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- . St. Edmund's Parish Register, File #12605
Baptized 16 Sep 1792, Parents Jane & John Walker.
. 1798 Land Tax Redemption
Joseph Barker, Sedgefield, Durham, Occupied by John Walker, tax £2,5 pd. 1799 Mar 21.
. Hamilton City Directory:
Thomas Walker, Nightengale St., 1833 Settlement, nativity, England, Wagon Maker.
. 1834. A D Ferrier's Reminiscences, from lectures delivered to Farmers & Mechanics Institute, Fergus in 1864. Ferrier recalls his travels starting in 1830-1834:
1834 Jun. Ferrier visited Niagara Falls, St. Catherines to Hamilton, Ontario
In 1834 Hamilton was quite a small town & there had ben a fire in the main street, & the ruins were still standing. Burleigh's Hotel was the best at that time.The corner of John & King Sts was occupied by a neat little cottage, garden inferno & large orchard adjoining, & there were not a dozen houses between that the next. The only public building of any pretension was the Court House. There was nothing very inviting abut it & the road to the lake was very bad. There was great trouble insurer for want of wanter.
Ref: Sketches of the Early Days of Fergus & vicinity, 1919.
ONTARIO, CANADA CENSUS & ASSESSMENT:
(some without column headings, making interpretation difficult):
. 1835 Census & Assessment, Hamilton Town, Ontario
John Walker: 1 male; 1 male under 16; 2 females under 16, Total 7, Church of England: Eight. Rentable Property £20.
Note1: this doesn't add up correctly.
. 1837 Census John Walker: 6 Males; 1M> 16F>16; 1F Total 11 [i.e. Doesn't add up]
. 1837 Assessment Hamilton: John Walker: Framed 2 stories £35; 1 Mich Cows £3; Rentable £110. 'In the same apartment bldg. Some of those in this app. owning lots in the town: The persons residing in the country: Doctor Casy.
. 1838 Assessment & Census: John Walker: 1 Town Lot; Frame One Story; Grist Mill wrought by water with one of stones: 1; Merchant storehouse: 2; Closed carriages with 4 wheels: 4; £60.
. 1840 Assessment Hamilton.1 of 2: John Walker, Cherry Street Lot, Between John King & John St.: Framed under 2 Stories: 1; Milch cows 1: Closed carriages with 4 wheels: 2.
. 1840 July 14 Census.2 of 2, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, CANADA:
John Walker
Males above 16 years: 3 [i.e. John Sr.; Geo. Michael; John Sibbald Sr., or perhaps Robt. Walker.]
Males under 16 years: 3 [ Infant Edward Walker, b 1840.
Females above 16 years: 2 [Marg. Sibbald Walker, Jane Thompson Walker.
Females under 16 years: 2 [Marg. Walker, Jr. Total: 10 in family.
. 1841 May Assessment Hamilton Town: John Walker, 2 men, 2 boys, 1 Female, 6 girls (column?) Total 6 [repeated].
. 1842 Assessment Hamilton Town:
John Walker, John Street, 6 houses before Cherry St.: Total 4 persons. Assessed at £100.
John Walker, Catharine Street, one adult. nil assessment
[i.e. John Walker Senior & John Sibbald Walker, Junior. This is also the last record found for John Thomas Walker.]
Thomas Walker later returned to England & secured a situation as Supt. of the bridge building department of the Great Western Railway & died in England.
. HAMILTON QUARTER SESSIONS OF PEACE, ONTARIO
Walker, Thomas, 1838 June, Plaintiff, Page 12,
Walker, John, 1839 March 14, Plaintiff,
Walker, John, 1847 /8 DEC 24, Plaintiff,
Thomson, Jane, 1843, June 12, Plaintiff, Page 18.
Note2: Further research for details is needed. - PJA.
. 1906 WELLINGTON COUNTY ATLAS, Ontario, Canada:
WALKER, John Sible, was b. Durham, Eng., & came to Hamilton in 1827 with his father, Thomas Walker, & the rest of the family. Thomas Walker later returned to England & secured a situation as Supt. of the bridge building department of the Great Western Railway & died in England.
. 1861 Census Great Aycliffe, Co. Durham: John Walker was living with his niece Jane Welch & her son Geo. E Welch.
. 1871 Census - John Walker, born 1792, in Sedgefield.
In the Census 1871 Darlington Union Workhouse shows a widower who meets the profile of our John Walker. There was a rather large population for the workhouse was reconstructed from the bishop's palace, which had fallen into neglect.
The year of John's birth 1792, is remembered as the year Sedgefield's streets were filled with two feet of hail that fell on July 17th, damaging many houses & windows.
The Parish Church, dedicated to St. Andrew, occupies a commanding position on what was formerly the site of an early Saxon church. The erection of this most interesting structure may be said to date from the early part of the thirteenth century. It is cruciform in shape, consisting of nave, aisles, transepts, spacious chancel, south porch & western tower. The lower stage of the tower is connected with the nave by a fine arch consisting of three chamfered orders, resting on octagonal responds. The parish register commences in 1558.
Ref: History, Topography & Directory of Durham, Whellan, London, 1894.
John Thomas Walker was called John in England. In Canada is was his family referred to him as Thomas, but he continued to sign his name John Walker.
Ref: John's own Birth Registration; Marriage Bond & Birth Reg. of sons John S. & George M. giving his name as John Walker; & the Wellington Co., Ontario, Atlas, the family refers to him as 'Thomas'. Additionally in the Hamilton, Ontario Census he uses the name of John.
. Auckland includes
Archdeacon Newton, Auckland St. Andrews, & St Helen, Armpton, Binchester (old Roman), Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland & Pollards Lands, Blackwell, Bolam. Hadrian's Wall, which is not too distant, was built c.122 AD, to separate the Romans from the Brignates & Caledonia Tribes. These tribes where the original inhabitants of Britain & thus neither English or Scot.
. 1801 is population was 1,184 & In 1821 the population of Sedgefield Twp., Durham was 1268 persons.
. Sedgefield stands on rising ground John Walker & family learned their trades in the heart of the ancient village of Sedgefield which was founded by the Normans. The old Roman road, Cade's Road, runs northward, just skirting Sedgefield.
By 1828 the village manufacture agricultural implements like saddlery, four milling an shoemaking. Sedgefield in North East England is were rail travel was first start in Sept. 1825 with Geo. Stephenson's famous Locomotion Number One.
. 1887 Gazetteer for Sedgefield, is a market town & is 9 miles from Durham City. The town has also a grammar school, MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, & an old market cross. Fairs for cattle are held in April & Oct. The Durham Count Lunatic Asylum is nearby in the township.
. SEDGEFIELD, Durham Co., Yorkshire. (Stockton District)
Includes twp. or civil parish: Bishop Middleham, Bishopton, Bradbuy & the Isle, Butterwick & Oldarcres, Chilton, Confoth, E & W Newbiggin, Elstob, Embleton, Ferryill, Bishburn , Foxton & Shotton, Garmondsay Moor, Great & Little Stainton, Mainsforth, Mordon, Preston le Skerne, Sedgefield, Stillington, Thrislington, Timdon, Woodham. The extensive parish of Sedgefield is divided into 7 townships: 1, Hardwick, Sans & Layton; 2. Bradbury & the Isle; 3 Mordon; Foxton & Shotton; 5 Butterwick inc. Old Acres; 6. #Embleton, inc. Swainston & the Mortons; & 7. Fishburn.
In 900 AD there were 20 Villain-farmers each of whom held two ox gangs, & contributed with their harvest to the poor. Ploughing Matches, at which prizes are given, are occasionally held at Sedgefield, for the encouragement of agricultural labourers.
Sedgefield means the open land belonging to Cedd. - - - [1]
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1792 - 1875 (82 years)