George Walker Sr (1603 - 1677)

Born 5 Sep 1603 in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Ursula (Stanhope) Walker — married 1642 in Melwood, Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died 15 Sep 1677 at age 74 in Armagh, County Armagh, Ireland

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Biography

Church of Ireland Clergy

George was born in 1603.

Alternate: George was born in 1600 in Great Staughton, Huntington, England. He was the son of Gervase Walker and Ealifia (Mary) Walker.^[1]

Baptism of George son of Gervase Walker 2 April 1604 at Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire.^[2]

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Scholar 28 October 1617, he obtained his B.A. in 1621 and M.A. 1624.^[3]

Rector Badoney in 1630, and Rector Cappagh in 1636. He was affected by the Irish Rebellion in 1641 and the later Commonweath Period 1649-1660. On 25 October 1660, he was restored to the Rectories of Cappagh and Badoney, on his own petition, stating that he had been expelled at the beginning of the rebellion and had lived abroad since then.^[4]. He was Rector Donoughmore, Desertlyn, and Errigle Keerogue 1662-74. He was Chancellor of Armagh 1664-1677.

When George was about 38 he married Ursula Stanhope in 1642 in Melwood, Yorkshire, England. The couple had 5 children: George Walker, Godfrey Walker, Gervase Walker, Margaret Walker and Anne Walker.^[5]

George died at the age of 74 on 15 September 1677 in Armagh, Ireland.^[1][5][6]

George and his wife were buried in Kilmore Church, where an inscription on a plain stone in the floor in front of the Chancel reads : — " Here lyeth the body of Doctor G. Walker, Chancellor of Armagh, and Rector of Kilmore, who dyed the 15th day of September, Ann. Dom. 1677."

DNA Connections

Between Father

and children

1. Son Godfrey
2. Son George

Common DNA Ancestor

Self George Walker

Found from AncestryDNA tests between:

1. Michael Charles Evans, my 7th great grandson, and
2. Nancy Lorraine (Walker) Farrar - 8th Cousin 2x removed
   With N.F. < 1% shared DNA: 7 cM across 1 segments

Thomas Walker (1538-1592) - 9th great grandfather of Michael Evans

See the 'Common DNA Ancestor ' sections for all the shared DNA details found on AncestryDNA.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Death: Author: Ancestry.com Title: One World Tree (sm) Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network.
   Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc..
2. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7CG-WLB : 20 March 2020), Georgius Walker, 1604.
3. ↑ Alumni Dublinenses: A register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860, page 844 to 904: W-Y, page 847, https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/zc77ss934
4. ↑ Comm. Papers A/25, p. 339
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Death: Author: Ancestry.com Title: OneWorldTree,
   Page: Database online.Record for George Walker.
6. ↑ Death: Author: Ancestry.com Title: OneWorldTree,
   Page: Database online.Record for Gervase Walker.

• Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, vol 1, page 223, https://archive.org/details/dugdalesvisitati01dugd/page/223
• Pedigree of Stanhope, Familiae Minorum Gentium, The Publications of the Harleian Society, vol 3 page 989, https://archive.org/details/publicationsofha39harluoft/page/989
• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J93X-TY9 : 18 September 2020), Georg Walker in entry for Margarett Walker, 1650.
• Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland by Henry Cotton, 1789-1879
• Vol 3. - The Province of Ulster, Pg 40
• An account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Armagh by Rev James Blennerhassett Leslie M.A., 1911
• Armagh clergy and parishes, Pg 38