Histories

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Books, Articles and Lectures

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Other Documents

Orbituairies

These are notes for a future article, all comments and contributions are welcome.

The Walkey family enter our family history where Josephine Walkey Married Gabriel de Vesselitsky Merriman (1919-1991)

The Rev. Oliver Rowland Walkey was Josephine's Father who came from a respectable and long established West Country Family.

He was a Church of England Clergyman, a qualified and experienced engineer, and a true polymath whose interests and ambitions included

Astronomy : He submitted numerous articles to appropriate institutions.

Mapping the Amazon: His detailed maps were for many years used as sources for publications like the Times Atlas

Missionary Work: Notably in Australia and South America, where in his early 70's he set up the west amazon mission.

Slightly excentric, hugely gifted, adventurous and highly determined, with a life and works very much dominated by his Christian Faith.