Brief Life History of Gideon
When Gideon Walker was born on 6 October 1719, in Kittery, York, Maine, United States, his father, John Walker, was 30 and his mother, Mary Bickford, was 26. He married Hannah Palmer on 23 February 1741, in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 4 April 1805, in Kennebunk, York, Maine, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Kennebunk, York, Maine, United States.
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- Gideon Walker, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Gideon Walker, "Find A Grave Index"
- Gideon Walker, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1770
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
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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