WALKER, Ann ^{3 4 5}

   Other names for Ann were FORBES, Ann ^{6 7 8 9 10} and FORBES, Anne.¹¹

  General Notes:

The 1851 census for Islington, Middlesex, recorded Ann Forbes, aged 50 years and born in Cork Ireland, living with her three children William, Ann and Alexander Forbes, and one female servant Lydia Newman, at (what looks like) 18 Hemingford West Terrace. Ann Forbes was a widow. No occupation was noted for herself or her daughter who was 18 years old. William, aged 20 years, and Alexander aged 16 years, were both railway clerks. The children were all born in Woolwich, Kent.

In 1861 Ann Forbes, 59 years old and born in Cork, was still living in islington, but in a different location. She was recorded as an "officer's widow". ^{7 8}

Ann married.¹

  Marriage Notes:

(at Banchory Ternan in 1602)

"Robert Reid, eldest son of preceding; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1600); pres. to the vicarage by James VI. I0th July 1602; was one of those who constituted the General Assembly at Aberdeen, 2nd July 1605, but who admitted, 13th Oct. that year, that it was unlawful till discussed in a future Assembly. He was a member of the Assembly in 1610; burgess of Aberdeen in 1624; subscribed the Covenant, though with considerable modification, 30th July 1638; was still min. 19th Oct. 1643. He marr. and had issue John of Birnes, father of Robert, min. of this parish. [Stewart's Life of Reid ; Calderwood's Hist., vi. 284, 440, vii. 105.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae ¹

Ann next married Quartermaster James Staats FORBES of Royal Horse Artillery on 27 May 1822 in St Nicholas Parish, Plumstead, Kent, England.^{2 3 4} (Quartermaster James Staats FORBES of Royal Horse Artillery was born in 1792-1796 in Scotland,⁶ died on 1 Jul 1846 in Artillery Barracks, Greenwich, England ^{9 11 12} and was buried on 7 Jul 1846 in St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich, England ¹³.). The cause of his death was disease of the lungs over about 4 months.

  Marriage Notes:

Old Parish Register
Plumstead parish Kent England
Marriages

"James Staats Forbes of this parish and Ann Walker of this parish were married in this Church by banns with consent of (blank - consent probably not needed) this 27 h Day of May in the Year One thousand eight hundred and 22
By me B Powell Vicar
This Marriage was solemnized between us
James Staats Forbes
Ann Walker
In the Presence of
Elizabeth Moodie
John Walker

No 486"
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