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Topic: WALKER/FRIEDEL
Conf: Chautauqua County Queries, Msg: 88613
From: Deleted User
Date: 8/23/2005 01:40 PM

My grandfather was adopted in Kansas from an Orphan Train by Elizabeth (Betsy) Walker. She also had a son named William Andrew Walker who was born Mar 18, 1878 in KS. Her husband David Scott Walker left her shortly after William turned the age of two. They are listed in the 1880 census in Washington Twp, Chautauqua Co. After David left Elizabeth she adopted my grandfather around 1890, and changed his name to Ralph Walker. His name before adoption is unknown but in the 1895 census she had a son named Ralph Fedral, and 5 years later he was listed as Rulolf Walker, and 5 years later as Ralph Walker. I believe that his birth name may have been Rulolf Fedral or given a census taker that couldn't spell, Rudolph Friedel or Freidel. My grandfather was born in New York City between 1883 to 1886. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Contact Bob Walker - walkerr2@comcast.net