Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Walker was born about 1818, in Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Walker, was 30 and his mother, Mary Burditt, was 32. He married Sarah Medlock on 21 August 1843, in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in St John The Baptist's Church, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891.
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- Henry Walker, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
- Henry Walker, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Henry Walker in entry for Emma Walker, "England, Huntingdonshire Parish Registers"
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1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
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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