In a message dated 25/09/2007 14:24:45 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Good Afternoon I have just received a piece of information that my Waltons came from Newbottle ,Durham in 183 a John Bullerwell Walton was born. I come from the Waltons who settled in "Greymouth " West Coast New Zealand. I was given another site but when I tried to email the person on there it bounced back. Hope there is some connections out there. I'm willing to share. Love to hear from someone Regards Beverley Beverley: It would seem from John Bullerwell Walton's name that he was probably descended from the Bullerwell family, which I have traced back to c1730 at Lintzford on the River Derwent, then in the parish of Ryton (or at least the side of the river where the Waltons lived was!). My Bullerwell pedigree has currently 102 individuals on it. There is only one example of a Bullerwell female marrying a Walton and the good news is that the timing is right and that, although I didn't have them specifically recorded as at Newbottle, they were near enough for it to have been a definite possibility. Ann Bullerwell (b Ryton, 1807) had an illegitimate child baptised at Ryton in 1826 (bap December 31). There had been a disastrous colliery explosion at Stargate. just outside Ryton, in May 1826 and, to be charitable to Ann, the father of her child might have been one of the 39 people (men and boys) who died. She seems to have left the Ryton district and is next heard of when she married John Walton, at Bishopwearmouth, some 20/25 miles away, on 1 November 1830. I have no knowledge of what happened to her next, but it is quite believable that she, John and whatever family they then had, might have settled in Newbottle, then in the parish of Houghton le Spring, just a few miles east of Bishopwearmouth. Please contact me off-line if you would like me to send you brief details of Ann's line back to Lintzford or to e-mail you the complete pedigree. I should say that I myself am not a Bullerwell descendant. I simply have an interest in the family through once coming across someone of that surname and through my having come from Ryton, which is the "Bullerwell homeland" and being interested in its local history! Geoff Nicholson