Mary Lewis

Walker-2067 created 8 Apr 2011 | Last modified 7 Jan 2023 | Last tracked change:
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Mary (Walker) Lewis (abt. 1677 - 1724)

Mary Lewis formerly Walker

Born about 1677 in Rappahannock County, Colony of Virginia

Daughter of John Walker and Rachel (Croshaw) Walker

Sister of Richard Croshaw Walker, Thomas Walker, James Walker, John Walker and Benjamin Walker

Wife of Zachary Lewis — married about 1691 in King and Queen County, Colony of Virginia

Mother of Susannah (Lewis) Collins, Mary Elizabeth (Lewis) Dulaney, Elizabeth McGrath (Lewis) Taylor and Elizabeth (Lewis) Shackelford

Died 9 Jan 1724 at about age 47 in Dragon Run Creek, King and Queen County, Colony of Virginia

05:00: Liz (Noland) Shifflett edited the Biography for Mary (Walker) Lewis (abt.1677-1724). (corrected categories) [Thank Liz for this]

Biography

Name: Mary /Walker/
Born: About 1677 in North Farnham Parish, Old Rappahannock (became Richmond) County (not Richmond (city), in Henrico County), in the English Colony of Virginia.
Father: John Walker
Mother: Rachel (Croshaw) Walker
Married to: (John) Zachary Lewis
Married in 1691 in King & Queen County, Virginia Colony
Several Children
Death Date: Jan. 9, 1724 in King & Queen County, Virginia. She was about 47 years old.
Research Notes:

There were a number of "Mary Walkers" in the 2nd half of the 17th Century in Colonial Virginia. Walker was a fairly-common Surname in England and Mary was, with Sarah & Elizabeth, the most-common English-girl's Given name then. What distinguishes "this" Mary Walker from here contemporaries, where, alas, most primary civil-documents are sadly missing? Many "family genealogies" sadly confuse her with others homonyms.

The Mary Walker who married (John) Zachary Lewis in 1691 was the daughter of John Walker and Rachel (Croshaw) Walker, both from established Colonial Virginia families and who lived in Old Rappahannock County (aka "Northern Neck"), north of the James River and south of the Potomac River. Some genealogies state she was the daughter of John & Rachel's son, Thomas Walker who married Susannah Peachy but Thomas was born in 1670, and was her older brother. [1]

Mary's genealogy on Geni.com has her as the daughter of William Walker and wife Elizabeth (Warren) Walker, of New Kent Co., Virginia. However, their daughter, Mary Walker, b: ca. 1775-76, married Thomas Massie in 1698 in New Kent County, Virginia; so she could not have been Zachary Lewis' wife. [2]

Other genealogies say she was the daughter of a different William Walker, whose family was also from Staffordshire, England (so probably cousins with this family). He married Mary Baylor in Virginia. They may have had a daughter named Mary but in fact, they lived around 1700, not in the 1650-70s.

The best candidates for this Mary Walker's parents are John Walker and Rachel (Croshaw) Walker, who lived in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, and had several children. They married in 1667 in King & Queen County. He was a Lt. Colonel in the Virginia colonial militia and a large landowner; his father was Capt. Thomas Walker, who immigrated from Staffordshire, England, around 1640 and served in Virginia's House of Burgesses in 1662. Rachel was the grand-daughter of Col. Raleigh Crowshaw, one of the first settlers at Jamestown and a noted Indian interpreter and fighter. [3][4]

Sources

↑ Mary Walker Genealogy 2011, notably states this.
↑ Mary Lewis on Geni.com
↑ Added by Chet Snow on April 7, 2018.
↑ "King and Queen County, Virginia," by Alfred Bagby, pp. 360+ discuss Thomas Walker & family.
See also:

Source S759220130 Ancestry Family Trees: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=172521&pid=1... - Repository R-2113280662 Ancestry.com
Mary Walker Genealogy
State of Dragon Brochure . A modern brochure showing the Dragon Run / Swamp watershed & Virginia Counties it covers. The Lewis plantation was on Dragon Run between Essex and King & Queen counties.