Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Walker was born on 3 April 1835, in Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Walker, was 41 and her mother, Jane Shepperd, was 27. She married John Pack on 15 September 1852, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States for about 20 years and West Bountiful Election Precinct, Davis, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 5 April 1908, in Woods Cross, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Mary J Jack, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Jane Walker - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mary Jane WALKER
- Mary Jane Pack, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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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Our Treasured Heritage - Mary Jane Walker - Personal History
Written by Frederick J. Pack Family records written sometime after Mother came to Utah all state that she was born in Davenport, Devonshire, England, but a record in the Church Historian’s Office, nu …
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