Mabel Pray Walker

Female27 December 1869–3 June 1943

Brief Life History of Mabel Pray

When Mabel Pray Walker was born on 27 December 1869, in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Joseph Albert Walker, was 30 and her mother, Amanda Malvina Pettigrew, was 31. She died on 3 June 1943, at the age of 73.

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Douglas Dallam
1861–1928
Mabel Pray Walker
1869–1943

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  • Mabel Walker in household of Joseph A. Walker, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Mabel Pray Walker, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
  • Miss Mabel Walker in entry for Master Joseph Albert Harris Walker, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

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World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 1

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

Age 1

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

Age 21

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

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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