Hello Suz,
Thanks for your reply.
I do have copy of Walters Marriage to both Martha and Katherine from the Derbyshire record office, so I am confident that he was indeed married twice. I do not know what happened to Martha, but she died young. Walter married Katherine Keen (sometimes spelt Catherine) just over a year after the death of Martha.
I have babtism records for Walter and Katherines children again from the DRO, but I have not got records for his first marriage children. Mary, William and John were all in the Ilkeston records, whilst Charles, my direct decendant was in the Heanor records.
I have noted the Walter Tinley Mary Handley marriage, whilst he is most probably linked to our line, ie related to Walter b 1768, he is not his father. It would seem that this Walter died within a year of his Marriage as his wife Mary re-married Thomas Martin of Smalley in 1764, before our Walter was born. It is possible that this Walter was an uncle to my Walter.
My favourite contender for Walters parents are Thomas Tinley b abt 1736, Duffield and Martha Taylor. They married on 2nd Feb 1761 at Duffield. This Thomas could be the brother of the Walter who married Mary Handley above. Thomas and Martha had a daughter Grace born 1765, West Hallam, christened 23rd Oct 1765. So is Grace our Walters sister
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My Walter named his first born son Thomas, could this be in honour of his father.
So all in all if I were to be able to get up to Derbyshire I would research Thomas Tinley, born Duffield, married Duffield, children born or baptised West Hallam.
Even though I am not too sure of where they are Duffield and West Hallam sound a promising research area.
Trouble is it all takes so much time, I'll have to get a camper van
Once again thanks for the help.
Take care
Paul.