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Walker, Jane (1759-1848)

Name:
Walker, Jane (1759-1848)
Other Names:
Walker, Jean
Gordon, Jane
Born:
00/00/1759
Birthplace:
Bedford, NH
Died:
05/29/1848
Death Location:
Bedford, NH
Residence:
Bedford, NH
Nationality:
American
Occupation:
Spinster (professional spinner of flax and wool)
Father:
Walker, Robert (1708-1777)
Mother:
Barnet, Rebecca
Relations:
Siblings:
Walker, Andrew
Walker, Susan (a.k.a. Ana, Susannah; c.1757-1855; m.William Waugh, no children)
Father: Robert Walker (1708-1777); b.Ireland; said to be one of the earliest settlers of Bedford, NH
Spouse:
Gordon, Josiah (1762-1824), son of Mary Campbell and John Gordon; m. May 3, 1792
Children:
Adam (1793-1861); b. Bedford, NH; m. Eliza Page; 9 children
Hannah (c.1795-); d.young; b. Bedford, NH
Eliza Bailey (1797-1885); b. Bedford, NH; m.Peter Woodbury, serveral children
Jane (1799-1888); b. Bedford, NH; never married
Notes:
Donna Belle-Garvin, "Two High Chests of the Dunlap School," Historical New Hampshire, Summer 1980, 163-185.

History of Bedford, New Hampshire, From 1737, Being Statistics Compiled on the Occasion of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incoporation of the Town, May 15, 1900. (Concord, NH: The Rumford Printing Company, 1903), 942, 1102.

Died, The Farmers' Cabinet, Amherst, NH, August 10, 1848, 3.
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