Birth: 25 November 1887 Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK
Father: George Adams 1847-1918
Mother: Fanny (Fanney) Wright 1850-1925
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1918 Rotherham, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Elsie May Cutts 1898-1976
Death: July-September 1958 Rotherham, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Evelyn Adams 1918-1919
Mary Adams [Taylor] 1919-a1950
Grace Adams [Smith] 1923-1977
Birth of Walter Wright Adams in FreeBMD in January-March 1888 in Rotherham (9C 617).
In the 1891 census as Webster (sic - on the original) Adams aged 5 (3 would be more accurate), born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, and living with his parents (George and Fanny), five sisters (Fanny, Jessie, Lucy, Lydia and Rachel), and a boarder (Williams Adams aged 32, born in Norfolk, and a brickyard's labourer) at 24 Arthur Street, Kimberworth, Yorkshire.
In the 1901 census as Walter Adams aged 12, born in Rotherham, Yorkshire and living with his parents (George and Fanny) in a private house and grocer's shop at 24 Arthur Street, North West Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Entry in Ancestry British Postal Service Appointment Books, 1737-1969 for Walter Wright Adams appointed September 1903 in Sheffield as a junior sorting clerk.
In the 1911 census as Walter Adams aged 23, born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, single, assisting in the (family) business, and living with his parents (George and Fanny), cousin (Lucy Hammond aged 23, born in Welbourne, Lincolnshire) and niece (Elsie Cutts - daughter of Lucy and his future wife) in seven rooms at 24 Arthur Street, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Entry in Ancestry UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 for Walter Wright Adams Private 43987 2/5 and 2/4 York and Lancaster Regiment awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal.
His father died in January-March 1918 in Rotherham.
Marriage of Walter W Adams and Elsie M Cutts in FreeBMD in January-March 1918 in Rotherham (9C 1198).
His daughter was born on 14 June 1918, registered in April-June 1918 in Rotherham, and baptised on 21 July 1918 at Rotherham, St Simon and St Jude, Thurcroft when he was a soldier living at 33 Charles Street. St Simon & St Jude Thurcroft was in the parish of Laughton en le Morthen.
His daughter was born on 1 October 1919 and registered in October-December 1919 in Rotherham.
In the 1921 census as Walter Wright Adams aged 32 years 7 months, born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, a child aged 1, assisting mother (Fancy Adams) in grocing shop at home, and living with his wife (Elsie May), daughter (Mary), widowed mother (Fanny - head of the household) and sister-in-law (Hilda Cutts) in six rooms at 24 Arthur Street, Rotherham, Yorkshire (West Riding).
His daughter was born on 14 August 1923, registered in July-September 1923 in Rotherham, and baptised on 5 September 1923 at Rotherham Minster (formerly Minster Church of All Saints,) when he was a grocer of 71 Arthur Street.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Walter W Adams born 25 November 1887, married, a normaliser sheets a bars, and living with Elsie M Adams (wife?), Grace and Mary Adams (daughters?) at 71 Arthur Street, Rotherham, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Death of Walter W Adams in FreeBMD in July-September 1958 aged 70 in Rotherham (2C 506).
There are twenty seven entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Walter Wright Adams.
Walter Wright Adams was the brother of Rachael Adams, wife of Charlie Edward Read, Felicity's second cousin three times removed. His wife was his cousin, daughter of his sister Lucy.
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