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Surname	Waldin	Alternative Surname	Walldin
First Name	Samuel, of Winchester	Initial of Surname	W
Year of Birth/Baptism	c1730	Flourished
Year of Death	1804
Biographical Details	The son of Samuel Waldin, a Winchester farmer, he was apprenticed to John Blake in 1744, but did not trouble to take up his freedom until 30 years later. In 1781 he was employed on repair work at Winchester Palace. The Knollys monument is a large tablet with a pediment and garlands (1). The Chernocke tablet has an urn and two allegorical figures under a large willow tree (3). On Waldin’s death his son, Samuel, took over the business (Monthly Mag, 1804, II, 370). Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 411