Walton: Virgin births in Yelvertoft Northamptonshire

[Janet Turnbull]

I am trying to discover who the father(s) of Alice Walton's five children were. One of the daughters of John and Charlotte Walton, Alice apparently lived at home in Yelvertoft according to the 1851 and 1861 censuses, working as a laundress until she was 35 when she married 20-year-old Charles Gwinn.
She had five children before she married, all born in Yelvertoft:

Jeffry Davis Walton  29 Jun 1863
Rosanna Walton  27 Mar 1866
Richard William Walton  1870
Emma Hollis Walton  17 Nov 1871
Frederick Walton  13 May 1874
and none of them have a father's name on the birth certificate.

Does anyone have access to quarter sessions records or bastardy orders please?

[Milliepede]

Well the two middle names "Davis" and "Hollis" might be a clue to the culprits.

You could have a nose at census around their births in the vicinity to see if any likely candidates pop up.  Wouldn't be conclusive evidence but might lead to something.

[avm228]

Welcome to Rootschat 

James William Hollis b 1849 Yelvertoft (son of John and Anna) looks a possibility for the paternity of Emma, depending on his whereabouts in the early 1870s.  By 1880 he was a married farmer in Kansas, his widowed mother with him and his family there.

His brother John Price Hollis b 1845 died in 1866 aged 21.

[suzard]

there is a Jeffrey Davis who is a servant in 1851/1861 and married no children by 1871
His baptism Jeffrey Albert Davis baptised 12 Feb 1832 Cold Higham Northants father John occ Lab mother Ann address Grimscote

might be a candidate for Jeffry Davis Waltons father??

Suz

[avm228]

Richard William Walton  1870

I think Richard was actually born in 1869?

Richard William Walton, Dec qtr 1869 Rugby 6d 455.

[avm228]

Baptisms at Yelvertoft:

09 Jun 1867: Geofry Davis, son of Alice Walton
09 Jun 1867: Rose Annie, daur of Alice Walton
30 Nov 1880: Frederick, son of Alice Walton
30 Nov 1880: Emma, daur of Alice Walton

11 May 1888: George Ball, son of Rose Ann Walton