Here is an update to my research on Walter Edwards, and as you can probably guess I an stuck again.
1. Walter said he was born 16/10/1910 but could not get a birth certificate to prove it.
2. Walter was my wife's grandfather but she has no DNA matches to any of the Edwards families in Nottingham/Derby where Walter came from.
3. My wife does have numerous DNA matched to a Derby family. James Toplis(b1884) and Emily Jones(b1884)
4. This Toplis family does not have a child named Walter but they do have one names William Henry Toplis who was born on the same day but in 1911, 16/10/1911.
I strongly believe that William Henry Toplis changed his name to Walter Edwards some time between the 1921 census, when he was 9 years old living with his father and step mother, and when he got married in 1934.
I am struggling to corroborate this. I have tried checking the electoral rolls but he would not have been 21 until 1932 when he could have been included.
Has anyone got any ideas?
