Emily Florence Phipps

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1861 Census (age 2) living in Collingtree (house name not given but next to The Rectory), Northants with parents, 4 siblings, a visitor (see under father), a governess and 3 other servants. Occupation; Scholar.

1871 Census (age 12) living at The Grange, Collingtree, Nothants with father, 5 siblings, governess and 3 servants. Mother not there on census night. Occupation; scholar.

1881 Census (age 22) living at 11 Londesbury(?) Square, Hampstead, London with husband and 2 servants.

1891 Census (age 32) living at 42 Elsworthy Rd, Hamsptead with husband, 5 children and 5 servants.

1901 Census (age 42) living at 42 Elsworthy Rd, Hampstead with husband, 6 children and 4 servants.

1911 Census (age 52) living as wife at 42 Elsworthy Road, Primrose Hill, S Hampstead N W with husband, 2xdau, son and 3 servants. Married 30 years.

1921 Census living as 'wife' (aged 62y,10m) at 42 Elsworthy Rd, NW3 with husband ,son, dau and 2 x servants. Occupation; Home duties. Occupying 12 rooms.

Info from Julie Davies "Emily Florence Phipps was an avid traveller in her early years (probably before she had so many children) and whilst out, she also enjoyed painting the scenes, buildings and people in her small artist sketch books. I do not know a great deal about her, just what my uncle told me" and "I have this lady's travelling sketch books and whilst they are not worth a great deal of money,.......She was quite obviously a very good artist and a very delicate one too. The little sketch books have some fantastic miniature pieces of artwork in them. "


London Gazette; 14 Feb 1928;
J.W. Walker & Sons Ltd. Special Resolutions. Passed 19th Jan 1928. Confirmed 9th Feb 1928. (Paraphrase); At an EGM special resolutions were passed;
1.That it is desirable to reconstruct the company and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily; and that JAMES HUBERT PHIPPS WALKER and REGINALD HENRY WALKER, both the Francis Works, Southfield Road, Acton, in the County of Middlesex, be and they are hereby appointed liquidators, for the purposes of such winding-up.
2.That the said liquidators be and they are hereby authorised to consent to the registration of a new company to be called J.W.Walker & Sons Limited with a memorandum and articles which have already been prepared
3.That the draft agreement is approved etc. etc.
Signed; EMILY F WALKER, Chairman.

The company is still going http://www.jwwalker.co.uk/history.html ; "The firm was founded by Joseph William Walker (1802-1870) who was a 'parlour' apprentice to George Pike England. In 1828 JWW established his own business in Soho, London, moving later to Francis Street, Tottenham Court Road. Following his death, the firm was continued by his youngest and only surviving son, John James Walker.
The Walker family continued to manage the firm until the death of Reginald Walker MBE, grandson of JWW. In 1975 the Firm was reformed under management of Robert Pennells, a previous employee, who removed it from London to a new and well-equipped premises and revived the company's fortunes not least by the production of new mechanical action instruments. In this he was joined by his son, Andrew Pennells, who had been apprenticed to Klais Orgelbau in Bonn, Germany and who introduced many technical innovations.
Alas, Andrew Pennells died tragically young in 1999. After the retirement of Robert Pennells, Sebastian Meakin, who had been a Walker apprentice and had also had training in Germany, assumed leadership of the firm in 2005."

Emily married James John Walker Q3 1880 in Hardingstone, Northants. (James John Walker was born in 1847 in St Pancras, London and died in 1922.)