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First English mayor of New York (source: geni.com)
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Captain of the Plymouth Company of Militia (source: geni.com)
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Note N1286
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Walker, Thomas ID: P5006 Birth: Jun 1430 in Winkleigh, Devon, England 1 Death: 1469 in Pickhill, Yorkshire, England Name: Thomas Walker Sex: M 2 OBJE: FILE: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=befe8d51-e9ff-4755-8e76-33cb37ef193d&tid=28110223&pid=5006 FORM: jpg Title: 9056
Marriage 1 Agnes Davison b: abt 1430 in Yorkshire, England
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Has Children William Walker I* b: c1468 in Littletown, Birstall Parish of Yorkshire, England Has No Children John Walker b: 1470 in West Raddon Manor, Shobrooke, Devon, England
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Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=28110223&pid=5006
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Note N1287
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Davidson, Agnes ID: P5011 Birth: abt 1430 in Yorkshire, England Name: Agnes Davison Sex: F 1
Marriage 1 Thomas Walker b: Jun 1430 in Winkleigh, Devon, England
Children
Has Children William Walker I* b: c1468 in Littletown, Birstall Parish of Yorkshire, England Has No Children John Walker b: 1470 in West Raddon Manor, Shobrooke, Devon, England
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Repository: Name: Ancestry.com Note:
Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
Page: Ancestry Family Tree Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=28110223&pid=5011
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Note N1289
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Our place of origin in England was the Parish of Northallerton in North Yorkshire. There lived in the 1200's Cuthbert Walker our first Walker ancestor. He was perhaps the son of Robert, son of William and had elder brothers Robert and William. Cuthbert was a Walker or Fuller by trade. Hence his surname. Before that he would have been know Cuthbert son of Robert or Robertson. Fulling was a process in the making of cloth, when after spinning it was shrunk, by being put in a tub with fullers earth and trampled or Walked. As a common occupation hence there were very many different families of Walkers not related to each other. However it seems that all the Walkers within 10 miles of Northallerton were all descendants of Cuthbert. In 1301 he paid 16 pence in tax. His son Robert may have had another son Cuthbert who was the ancestor of the family of Cuthbert who lived near by and used the same christian names as our family. At this time surnames were not settled and brothers could have different ones. There are very few records of this early period of family history there fore there is some uncertainty about the relationship of various members of the family to each other, but I have shown what I consider to be the most likely. Names down to about 1850 in most families, children were named after parents, Grandparents, Aunties and Uncles, hence some names keep repeating generation after generation and give a sense of oneness in a family.
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Note N1290
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WALKER: The Gaelic form MACNUCATOR derives from "Mac an fhucadair" ('son of the fuller(of the cloth)'), of which the old Scots equivalent is 'Waulker', derived from 'Walker', a Middle English form which comes from the Old English 'wealcere'. The form 'Walker' is also found in England, Ireland and elsewhere, and although amongst the 30 most common names in Scotland, such ancestry should not be assumed without genealogical or geographical evidence. Many of todays Walkers were originally MacNucators, but as the name prospered in many parts of Scotland devoid of Highland association, and given the widespread distribution of the occupation, it seems most unlikely that many were related, other than by continuation of the tradition of that trade within their own family. Such trade names were not patronymics, but were used for the sake of distinction within the particular clan or community in which they dwelt. In 1613-14, persons of this name in Balquidder, Perthshire were fined for reset (sheltering) of members of the proscribed Clan Gregor, and in 1655 Patrick McNowcatter was acting as procurator-fiscal for Argyll. Duncan McNowcater (alias Mcmillan) in Ballyaurgan is recorded as a witness to a Dunmore (Knapdale) sasine in 1666, and it is probable that those MacNucators (Walkers) belonging to Argyll, especailly Knapdale, descend directly from the Clan Macmillan. Several of this race are buried near Dunmore on West Loch Tarbert. Whilst the bulk of MacNucators changed their name to Walker, there was a Dundee family who retained the name Nucator. Some MacNucators followed the Stewarts of Appin in the Rising of 1745, and there is a colony of Walkers around Boisdale amd Daliburgh on South Uist. Helen Walker (d.1791) walked from Scotland to London to petition for the life of a sister who had been condemned to death for infanticide, and her story provided the model for Sir Walter Scott's tale of "Jeanie Deans". Currently there is no clan chief, nor is there an official clan tartan, but those who have Argyll ancestry and consider themselves to be members of the Clan Macmillan, use the emblems of kinship of that race as a mark of respect to the chief. Undoubtedly, many Walkers and MacNucators will be able to trace an ancestry to areas dominated by other clans, and if such association be established it is quite appropriate to adopt their tartans etc.