Brief Life History of Selina
When Selina Walker was born on 19 April 1841, in Bullingham, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Henry Walker, was 34 and her mother, Ann Preece, was 41. She married John Egbert Hammond on 21 November 1862, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Spring Valley, Lincoln, Nevada, United States in 1900. She died on 15 December 1921, in Ursine, Lincoln, Nevada, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Hammond Cemetery, Ursine, Lincoln, Nevada, United States.
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- Celina Walker in household of Henry Walker, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Selina Walker, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Selina W Hammond, "BillionGraves Index"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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Hammond, Selina Walker, Autobiographical sketch [ca. 1913-1915], 1-3.
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