Marion WALKER, 1875 – 1926

Marion Benbow was born in 1875 at Clifton, Bristol, England. Her father was Charles Palmer Walker, a Foreman at the Bristol Waggon Works. Her mother was Sarah Bridges, the daughter of Joshua Bridges from Worcester.

In the 1871 census she was found at 3 Albert Terrace, St Philip & Jacob, Bristol, with her elder sister and younger brother Charles. By 1981 they were at 163 Stapleton Road with one more brother and four more sisters.

By 1891 the family had moved to 14 Stroud Road South Hamlet Gloucester. It is likely that her father had taken a job at the Wagon Works there and Fanny was still living at home.

In 1901 Marion is found at 19 Tweenbrook Avenue, St Paul, Gloucester, with her brother Charles and his young family. Both her parents had died and it is likely that moving there helped the family and gave her something to keep her busy. She was now 32 and unmarried.

Things changed in the four years after this, because she married Henry Adair Richardson on the 15^th of February 1905 at St Helens Church in Kensington. Henry was significantly older than her and had made a significant fortune in India before becoming a director of the Agra Bank Limited, of Lombard Street and St Andrew’s Square, Edinburgh. He was also a director of the Anglo Egyptian Bank.

A daughter, Lorna Eleanor Richardson, was born in the fourth quarter of 1905 at Hampstead.

They lived at 14 Meresfield Gardens, Hampstead and were found there in 1911 with Marion Benbow Walker, Frances’s sister, four servants and a visitor.

Henry died on 17th September 1921 at Queens Hotel, Hastings, Sussex (aged 75 years 48 days) his death was reported by his wife. Frances herself died in Wandsworth in the fourth quarter of 1958.

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