Person:William Walton (39)

William Walton was born in 1848 at Great Hale in Lincolnshire, son of Elizabeth Walton, formerly Ward, and her husband Robert Walton, an agricultural labourer and shepherd. William was their youngest child. He appears in both the 1851 and 1861 censuses living with his parents and siblings in Great Hale.

By 1871 William had left home and moved some 66 miles to the west to the town of Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, where he worked as a labourer in a brewery.

On 9th June 1873 William was married at Burton to Sarah Ann Fearn, who had been born in the town but as a child had moved with her parents to the Linton area in Derbyshire, about four miles south-east of Burton.

After their marriage they settled in the area around the adjoining villages of Linton and Castle Gresley. They had four children together, but all four died as babies. They had a son called Frederick who died aged four months in 1880, then a daughter in 1883, who presumably died shortly after birth as both her birth and death were registered as "female Walton". They then had a daughter called Annie who died aged one week old in 1886, and finally a son called John who died aged seven weeks in 1888.

Back in Great Hale, William's parents both died in February 1889; his mother on the 1st and his father on the 27th.

The 1891 census finds William and Sarah living at Castle Gresley. William was working as a coal miner, and Sarah's parents and brother were living with them, as was one of William's nieces, Annie Walton, daughter of William's brother Edward. Annie's mother had died in 1887, so perhaps William and Sarah whose own children had all died young took in their niece to raise.

William died in 1896, aged 47. He was buried at Linton on 20th May 1896. Sarah survived him by 32 years and remarried in 1907.

1. ↑ Births index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   b. William WALTON, December Quarter 1848, Sleaford Registration District, Volume 14, page 513, mother's maiden name Ward

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 2101; Folio 246; Page 15, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Sharpe Row, Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   Robert Walton, head, married, male, 36 [1814/5], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   Elizabeth Walton, wife, married, female, 38 [1812/3], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer']s Wife, b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   Ann Walton, daughter, female, 10 [1840/1], Scholar, b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   Edward Walton, son, male, 7 [1843/4], Scholar, b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   John Walton, son, male, 5 [1845/6], Scholar, b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   William Walton, son, male, 2 [1848/9], b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire

3. ↑ England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG9; Piece 2345; Folio 96; Page 9, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: 6 North Street, Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   Robert Walton, head, married, male, 46 [1814/5], Ag[ricultura]l Lab[ourer], b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   Elizabeth Walton, wife, married, female, 48 [1812/3], b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   Luke Walton, son, unmarried, male, 22 [1838/9], Carpenter Jour[ney]man, b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   William Walton, son, male, 12 [1848/9], b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire

4. ↑ England. England and Wales. 1871 Census Schedules. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG10; Piece 2905; Folio 18; Page 29, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address: 1 Russell Street, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire
   William Gould, head, married, male, 32 [1838/9], Labourer at Brewery, b. Burton, Staffordshire
   Mary Gould, wife, married, female, 32 [1838/9], b. Burbage, Leicestershire
   Sarah Ann Gould, daughter, female, 9 [1861/2], Scholar, b. Burton, Staffordshire
   Catherine Gould, daughter, female, 7 [1863/4], Scholar, b. Burton, Staffordshire
   Henry Gould, son, male, 3 [1867/8], Scholar, b. Burton, Staffordshire
   Elizabeth Gould, daughter, female, 5mo [1870], b. Burton, Staffordshire
   John Dawson, boarder, married, male, 40 [1830/1], Labourer at Brewery, b. Burbage, Leicestershire
   Thomas Clark, boarder, unmarried, male, 24 [1846/7], Labourer at Brewery, b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   William Walton, boarder, unmarried, male, 22 [1848/9], Labourer at Brewery, b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire

5. ↑ England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG11; Piece 2758; Folio 70; Page 2, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: Linton Heath, Linton, Derbyshire
   William Walton, head, married, male, 32 [1848/9], Coal Miner, b. Hale Magney [sic], Lincolnshire
   Sarah Walton, wife, married, female, 27 [1853/4], b. Burton on Trent, Staffordshire
   Samuel Farn, unmarried, male, 19 [1861/2], Coal Miner, b. Hilton, Staffordshire

6. ↑ England. 1891 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG12; Piece 2199; Folio 79; Page 22, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: Castle Gresley, Derbyshire
   William Walton, head, married, male, 42 [1848/9], Coal miner, employed, b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   Sarah Walton, wife, married, female, 37 [1853/4], b. Burton, Staffordshire
   Annie Walton, niece, single, female, 11 [1879/80], b. Great Hale, Lincolnshire
   John Fearn, father in law, married, male, 62 [1828/9], Coll[ier]y Banksman, employed, b. Ch[urch] Broughton, Staffordshire
   Mary Fearn, mother in law, married, female, 71 [1819/20], b. Marchington, Staffordshire
   Samuel Fearn, son, single, male, 29 [1861/2], Coll[ier]y Banksman, employed, b. Hilton, Derbyshire

7.   Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. William WALTON, June Quarter 1896, Burton upon Trent Registration District, Volume 6b, page 221, aged 47 [1848/9]

8. ↑ Burials register, in Linton, Derbyshire, England. Parish Registers of Christ Church (Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Church Gresley in the County of Derby in the year One thousand eight hundred and ninety six
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   537	William Walton	Castle Gresley	May 20 1896	47 years	F.R. Averill Hoare, Vicar