Person:Robert Walker (1)

  • HRobert Walker1607/08 - 1687
  • WSarah _____Est 1615 - 1695
m. Bef 1635
  1. Elishua Walker1635/36 -
  2. Rev. Zechariah Walker1637 - 1699/00
  3. John Walker1639 - 1652
  4. Sarah Walker1641 - 1643
  5. Jacob Walker1643/44 -
  6. Joseph Walker1646 - Bef 1687
  7. Thomas WalkerCal 1649 -
  8. Mary WalkerCal 1649 - Bef 1654
  9. Timothy Walker1650 -
  10. Eliakim Walker1652 - 1654
  11. Mary Walker1654 -
  12. John Walker1656 -
Facts and Events
Name[1] Robert Walker
Gender Male
Christening[1] 21 Feb 1607/08 Manchester, Lancashire, England
Emigration[1] 1632
Residence[1] 1632 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1635 to Sarah _____
Occupation[1] Weaver; linen webster
Other[1] 14 May 1634 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Death[1] 29 May 1687 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[1] 31 May 1687 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[1] 17 Aug 1687 Administration granted to widow Sarah Walker this date.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Robert Walker, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    3:1912-15.

    ORIGIN: Manchester, Lancshire.
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Boston church as member #131 (just before Thomas Oliver, known to have arrived in 1632) [BChR 14].
    FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369].
    BIRTH: Probably the Robert Walker baptized Manchester, Lancashire, 21 February 1607/8, son of Thomas and Margaret (Bardsley) Walker (deposed 10 April 1679 aged seventy-two years [TAG 21:59, 62; SJC #1792].
    DEATH: Boston 29 May 1687 and buried there (as "Goodm[an] Walker" 31 May [Sewall 141, where may also be found details of Walker's final illness, which began on 27 May).