Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Walker was born in 1773, in Derby, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Walker, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth Chapman, was 32. She married Enoch Vernon on 10 September 1803, in Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Peak Forest, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died in 1844, in Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 71.
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- Mary Vernon in household of Enock Vernon, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Walker - Church record: Baptism record or certificate: birth-name: Mrs.Mary Vernon
- Vernon/Walker, "Pallot's Marriage Index for England" - 1803
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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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