Susannah Walker

Brief Life History of Susannah

When Susannah Walker was born on 25 October 1736, in King and Queen, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, John Walker, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Baylor, was 41. She married William Henry Fleet Jr. on 9 November 1755, in King and Queen, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 19 February 1808, in Madison, Madison, Virginia, United States, at the age of 71.

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Family Time Line

William Henry Fleet Jr.
1726–1773
Susannah Walker
1736–1808
Marriage: 9 November 1755
Edwin Fleet
1755–1778
John Fleet
1755–1833
Alexander Peter Fleet
1761–1837
Elizabeth Fleet
1767–
Henry Fleet
William Henry Fleet III
1757–1833
Mary Anne Fleet
1759–1820

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1758 · Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.

1775

"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

Name Meaning

English (mainly North and Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English walker, Old English wealcere (an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’), ‘one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it, in order to strengthen it’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker . As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’. This surname is also very common among African Americans.

History: The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, c. 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen County, VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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