Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Walter Chalk (810)

13/03/1849 –30/05/1911

A merchant

Relatives

Mary Alice Chalk — wife

• Melanie Hilton

Plot 810 Walter Chalk

Walter was born 13 March 1849 at 55, Ship Street, Brighton, the fifth child of Charles and Charlotte (née Dumbrell) Chalk. His father was a solicitor. He was baptised 4 April at St Peter’s, Brighton.

In 1871 he was a lodger in Kensington and was employed as a clerk. In 1881 he was living at 6, Keppel Street as a boarder and was described as having “no occupation”. He has not been traced in the 1891 census: possibly he was out of the country.

Walter married Mary Alice Barningham, 31 March 1894, in St Mary’s, Marylebone when she was 36 and he was 45. His profession was described as “Merchant”. Mary’s address was given as Sarenholme, Upper Chorlton Road, Manchester. He was living at 28, York Place, Marylebone.

In 1896 they were living at Park Road, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire where their only child, Margaret Alice, was born. In April 1911 the family were at High Kelton, Doctors Commons Road, Berkhamsted. They employed two servants. Walter died 30 May that year at 17, Beaumont Street, London.

Mary Alice survived him until 1 February 1946 and is buried here with him.

Mary Alice Chalk

05/11/1857 –02/02/1946

Women of independent means; married Walter Chalk

Relatives

Walter Chalk (810) — husband

• Melanie Hilton

Plot 810 Mary Alice Chalk (née Barningham) (1857-1946)

Mary was born 5 November 1857, Pendleton, Manchester, to Thomas and Sarah (née Breese) Barningham. She was baptised in Manchester Cathedral 10 January 1858 with her sister Sarah (b. 1855). Her father was a rope and twine manufacturer.

In 1861 the family was living at Fairy Hill House, Fairy Lane, Cheetham. Mary Ann had two older brothers and two older sisters.

By April 1871 her father was trading as a coke merchant and the family were living at 31, Bent Street, Cheetham, Manchester and Mary was still at school. Thomas died later that year and her mother died in 1880.

By April 1891 Mary was living in Middleton St George, a small village outside Darlington Hall. She was occupying the Hall (now part of a retirement village), a substantial brick mansion, and employing a cook and a maid servant. She was “living on her own means”.

She married Walter Chalk, 31 March 1894, in St Mary’s, Marylebone when she was 36 and he was 45. His profession was described as “Merchant”. Mary’s address was given as Sarenholme, Upper Chorlton Road, Manchester. He was living at 28, York Place, Marylebone.

In 1896 they were living at Park Road, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire where their only child, Margaret Alice, was born. In April 1911 the family were at High Kelton, Doctors Commons Road, Berkhamsted. They employed two servants. Walter died 30 May that year and is buried here.

Mary has not been found in the 1921 Census but when the 1939 register was drawn up she was residing at the Edenhurst Hotel, Parkhill Road, Torquay. She was living on private means.

Mary eventually moved to The End House, Hatch End, Middlesex and died 1 February 1946 at the Victoria Nursing Home in Northwood aged 89