James John Walker

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1881 Census (age 35? hard to read) living at 11 Londesbury(?) Square, Hampstead, London with wife and 2 servants. Occupation; Organ Builder.

1891 Census (age 44) living at 42 Elsworthy Rd, Hamsptead with wife, 5 children and 5 servants. Occupation; Organ Builder (Employer).

1901 Census (age 54) living at 42 Elsworthy Rd, Hampstead with wife, 6 children and 4 servants. Occupation; Organ Manufacturer.

1911 Census (age 64) living as head at 42 Elsworthy Road, Primrose Hill, S Hampstead N W with wife, 2xdau, son and 3 servants. Occupation; Organ Manufacturer. Married 30 years, 8 children, 7 still living.

1921 Census living as 'head' (aged 74y,9m) at 42 Elsworthy Rd, NW3 with wife,son, dau and 2 x servants. Occupation;; Organ Manufacturer , employer at 27 Francis St, Tottenham Court Road. Occupying 12 rooms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Walker_%26_Sons_Ltd ; "Arguably, the heyday of the company occurred towards the end of the nineteenth century under the leadership of James John Walker (1846–1922), the youngest and only surviving son of Joseph William. The company developed a reputation in the 1890s for excellence in massive diapason voicing using scales and pressures for flue work greater than those used by Hill or Willis. The effect was rolling and magnificent. Notable instruments included London instruments at Holy Trinity Sloane Street and St Margaret's Westminster; cathedrals at York, Rochester and Bristol, and the organs at St Mary's, Portsea and St Matthew's Northampton. Walker also eventually rebuilt the Gray & Davison concert organ at the Crystal Palace, increasing its power to carry across the vast space of the central transept. The sequence of the church instruments continued into the twentieth century including the large instrument at the Roman Catholic church of The Sacred Heart, Wimbledon, built in 1912.

James married Emily Florence Phipps, daughter of Pickering Phipps M.P., J.P. and Mary Anne Whitney, Q3 1880 in Hardingstone, Northants. (Emily Florence Phipps was born in 1859 in Northampton, Northants and died after 1928.)