Seventeen year old Walter Oakman (born abt 1828) left Belfast on the Mertome which arrived in New York on 4 June 1845. Walter was naturalised on 28 October 1851 and his Naturalisation Certificate gives his address as 186 Monroe St, New York County, witnessed by Clements Oakman of the same address. This indicates Walter and Clements were related in some way.
Walter was working as a Cooper at Saugerties, NY in 1850 and boarding at the home of Sarah Du Bois – as was Robert Oakman who arrived in New York in 1848. I believe these two men were brothers and the sons of Walter and Eliza Oakman of Troy, Rensselaer, NY. What was their relationship to Clement Oakman?
Walter married Roseanna about 1858 and the couple had at least four children – Eliza, John B, Annie and William.