I have most of my lines back to early 1700s including my 3rd gt grandfather George Walton who married Jane Frances Driscoll. I have all the census records, his War Office records, as he was in the 2nd Batt Rifle Brigade and was pensioned in 1839 and collected in Birmingham, where he was born. I have got all the census records available, upon which Jane Frances Driscoll claimed she was born in London, Surrey. In the 1861, 1871 census she is missing, although George states he is married. I located his Will in Birmingham dated 1874 in which he disinherited his wife and youngest son because she eloped with a Francis Hibell. I then researched the Hibell family and found two ladies on that line, who gave me more information and put me in touch with a gentleman in Leeds, England who was advertising for rellies of George Walton.

He had a copy of a journal of George Walton, written from 1813-1854, in which he gives details of his sojourn in the Rifle Brigade, his first hand eyewitness account of the Battle of Waterloo, travels in and around France, Belgium, Southern Ireland, Devon, and travels to Birmingham to see family, etc, etc. A most exciting treasure. Whilst in England last December, he sent me the journal to copy. He also has copies of small miniatures of George and Jane which he has promised to share with me. This journal has unlocked some of the mysteries of Jane Frances Driscoll/O'Driscoll and her family is from Kinsale. I have her birth date but cannot confirm exactly where she was born. I know that she was married in Kinsale in 1826 and I have that information as part of his War Office records. Her mother died of Cholera in 1832 in Kinsale (from the journal) but I do not know her name. She had a brother T.Driscoll and there was a Martha Driscoll. She had a cousin name Mr. Petherick who was captain of a ship in Devon.

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