Brief Life History of Esther Jane
When Esther Jane Walker was born on 28 September 1876, in Coolumbooka, New South Wales, Australia, her father, Mark Walker, was 34 and her mother, Sophia Tingey, was 30. She married Richard Walker in 1904. She died in 1938, in Auburn, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 62.
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1877
Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
1892
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
1901
First Federal election.
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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