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1, Avon Road, South Wootton, King’s Lynn, Norfolk. PE 30 3LS. Tel: 01553 - 671505. 12th March 2003 [email protected] My own interest is also in the name of WALTERS, and I seek particularly information about my Great Grandfather, John Walters. He makes his first appearance in my records in 1850, when he married a widow named Hopkins, nee Cox, at St Martin in the Fields, in Westminster. He then said that he was a Baker and that his father, also John Walters, was a Labourer. Both addresses were given as Cross Lane, which is in the Parish of St Giles in the Fields. In the 1851 Census, from 7, Cross Lane, St Giles, he said that he was aged 30 and a Chandler, from Gloucestershire, whilst she was 34 and a Chandler, from Wiltshire. In 1858 Elizabeth Walters died, said to be 49, and five months later he remarried to a 16 year old girl named Martha Coleman ,from Ibstone, then in Oxfordshire. He said then that he was a General Dealer and his father was John Walters, a Baker. In the 1861 Census he said that he was aged 36 and a General Dealer born in Bristol. In 1871 he was 46 and a Lodging House Keeper born in Bristol, and in 1881 he was 56, still a Lodging House Keeper, still born in Bristol. He died in 1887, and on his Death Certificate it says that he was a Baker, and aged 63. I have carried out some searches in the Bristol area for him, but as yet can find no trace. I do however, have significant 'clues', in the shape of the memoirs of one of his grandsons and some letters, suggesting that he may have been a Welshman, possibly from the Cardiff area, and that he later worked in Bristol and, with a friend with the suggestive name of Dai Jones, walked to London to seek his fortune. Perhaps he was born in South Wales and then taken as a very small child to the Bristol area and thought he had been born there ? I know a good deal about him and his family ( his son Frederick was my grandfather ) in his later years in London, and you may see some connection with your own research. The question is - do you have any threads that lead to a John Walters, possibly born in either the Bristol area, or South Wales, possibly born about 1825, equally possibly a Baker by trade and / or a man of the same name and trade who may well have been his father ? I look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely, Clifford Walters.