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On 29th November 1834 Walter Williams was born; his given name George Walter Williams. He was baptised with his sister Caroline and his brother Francis on June 26, 1837 at the St. Pancras Church in Camden, London.
1856. Walter Williams [aged 21]. "Hastings Beach, East Sussex".
1856. Walter Williams [aged 21]. "Misty Morning, Old Hastings, East Sussex".
On 27th June 1857 Walter Williams [aged 22] and Jane Caroline Pearcy [aged 25] were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. They had two children.
1869. Walter Williams [aged 34]. "A Surrey Cornfield".
On 20th October 1872 [his wife] Jane Caroline Pearcy [aged 40] died in Barnes, Surrey.
1873. Walter Williams [aged 38]. "Harvesting".
1873. Walter Williams [aged 38]. "Haymaking".
1874. Walter Williams [aged 39]. "On the Lledr".
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1905 Walter Williams [aged 70] transferred from the Croydon Workhouse to the Richmond Union Workhouse.
Before 1906. Walter Williams [aged 71]. "Stonehenge in Winter".
On 14th April 1906 Walter Williams [aged 71] died in a poorhouse in Richmond, Surrey and was buried in a pauper's grave.