Rebecca (Burgess) Walker (1798 - 1880)

Born 11 Mar 1798 in Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Marshall Walker — married 3 Oct 1819 in Harwich, Barnstable, MA

Descendants

Died 10 Apr 1880 at age 82 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Rebecca was born in 1798 to Samuel Burges and his wife Dinah Ellis.(1.) She married Marshall Walker in 1819 . They had 9 children.(2.) She passed away in 1880 of old age.

Sources

(1.) Birth: Harwich VR's, Fourth book of Records, p. 284, [p. 20] (2.) Births of Children: Sixth Book of Records, p. 416, [p.8]

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD98-KJ3 : 22 December 2020), Marshall Walker, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZHD-2NV : 18 February 2021), Marshall Walker, 1860.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKD-JL4L : 6 March 2021), Rebecca Burgess Walker, ; Burial, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States of America, First Congregational Church Cemetery; citing record ID 41308751, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

Daughter's death record names parents: "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWV3-H9X : 2 March 2021), Rebecca Burgess in entry for Mary Walker Eldridge, 17 Mar 1905; citing Brockton, Massachusetts, 521, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,070,596.