Henry Walker

Brief Life History of Henry

Henry Walker was born in 1836, in Nova Scotia, Canada as the son of Samuel Walker and Elizabeth Butler. He lived in New Ross 20, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Walker
1799–
Elizabeth Butler
–1914
Mary Ann Walker Driscoll
1823–1892
James Walker
Murra Walker
Samuel Walker
1825–
Maria Walker
1826–1909
Caroline Walker
1826–
Eliza Walker
1828–
James Walker
1831–
William Walker
1833–1835
Phebe Walker
1834–
Henry Walker
1835–
Henry Walker
1836–
John Joseph Walker
1836–1920
Edward Walker
1840–
Phoebe Walker
1844–

Sources (2)

  • Henry Walker in household of Samuel Walker, "Canada Census, 1871"
  • Henry Walker, "England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988"

World Events (8)

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

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.

1869

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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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