When George Walker was born on 21 December 1801, in Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Walker, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Cooling, was 21. He married Jane Ashford on 20 May 1830, in Lydford, Devon, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 24 May 1888, in Medonte Township, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 86, and was buried in Medonte Township, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
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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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