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Following Alice’s death, Daniel Tull married Clara Palmer. When Daniel died just 14 months later, in December 1897, she found that she could not cope with all the children and made the difficult decision to split the family up. Walter and his older brother Edward were placed in the care of the Bonner Road Children's Home and Orphanage in Bethnal Green, East London. Walter’s two sisters, Cecilia and Elsie, and his half-sister, Miriam, stayed with Clara. Cecilia went into service. In 1899 Clara married again, to William Beer, and in 1901 the Beers, Elsie and Miriam were living in Coldred. They later moved to Redvers Cottages in Kearsney.
It is from this house that both Elsie and Miriam were married at St Peter & St Paul’s Church in River. Elsie married Alfred Seward, a motor mechanic, on 3 April 1920. The marriage was witnessed by her step-father and step-sister. In 1924 Miriam married Leslie Kingsland, a railway clerk. One of the witnesses to the marriage was Elsie’s husband, Alfred.
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Despite his parents’ death and family separation, Walter’s new family in Dover remained in touch. After his death he was always in their thoughts; in 1921 they ensured that his name was inscribed on their Parish Memorial at River. There is also a scroll in the church which bears his name. The family attended the unveiling of the memorial, laying a wreath which read “From Mum and Dad, Elsie and Miriam”. Miriam later named her only child after her lost brother.
"Walter Tull’s Family History in Dover and Folkestone", Dover War Memorial Project
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