John Henry (Jack) Walter

  General Notes:

Electoral Roll: -
1909 - Pyalong, Vic. - labourer
1914 - Kilmore, Vic. - labourer
1919 - Pyalong, Vic. - farmer
1924, 1931, 1936 - High Camp, Vic. - grazier

The Lancefield Mercury, Friday, June 27 1930.
Mr. J. H. Walter, of High Camp, has been gazetted a justice of the peace for the central bailwick. The appointment of Mr. Walter has given much satisfaction. A Magistrate has been required in the neighbourhood.

Obituary, Thursday August 7 1947, Kilmore Free Press:-
John Henry Walter
The death at High Camp on July 29 of John Henry Walter removes one of the district’s most colourful personalities and highly respected residents. The sudden passing of the deceased came as a great shock to his relatives and many friends, as his illness was of only short duration.
Born at Glenaroua 73 years ago, the late Mr Walter had spent his lifetime in the district, being a son of the late John and Helen Walter.
He was a very energetic man and spent an active life in various spheres, prior to settling on his property at High Camp. In his younger days he was a well-known contractor with chaff-cutting, threshing and shearing plants working around the district, being also for a short time licensee at High Camp. The late Mr Walter was in business in Kilmore as a cordial manufacturer over 30 years ago, being in the factory now carried on by O’Connor Bros.
Shortly after the death of his father the deceased took over the High Camp property and it was for his activities there that he was perhaps best known. He established a Red Poll stud and met with considerable success in breeding this type of cattle. He was a most successful exhibitor at the Royal Show and country shows with his Red Polls, and for a period one of the State’s leading breeders. Cattle were not his only interest as he also built up a fine Corriedale sheep stud which was carried on with equal success. Although not a breeder on a large scale since the war years he retained his interest in breeding high class stock.
The late Mr Walter took an active part in public affairs for many years, being one of the oldest members of the Pyalong Hall Committee, and President for many years, in which he took great interest, as he also did in his Church, being a staunch Anglican. He was elected a member of the Pyalong Shire Council in 1925, was President in 1931 and retired from municipal life in 1933. A prominent Mason, he was a Past Master of the Kilmore Lodge and member of the Heathcote Mark Lodge.
Deceased is survived by a family of three sons (John, Frank and Eric) and three daughters, Helen (Mrs. Frank Zoch) Olive (Mrs. G. Maher), and Edith. His wife predeceased him in 1945.
The funeral took place on July 31, leaving Christ Church, Kilmore, for the Fawkner Crematorium and was very largely attended. Rev. C.H. Partridge officiated at both services and the Masonic service was conducted at Fawkner.
Coffin-bearers were Messrs. J. H. Walter jun., F. Walter. E. Walter, W. Stimson, B. Walter and R. Walter; pall-bearers, Messrs. N. Fullard, A. Figgins, A. Shanahan, J. B. Leach, E. R. Ashton, G. L. Hudson and J. A. Still.
Funeral arrangements were carried out by Mr. B. A. Skehan, Kilmore.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Grazier.

• connection. My connection to Marilyn Grant (nee Maher) is as follows:

Marilyn Grant . . .
Her father was first cousin to . . .
Gerald Charles Maher (1906) who married Olive Walter (19110
Her father was John Walter (1873)
His father was John Walter (1831) who married Ellen Hiscock (1836)
Her father was William Hiscock (1810) & he also had Harry Hiscock (c1846)
He had Frank Hiscock (1873) who married Emily Wallis (1875)
Her father was William Wallis (1849) who married Victorine Groube (1851)
Her father was Rev Horatio Groube (1814) & he also had George Groube (1847)
He had Edith Groube (1880) who married Percy Howe (1866)
His father was Robert Howe (1833)
His father was Frederick Howe (1805)
His father was James Howe (1777)
His father was George Howe (1741) & he also had Sarah Howe (1775)
She had Alexander Moss (1811)
She had James Moss (1846)
He had Laura Kershaw Waldock or Moss (1864)
She had Winthrop Larkinson (1889)
He had Dulcie Larkinson (1926) who married Colin Davies (1925)
They had me- Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• Birth Certificate: (26246).

• Death Certificate Number: (20846).

John married Mary Teresa Griffin, daughter of Denis Griffin and Margaret McManus, in 1905 in Victoria Australia. (Mary Teresa Griffin was born in 1880 in Pyalong, Victoria Australia, died on 26 Dec 1945 in Kilmore, Victoria Australia and was buried on 28 Dec 1945 in Kilmore Catholic Cemetery, Victoria Australia.)