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James Walker
b.Cal 1620
m. Bef 1618
  1. Sarah WalkerCal 1618 - 1676
  2. James WalkerCal 1620 - 1690/91
m. Bef 1646
  1. James WalkerAbt 1646 - 1718
  2. Esther WalkerCal 1649 - 1696
  • HJames WalkerCal 1620 - 1690/91
  • WSarah RichmondAbt 1638 - Bef 1691
m. 4 Nov 1678
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] James Walker
Gender Male
Birth[1] Cal 1620
Emigration[1] 1635 On the Elizabeth.
Residence[1] 1635 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[2] 1643 Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1646 to Elizabeth Unknown
Marriage 4 Nov 1678 Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sarah Richmond
Death[1][3] 15 Feb 1690/91 Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[4] Walker-Blake Graveyard, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States


Elizabeth (1635)
Sailed: mid Apr 1635 from London, England under Master William Stagg
Arrived: July? 1635 at Massachusetts Bay Colony

Passengers:
? (Full List)
Clement Bate family (servant Jervice Gold) - James Bates family - John. and William Beamond - Rachell Bigg - William Bracey - Daniel Bradley - Jo: Browne - Henrie Bull - Edward Bullock family - Ralph Chapman - Jo: Cluffe - Margaret Davies family - Jo: Duke - Robert ffaronds - Patience Foster and son Hopestill - Peter Gardner - Edward Gold - Versala Greenway - Samuel Haleward - William Holdred - James Hosmer family (servants Marie Dounard - Marie Martin) - Jo: Hubbard- William Hubbard - John. Johnson (age 23) - Thomas Lettyne - Edward Loomis - Thomas Millet family - Jo: Mussell - Roger Preston - George Russell - Joan Sellin and daughter - Jo: Smith - Thomas Smith - Isack Stedman family - John Stone - Peter Thorne - Robert Thornton - Dorothy Smith and daughter - James Walker - Richard Walker - Sarra Walker - William Walker - Joshua Wheat - William Whitteredd family - Francis White - William Wild family - Jo: Wynchester

Resources: Primary Sources:
Other information: Passenger List

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 James Walker, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    7:197-205.

    "ORIGIN: London.
    MIGRATION: 1635 on the Elizabeth (on 15 April 1635, 'James Walker 15 years and Sarra Walker 17 years servants to Jo[h]n Browne a baker & to one W[illia]m Brasey linendraper in Cheapside, London,' were enrolled at London as passenters for New England on the Elizabeth [Hotten 61]).
    FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth (defendant in civil suit among Plymouth residents, including 'John Browne the elder,' on 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 7:5 (incorrectly transcribed as 'James Walter')])."
    "BIRTH: About 1620 (aged 15 on 15 April 1635 [Hotten 61]; d. Taunton 15 February 1691[/2?], aged 73.
    DEATH: Taunton 15 February 1691[/2?], aged 73."

  2. 2.0 2.1 James Walker, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:393-394.

    "James (Walker), Taunton 1643, prob. is that youth of 15 yrs. wh. came from London 1635, with Sarah W. his sis. 17, in the Elizabeth, as found. in 3 Mass. Hist. Col. VIII. 260; may have been 1644 at Rehoboth, but was perman. inhab. of T. m. Eliz. [step-]d. of William Phillips, and bec. a man of gr. esteem, in 1652 constable, frequent. selectman, rep. 1654, and oft. aft. had James, b. a. 1646; Peter, 1649; Eleazer, 1662; wh. d. prob. unm. yet at mature age, in his will giv. prop. to cousins, the ch. of brs. and sis. and Esther. His w. d. 30 July, or 14 Aug. 1678, aged 59; and he m. sec. w. 4 Nov. foll. Sarah, wid. of Edward Rew, d. of John Richmond; and d. 18 Feb. 1692 [sic, wrong, 1690/91. Widow had remarried before she wrote her will 7 Jul 1691, it being proved 18 Nov 1691, Bristol probate Vol. 1,p. 42 ], aged 73. Esther m. 1 Jan. 1680, Joseph Wood or Atwood, and d. 8 Apr. 1696."

  3. Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1929, c1978)
    3:206.

    "Walker, … James, [died] Feb. 15, 1691, a. 73. [On stone beside that of Elisabeth (Aug. 14, 1678), (gravestone record. Walker Cemetery, between Baker Road and Railroad Avenue, and between the railroad and the river, Taunton.")

  4. James Walker, in Find A Grave.