John# Walton

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Can't find wedding on familysearch.

Was he an army deserter?? Army Deserters List FHO;
Name John WALTON alias – Corps 2nd Bat. Gren. Gds. Age 20 – Origin –, Derby, Derbyshire (DBY), ENG Trade Labourer Summary 2nd Bat. Gren. Gds.; 20; Derby; Derbyshire; Labourer; 12 Dec 1832 Date 12 Dec 1832

1841 Census; there are two John Walton's of roughly the correct age living in Tideswell and born in Derbyshire but due to childrens name etc this is the correct one; living, age ~35 at Town End, Tideswell with wife and children. Occupation; Ag Lab.

Mar 1844; Sarah Margaret's birth cert. is listed as Labourer.

1851 Census (age ?) Living at Back Lane, Tideswell with wife and children. Occupation; Farm Labourer.

1861 Census (age 59). Living at Town End, Tideswell with wife and children (Sarah is servant elsewhere). Occupation; General Labourer.

1863; Listed as labourer on dau Sarah Margaret's wedding.

1871 Census. Is virtually unreadable. Summary of interepreting a) the actual form b) what ancestry thinks form says and c) what we already know; (age 68) living as 'Head' at Town End, Tideswell. Is widower. Also in house are 2 daughters Elizabeth (unm) and Sarah and 2 grandchildren. Occupation; Agricultural Labourer.

John# married Elizabeth# Crooks. (Elizabeth# Crooks was born in 1808 in Tideswell, Derbyshire and died Q1 1871 in Bakewell, Derbyshire.)