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b. 23 March 1847

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d. 16 November 1915, Johnstone, Co. Renfrew The 1851 census shows young Walter aged three (see page 56), living not with his parents but with his mother’s father William Love, a weaver at Windmill Street, Ardrossan, Co. Ayr, who was born there about 1791 – an unexpected extra for the family tree. Walter started work as an iron moulder and pattern maker (making moulds for casting iron goods), a job that caused him to move to Paisley and later Johnstone (about 15 miles or 24 kilometers north-east of Ardrossan), where he died.

Ancestors’ occupations can be discovered from family papers. This letter of 1968 congratulates the fourth Walter Hooks on his retirement from the Prudential Assurance Co. (for which he had worked all his life, before and after his army service in the Second World War) and wishes him and his wife ‘many happy years of retirement together’.

Walter the fourth’s grandson Scott Crowley visiting Ardrossan in 2003.