Charles Matthew James Walker

Brief Life History of Charles Matthew James

When Charles Matthew James Walker was born on 21 September 1905, in Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia, his father, Tom Walker, was 38 and his mother, Margaret Brown, was 30. He died on 6 September 1963, in Queensland, Australia, at the age of 57.

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Family Time Line

Tom Walker
1867–
Margaret Brown
1876–1930
Thomas William Walker
1894–1935
Margaret Emma Walker
1896–1983
Charles Stuart Walker
1898–1933
Joseph Sadler Walker
1900–1970
George Edward Walker
1903–1986
Charles Matthew James Walker
1905–1963
Ethel Jane Walker
1908–1908
Albert Walker
1910–1979
Matilda Elizabeth Walker
1912–
Ritsone Porterhouse Walker
1915–1916

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    World Events (7)

    1911

    Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.

    1914

    August: Australia becomes involved in World War One as Britain is preparing to declare war on Germany.

    1921

    Edith Cowan is elected to the Western Australia Parlaiment. She is the first woman parliamentarian in Australia.

    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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