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What a small, small world ours has become:  the answer to your question is Alice, not Bert.  The inquiry that I began many years ago before Alice's death is a never-ending one, for more information is available online with each passing day. However, there are still so many missing pieces to the puzzle.   

My quest for details on the Walkers and Snellings led me to reconnect with the family in Kentucky.  So, I call Bert periodically to pry into her memory while checking up on her. 

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I, too, am trying to trace James (b1819) and Sarah Walker (b1820).  One of their children, surely the last if indeed he was their child, was William (b1868) my great-grandfather on my mother's side. 

I have not as yet retrieved a copy of William's birth certificate, but research of Staffordshire Births Marriages and Deaths narrows the field.  If the birth year is correct, William's mother's name was Flannagan (L/28/329).

However, I think it highly unlikely that Sarah, who would have been 48 at the time, was William's mother.  Thus, even assuming that William's mother's name was Flannagan, that does not to me indicate that Sarah's maiden name was Flannagan. 

Turning to the 1861 census data, James and Sarah had two young daughters, Alicia 4 and Eunice 2.  I was able to locate the birth record for Alice (not Alicia), but I have not been able to find any record for a Eunice Walker. 

If you have any additional information regarding James, Sarah and their descendants, do share!