[Ancestor] Walker

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1 M Lewis Walker ^{2 3}

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         Spouse: Mary Morris (      -      ) 3

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"The Walker family is one of great respectability, being derived from Anthony Walker, of St. Andrew's Wardrobbe, in London," a landed estate family, and agricultural in pursuit. The lineage from the origin of the name runs as follows, viz.: The ancient surname was De Forrester, derived at a very early period from their various occupations in the royal forests as walkers, or verders; that is, they were officers of the king's forests, kept the assizes view, kept and enrolled the attachments and all manner of trespass, and subsequently, in order to distinguish a numerous progeny, one of its members adopted the name of Anthony Walker, and died May 11, 1590, possessed of lands held in capiti, as appears by his will. He left several children, among others Thomas Walker, Esq., of Westminster, hereditary chief usher of Court of Exchequer and marked proclamator, a baron of the Court of Common Pleas. He died Oct. 12, 1613, leaving a son, Clement Walker, Esq., of Middle Temple, Hydon, County Somerset, who had special livery of his father's lands; died 1651.
His son, John Walker, "celebrated as the person who first introduced the system of fallowing land and of thoroughly revising wheat crops far more extensively than formerly, was a person of great intelligence and enterprise, and set an example of superior farm culture to his neighbors." He was married into the very ancient and celebrated family, "Heneage," descendants of Sir Robert Heneage, who is mentioned in history as living in the reign of Henry III. in the thirteenth century.
The following description of coat-of-arms, family motto, etc., conferred to the Heneage family was also conferred by marriage upon the Walker family:
Arms. First, Heneage; second, Walker.
Crest. A demi-heraldic tiger, salient, per pale indented A. R. and S. A. armed and langued, G. U. named and tuffed.
Motto. Walk in the way of God.
Seat. Compton Basset; Wilts.
The family were members of the Established Church, and their motto would infer that they were a pious one.
Lewis Walker, one of the descendants, became a follower of George Fox, who was at this period establishing the Quaker or Friends Society, and thereby was disowned by his kinsmen and ancestry, and in every manner separated from them in social, secular, and religious interests, and deprived of all government honors heretofore inherited or possessed; or, in the language of a follower of George Fox, "he laid down these honors conferred by government."
He left his mother-country about 1684, settling at or near Valley Forge, Chester County, Pennsylvania, purchasing from William Penn (his particular friend and companion and co-worker in establishing the doctrines of the Society of Friends or Quakers) one thousand acres of land, continuing to pursue his original occupation, that of husbandry, in a style much like his ancestors of England.

See: History or genealogy of the Walker family, as recorded in Burke's "History of Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland," page 1490, Heneage, Walker. Compton Bassett, Co. Wilts.

1 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 1056.

2 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 610.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 11.