When William Walters was born on 22 September 1782, in Willenhall, Staffordshire, England, his father, James Walters, was 36 and his mother, Phyllis Walters, was 34. He married Henrietta Fellows on 4 February 1821, in Willenhall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
English: variant of Walter , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
German: patronymic from Walter .
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