Joseph Meeres (1765-)

Martha Petts

Charles Meeres (1793-1832)

Sarah Jane Rafferty

Walter Meeres (1825-1916)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Emily Margaret Walker Ethel Meeres+ Walter Meeres 1 Christened: 25 Dec 1825, Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London 2 Marriage: Emily Margaret Walker on 17 Dec 1861 in Chesterville, Moorabbin (The home of the bride's father) Died: 24 Mar 1916 Buried: 25 Mar 1916, Old Cheltenham Cemetery   General Notes:   Chronology: He worked as a Pupil in 1841 and resided at Finchley, London. 3 (His uncle Alfred is the schoolmaster - it seems likely that this is Walter although the name is transcribed as "Walter Maers. Finchley is only a few kilometres from Islington where his father died in 1832 and where his sister Emma is at an Industrial School in 1841). He worked as an Infantryman in 1847 and resided at Madras, India. 4 He worked as a Teacher before 1887. 5 Walter married Emily Margaret Walker, daughter of Thomas Walker and Unknown, on 17 Dec 1861 in Chesterville, Moorabbin (The home of the bride's father). (Emily Margaret Walker died in 1908 6.)

1 Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages (Victoria) - Index, http://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/home, Death EM 1954 / Birth EM.

2 The Church of Latter Day Saints, International Genealogical Index, www.familysearch.org/, WALTER MEERES
Christening: 25 DEC 1825 Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London
Father: CHARLES MEERES
Mother: SARAH JANE
Messages:Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record.

3 Ancestry.com Online Census and BMD, www.ancestry.com, 1841C.

4 Web (Misc), http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=416043.
First Names Walter
Surname Meeres
Service Recruited Infantry
Presidency Madras
Age 21
Home Parish London
Home County Middlesex
Occupation Chemist
Where Enlisted London
Ship and Year Kent 1847
IOR Reference L/MIL/9/101
LDS Film Reference 1835691
Transcribed by Bevin Buckley.

5 Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages (Victoria) - Certificate, http://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/home, Marriage ES&EM 1887.

6 Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages (Victoria) - Index, http://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/home, Death. MEERES Emily Margt D Walker Thos WARWICK - Charl 1908 9148.