Brief Life History of Archibald Kavanaugh
When Archibald Kavanaugh Walker was born on 29 November 1852, in Garrard, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Williams Walker, was 50 and his mother, Jane Miller Kavanaugh, was 43. He married Sabra Judith Owsley on 27 May 1875, in Lincoln, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Magisterial District 4 Paint Lick, Garrard, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years. He died on 6 April 1931, in Lancaster, Garrard, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Garrard, Kentucky, United States.
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- A W Walker in household of John W Walker, "United States Census, 1860"
- Archebald K. Walker, "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960"
- A K Walker, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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