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Lancashire / Re: Valentine Walls (Blackrod/Aspull/Wigan) where did you come from ?
« on: Tuesday 20 August 13 13:11 BST (UK) »
Hello, I am a very newcomer to this. Started a few years ago, stopped and lost everything, and now back again to try and work it out.
I was a Walls originally from Wavertree in Liverpool. I've worked back to find the family came from Aspull/Blackrod/Westhoughton but there seem so many branches it's getting confusing.
The one who moved to Wavertree as Robert Walls b. 1823 in Westhoughton. He had moved to Liverpool by the 1861 census and worked as engine driver on railways.
As far as I can work out (in a very amateur way...) his father was John Walls b. 1781 in Blackrod.
His father was Thomas Walls (Whalls) b. 1761 in Blackrod. It seems Thomas's mother was Alice Whalls who was a prolific babymaker with various fathers! Have found 2 records in National Archives where she is claiming filiation and maintenance of her 'bastard children', including Thomas Whalls.
Apart from her many children (Richard 1750, Sally 1854, Hannah 1858, Thomas 1761 and Isabell 1778) I cant find anything else about her, like birth or death.
Hope I haven't gone too far wrong or gone off the thread too much, but any help would be appreciated.
Maybe I'm related to some of you!
I was a Walls originally from Wavertree in Liverpool. I've worked back to find the family came from Aspull/Blackrod/Westhoughton but there seem so many branches it's getting confusing.
The one who moved to Wavertree as Robert Walls b. 1823 in Westhoughton. He had moved to Liverpool by the 1861 census and worked as engine driver on railways.
As far as I can work out (in a very amateur way...) his father was John Walls b. 1781 in Blackrod.
His father was Thomas Walls (Whalls) b. 1761 in Blackrod. It seems Thomas's mother was Alice Whalls who was a prolific babymaker with various fathers! Have found 2 records in National Archives where she is claiming filiation and maintenance of her 'bastard children', including Thomas Whalls.
Apart from her many children (Richard 1750, Sally 1854, Hannah 1858, Thomas 1761 and Isabell 1778) I cant find anything else about her, like birth or death.
Hope I haven't gone too far wrong or gone off the thread too much, but any help would be appreciated.
Maybe I'm related to some of you!