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Walter's obituary

On 22 November 1864, in St Peter's, he married Eunice Cockett.  She was the daughter of David and Eunice Cockett  and was born c1841.

It is believed that the couple, who had two children, spent the rest of their lives in Bexhill.  An extract from ‘Our Second Pilgrimage - Tales of Old Bexhill’ reads:

Recalling the days of old, one person stands out prominently, Walter Christian, than whom I never met a finer man.  The impact that such a man makes upon life, is out of all proportion the the size of the sphere in which he lives.  He lived his life in a narrow sphere, but never with a narrow outlook, and his influence goes out through the earth.  Like most of us his educational advantages were few, yet he was a man of marked intellectual outlook and ability.  He possessed the soul of a musician, of an artist and of a poet rolled into one.  A lover of nature and still more of nature's god, a man in whom God abounded.  According to census papers Walter Christian was born in 1843.

After their deaths, Eunice in 1922 and Walter in 1925, the couple were buried in Bexhill Cemetery.