Passengers stories 
by their descendants.

Walter Charles
Alldis
The story of: Walter Charles Alldis. Age 22, ticket  13, steerage.

Walter Charles Alldis was born in Soho, London in January 1844, and his parents were Henry Pope Alldis and Ann Tummons. The Alldis family trade was keeping dining rooms; Henry kept dining rooms in Soho, his father in Southwark, Surrey and one of his brothers dining rooms in Eastcheap in the City. Walter was one of six siblings, including my great great grandfather Frank Alldis who was born in Soho in 1840. 
In 1845 the family moved to Southwark, but then in 1849 when Walter was 4 years old his mother died, and his father remarried the following year, going on to have another 8 children with his second wife! 
I don't know what motivated Walter to emigrate as he was the only Alldis who did, but I'm guessing the reasons were largely financial. His father was made bankrupt twice, in 1845 and 1849, and subsequently was employed as a cook rather than running his own business as he had previously. With so many younger half siblings, it must have been very difficult for Walter.

After he arrived in Australia, he appears to have settled in Victoria rather than travelling on to Queensland. In 1871 he married Dora Mary Treglown and they went on to have 10 children. He lived most of the rest of his life in the Melbourne area, and worked as a butcher (a nod maybe to the family trade of catering?). In 1887 he became a freemason, joining the Duke of Manchester Lodge in Melbourne. He died on 30 March 1894 in Port Melbourne, and is buried in Melbourne General Cemetery.

His youngest child William Pope Alldis was killed during the Battle of Passchendaele in June 1917 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate in Ypres. Continuing the theme of wartime misfortune, and tragically ironic bearing in mind that Walter survived a shipwreck, one of his grandsons, William Thomas Alldis Moran, died in April 1942 when the ship he was commanding, HMAS Vampire, was sunk by Japanese bombers off the coast of Sri Lanka. He was a career officer in the Royal Australian Navy, reaching the rank of Commander and twice mentioned in despatches. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial here in the UK.

One of Walter's great grandchildren is Herb Elliott, the 1500 metre gold medalist at the 1960 Rome Olympics.


SOURCE: Relative Ian King (UK). November 2025. Grave photos from Find A Grave.
The 150th anniversary event on King Island was attended by 3 generations of Alldis descendants. The below photos were taken at one of the dinners on 15 July 2016.
Glenys Southurst (great granddaughter of Walter), and her husband Murray, Sarah Southurst (great great gandaughter), and Kiralee (age 11, great great great granddaughter).