Mystery - Trying to trace my GG Grandfather - Walter Hall; circa 1865

[Milliepede]

I was searching for the name on ancestry in the 1861 census Kent location. 

Amy was quite young so the Walter who was 16 in 1861 is certainly possible but I don't know how we can prove it!

I can post details of the two families if you like.

[KarlaTully]

Please.

Wondered if he'd died in 1865??

[Milliepede]

First one is born Woolwich Kent 1845

Ralph Hall - head 72 tailor born Scotland
Margaret Hall - wife 56 born Ireland
Walter Hall - son 16
Ann F Green - lodger 38

[Milliepede]

There is a Walter Hall death in 1865 Dartford Kent but don't know how old he was.

Your Walter might not even have been born in Kent or living there in 1861 census but it's about the only place to start. 
It's a pity the birth is in the middle of census years and not closer to one or the other!

[Milliepede]

Here's the other Walter born Canterbury 1840

Esther Hall  - head 71 widow laundress
Maria Hall - daughter 39 unmarried laundress
Walter G - grandson 21 it might read surveyor not purveyor and cc or cl (clerk?)
Selina - granddaughter 16 dressmaker

[Milliepede]

Now there are a couple of Walter Hall marriages in Kent in 1865 so maybe he went off and married someone else, impossible to say really 

[KarlaTully]

So complicated....

I wonder whether to order death cert 1865?

[Milliepede]

Let's see if we can rule it out first before you spend any pennies.

The death was in the first quarter of 1865.  You say he registered the birth of Walter Jnr who was born 3rd May soooooo he must have been alive in May. 

How do you know the father registered it himself?  Is it because the surname is registered as Hall?
Ok answered my own question it says he did on the birth certificate right 

[KarlaTully]

I ordered the birth cert as I had to clear up whether Walter Thomas Ellis and Hall were the same person - and they were.

Walter Hall (senior) registered the birth and stated that Amy's previous name was Ellis, which I do not think is true.