Brief Life History of Winifred Belle
When Winifred Belle Walker was born on 17 November 1876, in Rutland, Vermont, United States, her father, Norris V Walker Jr, was 28 and her mother, Anna Cochran, was 21. She lived in Rutland Town, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1880. She died on 25 September 1904, in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in West Rutland, Rutland, Vermont, United States.
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- Belle W Walker in household of Norris Walker, "United States Census, 1880"
- Winnifred B. Walker, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924"
- Winnifred B. Walker, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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