http://search.findmypast.com.au/ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915  Name Elizabeth Walden Registration Year 1841 Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep Registration district Risbridge Parishes for this Registration District Risbridge Inferred County Suffolk Volume 12 Page 386 S ource: B...

My 5th Great Aunt Mary Walden/Waldon the daughter of James Walden and his wife Elizabeth (nee Myson) was born in 1820 and baptised at St. Mary's Church at Great Wratting on the 24th September 1820. Source: Find My Past Record set Suffolk Baptism Index (part 3) Category Life Events (BDMs) Record collection Births & baptisms Collections from United Kingdom  http://search.findmypast.com.au/ The 1841 Census has her living on census night in the village of Great Wratting, Suffolk in the household of one John Buffett, who was a sixty year old agricultural labourer.  Her mother Elizabeth Waldon and her nephew John Moore were also residents of the dwelling on that night. Source: Find My Past Record set 1841 England, Wales & Scotland Census Category Census, Land & Surveys Record collection Census Collections from United Kingdom http://search.findmypast.com.au/ Mary gave birth to a daughter Elizabeth Walden in about 1841 with the birth ...

Some years ago another researcher told me that at least four children of James Walden and his wife Elizabeth (nee Mison/Myson) had been baptised at St Mary's Church in Great Wratting, Suffolk. Find my Past has now allowed me to confirm these details through their Suffolk Baptism Index Transcription record set! James Waldon and his wife Elizabeth had the following children baptised at St. Mary's Church, Great Wratting, Suffolk, England: James Baker Welden who was born in 1811 was baptised there on the 24th March 1811.  Entry No. 19792 John Walden who was born in 1814 was baptised there on the 4th December 1814. Entry No. 30. Rebecca Walden who was born in 1818 was baptised there on the 29th November 1818.  Entry No. 77 Mary Walden who was born in 1820 was baptised there on the 24th September 1820.  Entry No. 102. Source: Find My Past Record set Suffolk Baptism Index (part 3) Category Life Events (BDMs) Record collection Births & baptisms ...

Today's article has really piqued my curiosity.  It involves the charging of one James Walden with the murder of his 'wife' Catherine Walden at Beechworth in 1855.  My 4th Great Grandfather was James Baker Walden later known as James Baker Worldon and his 'wife' was Catherine Rhall.  Catherine had married a convict John Casey in 1835. She is also known to have had a relationship with John Glithero/w another convict to whom she had at least three children (Sarah b.1840, William b.1843 and Richard b.1845) before her relationship with James Walden/Worldon.  James and Catherine had at least two children together, Elizabeth b.1850 and James Baker b.1853.  While we know that James died in Gundagai in 1878, Catherine's fate has not been definitively proven yet.  A Catherine Rall died in Bathurst in 1856, but there is no proof that this was our Catherine.  A point of interest is that Catherine's immediate family were in the Beechworth area in the 1850's, her ...