📅 Life Facts
| Name |
GEORGE WILLIAM WALKER |
| ⭐ Birth |
Abt 1866 |
Lydney, Gloucestershire, England  |
| Baptism |
17 May 1866 |
Lydney, Gloucestershire, England |
| ⚰️ Death |
4 Feb 1909 |
Wooten Hill, Gloucester Asylum, Gloucester, England |
- General paresis, also known as general paralysis of the insane (GPI), paralytic dementia, or syphilitic paresis is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder, classified as an organic mental disorder, and is caused by late-stage syphilis and the chronic meningoencephalitis and cerebral atrophy that are associated with this late stage of the disease when left untreated. GPI differs from mere paresis, as mere paresis can result from multiple other causes and usually does not affect cognitive function. Degenerative changes caused by GPI are associated primarily with the frontal and temporal lobar cortex. The disease affects approximately 7% of individuals infected with syphilis, and is far more common in third world countries where fewer options for timely treatment are available. It is more common among men.
GPI was originally considered to be a type of madness due to a dissolute character, when first identified in the early 19th century. The condition's connection with syphilis was discovered in the late 1880s. Progressively, with the discovery of organic arsenicals such as Salvarsan and Neosalvarsan (1910s), the development of pyrotherapy (1920s), and the widespread availability and use of penicillin in the treatment of syphilis (1940s), the condition was rendered avoidable and curable. Prior to this, GPI was inevitably fatal, and it accounted for as much as 25% of the primary diagnoses for residents in public psychiatric hospitals.
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GEORGE WILLIAM WALKER
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 Burial |
8 Feb 1909 |
Lydney, Gloucestershire, England |
| Last Modified |
21 Oct 2025 |
👫 Parents
 Father |
GEORGE WALKER, b. 1831, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England d. Abt 1900 (Age 69 years) |
 Mother |
MARY ANN FIELD, b. 1833, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, , Wales d. October 1907, Newport, Monmouthshire (Age 74 years) |
| 💒 Marriage |
15 May 1853 |
Lydney, Gloucestershire, England |
| Married |
Lydney, Gloucestershire, England |
 Siblings |
1 brother and 7 sisters |
| | 1. Annie Walker, b. Abt 1854, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 2. Mary Walker, b. 1856, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 3. Harriet Walker, b. 1858, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 4. Priscilla Walker, b. 1860, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 5. John Thomas Walker, b. Abt 1865, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 6. Julia Walker, b. Abt 1869, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 7. Ellen Walker, b. Abt 1872, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 8. Elizabeth Walker, b. Abt 1874, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England |
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| Half siblings |
1 half sister (family of GEORGE WALKER and "Unknown") |
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| 👭 Children |
9 👭 children |
| | 1. Annie Walker, b. Abt 1854, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 2. Mary Walker, b. 1856, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 3. Harriet Walker, b. 1858, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 4. Priscilla Walker, b. 1860, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 5. John Thomas Walker, b. Abt 1865, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 6. GEORGE WILLIAM WALKER, b. Abt 1866, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England d. 4 Feb 1909, Wooten Hill, Gloucester Asylum, Gloucester, England (Age 43 years) | | | 7. Julia Walker, b. Abt 1869, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 8. Ellen Walker, b. Abt 1872, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England | | | 9. Elizabeth Walker, b. Abt 1874, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England |
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👨👩👦 Family
| 👨👩👦 Family |
Mary Jane White, b. Abt 1866, Tidenham, Gloucestershire, England d. Abt 1941 (Age 75 years) |
| 👭 Children |
| | 1. Annie Elizabeth Walker, b. Abt 1886, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England d. 4 Sep 1944, South Australia (Age 58 years) |
| + | 2. Amelia Walker, b. Abt 1890, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England d. 30 Oct 1931, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England (Age 41 years) |
| + | 3. William George Walker, b. 30 Nov 1891, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England |
| + | 4. Charles Henry Walker, b. 15 Nov 1895 d. 15 Mar 1967, Lydney and District Hospital, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England (Age 71 years) |
| + | 5. Thomas Walker, b. 19 Feb 1897 d. 4 Jan 1973, Rosedean, Gorsty Knoll, Coleford, Gloucestershire (Age 75 years) |
| | 6. Albert Edward Walker, b. 12 June 1901 d. Apr 1969, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England (Age 67 years) |
| | 7. NORMAN RALPH WALKER, b. 3 Mar 1903, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 27 Dec 1987, Guilford, Surrey, England (Age 84 years) |
| + | 8. Stanley James (Phillip) Walker, b. 10 Sep 1904, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales d. Apr 1978, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England (Age 73 years) |
| | 9. Mildred Ellen Walker, b. 3 Dec 1905, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England d. 23 Dec 1959, Lydney Glouchester (Age 54 years) |
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Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
15 Oct 2024 |
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