Oh yes Ruskie, I've looked at all sorts of Scotts in the Preshute census, and there is even another Walter John Scott who was born in 1855, and I thought he was mine and that he'd lied about his age when he went to sea, but then I found two of them in the 1881 census. I wonder if they are related, i.e. same area, perhaps a family name.... I scrolled through the census pages of that part of the Preshute parish looking for anythng that might help, but struck out.
Yes, I think I'll need to get the marriage records for a father's name and see if that helps.
I'm ok with tracing his wife Caroline Pink's family, found them.
