170:. She had been born in Paris about 1807 and had married a copper plate engraver Charles Louis Auguste Graff and had three children who were given up as orphans. After her first husband died she moved to England and registered the birth of a son John Charles Girault Walmisley the year before she married Walmisley. They also had a daughter named Augustine Anna Maria, born about 1847. Walmisley married a second time in 1883. Walmisley died on 17 December 1890 in the Lambeth district at the age of 74.
95:. Also in 1846, he challenged unsuccessfully for the Wingfield Sculls. He won the Wingfield Sculls in 1847 beating H Murray and C Harrington. However he fouled so badly that no one would challenge him in the following year and he won in 1848 by a row over. In November he was a member of the committee that revised the rules of the race. John Walmisley and his youngest brother Walter Milbanke Walmisley (1831â1915) were also noted cricketers for Surrey Club and Ground and for the
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