When Adam Walton was born about 1816, in Canada, his father, Thomas Walton, was 39 and his mother, Jane Wallace, was 38. He had at least 7 sons and 2 daughters with Hannah Bailes. He lived in Scarborough Settlement, York, Ontario, Canada in 1871. He died on 11 December 1871, at the age of 56, and was buried in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
British Columbia joins the confederation.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Walton, which are named with Old English walh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala), wald ‘woodland’, wall ‘wall’, or wælla ‘well, spring, stream’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
History: George Walton (1741–1804) signed the Declaration of Independence. He was born in Prince Edward County, VA, whither his grandfather had emigrated from England in 1682. He moved to Savannah, GA, and became governor of GA and a prominent jurist.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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