Comments by Henry George Walters


03:33 28 May 2009

Merfyn,

I think a good place to start searching for the Walters of Piercefield would be at www.familysearch.org -

From the menu bar at the top of the page, choose "Search Records" and then "Advanced Search". About half-way down the resulting page is another "Advanced Search" link, choose that one.

Fill in the following boxes:

*First Name - John
*Last Name - Walter
Father - John
Last Name - Walter
Mother - Lucy
Last Name - Barrington
Event - All
Year - 1687
Country - England

Then click on the "Search" button and you will go to a page where you can choose the Ancestral File, and from there, a graphical "Pedigree".

The records at FamilySearch seem to stop at John Walter (1687), but I'm sure that later records exist somewhere. Perhaps some of our cousins still living in the area near Piercefield could help us.

As for my records, they are rather complete, but my lineage goes back to Thomas Walter (1512), the second son of Nicholas Walter (1480).

I can be reached at hwalt713 at yahoo dot com.