Re: Relative ages


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Posted by Allan_Lang on April 01, 2011 at 23:13:27 user Allan_Lang.

In Reply to: Relative ages posted by Paul on March 31, 2011 at 14:13:57:

>>>Molly Blackett would need to be around the same as Mrs W - maybe
a year or so older. Which would make CF, as her elder brother
quite close in age to Commander W <<<<

I actually make Molly Blackett/Cdr Walker close in age and Molly's Younger brother Jim a contempory of Mary Walker.

Why Jim is younger than Molly: their respective memories of the great freeze of 1895. Molly's are more detailed and more mature. Also from Ben Gunn's cave, Jim would seem to be about 10 in 1900. So Jim born roughly 1890, Molly mid-late '80s.

The evidence on the Walkers is less solid, but if my theory of their meeting in Sydney 1908 is valid, the dates are even firmer.
Briefly Cdr Walker is born c.1885, becomes one of the last of the "old style" boy volunteers. Travels to Australia as a subLt on the last batch of Royal Navy cruisers assigned to the Australia Station. (If he was a later Dartmouth Boy. he wouldn't pass out before the last of the cruisers left for Australia)
c.1908 he meets Mary, who is finishing her education while living with her Sydney relatives. They marry c.1910, his ship is stationed at New Zealand 1912, and leaves the Australia Station 1913.
He is reassigned to the Mediterranean Station. Mary is a Navy wife at Malta.
Tenuous, but the clues are in the books (and in Royal Navy deployments 1905-1914)




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