ID: Walter Fairfield 1810 census (Gen. 6: John-Walter-William-Skipper-William-David)

Source: original image from Connecticut, Windham County, Woodstock

Transcription: Walter Fairfield w/2 males under 10, 1 m 10-15, 1 m 26-44, 3 females under 10, 2 f 10-15, 1 f 26-44

Notes: Walter was the son of William and Eleanor (Cruff) Fairfield. Walter was born circa 1767, according to Fairfield historian Wynn Cowan Fairfield, who quotes an unknown source that indicated Walter was "about 16 years old" on April 14, 1783." Walter married 1) Abigail (unknown surname) certainly sometime before 1794, when tombstone dates indicate their son Reuben was born (he died March 21, 1803, "in his 10th year" and is buried at Woodstock Hill Cemetery, as per NEHGS cemetery transcriptions). But Walter & Abigail may have married up to a decade earlier, since Walter's 1800 & 1810 census entries include children in the household of ages that would imply a marriage perhaps as early as 1785. Furthermore, the 1800 census lists two unidentified sons and two daughters from his first marriage, and the 1810 adds even more unidentified children -- none of which has yet been identified with any certainty or documentation to this day (though some of the females could be the "missing" children of his ailing brother David in the 1810 census)..

Walter's first wife Abigail died March 16, 1806, in the "37th year of her age" (Woodstock Hill tombstone). Walter then married 2) Sybil (unknown surname) sometime after 1806. Sybil died September 25, 1820, age 54 (Woodstock Hill tombstone). Since Walter continued to appear in the census through 1840, he didn't die until after then, but evidently did so before the 1850 census, from which he is absent.