Brief Life History of Joseph P.
When Joseph P. Walker was born on 1 October 1807, in Bedford, Virginia, United States, his father, Robert Munford Walker Sr., was 36 and his mother, Mary Smith, was 29. He married Eleanor Amyx on 2 April 1832, in Bedford, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Heaths Creek Township, Pettis, Missouri, United States in 1860.
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- J P Walker, "United States Census, 1860"
- Joseph P. Walker, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1943"
- Joseph P. Walker, "Find a Grave Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Monumental Church Built
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
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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