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This Peter Walker is the right age - death Mar 1929 West Derby Lancs age 68

Maybe he could be ruled out just in case

When do you last have your Peter alive for definite?  Not in 1921 anywhere?

Can the Charles St or  Marblehall Terrace addresses be found to see if he was at either 

Last definite date for Peter alive is his release from Prison in March 1902.

It's prompted me to search the marriage certificates for two of his other children who were married between 1908 and 1913  children 

There is a census record for a Peter Walker lodging at Milford Haven in 1911 - but the fact that he was a trawl fisherman POB  Liverpool is possibly just a coincidence.

His Son's marriage record from 1915 indicates Father deceased.
My grandmother's marriage record from 1916 also notes Father deceased

The Milford Haven register of electors from 1915 and into the 1920's has a Peter Walker at the various addresses.  He doesn't appear in the 1921 census - but he may possibly have been at sea.  I've not been able to track down that section of the 1921 census.

Fathers on marriage certificates weren’t always noted as deceased. 

Often just the fathers name was given so the fact a son in 1921 didn’t say father deceased doesn’t mean he wasn’t. 

Have you checked out Scottish births for him.  Why would he be sent to Dundee?

Checked Scottish Births and deaths with no success.  He was arrested in Dundee and sent to Norwich to face the desertion charge brought by his legal wife - my GGM Florence Gertrude Swan - he was then sent back to Dundee to face the bigamy charge for which he was subsequently imprisoned for 30 days at Dundee. 

I've been unable to trace him following his release from prison.

1911 welsh census has a Peter boarding in house as a deep sea fisher man - status married. POB Liverpool. There is a discrepancy over his DOB from Marriage Record, Census returns and Prison record. There is nothing to confirm that this is 'our' Peter,  however the census indicates that Peter spoke English and Welsh - which gives some credence to him actually having possibly been brought up in Wales rather than Liverpool. One of my cousins in the US spoke to one of Peter's grandsons before he died, and he recollected that he was told his grandfather was Welsh but had never met him as his parents emigrated to Canada, and he was born in Canada.

1924 register of electors a Peter is listed at John Cory Sailor's Rest and Bethel, Charles St, Milford Haven - he would have been around 65 years old at the time

1926 register of electors a Peter Walker at 15 Marblehall Terrace, Milford Haven - renting one furnished room - this would have made him around 67 years old.

I've not been able to find any death record in Wales for a Peter of anything like the correct age.

My father was born in 1920 and the only thing I recollect him saying was that his mother had told him that her father - Peter Walker - was 'a wrong un'
 

I have all of those documents - The Scottish record gives his father as John Walker (deceased) - a seaman.  His mother is named Helen ( also dec) - but no maiden surname. His first marriage at Lowestoft in 1882 to my GGM just gives his father's name as John Walker - a Sailor.  1881 Census record places Peter on board a fishing vessel at Lowestoft - his place of birth is given as Liverpool.  I'm pretty certain that it is the correct Peter, as one of his crew mates was one of the witnesses at his wedding.  I also have a record of Peter being indentured as an apprentice for 3.5 years on board a fishing vessel at Lowestoft in 1877 - age 17 ( ties in with his age at marriage and 1881 census).  The indenture gives his place of birth a Pwllheli.  This ties in with his arrest warrant that also indicates he was from Pwllheli.  I've been unable to locate the birth of a Peter Walker in Pwllheli or the surrounding area within 10 years of his given birth date, or any likely looking Walkers in the 1861 Census records. None of the Liverpool area births had parents named John & Helen - and none of the 'Johns' were apparently sailors.  Desperately trying to break through this brick wall. Other distant relatives (in the USA) are also trying to solve the puzzle - and have posted their assumptions on the various LDS sites - however all I've been able to do is disprove or add significant question marks against them.  Nothing seems to tie up.

You're certainly not the first to have come across a bigamist from Liverpool. -- No relation to yours, but my GGF apparently was from Liverpool, and was a fisherman who married my GGM in Lowestoft.  He deserted my GGM and her children after around 17 years, had a warrant issued for his arrest, and was subsequently arrested and convicted of bigamy in Dundee!  He has proved to be an elusive character with no verifiable records of either his birth or death.

The 1861 birth record in West Derby gives the father's occupation as Labourer, not Mariner / Sailor.