James Waller (1808–81)

Hairdresser and canary fancier. Of 49 Tabernacle Walk, Finsbury, London. Considered one of the three chief breeders of the London fancy canary at the end of the nineteenth century.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/409/35/20), 1881 (RG11/1371/75/41)

Correspondence vol. 16, letter from J. J. Weir, 3 June 1868

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 December 2019)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 December 2019)

Post Office London directory 1868

R. L. Wallace [1899], p. 250.