Census entry for 1861 2 Pelham Street, Stepney (Mile End, New Town). Ecclesiastical district: All Saints. RG9 268 43.

Walter	Head	M	54	Ship rigger	Middx n:k
Harriett	Wife	M	45	None	Middx n:k
Charles	Son	U	14	Scholar	Middx n:k
Walter	Son	U	12	Scholar	Middx n:k
George	Son	U	8	Scholar	Middx n:k
Thomas	Son	U	4	Scholar	Middx n:k
Henry	Son	U	1		Middx n:k

* n:k is probably not known.

William & Elizabeth (Thomason) moved from Warwickshire to the East End of London. The Warwickshire Brinds had a daughter Harriet who married Charles Alexander Dolton on 26/06/1821 at St Matthew, Bethnal Green. Walter's wife (also Harriet) had the surname Dolton before she married him. It was not uncommon for brother and sister to marry brother and sister.

Walter had a sister (Esther Bone Christened 11/6/1813). Both Walter and Esther were Christened at the same church Harriet from Warwickshire married in, St Matthew, Bethnal Green. This is the church William (Walter's father) was buried at on February 15, 1816. He died at the age of 65. When Esther Bone was Christened the registered said William was a coal meter. Walter's marriage certificate says that his father William had been a coal meter.

Charles Bourn (very similar to Bone, perhaps the Mormons have wrongly recorded one of the names?) was the youngest of the Warwickshire family. It's easy to find a death entry for such an uncommon name, and this reveals that he died in 1862 at the age of 62 in Mile End, just down the road from Stepney.

Finally, the nautical connection. Walter was a journeyman ship rigger, when he entered his occupation on the birth certificate of his son Henry. The eldest son of the Warwickshire Brinds was the captain of a whaling ship.

There is some reason to believe Walter got married in Hackney in 1845.