WALKER Sheilah Perrin^[1]

1915 - 1997  (82 years)

• Name	WALKER Sheilah Perrin
  Birth	1915	Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1997
  Person ID	I15298	The People
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	ALSOP Howard Garnet,   b. 1909, Kew, Victoria, Australia d. 1994, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	21 Dec 1938	Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia   [3, 4]
  	Address: St Colin's
  Family ID	F6325	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jan 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S3014] My Heritage Family Tree, Komadina Web Site; Kia Komadina; AU. [S3612] _Births, Deaths and Marriages, Victoria, Sheilah Perrin Walker; Birth; Index; 4142; 1916; Hawthorn. [S1874] Victoria Marriages 1836-1942 Transcription [FMP], Howard Earnet Alsop + Sheilah Perrin Walker; 1938; Victoria; 12893/1938; 6 March 2023. [S3217] Newspaper: The Sun [MH-ON], The Whole Town Goes A-Partying: Off to Melbourne for Big Society Wedding; Social Pages; 11 December 1938; Section 3; Page 1; Viewed; 4 July 2025. June Bracken's off to Melbourne to-morrow to be at the parties before and after Sheila Walker's wedding to Garnett Alsopp . . . December 21, at St. Colin's, Hawthorn. Great interest in the wedding down south . . . Sheila's one of the wealthy well-knowns and Garnett's the bright young architect who came in for a lot of notice for his design of the A.N.A buildings with pilots' living room quarters and reception rooms at Essendon. He's designed Sheila a home at Toorak. Only immediate relations at the ceremony, as it's to be in the chapel . . . only holds 20 . . . built alongside the church in memory of Sheila's father, the late Frederick Walker. The reception's to be at Melbourne's fashionable Number Nine Darling-street. Sheila's meeting with Garnett was quite a romance . . . she was a close friend of his sister's. They never met in Melbourne . . . but saw friend of the same time at McNeil's sister asked him to call on Sheila. He did . . . and they announced their engagement almost as soon as they came home at the beginning of the year. Source: The Sun, Dec 11, 1938 - Sydney NSW