Walter was born in Netherton in the Black Country on 12 August 1867. His brother Joseph (Uncle Jo – the family got a legacy from him) was born in 1870. His mother was Ann Maria Harper who as 32, and Simeon Raybould who was 31. Walter had a brother Frank and another, Samuel, when he was 4 and 5, and when Walter was born he was living at 38 Halesowen Road in Netherton and the census records of 1870 show his parents living there with Agnes who was 11 and Harry who was 9. Walter died on 12 December 1946

Emily Jane (Brown) was also born in 1870 on 14 July in Warwick. Her father was the licensee of the Roebuck Inn. Her Mother was Jane Elizabeth Tranter who was married to Thomas Brown. She had a sister Margarita Annie when she was 1 year old, and her brother William Harry died when she was 2. When she was 6 her mother gave birth to a sister Beatrice. Her Father died when she was 8, and her mother passed away in the same year. She was then placed with her sister, Marguerite Annie into Josiah Mason’s Orphanage. Upon release (is there any other word?!) she went to live with her Uncle Thomas and Aunt Annie Maria Crutchley (Raybould) where he was a butcher at 117 Stratford Road, Sparkhill. She died in 1942 (26th August) aged 72, and they had been married for 45 years.

Both were married at Christ Church, Sparkbrook, on 7th December 1896 and their first child Annie Maria, who was known as Nancy was born on 21st September 1897. By 1902 the census shows them living at Aston and he had a job as a rubber tyre worker at the India Tyre Company.