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Richard WALKER

Richard WALKER[1, 2]

Male Abt 1634 - 1683  (~ 49 years)

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  • Name Richard WALKER 
    Born Abt 1634  of Smarden Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID AE8BABB5BA23D511B6E7DD3AFA2E9C3509E4 
    Buried 13 Feb 1683  Bethersden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I3973  YoungFamily
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2021 

    Father Richard WALKER,   b. Abt 1604, Of Marden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Sara MASON,   b. Abt 1611, Of Marden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 57F29A7567B45E40832C71DE84A77B1ED3D8 
    Family ID F5909  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth CHAPMAN,   b. Abt 1635, of High Halden Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 28 Jun 1655  Cranbrook, Kent, England? Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 9980ABB5BA23D511B6E7DD3AFA2E9C35E9EF 
    Notes 
    • First name(s) Richard
      Last name Walker
      Marriage year 1655
      Marriage day 28
      Marriage month Jun
      Marriage place Cranbrook
      Groom's first name Richard
      Groom's last name Walker
      Groom's occupation Cardmaker
      Groom's residence Smarden
      Bride's first name Elizabeth
      Bride's last name Chapman
      Bride's marital status Spinster
      Bride's residence High Halden
      County Kent
      Record source Cranbrook marriages 1559-1837
      Record set Kent Marriages
      Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
      Record collection Marriages & divorces
      Collections from Great Britain
    Children 
     1. Cecily WALKER,   b. 25 Sep 1655,   bur. 19 Sep 1750, High Halden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 94 years)
     2. George WALKER,   b. Abt 1661,   bur. 25 May 1743, Pluckley, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years)
     3. Richard ^ WALKER,   c. 10 Aug 1668, Bethersden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 3 Apr 1671, Bethersden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 2 years)
     4. Nicholas WALKER,   b. May 1668, Bethersden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Mar 1740, Bethersden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
     5. Elizabeth ✝ WALKER,   c. 1 Oct 1671, Bethersden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 8 Mar 1680, Bethersden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 8 years)
     6. Martha WALKER,   c. 29 Oct 1674, Bethersden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 15 May 2022 
    Family ID F1536  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • TASK-1: Need christening c1634 - check BTH, PKY, GCHT, etc. also for variant surname = none but see

      Will Walker Richard Marden 1552 1552 PRC/17/27/132 1552
      Will Walker Richard Marden 1590 1590 PRC/17/48/181 PRC/16/95 W/7 1590
      Will Walker Richard Marden 1633 1633 PRC/17/68/381 PRC/16/205 W/10 1633
      Inv Walker Richard Marden 1633 PRC/10/68/88 1633
      Inv Walker Richard Marden 1639 PRC/11/4/149 Will 1639
      Will Walker Richard Marden 1639 1639 PRC/16/225 W/1 1639
      Will Mason Edward Marden 1628 1628 PRC/17/67/172a PRC/16/191 M/4 1628
      Inv Mason Edward Marden 1628 PRC/10/60/269 Will 1628


      Will Walker Agnes Marden 1553 1553 PRC/17/29/20a 1553
      Will Walker John Marden 1558 1559 PRC/17/31/190 1559
      Will Walker Edmund Marden 1559 1561 PRC/17/35/128 1561
      Will Walker Walter Marden 1562 1562 PRC/17/37/33b PRC/16/36 W/6 1562
      Will Walker William Marden 1562 1562 PRC/17/37/33a 1562
      Will Walker Robert Marden 1606 1608 PRC/17/59/124b PRC/16/133 W/3 1608
      Inv Walker Robert Marden 1608 PRC/10/36/264 Will 1608
      Will Walker William Marden 1626 1627 PRC/17/67/333 PRC/16/189 W/15 1627
      Inv Walker William Marden 1627 PRC/10/60/409 Will 1627
      Will Walker John Marden 1630 1631 PRC/32/49/81 PRC/31/98 W/7 1631
      Inv Walters, Walkers* John Sen. Marden 1630 1631 PRC/28/18/310 Will 1631
      Will Mason Roger Marden 1589 1590 PRC/17/47/387a PRC/16/95 M/3 1590
      Inv Mason Roger Marden 1590 PRC/10/19/201 Will 1590
      Will Mason Dionesse Marden 1599 1599 PRC/17/51/346 PRC/16/115 M/5 1599
      Inv Mason Dionis, Dionesse* Marden 1599 PRC/10/28/226 Will* 1599
      Inv Mason Thomas Marden 1613 PRC/10/45/498 1613

      WALKER William C 25 Apr 1567 so Richard Marden AD
      WALKER Peter C 23 Sep 1576 so Richard Frittenden WEKB

      WALKER Richard NASHE Elizabeth M 19 Sep 1580 Marden AD

      WALKER Alice C 22 Aug 1585 do Richard Jr. Marden AD
      WALKER John C 26 Feb 1587 so Richard, Jr. Marden AD
      WALKER Elizabeth C 17 May 1590 do Richard Marden AD
      WALKER Richard C 06 May 1593 so Richard Marden AD
      WALKER Joanne C 22 Aug 1602 do Richard Marden AD

      WALKER Richard PARMENTUR? Elizabeth M 08 Jun 1612 Marden AD

      WALKER Joanne C 24 Jan 1613 do Richard Marden AD
      WALKER Marie C 25 Apr 1613 do Richard, Jr. Marden AD


      WAKER Richard CATTLETT Elizabeth M 26 Jun 1615 Marden AD
      WALKER Elizabeth C 24 Apr 1616 do Richard, Jr. Marden AD
      WAKER Margret C 20 Dec 1618 do Richard Marden AD
      WALKER Anna C 03 Nov 1622 do Richard, Jr. Marden AD
      WALKER Joane C 05 May 1625 do Richard, Jr. Marden AD
      WALKER John C 23 Sep 1627 so Richard Marden AD

      Richard Walker married Sara Mason 1630 at Marden
      WALKER Richard C 08 May 1631 so Richard, Jr. Marden AD
      WALKER Thomas C 20 May 1632 so Richard Marden AD
      WALKER Ciceley C 05 Apr 1633 do Richard, Min: Marden AD
      WALKER Mary C 08 Dec 1633 do Richard, Sr. Marden AD
      *** see marriage below WALKER Elizabeth C 01 Jan 1635 Richard/Sara, Jr. Marden AD
      WALKER Sara C 15 Jan 1637 Richard/Sarah Marden AD
      WALKER Sara C 21 Dec 1638 Richard/Sara Marden AD
      WALKER Elizabeth C 08 Aug 1641 Richard/Sara Marden AD


      WALKER Anne C 16 Feb 1662 do Richard Marden BT
      WALKER Joan C 02 Apr 1665 Richard/Anne Marden BT


      ***First name(s) Richard
      Last name Walker
      Birth year 1604
      Age 26
      Occupation Husbandman
      Residence Marden
      Year 1630
      Marriage date 20 Jul 1630
      Marriage place Marden, St Michael & All Angels
      Spouse's first name(s) Sara
      Spouse's last name Mason
      Spouse's birth year 1611
      Spouse's age 19
      Spouse's residence Marden
      Notes
      Shown as WAKER in lic.he abt.26 she abt.19 d.of Edw.dec�۪d.uncle Robert REYNOLDS





      Calendar of Assize records: Kent indictments, Charles II, 1676-1688 By J. S. Cockburn
      p 9 assizes 35/117/5, entry number 40.
      Indictment of John Laney of Bethersden, labourer, for highway robbery.
      On 5 Nov. 1675 he assaulted John Walker in the highway at Bethersden and stole from him 27s. in money. [endorsed[ Thomas Paine. True bill. Not guilty. [m. 73]


      First name(s) Richard
      Last name Walker
      Marriage year 1655
      Marriage day 28
      Marriage month Jun
      Marriage place Cranbrook
      Groom's first name Richard
      Groom's last name Walker
      Groom's occupation Cardmaker
      Groom's residence Smarden
      Bride's first name Elizabeth
      Bride's last name Chapman
      Bride's marital status Spinster
      Bride's residence High Halden
      County Kent
      Record source Cranbrook marriages 1559-1837
      Record set Kent Marriages
      Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
      Record collection Marriages & divorces
      Collections from Great Britain

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      At Marden:
      1580 Richard WALKER Elizabeth NASHE
      1590 William WALCHAR Agnis WALKER
      1596 John WALKER Frances DOUGHTIE
      1597 William WALKER Mercie NAISH
      1615 Richard WAKER Elizabeth CATEOTT
      1634 John WALKER Agnes STEVE

  • Sources 
    1. [S137] Hearth Tax Returns, 1664, 16 Aug 1664.

      Assessed: Walker, Richard, 2 hearths, Chargeable, resides Rumden Borough, parish of Bethersden
      Original hearth tax assessments were conducted on Lady Day, i.e. 25 March, 1664.

    2. [S78] Will, Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), PRC/17/76/93c, 1682, 8 Mar 1682/1683.

      IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, this is the last Will and Testament of me, RICHARD WALKER, of Bethersden, in the County of Kent, churgun [sic: surgeon?] hereby revoking and disannulling all other and former Wills and Testaments whatsoever made and ordained the seventh day of February in the five and thirtieth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, etc., and in the year of our Lord God 1682/3 in manner and form following (viz)

      First, I commend my soul to God who inspired it, my body to the earth, there to be decently interred, according to the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named,

      Item I do will and devise unto my two grandsons WILLIAM and RICHARD SMALL five pounds a piece of good and lawful money of England to be paid unto them severally, within three months after my Executrix decease,

      Item I do will and devise unto my daughter CICELIA SMALL the wife of WILLIAM SMALL of Halden, in the County of Kent, victualler, the sum of ten pounds of good and lawful money of England to be paid unto her within three months after my Executrix decease, to be paid by my sons GEORGE and NICHOLAS WALKER, and in case my grandchild or daughter SMALL shall happen to die before the said Executrix then their said sums to come unto the said WILLIAM SMALL to be used by him so long as he lives and then to return unto my said sons GEORGE and NICHOLAS and my daughter MARTHA to be equally divided betwixt them.

      Item I do give and devise unto my daughter MARTHA WALKER the sum of twenty pounds of good and lawful money of England for her person to be paid unto her at her age of one and twenty years, or day of marriage which shall first happen, and if my Executrix do in the meantime with the interest and profits of the said monies take care to bring up my said daughter MARTHA, and in case the said MARTHA should die before she accomplish either the age of twenty-one years, or the day of her marriage, I will that the said twenty pounds be divided in equal portions betwixt my sons GEORGE and NICHOLAS WALKER and my said daughter CICELIA SMALL, and paid to them within three months after the decease of my said Executrix, to be paid by the said GEORGE and NICHOLAS WALKER.

      Item my will and meaning is that my dear wife ELIZABETH WALKER, be the sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament,

      Item I do give and devise unto my said wife my dwelling house with all other buildings together with one acres of ground adjoining to the said house, which is situated in the parish of Bethersden aforesaid with the appurtenances and all so all my goods moveable and immoveable, leases, debts, bonds, bills, household stuff, books, plate, ready money, cattle and chattels whatsoever (not hereinbefore in this my Will given) and after my said Executrix decease all and every part of my said estate as aforesaid to be equally divided between my sons GEORGE and NICHOLAS WALKER.

      In witness whereof to this my last Will and Testament I have set my hand and seal the day and year first above written.

      SIGNED and SEALED in the presence of
      Robert Stonehouse the mark of Richard "RW" Walker
      Richard Finch
      Izabell Chapmon her mark


      Octavo die Martii 1682 uixa etc coram viro Willimo Lovelace Clico etc Surro etc p[raese]nte me

      Probatum etc jurante ELIZABETHAE WALKER relce dci defci et Excis in eod Teste noiat ac inde approbat etc omisqm etc conidsen fuit prfat etc pruis in debita juris forma ad sa etc jurat salvo jure etc.

    3. [S33] Bishop's Transcript, England, Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent, England, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Bethersden, Kent, England, LDS Film #1751588, 13 Feb 1682/1683.
      Described as being a "householder" on the burial entry.