Exhibition: The History of Walton Hall

Hauley

Charles Hauley (1829-1888) was a butcher, originally from the village of Clapham in Bedfordshire. In 1861 he married Mary Ann King (1831-1876) who was from Leighton Buzzard. In the same year they settled in Walton and were living with Charles’ older brother and sister – Thomas, who was a farmer of 300 acres, and Emma, who was working as his Housekeeper. By this time, Charles and Mary Ann had a 2 month old daughter also named Emma. Although Charles and Mary Ann are listed on the census as husband and wife, they actually married a few months later according to the records.

 

By 1871 Charles and Mary Ann were living with 5 of their children including twins Charles and Jane aged 3. One of their sons, 5 year old Thomas, was recorded at the home of Charles’ brother Thomas who was living at ‘Manor Farm’ (Walton Manor Farmhouse). Charles and Mary Ann’s youngest child was 5 month old William George. In 1879 William ‘was accidentally drowned’ at just 9 years old. Mary Ann died two years later at the age of 45 and is buried in Walton churchyard with William. Ten years later Charles was still living in Walton and working as a butcher. He hadn’t remarried and four of his children were living with him as well as his 60 year old sister Emma.

 

Charles died aged 59, in 1888 and the inscription on his grave includes this poem which appears to reference the losses that the family had suffered:

“Oh then what raptured greetings

On Canaan’s happy shore

What knitting severed friendships up

Where partings are no more

When eyes with joy shall sparkle

That brimmed tears with tears

Orphans no longer fatherless

Nor widows desolate”.

 

Baines

John Baines (1833-1893) was an agricultural labourer from Sedgley in Staffordshire and his wife Jane Baines, née Eastment, (1847-1927) was a lacemaker. They were married at Walton on 6 August 1861 which was where Jane was born. She was the eldest daughter of David and Martha Eastment. John and Jane Baines had at least eight children born between 1863 and 1879. Their daughter Priscilla was born in 1867 and is also buried at Walton - there is more about her on the next page.

 

John died aged 60 in 1893. Jane lived until 1927 and in the 1901 census she is described as both a pillow lacemaker and nurse. By 1911 she was 69 and described as living on ‘private means’ and was a resident of The Alms House in Wavendon. Jane died in 1927 aged 80. The inscription on John and Jane’s grave reads “Parted in sorrow. Reunited with joy”.