John Henry Walker

Brief Life History of John Henry

When John Henry Walker was born on 6 November 1806, in Bullingham, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Walker, was 36 and his mother, Mary Ann Woakes, was 30. He married Ann Preece on 17 October 1824, in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. He died on 22 March 1879, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Murray Cemetery, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Henry Walker
1806–1879
Ann Preece
1799–1859
Marriage: 17 October 1824
Caroline Walker
1824–1843
Ann Walker
1827–1897
Eliza Walker
1829–1910
Sarah Walker
1832–1864
Elizabeth Walker
1834–1837
Maria Walker
1836–1930
Ellen Walker
1838–1842
Selina Walker
1841–1921
John Henry Walker
1843–1915
Charles Walker
1851–

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  • Henry Walker, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
  • Henry Walker, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Henry Walker, "Find A Grave Index"

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1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

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.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

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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