Walter Dooley Doxey

1944 Walter Dooley

• Birth Notes
  • Aged 5 on 1881 census (with parents)
    Aged 15 on 1891 census (with parents)
    Aged ~23 in 1897 (Death record showing marriage)
    Aged 24 on 1901 census (after marriage)
    
    Births Sep 1878   (>99%)
    Dooley  Walter Edwin     Chorlton  8c 909  (too young)
    
    Births Mar 1875   (>99%)
    Dooley  Walter     Belper  7b 549 (Derbyshire, wrong county)
    
    Births Jun 1876   (>99%)
    DOXEY  Walter     Chorlton  8c 870
    Son of William and Agnes Doxey (wrong one)
    
    Name: Walter Doxey
    Year of Registration: 1876
    Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
    District: Chorlton
    County: Lancashire
    Volume: 8c
    Page: 870
    

• Death Notes
  • Cremated at North Sydney Crematoruim.
    Religion: Church of England.
    
    See image of Death record for further details of death and cremation.
    
    

• General Notes
  • Was Walter born out of Wedlock?  After arriving in Australia, he went by the name of Walter Dooley.  Possibly of another mother or father, but unknown.
    
    Walter did not record his fathers name on the marriage certificate, so realy he is unknown.
    
    In 1901, he was the only one of the family to have left the family home.  According to the 1901 census he was 24 when living with the family and his mother in law Emma Breeze in Newton Heath.
    
    Cant find another marriage for Henry in Cheshire/ Lancashire area, but could have been a son of Henry when he was only about 14.
    
    Its believed Walter came to Australia in 1910 with his family on the "Afric".  Before arriving in Australia he had dropped the "Doxey" from his surname and changed his name to Walter Dooley according to the census in 1901.  If this is the right man, then he was a mason and a protestant, as well as being short, bald and very round !
    
    FindMyPast.com has records for Walter and Rebecca Dooley (with Charles, Norah and Thomas) departing Liverpool in 1910 to arive in Melbourne, Australia.
    
    The only Walter Doxey to be found on the UK census records in 1911 is from Derbyshire, confirming he had probably left the UK by then.

Details of Walter's family with Rebecca Breeze