Person:David Walker (44)

he was born in 1762
died in 1725
he married Margaret Hetherington in 1783
Margaret was born 1764 and died 1824
David remarried to Ann Bramble (b. 1776) in 1825
David had 13 children by Margaret, the youngest of whom (David) was born in 1811, and was 13 years of age at his mothers death.

A memorial cenotaph has been erected for David and his wives, by his descendants, recording much of the family history, much of it based on the family bible, but apparently supplemented by family tradition information.

The family bible, including David date of death, was written in a single hand, though the last entry was written in a different color of ink. We might speculate that the bible record was written out, either from memory, or from earlier versions, in a single session (one handwriting type, and one ink type), prior to Daniels death, and that his date of death was added by the same hand (but a different batch of ink), following his death. This suggests that the record was made by Ann Bramble.

Family tradition, basis unknown, indicates that Daniel and Margaret were married in DUmfrieshire (possibly Lanarkshire, in 1783, and emigrated to Canada about 1819. They are believed to have landed in Malpeque, PEI, but settled in Annan. Documentation apparently exists to show that " David was granted a license to sell "spirituous liquors" in 1820, published 21 October 1820."

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YDNA

Descendants of David (44) are close matches in terms of YDNA to the Hawkins County Line (aka Gr-18) in FTDNA's Walker YDNA project. A comparison of haplotypes for members of that group is given below:

The comparison for David's descendant who took the YDNA test is shown in the upper row of the matrix. This descendant took the test at 37 markers, and differs from most of the other kits by about 3.2% dissimilarity. This suggests a relatively recent common ancestor with most of the other kit owners. (Note that two of the kits represent non-surname matches. These may or may not reflect descent from a common ancestor with David.)

Most of the kits in the Hawkins County line trace descent to John Walker who died in 1818 in Hawkins County TN. The family history of this line before John is unclear, though there are indications that they were living in Loudoun County Virginia before 1760. However, the presumed connection to Daniel (44), born 1762, would seem to lie prior the appearance of John Walker in America. We believe John himself was born in Loudoun County, or perhaps somewhere in Old Chester, sometime between 1734 and 1744. We can't tell whether his parents were the immigrant ancestor of this line, or whether John descended from an even earlier immigrant. The latest likely date of immigration would probably be 1743, but in any case, they would have to have been born no later than 1720, presumably in Dumfriesshire. This would place the common ancestor for David and John as living in Dumfrieshire no later than about 1720. It might be that John and David share a grandfather, or perhaps a great-grandfather. The the connection could be considerably deeper than that, depending on when John's ancestors came to America, and other factors. However, the degree of dissimilarity between descendants of John and David in terms of their YDNA haplotypes, is relatively modest, suggesting a relatively recent Patriarch--ie someone born in the late 17th or early 18th century.

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