In Search of Ann Walker

Ann’s Friends, Associates and Family - In Search of Ann Walker Brief overviews and biographies of Ann’s associates and family members as written by In Search of Ann Walker contributors.

NEW BLOG POST
Read all about John Walker, Ann's father, in this blog by Deb Woolson.
Visit our Ann's Associates portal, scroll down to the John Walker (father) link! Check out more of Ann's family, friends and associates written by ISAW researchers.

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Today is not only Ann Walker's birthday, it's also the 5th anniversary of In Search Of Ann Walker being formed.

Thank you everyone for following us across social media and being supportive.

We look forward to the next five years of researching Ann!

Today is Ann Walker's 222nd birthday.

We celebrate her today for being:
Creative - sewing, knitting, drawing, painting
A good traveller - in the UK and abroad
A defier of convention - lived with the woman she loved.

Happy birthday Ann!

What do you celebrate Ann for today?

What did the people of Halifax really know about Anne Lister and Ann Walker’s relationship?

Watch the full session with searchingforann.bsky.social to find out what Robert Parker’s letters reveal: https://youtu.be/9fB9Ud-tEwI

#AnnWalker
20 May 1803 - 25 Feb 1854
Landowner
Business woman
Philanthropist
Adventurer
Creative
And wife
More than an adjunct to #AnneLister
Laid to rest 3 Mar 1854 here at St. Matthew’s Church Lightcliffe
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171 years ago today, at about 1pm, Ann Walker died at her home, Cliffe Hill, in Lightcliffe.

We remember her today for her sense of humour, generosity to those less fortunate & how she defied convention to live with the woman she loved.

Memorial Card, West Yorkshire Archive Service, SH:3/L/120

Happy Christmas from all at ISAW
We hope your day is merry and bright!

ANNUAL FUNDRAISING 2024

THANK YOU ALL!

We have raised over £2500 for the Brighouse Central Foodbank helping feed people in need in the local area at Christmastime. It is amazing!

We are very grateful for all the donations, likes and shares to help raise this amount in Ann's name.

Where was Ann Walker after Anne Lister’s death? - In Search of Ann Walker A brief synopsis of where Ann Walker was living in the period from her return to Halifax after the death of Anne Lister and her own death In 1854.

WHERE WAS ANN WALKER?

Read this blog about all about the residences of Ann Walker after the death of her wife, Anne Lister - where did she end up?

Read here: insearchofannwalker.com/where-was-an...

ALMOST THERE!

We are at 98% from all your generous donations so far!

Can you help us get over the line to £2500? Only £39 to go!

Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/in-sear...

We just need £163 more to hit our £2,500 goal. Can you help us get there for Ann?

ISAW 2024 fundraiser for Brighouse Central Foodbank Help In Search Of Ann Walker raise money to support Brighouse Central Foodbank

Please also remember to donate (if you can) to our 5th annual fundraising campaign to Brighouse Foodbank in Ann's name to continue her legacy. It's a great way to honour Ann and her legacy this Christmas!

Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/in-sear...

“My dearest Elizabeth” - In Search of Ann Walker A description of Ann Walker’s letters to her sister Elizabeth during 1834/35. Also tips for transcribing and reading her handwriting.

"MY DEAREST ELIZABETH"

Read all about the letters that Ann Walker wrote to her sister, Elizabeth Sutherland, in this blog by Leila Straub.

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ISAW 2024 fundraiser for Brighouse Central Foodbank Help In Search Of Ann Walker raise money to support Brighouse Central Foodbank

Please also remember to donate (if you can) to our 5th annual fundraising campaign to Brighouse Foodbank in Ann's name to continue her legacy. It's a great way to honour Ann and her legacy this Christmas!
Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/in-sear...

Ann Walker’s 5 Days In London - In Search of Ann Walker Follow the footsteps of Ann Walker‘s 5 days in London during 8th -12th June 1834, finding out more about those places she visited and the buildings

ANN'S 5 DAYS IN LONDON
Read more about the places Ann Walker visited during the 5 days she spent in London in June 1834.
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Ann Walker’s Fundraising Appeal 2022 - In Search of Ann Walker A brief overview of why In Search of Ann Walker fundraises for a local foodbank in the name of Ann Walker annually in order to continue her legacy. We look at her will and her charity set up after she...

If you would like to know why we fundraise every year, please read here: insearchofannwalker.com/ann-walkers-...

3 MORE DAYS TO GO
We are soooo close to our final target of £2500. We are at 92%.
Please donate to Brighouse Central Foodbank by Xmas Eve!
Thank you everyone who has donated, liked and shared our posts during this appeal so far.
Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/in-sear...

Please also remember to donate (if you can) to our 5th annual fundraising campaign to Brighouse Foodbank in Ann's name to continue her legacy. It's a great way to honour Ann and her legacy this Christmas!
Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/in-sear...

Ann Walker in Paris - In Search of Ann Walker During her 1834 honeymoon trip with Anne Lister, Ann Walker discovered Paris. Through her diary and her letters, we can follow in her footsteps and get her first impressions in a foreign capital. This...

ANN WALKER IN PARIS
Read all about Ann Walker while she was in Paris during her 1834 honeymoon in this enlightening blog by Julie Gonnet
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ISAW 2024 fundraiser for Brighouse Central Foodbank Help In Search Of Ann Walker raise money to support Brighouse Central Foodbank

Please also remember to donate (if you can) to our 5th annual fundraising campaign to Brighouse Foodbank in Ann's name to continue her legacy. It's a great way to honour Ann and her legacy this Christmas!
Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/in-sear...

Ann, Family and Shibden Hall - In Search of Ann Walker A look at entries about Ann, family and Shibden Hall from Ann Walker's diary and compares with entries from Anne Lister's diaries for the same dates.

ANN, FAMILY AND SHIBDEN HALL
After the discovery of Ann Walker's diary in 2020, Ivana Nika wrote this insightful blog about what it tells us about Ann
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5 DAYS LEFT TO DONATE

71 of you have already donated! A million thanks!

Can we make it to our final target of £2500? We are at 84% right now, so please donate if you can - any amount will help those in need.

Donate here: justgiving.com/page/in-search-of-ann-walker-2024

ISAW 2024 fundraiser for Brighouse Central Foodbank Help In Search Of Ann Walker raise money to support Brighouse Central Foodbank

Please also remember to donate (if you can) to our 5th annual fundraising campaign to Brighouse Foodbank in Ann's name to continue her legacy. It's a great way to honour Ann and her legacy this Christmas!
Donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/in-sear...

Diary Comparison Portal - In Search of Ann Walker Portal to a day by day comparison of entries in both Ann Walker’s journal and Anne Lister’s diary.

COMPARING THE ANN(E)S
In October 2020 an Ann Walker diary was discovered. Read the comparisons of Ann Walker's and Anne Lister's diary entries for the same time period here:
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ISAW 2024 fundraiser for Brighouse Central Foodbank Help In Search Of Ann Walker raise money to support Brighouse Central Foodbank

Please also remember to donate (if you can) to our 5th annual fundraising campaign to Brighouse Foodbank in Ann's name to continue her legacy. It's a great way to honour Ann and her legacy this Christmas! Donate here:
www.justgiving.com/page/in-sear...

Booth, in this letter, is David Booth who looked after the estates and coal-related activities at that time. Mrs Oddy is Susan Oddy, the housekeeper at Shibden Hall. Image from the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale SH:7/LL/406 4/

...Lightcliffe be living be so good as give her three shillings & Betty Hodgson of Hipperholme five shillings at Xmas. Your letters are very satisfactory, go on, fearlessly do your duty, & bear in mind that “To the faithful reward is sure”-
Ann Walker 3/

Moscow Thursday 17th December 1840
Booth -
Be so good as tell Mrs Oddy to provide a shirt & stockings for Wm. Green at Xmas as she did last year & to give him five shillings, also to let the woman at Dove House have flour as she had last year - If old widow Taylor of ... 2/

ANN WALKER’S LEGACY CHRISTMAS FUNDRAISER
“Go on, fearlessly do your duty”
On this day 184 years ago, despite grieving for her wife, Ann Walker wrote home from Moscow to ensure acts of charity were carried out at Christmas. Ann's letter to Booth is transcribed below. 1/

ISAW 2024 fundraiser for Brighouse Central Foodbank Help In Search Of Ann Walker raise money to support Brighouse Central Foodbank

FUNDRAISING APPEAL 2024
The Justgiving "Give Now" button is now working again after a sitewide issue. Please give if you can to our appeal to feed people in the Lightcliffe area this Xmas in the spirit of Ann Walker!

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