WALPOLES OF NORFOLK (Janice Doughty)   Hi Janice   I wonder if you could find his mother, Mary Walpole, on any of the early censuses?  If you can pin down where and when she was born then you can check if there was a Mary Walpole baptised at that place and time - then the likelihood would be that he was illegitimate.  At least then you would have a Walpole line to follow again?   Will have a look myself if I get time.   Good luck  Rosie (Frost)

Good morning Rosemary, I am now convinced that Robert was illegitimate and is not directly related to Sir Robert Walpole, as my niece-in-law's family believed. I suppose having the surname Walpole they would like think they were. Maybe, way back before Sir Robert all the Walpoles in Norfolk would have a common ancestor. >From information recently sent to me, if the Mary Walpole mention maybe Robert's mother, then she did marry later on. It also appears she had another illegitimate son Henry, before she married. However, this has to be worked through to see if all the dots line up. Cheers Janice Belrose - Sydney ----- Original Message ----- From: "rosemary frost" <rosemaryfrostuk@yahoo.co.uk> To: <norfolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [NFK] NORFOLK Digest, Vol 6, Issue 385 > WALPOLES OF NORFOLK (Janice Doughty) > > > Hi Janice > > I wonder if you could find his mother, Mary Walpole, on any of the early > censuses? If you can pin down where and when she was born then you can > check if there was a Mary Walpole baptised at that place and time - then > the likelihood would be that he was illegitimate. At least then you would > have a Walpole line to follow again? Will have a look myself if I get > time. > > Good luck Rosie (Frost) > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >