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Spouses/Children:
Jane Shoesmith
- Thomas King Morris
- Walter Henry Morris
- Martha Jane Morris
- William Shoesmith Morris (d.y.)
- Ernest Edwin Morris
- Emily Morris
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Walter William Morris of Southover
- Born: 1829, Eastbourne, Sussex, England
- Christened: 3 Nov 1829, St. Mary, Eastbourne, Sussex, England 1
- Married: 23 Jun 1860, Holy Trinity, Eastbourne, Sussex, England 2
- Died: 11 Dec 1890, Priory St., Lewes, Sussex, England
- Buried: 15 Dec 1890, St. John the Baptist, Southover, Sussex, England 3
 Research Notes:
Walter son of William Morris of Southbourne, watchmaker, and Martha (baptismal record)
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At the time of the 1851 England Census Walter Morris, aged 21, born in Eastbourne Sussex, unmarried, was working as a draper's shopman in High Street, Lewes St. Thomas in the Cliffe, Sussex.
In 1854 Walter was a beneficiary of his father's Will.
On 23 Jun 1860 Walter Morris and his bride-to-be Jane Shoesmith were present at the marriage of Walter's widowed sister Mercy King to Henry Dennis in Eastbourne Sussex. Walter and Jane were married there on the same day.
At the time of the 1871 England Census Walter Morris, aged 41, born in Eastbourne Sussex, draper's assistant, and wife Jane, aged 33, born in Lewes Sussex, were living in Priory Street, Southover Sussex. With them were children (born in Lewes): Thomas King (8), scholar, Walter Henry (7), scholar, Martha Jane (5), Ernest Edwin (2), and brother-in-law Henry Wm. Shoesmith (25) of Lewes, grocer.
At the time of the 1881 England Census Walter Morris, aged 51, born in Eastbourne Sussex, widower, was living at 57 Priory St., Lewes St. John Southover, Sussex. With him were sons (born in Lewes): Tom King (18), fruiterer, and Walter H (17), printer.
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Walter William Morris of Southover died aged 61 years (burial record).
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MORRIS.—On the 11th inst., at Priory-street, Lewes, Walter W. Morris, aged 61.
Sussex Agricultural Express, 16 December 1890, p. 2
Marriage Information:
Walter married Jane Shoesmith, daughter of William Shoesmith and Jane Wood, on 23 Jun 1860 in Holy Trinity, Eastbourne, Sussex, England. (Jane Shoesmith was born on 28 Feb 1833 in Lewes, Sussex, England, christened on 14 Apr 1833 in Lewes Tabernacle (Congregational), Lewes, Sussex, England, and was buried on 6 Jan 1873 in St. John the Baptist, Southover, Sussex, England, aged 39 years.)
Marriage Notes:
Walter Morris, of full age, bachelor, linen draper, resident of Lewes, son of William Morris, watch maker, and
Jane Shoesmith, of full age, spinster, resident of Eastbourne, daughter of William Shoesmith, carpenter
Married by Licence
Witnesses: Henry Dennes*, Mercy King*
* Mercy King, widowed sister of the groom, married again to Henry Dennes on the same day.
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