Walter [or Gualter]A Merwin (NicholasB, ThomasC, JohnD) was baptized at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, 3 March 1593/4, and he was buried at New Windsor, Berkshire, 8 February 1642/3. He married at New Windsor, 12 January 1617/8, Margaret Tinker, who was baptized there 5 February 1597/8, daughter of Robert Tinker, merchant, and his first wife, Agnes (or Anne) Berrington. … Following their marriage, Walter and Margaret lived at Clewer, Berkshire. The registers of the adjacent parish of New Windsor indicate that the couple had four children born at Clewer in the period 1622 to 1628, who were baptized at New Windsor. In 1623 Walter served as an overseer to the will of his father-in-law, Robert Tinker, and witnessed a codicil to the same will dated 1624. Robert Tinker bequeathed to Walter and Margaret Merwin and their son Thomas the unexpired term of the lease which Tinker held in a messuage or tenement at Clewer which the Merwins then occupied. In 1634 Walter served as a witness to the will of his uncle, Anthony Merwin, yeoman, of Clewer, Berkshire, and also to the will of his wife's step-father, Humphrey Collins. He evidently moved from Clewer to New Windsor before 1634, when he and Margaret were evidently living in a house at New Windsor owned by Collins, and bequeathed by him to his wife Mary (Margaret's stepmother) to satisfy her dower rights to his estate. Administration on the estate of Walter Merwin, late of New Windsor, Berkshire, was granted to his son Thomas Merwin 11 March 1642/3, with consent of the widow Margaret Merwin. No inventory of the estate has survived, and the subsequent history of Walter's widow, Margaret, is unknown.
