D’ELBOUX, Walter (1839-1896) — Southampton
Ordnance Survey engraver. Also known as a water-colourist.
A son of Louis D’Elboux (see BME 2011) and his first wife Elizabeth Crippen, his birth was registered at Hackney in the latter part of 1839. He was recorded living with his parents and four older siblings in Peckham in 1841 and at school in Wrexham in 1851. He joined the Ordnance Survey 29 Mar 1853 and in 1863 was earning 5s.6d per day as a hill engraver. He married Mary Jane Williams (1846-1907) from Salisbury, with whom he had several children, in 1868. He died 7 Sep 1896. Probate on effects of £114.15s, was granted to his widow 29 Sep 1896. “It is a fact worth notice, that the Southampton Art Society has just been holding an exhibition of sketches and drawings by the late Mr. Walter d’Elboux, and I understand that the exhibition has been highly successful, many of the pictures having been sold. Mr. d’Elboux, it will be remembered, is the gentleman who, after forty years’ connection with the Ordnance Survey Office, recently died from an illness which was undoubtedly brought about by his receiving notice that if he could not work faster he would lose his berth” (Truth, 26 Nov 1896).
Park Road, Millbrook, South Stoneham (home) — 1861
Durdham Villa, Lodge Road, Southampton (home) — 1871-1881
74 Lodge Road, Southampton (home) — 1891-1896
BNA. Census 1841-1891. OSP.