Person:Gertrude Andrews (1)

RESIDENCES: At birth - Ackworth School, Yorkshire, England. After marriage - Hillaston, Nova Scotia, Canada. Sheffield Mills, Nova Scotia, Canada. N Chipman Corner, Nova Scotia, Canada. Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

SPORT: Twice chosen to play hockey against England - her performance asleft-back was outstanding. Tennis was a participation sport formuch of her life - represented her club in Nova ScotianProvincial tournaments until the outbreak of World War II.After the war resumed her golf and played competitions util 1965- often winning against much younger players. Was a goodswimmer, having once saved a life.

HOBBIES: Travel always fascinated. Early exploit of threesisters in horse-drawn caravan across the Yorkshire moors

MEMORIAL_NOTICE: Gertrude Walker (Scholar 1894-1900), youngest daughter ofFrederick Andrews died in Kentville Nova Scotia after a briefillness, on May 12, 1967, in her eighty-first year. She was born at Ackworth on August 15, 1886. Her mother, AnnaMaria (Lean) died in 1888 and her young cousin, MadelineCollinson. came to care for the four children. She attendedAckworth School and then went on to the Mount. After a period athome, looking after her father, she went to Bedford PhysicalTraining College. In 1911, whilst teaching at the DollarAcademy, Scotland she was twice chosen to play hockey forScotland against England, at which games her performance asleft-back was outstanding. In the summer of 1912, she and her two sisters, Margaret andHelen, went on a caravan trip from York to Sandsend and GreatAyton and back, across the moors, navigating the steep hillswith a strong-minded horse, Polly, with all the thrillsattendant. This trip was written up in The Wheatsheaf of July1912, by Margaret Andrews with photographs by Gertrude Andrews,entitled "Three Old Maids and a Caravan". In November 1912, she left her homeland, her profession, herfriends, to travel across the Atlantic to marry Frank A. K.Walker, Scholar (1897-1903) in Truro, Nova Scotia. They hadthree daughters, all of whom attended Ackworth School. FrankWalker passed away in 1940. She revisited England and Scotlandfive times, and her sisters both visited Canada, but it was hergreat regret that F.A. died without having done so. She continued her interest and enthusiasm for games throughouther entire life: she played tennis, participating in NovaScotian provincial tournaments until the club closed during thewar years of 1939-1945. She then resumed her golf and playeduntil 1965, again winning cups year after year competing withpeople half her age. She was a good swimmer: saved a life beforeshe was married, and had been in the ocean the summer before shedied. She was an enthusiastic spectator of cricket, baseball andice hockey, both live and on television. She did volunteer workfor the Red Cross during World War II. Throughout her life shemaintained her membership in the Pontefract Monthly Meeting. Gertrude Walker is laid to rest in a small cemetery at ChipmanCorner beside her husband and his youngest sister. The cemeteryis next to the house she lived in for the fourteen years of hermarried life. Her interest in young people was perhaps her mostoutstanding characteristic. They all loved her and found in hera vitality, courage and ready wit which will be greatly missed.

1. ↑ Isaac Henry Wallis. Frederick Andrews of Ackworth. (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1924)
   p.114.
2. ↑ Isaac Henry Wallis. Frederick Andrews of Ackworth. (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1924)
   p.222.