The Walker Family

Alice (Walker) Vesey

Baptised: 9 June 1605, in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

Father: Gervase Walker

Married: Thomas Vesey

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Anne (Walker) Maxwell

Birth: c. 1652, probably in Wighill, Yorkshire, England

Baptism: possibly 10 October 1652, in Kirkgate, Yorkshire, England

Father: George Walker

Mother: Ursula (Stanhope) Walker

Married: William Maxwell

Children: Notes:
Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 2 p132 (1854)
  The following interesting narrative of the escape of Mrs. Maxwell and her children from Falkland, after her husband was murdered by some of his own tenantry, in 1691, originally appeared in the “Newry Telegraph,” December 6, 1838. It was communicated by the late Rev. H.F. Lyte, (a connection of the Maxwell family by marriage) in a letter to the editor of that newspaper, from which it is now reprinted with the omission of some inaccurate statements which involve obvious historical errors.
  “William Maxwell, Esq., the then possessor of Falkland, and high sheriff for the county, (Monaghan,) had, during the troubles of the year 1691, some horses stolen from his demesne. A letter was sent to him by some of the popish party, to say that, if he would meet them at a certain hour and place, the horses should he restored to him. He unwarily depended on the faith of the writers, went to the place appointed, and was inhumanly murdered. His wife, Walker's sister, immediately shut herself up in the house of Falkland, and in the spirit of her gallant brother, determined to hold out till some relief should be given her from the Protestants. On the following day, however, the butler, a papist, in whom she fully confided, came to his mistress and compelled her to give up to him and his fellow-servants all the money she had in her possession, amounting to about forty pounds, and then, after plundering the house, left her to her fate. This heroic woman, however, though thus barbarously treated by those in whom she most trusted, did not resign herself to despair; but, placing her children in a pair of panniers, on the back of an old horse, she took her melancholy way across the country towards Londonderry. The difficulties and privations she endured are incredible, being obliged to subsist chiefly on the berries she could pick up by the roadside; and it is further said, that having lost one of the children by the way, she was obliged to return a day's journey to seek it, and found it, at length, almost exhausted with cold and hunger. She made her way, however, to Derry; and from thence she was sent with her little family, to Scotland, where they were hospitably received by the Maxwells of Calderwood, the old stock from which the family originally sprung.” At the close of this letter Mr. Lyte states, that “Mrs. Lyte is in possession of a very curious old silver watch, once the property of her great ancestor, Walker.”—This relic has been described to the writer as a small, single-cased watch, with the initials “G.W.” engraved on the back of it; and having the winding-hole covered by a small plate of silver, which moved on a pivot.

The Peerage of Ireland p393 (John Lodge, 1789)
  William of Falkland in the county of Monaghan, the fourth son of the Bishop, married Anne, daughter of George Walker, D.D. Chancellor of the cathedral church of Armagh, Rector of Donaghmore, and sister to the famous Governor Walker, who so gallantly defended the city of Derry against the army of K. James, at the time of the revolution. He was high sheriff of Monaghan in 1691, and in revenge of the protection which he afforded the protestants in those parts, and for his activity and zeal in the cause of the revolution, was treacherously murdered by some of his own followers and dependants.—He left issue by his said wife, two sons, Robert, his heir; John, (an officer in the army, who served in Spain under his maternal kinsman General Stanhope, and there died); and a daughter Anne, who married — Stewart, Esq. a Major in the army.

Ireland Preserved p381 (John Graham, 1841)
  Governor Walker's only sister, Anne, married William Maxwell, Esq. of Falkland, in the county of Monaghan, Esq., the fourth son of Dr. Robert Maxwell, bishop of Kilmore. Her husband was High Sheriff of that county in 1691, when he was murdered by some of his own tenants and followers, in revenge for the protection he had given to the Protestants in the course of the preceding war.

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Charity (Walker) Dyneley

Father: George Walker

Mother: Isabella (Maxwell) Walker

Married: John Dyneley

John was born on 20 January 1662/3 (OS/NS) and baptised in Otley, Yorkshire, on 4 February 1662/3 (OS/NS), the son of Robert Dyneley and Dorcas Mauleverer. He was married firstly to Hannah Babbe who died with no issue. John was a Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1712. John died on 25 March 1714, aged 52, and was buried on 28 March at Bramhope, Yorkshire. His will, dated 3 March 1713/14 (OS/NS) was proved at York on 20 November 1714.
The Parish Registers of Otley, Co. York vol 1 p121 (1908)
Febr 1662
  John son of Robert Dyneley of Bramhop Esq was borne the xxth daie of January & was bapt the fourth [third erased] daie of February

Children: Notes: Charity, her husband and her daughter Isabella are mentioned in the will of Mary's mother, Isabella, in 1705.
The Siege of London-Derry, in 1689: As Set Forth in the Literary Remains of Colonel the Rev. George Walker, D.D. pp238 (Philip Dwyer, 1893)
   “Item, I give to my son Dinely £1 sterling, and to my daughter Dinely £1 sterling, and to my granddr, Isabella Dinely, £20 ster., the sd several sums of money to be paid to their order in Dublin.

Charity was named an executor of the will of her brother, John, dated 12 September 1726. Probate was granted to her on 15 December 1726.
Ireland National Archives Diocesan and Prerogative Wills 1726
In the Name of God Amen, I John Walker of the County of Louth Esqr. being in perfect Sence and memory but weak in body thanks be to God do make this my last Will and Testament ...  I also knowing my concerns to be very unsettled and confused make it my last and earnest request to my dearly beloved Cousin Robert Maxwell of Faulkland in the County of Monaghan Esqr that he will become Executor of this my last Will Joynt with my dearly beloved Sister Charity Dyneley als Walker

These documents relate to Charity's execution of John Walker's will, Memorial 38369, Memorial 41267 and Memorial 40700. The last of these, dated 9 May 1729, describes Charity as a widow, of Dundalk, county Louth. According to Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire vol 1 (Joseph Foster, 1874), Charity was still living, as a widow, in 1736.

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Elizabeth Walker

Baptised: 20 July 1600 in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

Father: Gervase Walker

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Elizabeth (Walker) Wright

Father: George Walker

Mother: Isabella (Maxwell) Walker

Married: _____ Wright

Notes: Elizabeth is mentioned in the will of Mary's mother, Isabella, in 1705.
The Siege of London-Derry, in 1689: As Set Forth in the Literary Remains of Colonel the Rev. George Walker, D.D. pp238 (Philip Dwyer, 1893)
  “Item, I forgive and release Eliz. Wright a bond to me which I have from her late husband, Hush (sic), for the payment of £30 more or less to me.
  “Item, I give to my daughter Wright the yearly sum of £8 stg., to be paid by equal portions, half-yearly, to her order in Dublin during her life, and if at her death she shall have any child, or children, of her own body, my will is that the sum of £150 stg. shall be paid to sd child, or children, equally among them in Dublin.

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Francisca Walker

Baptised: 7 May 1598 in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

Father: Gervase Walker

Burial: 14 August 1600 in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

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Francisca Walker

Baptised: 14 May 1609 in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

Father: Gervase Walker

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George Walker

Baptised: 5 September 1602 in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

Father: Gervase Walker

Notes: George probably died young, as a brother, also named George, was baptised to the same father in Great Staughton 2 April 1604. It is also possible that this is the same person as the George Walker baptised on 2 April 1604 and that 5 September 1602 is actually his birth date mis-transcribed as a baptism date.

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George Walker

Baptised: 2 April 1604, in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

Father: Gervase Walker

Education: Trinity College Dublin where he obtained a B.A. in 1621 and an M.A. in 1624. He was awarded the degree of D.D. in 1663.
Alumni Dublinenses p847 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
*WALKER, GEORGE, s. of Gervais. M.A. Rector of Cappagh. prox. Sch. Oct 28, 1617. B.A. “Æst. 1621. M.A. Æst. 1624

Married: Ursula Stanhope in 1642

Children: Occupation: Clergyman.
George was appointed rector of Badoney in 1630 and rector of and Cappagh in 1636. He fled from Ireland to Yorkshire during the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and was for many years the vicar of Wighill, Yorkshire. George returned to Ireland at the Restoration and was restored to his livings at Badoney and Cappagh on 25 October 1660. He was rector of  Donoughmore from 1662 until 1674 when he was succeeded by his son, also named George.  He was also Chancellor of Armagh from 1664 until 1677. George was an advisor to Dr. Bramhall, Bishop of Derry.

Athanasius Hibernicus or, the Life Of  the most Reverend Father in God John, Lord Archbishop of Ardmagh printed in in The works of the most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall D. D. (John Vesey, 1677)
[Bramhall] made choice of a Thesis purposely to express his thoughts of the Controversies in Religion. viz. Pontifex Romanus est causa vel procreans vel conservans, omnium vel saltem præcipuarum controversiarum in orbe Chrisitano. Which he so defended, that he was admired and thanked by that most learned Assembly. This I had with several other particulars from my Reverend Unckle Doctor George Walker, an Intimate of the Primates and very useful to his Grace in many offices.
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Walking with his Chancellour and Doctor Walker on the City Walls the Chancellour observing several people at work in their Meadows on the Festival of St. Peter, shewed them to the Bishop and desir’d to know, what course should be taken with them, who onely answered pleasantly, let them make hay while the sun shines
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He had a very tender regard for his Clergy, tho opinioned otherwise than himself was, if he found them otherwise deserving, intreating the elder as Fathers, and the younger as brethren, vouchsafing to call some Father, that ask’t him blessing as the old venerable Mr. Walker.

Ducatus Leodiensis p540 (Ralph Thoresby, 1715)
Manuscripts in Octavo.
Sermons preached in Ireland, 1648, &c. by Mr. Geo. Walker, Archdeacon of Derry, whose Son was the memorable Governour thereof, An. 1689.

Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae vol 3 p40 (Henry Cotton, 1849)
ARMAGH CHANCELLORS.
1666. GEORGE WALKER, D.D. appears. [Dioc. Reg.] He was father of the Rev. George Walker, who, in the time of King James II. eminently distinguished himself at the siege of Derry.
p337
DERRY ARCHDEACONS.
16—? — WALKER (the father of George Walker, the historian of the Siege of Derry) was Archdeacon. I have not found the date of his appointment. Thoresby, in his work called “Ducatus Leodiensis,” p.540, mentions that he possessed some manuscript Sermons of this Archdeacon Walker.

Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 1 p252 (1895)
Cappy [NOW CAPPAGH].  Sti Eugenii.
  1636, 26 Septr., GEORGE WALKER, B.A. Dub. Æst. 1621, M.A. 1624, D.D. 1663. He also held Badoney R. In 1663, he became Chancellor of Armagh. Died 15 Sept., 1677.

Nidderdale, from Nun Monkton to Whernside p174 (Harry Speight, 1906)
   There is a tablet of much interest on the south wall of the chancel. It is dedicated to the memory of Ursula, daughter of Sir John Stanhope, and wife of the Rev. George Walker, D.D., sometime Chancellor of Armagh, in Ireland. She died in 1654. Dr. Walker was a devoted Royalist, and at the outbreak of the Civil War found a refuge at Wighill, near Tadcaster, under the Stapletons. He served as vicar of Wighill during that disturbed period. His son, the Rev. George Walker, D.D., whose birthplace is unknown, was the heroic defender of Londonderry during the memorable siege of 1689, and whose majestic monument now graces the Royal Bastion in that historic city. These Walkers were of an old North Riding stock, and had many family ties with this district. 

Armagh Clergy and Parishes p230 (James B Leslie, 1911)
Doughmore: Rectors and Vicars
1662—George Walker, sen., D.D., inst. Mar. 2 (F.F.T.). See Chancellors and next.      
p38
Armagh: Chancellors
1664—George Walker, D.D., appears as Chancellor in the Will of Thomas Chambers, Armagh (dated this year), who left him “one of my bay mares.”
  He was a native of Yorkshire and came of the family of Walker, of Gawthorpe Manor, Bingley; appointed, by Bishop Bramhall, R. Badoney in 1630, and R. Cappagh 1636. Cotton says he was also Archdeacon of Derry (see C.F. III, 337). On 25 Oct., 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 lived abroad since (Comm. Papers A/25, p. 339). He was R. Donoughmore, Desertlyn, and Errigle Keerogue 1662-'74. He m. Ursula Stanhope and was father of the celebrated Rev. George Walker, Defender of Derry. He 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, Arm. Dom. 1677.” (See Memorials).

Derry Clergy and Parishes p100 (James B Leslie, 1937)
Parish of Badoney: Rectors
1636. George Walker (Sen.) inst. Badoney and Cappagh, Jan 13 (F.F.). He was son of the above; was of T.C.D. Sch, 1617, B.A. 1621, M.A. 1624, is described a "Doctor" on his tomb. He was R. Badoney and Cappagh 1636-60, fled to the Continent during the Rebellion. At the Restoration in a Petition he states "that a long time before the rebellion he was instituted and lawfully inducted to the Rectories of Bodony and Cappa . . .  and was dispossessed at the Rebellion and since which time he hath been driven to many straits to preserve himself and his family abroad . . .  He petitions for his livings "and for the value of them." He was restored to his livings, Oct. 25 1660, but nothing was said about the money. (Seymour's Comvu. Mss. p.154).  He was R. Donoughmore, Desertlyn and Erriglekeerogue 1662-74, evidently having res. his Derry Rectories. He was also Chanc. of Armagh 1664-77.  Abp. Vesey in his Life of Bramhall, says "my reverend unckle, Dr. George Walker, an intimate of the Primate and very useful to his Grace in many offices."  In the tablet in Dighton Church, Suffolk, to the memory of his wife, Ursula (dau. of Sir John Stanhope, who d. Aug. 17, 1654) he is called "Archdeacon of Dun (sic.)" which cannot be correct.
He was father of Rev. George W. the "Defender of Derry," and d. Sep. 15, 1677 and was bur. at Kilmore, Co. Armagh (see Armagh Clergy, p. 38). In the Halliday Collection R.I.A. is a Pamphlet by Rev. George Walker. The Doctrine of the Sabbath. Amsterdam, 1639.

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George was remembered in the will of his mother-in-law, Dame Mary (Hawley) Stanhope, widow of Owston, Lincolnshire, dated 23 November 1661, which is held at the National Archives PROB 11/306/329
Item I give and bequeath unto my sonne in Lawe George Walker Minister one ffield Bedstead with a blacke Teaster Vallaure and Curtains layd with yealowe Lace in the blacke Bedchamber with Cupboard and Cupboard cloath a ffeatherbedd a Boulster two Blanketts two pillowes a yellow coloured Rugg one paire of lynnon off broad sheets marked with fower pinks and the said three letters and one paire of lynnon sheets of two broadths marked as aforesaid

Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 2 pp129-131 (1854)
  BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF GEORGE WALKER,
    GOVERNOR OF DERRY DURING THE SIEGE IN 1688.
      BY THE REV. ABRAHAM DAWSON, A.B.
        Curate of Christ's Church, Belfast.
           PART I.
  GEORGE WALKER was the son of English parents. His father, a native of Yorkshire, appears to have settled in the county of Tyrone, early in the seventeenth century. Like his son he bore the name of George Walker, and was a clergyman of the church of Ireland. From the records of the Board of First Fruits, it appears that the elder Walker was instituted to the parish of Badoney, in the county of Tyrone and diocese of Derry, on the 13th of January, 1630. He was still rector of this parish in 1634, when Dr. John Bramhall was appointed to the bishopric of Derry, on the decease of Dr. Downham, the former bishop. Dr. Bramhall, who was himself a native of Yorkshire, (being born at Pontefract in that county,) seems to have been previously acquainted with the elder Walker, and to have highly appreciated his abilities. The new bishop found his diocese in a state of much disorder, and on commencing the work of reformation he first consulted with “the old, venerable Dr. Walker, whom he addressed himself to as to his father.” Bishop Bramhall, grateful for the assistance rendered him by Walker at this time, procured his appointment to the parish of Cappagh, in the gift of Trinity College, on the 26th of September, 1636. During the troubled period which followed soon after this appointment we can discover no trace of him. His friend and patron Bramhall fled to the Continent to save his life from the hostility of Cromwell and the English Parliament. Returning to England at the Restoration in 1660, Bramhall was immediately nominated to the primacy of the Irish Church, and was duly consecrated Archbishop of Armagh, on the 18th of January, 1661. This zealous prelate, in the same year, held a general Visitation of the See of Armagh and the other Dioceses connected with it. On this occasion, at the Visitation held at Derry, August, 19, 1661, Walker is thus noticed in the Visitation Book: “Geo. Walker, Rector de Cappog, M.A., Rector absens licentiat.”
  Walker was subsequently promoted by Archbishop Bramhall to the parish of Kilmore, in the diocese of Armagh, and to the chancellorship of Armagh, which is held in connection with that parish. The exact date of this promotion has not been discovered; however it could not have been later than 1663, in which year, on the 25th of June, Archbishop Bramhall died. Walker seems to have been succeeded in the parish of Cappagh by one Elias de Raynac, who appears as Rector of “Cappog,” at the Triennial Visitation held at Derry, June 6, 1664.
  The Act for the Uniformity of Public Prayers was passed in the year 1665. By its provisions it was required of all persons in holy orders, schoolmasters, and private tutors, that they should subscribe a declaration of allegiance to the King, and of conformity to the Liturgy of the Church of Ireland, as by law established. In the Armagh Book of Subscriptions Dr. Walker appears among the first who signed this declaration in his diocese. On the 5th of September, 1666, he thus subscribes himself: “Geo. Walker, Canc: de Ardmac.”
  Dr. Walker continued Rector of Kilmore until his death in 1677. He was buried in his parish-church. A plain stone, inserted in the floor in front of the chancel, marks his grave, and bears this simple inscription:
GEORGE WALKER, D.D.: CHAUNCELLOUR OF ARDMAGH & RECTOR OF KILMORE, WHO DYED YE 15TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER ANNO DOM. 1677. 

Death: 15 September 1677

Buried: in Kilmore church, county Armagh, Ireland
Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 2 p131 (1854)
He was buried in his parish-church. A plain stone, inserted in the floor in front of the chancel, marks his grave, and bears this simple inscription:
GEORGE WALKER, D.D.: CHAUNCELLOUR OF ARDMAGH & RECTOR OF KILMORE, WHO DYED YE 15TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER ANNO DOM. 1677. 

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George Walker

Father: George Walker
Geroge Walker
George Walker
photo from The Siege of Londonderry, in 1689 title page (Philip Dwyer, 1893)

George Walker
George Walker
from wikipedia

Mother: Ursula (Stanhope) Walker

Education: University of Glasgow
George also received an honorary degree of D.D. from Oxford University on 26 February 1689/90 (OS/NS).
Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1713 vol III p1556 (Joseph Foster, 1892)
Walker, George; D.D. by decree of convocation 26 Feb., 1689-90, “an Irish minister,” lately governor of Londonderry and the stout defender of it against the forces under king James II., when they besieged it in April and May, beneficed at Donaghmore, co. Tyrone, mortally wounded just before the battle of the Boyne in July, 1690. See Fasti, ii. 408.

Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 2 p131 (1854)
The single fact which history has preserved is, that he received his education at the university of Glasgow. It is difficult to account for the preference thus given to this university before those of Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin. Any of these would appear to offer more attractions than Glasgow to the son of English parents, who were members of an Episcopal church, and who at the time, perhaps, designed their son for that ministry to which he was afterwards ordained. In the way of explanation we may surmise that there was much intercourse between Scotland and that part of Ulster in which Walker's family then resided, and that there were greater facilities for travelling from Derry to Glasgow, than even to Dublin. Also residence at the Glasgow university may have been much less expensive, and considering the state of the times, safer than at any of the other universities named. From whatever cause the selection of Glasgow was made, the fact itself seems to have been the foundation of the erroneous statement occasionally made, that Walker was a Dissenter.

Married: Isabella Maxwell

Children: Occupation: Clergyman.
George was instituted as rector and vicar of Lissan and Desertlyn on July 16, 1669. On 9 September 1674 he was instituted rector and vicar of Donoughmore, county Tyrone, which had been devastated during the civil war. He built a rectory there in 1683 and a mill in the village in 1684 (see Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 2 pp129-135 (1854)). George was designated to the Bishopric of Derry by William III, but was killed before he was consecrated.

Armagh Clergy and Parishes p221 (James B. Leslie, 1911)
    DESERTLYN.—(Co. Derry.)
  Rectors and Vicars.
1669—George Walker, D.D., coll R. Desertlyn and Lissan July 16 (F.F.T). See Donoughmore.

pp230-1
    DONOUGHMORE.—(Co. Tyrone.)
  Rectors and Vicars.
1674—George Walker, jun., D.D., inst. Sep. 9, 1674 (F.F.T.). He was the son of his predecessor, Rev. George W., D.D., Chancellor (see Chancellors) by his wife Ursula Stanhope, was b. in Co. Tyrone in 1618 and educated at Glasgow University. We find him getting a legacy of a mourning ring in the Will of Thomas Chambers, Armagh, in 1664. On July 16, 1669, he was inst. R. Lissan and Desertlyn. He m. Isabella Maxwell, of Finnebrogue [Will proved 1706]. He became prominent as the leader of the Loyalists in the celebrated Siege of Derry, and was designated to the Bishopric of Derry by William III., but was killed, before he was consecrated, at the Battle of the Boyne. His widow, some years later, brought what were believed to he his remains to Donoughmore where they were buried, and erected a tablet to his memory in the church; inscription given in Jour. S.P.M.D. It is said, I believe, on excellent authority, that when the church was being repaired during the incumbency of Rev. Thomas Carpendale, he, fearing lest—when party spirit was running high—the Roman Catholics should steal Walker's bones, removed them to the glebe and kept them under his bed until the repairs were completed! Walker had several children. His son John in 1707 received a pension of £200 a year, which was terminated in 1717 by a grant of £2,000 [was it paid ?], he became Collector of Customs at Dundalk. His dau. Anne m. William Maxwell, of Falkland (see Peerage and B.L.G.). Walker was the author of several pamphlets etc., on the Siege of Derry. His life has been written more than once. See Dwyer's Siege of Londonderry; Graham's Ireland Preserved; also D.N.B. and Hist. of Kilsaran, p. 68.

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George Walker during the siege of Londonderry
George Walker standing on the battlements of the city of Londonderry, pointing to the relief ships sailing up the River Foyle
photo from findagrave.com
George was joint governor of Londonderry during the siege of 1689 in which the city was besieged for 105 days, from 18 April to 1 August 1689, by the army of James II. He is given much of the credit for inspiring the inhabitants of Londonderry to withstand the siege, during which about half of the town's population of about 8,000 died. George's own first hand account of the siege (reprinted in The Siege of London-Derry, in 1689: As Set Forth in the Literary Remains of Colonel the Rev. George Walker, D.D. (Philip Dwyer, 1893)) was controversial and  precipitated a major split between Anglicans and Presbyterians in Londonderry. After the siege George went to London where he was celebrated, receiving the thanks of the House of Commons and an honorary degree of D.D. from Oxford University. He returned to Ireland to fight with King William, losing his life at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

The Life of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson vol 1 p221 (Thomas Birch, 1752)
  Mr. GEORGE WALKER, justly famous for his defence of London-Derry in Ireland, was born of English parents in the county of Tyrone, in that kingdom, and educated in the university of Glasgow in Scotland. He was afterwards Rector of Donoghmore, not many miles from the city of London-Derry. Upon the revolution he raised a regiment for the defence of the Protestants, and upon intelligence of King JAMES having a design to besiege London-Derry, retired thither, and being at last chosen Governor of it. After the raising of that siege he came to England, where he was most graciously received by their Majesties, and on the 19th of November 1689, received the thanks of the house of Commons, having just before published an account of that siege. He was created Doctor of divinity by the university of Oxford on the 26th of February 1689/90, in his return to Ireland, where he was kill'd in the beginning of July 1690 at the passage of the Boyne, having resolved to serve that campaign before he took possession of his Bishopric.

Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 2 pp129-135 (1854)
  BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF GEORGE WALKER,
    GOVERNOR OF DERRY DURING THE SIEGE IN 1688.
      BY THE REV. ABRAHAM DAWSON, A.B.
        Curate of Christ's Church, Belfast.
           PART I.
  GEORGE WALKER was the son of English parents. His father, a native of Yorkshire, appears to have settled in the county of Tyrone, early in the seventeenth century. Like his son he bore the name of George Walker, and was a clergyman of the church of Ireland.
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GEORGE WALKER, the subject of this Memoir, son of Dr. Walker, rector of Kilmore, was born in the county of Tyrone. The year of his birth, according to credible tradition, was 1618. Of his early life almost nothing is recorded. The single fact which history has preserved is, that he received his education at the university of Glasgow.
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  We have no information when Walker was admitted into Holy Orders, or where he spent the first part of his ministerial life. On the 16th of July, 1669, he made the requisite subscription to the Act of Uniformity, at Armagh, on his appointment to the parishes of Lessan (now Lissan,) and Desertlyn, in the diocese of Armagh.
  Walker was married to Isabella Maxwell, daughter to Robert Maxwell of Finnebrogue, county Down. The exact date of this marriage is unknown; but from a passage in Walker's “Vindication of the True Account of the Siege of Londonderry,” it would appear to have taken place a few years at least, prior to his appointment to Lessan and Desertlyn. Walker was again connected with the Maxwell family by the marriage of his only sister, Anne, to William Maxwell, of Falkland, in the county of Monaghan, the fourth son of Dr. Maxwell, Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, and nearly related to Robert Maxwell of Finnebrogue.
  On the 2nd of August, 1670, Walker again made subscription at Armagh, but without any designation appended, or any note which might assign the reason of this additional subscription. On the 9th of September, 1674, Walker subscribed on his appointment to the parish of Donaghmore, in the county of Tyrone, in succession to the Rev. James Barclay, who had been rector of that parish only from the 26th of May, 1673. Walker held Donaghmore in conjunction with his former parishes, or certainly with Lessan, for at the Triennial Visitation, in 1679, he appears as rector of Donaghmore and Lessan, having Bartholomew Blacke as his curate in the latter parish.
  The loss of the ancient parochial records (which would seem to be almost universal in this country) leaves us without that information respecting Walker, as a parish minister, which it is reasonable to expect such documents would afford. Walker and his father, at different times, presided over at least six parishes in Ulster; of all these the parochial records are no longer extant. The only information of this kind which we at present possess is furnished us by the register of the parish of Drumglass, (Dungannon,) where Walker occasionally officiated. The appearance of entries by Walker in this register is simply explained. When he was appointed to Donaghmore, he found it would be requisite to rebuild the church and glebe-house, which had been destroyed, or very much injured, during the great rebellion of 1641. Whilst they were being rebuilt, he resided at Dungannon, of which town part of the suburbs are situated in the parish of Donaghmore. His residence at Dungannon continued until a few years prior to his retiring, with the inhabitants of the town and its vicinity, for safety, to Derry; and during this period he frequently assisted the rector of Drumglass, the Rev. Peter Maurice, in the several offices of the ministry.
  The earliest date in the Drumglass register is 1663. ... Walker and his wife are noticed also as sponsors at several baptisms; and, at page 19, the baptism of one of Walker's children is thus “stated: Thomas, ye son of George Walker, Clerk, was baptized on Monday, at even, ye 25 of June, (1677): Godfathers, John Chichester, Henry Ball; Godmothers, Elizabeth Walker, Frances Nelson.”
  This old register seems to tell us that Walker and his family were on kindly terms of intimacy and friendship with the rector of Drumglass and his parishioners.
  We come now to the time when Walker's parish church and glebe-house were rebuilt. According to the date on the sun-dial, on the south wall of the tower, the new church of the parish of Donaghmore was built in the year 1680, and on the 24th of September, 1681, the primate issued a commission to William (Smith, D.D.) bishop of Killala, for its consecration. The former church stood at the village of Donaghmore, but the new edifice was erected at the village of Castle-Caulfield. Tradition assigns this change of site to the influence of Lord Charlemont, who desired that the parish church might be in the vicinity of his mansion at the latter village. This tradition seems to be confirmed by the prominence of Lord Charlemont's name in the primate's commission, and by the appearance of the coronet and crest of his family over the door of the tower.
  The handsome stone windows which adorn the east and south sides of the church were taken from the old church at Donaghmore. Over the east window, on the exterior, there is carved in stone the figure of an angel holding an open bible, on which are engraved the ten commandments. The porch on the south side was added in 1685. Above the entrance there is a piece of sculpture representing two angels, or winged figures, holding between them an open bible, with the last four verses of the 24th psalm engraved upon it; and beneath the bible is the date of the addition, 1685.
  By the change of site the church was removed about two English miles from the glebe-house. To obviate this disadvantage Lord Charlemont, it is said, gave the townland of Mullamore, on which the present glebe-house is built, for the townland of Mullagruen, on which (adjoining to the village of Donaghmore) the old glebe-house stood. By this alteration the residence of the rector was brought within a short distance of his parish church at Castlecaulfield. This change however seems to have taken effect after the death of Walker, who rebuilt the glebe-house at Mullagruen, in the year 1683, as appears from a fragment of this house which is still preserved. Walker's house was standing until about twenty years ago, when it was removed to make room for the residence of the late Alexander Mackenzie, Esq. It is well remembered by many persons; and it has been described to the writer as a thatched cottage, having the appearance and the accommodation of a comfortable farm-house.
  Local tradition assigns to Walker the erection of the ancient corn mill in the village of Donaghmore, which is still standing and in use. An apparent confirmation of this tradition is afforded by an inscription on a stone in the wall, at the principal entrance of the mill. The stone, which is nearly lozenge-shaped, is thus inscribed:
      W
   G.    I.
     1684.
The second initial is probably that of his wife, Isabella Walker. At that time it was not uncommon, to inscribe the initials, or even the names, of husband and wife together, on public buildings and works erected by their joint munificence.
  Walker appears to have maintained his parental connection with England, by making occasional visits to that country. One of these visits was made in March, 1685, by permission of the primate who granted him a license for that purpose, on the 6th of this month, on his own application as rector of Donaghmore and Lessan. A similar license was granted to him, under the same designation on the 24th of July, 1686.

A Compendium of Irish Biography p542 (Alfred Webb, 1878)
  Walker, George, Bishop designate of Derry, Governor of Londonderry during the siege, was born in the County of Tyrone in 1618. [His father, George Walker, D.D., was Chancellor of Armagh Cathedral and, as such, rector of Kilmore.] The single fact known of his early life is that he was educated at the University of Glasgow. On 16th July 1669 he made the requisite subscription to the Act of Uniformity at Armagh, on his appointment as rector of the parishes of Lissan and Desertlyn. Before this he had married Isabella Maxwell of Finnebrogue. In 1674 he received the additional cure of the parish of Donaghmore. Pending the rebuilding of the church and glebe-house of this parish, he resided at Dungannon. Local tradition assigns to Walker the erection of a corn-mill in Donaghmore, over the door of which the initials of himself and wife—“G.W.I. 1684”— are inscribed. In the autumn and winter of 1688 the Protestants of the north took up arms in the interest of William of Orange, as opposed to James II. and his Viceroy Tirconnell. On 18th (o.s.) December 1688 the apprentices of Londonderry shut the city gates in the face of Tirconnell's army. Walker, although in his seventy-first year, raised a regiment at his own charge, and applied “what interest he could make towards the preservation” of Dungannon; besides immediately opening communications with Londonderry. The garrison of Dungannon made more than one successful sally against the bodies of Jacobites that occupied the surrounding country, and the place would probably have been able to hold out, but that on the 14th March, Lundy, governor of Londonderry, directed that it should be evacuated. The order was obeyed with reluctance, and the garrison, with many of the inhabitants, retired towards Londonderry and Coleraine, allowing a large supply of provisions to fall into the enemy's hands. Five companies under the command of Walker were quartered at Rash, near Omagh, whence, a fortnight after, they were removed to St. Johnstown, five miles from Londonderry. On 13th April, Walker hastened into town with the news of the approach of a large force under James II. in person. Governor Lundy advanced against the enemy and retreated, then entered into private negotiations with them, and also, it is said, persuaded the officers in command of a relieving fleet in Lough Foyle, to return to England. He then declared the defence hopeless, and the inhabitants, disgusted at his pusillanimity, deposed him from the governorship, and permitted him to leave the town secretly. On the 19th April, Walker and Major Baker were appointed joint governors, a messenger was sent to London for assistance, and the memorable siege may be said to have regularly commenced. The fortifications were in a miserable condition; the place was badly provisioned, and ill supplied with artillery and munitions of war. The garrison consisted of 7,369 men, encumbered, besides the inhabitants of the place, with numerous fugitives from the surrounding districts. Everything was wanting but brave hearts and heroic self-devotion. The besieging army, at first commanded by King James, and afterwards by his most experienced generals, outnumbered the garrison by some three to one. “It was certainly,” says Harris in his life of William III., “a very bold undertaking in these two gentlemen to maintain against a formidable army, commanded by a king in person, an ill-fortified town, with a garrison composed of poor people frightened from their habitations, and without a proportionable number of horse to sally out, or engineers to instruct them in the necessary work. Nor had they above twenty cannons, of which not one was well mounted, and, in the opinion of the former governor, not above ten days' provisions.” The defence. which lasted above a hundred days, was one of the most heroic in history; and when the siege was raised, the garrison was reduced by deaths in sallies and on the walls, and by disease, to 4,300, “of whom at least a fourth part were rendered unserviceable.” Of garrison and inhabitants 9,000 are calculated to have died within the walls during the siege To increase their difficulties, De Rosen, James's general, upon one occasion drove some thousands of Protestants from the surrounding country under the walls, and kept them there for three days, in the hope that the garrison would take them in and thereby be further weakened. By the time they were permitted to depart Walker had cleverly managed to draw in from amongst them the strong and hardy, and to send away in their place some of his old and useless mouths. On 30th June Major Baker died, and Colonel Mitchelburne was made Walker's assistant. Without declining the post of danger and honour at the head of the garrison, Walker always appeared willing to concede to others, where practicable, the military functions so little suited to his cloth. He took part in the daily service in the cathedral, as well as in the other duties of his office, and his dress always indicated that in becoming a soldier he had not ceased to be a priest. Towards the end of the siege, “such a scarcity of the vilest eatables was in the city, that horse-flesh was sold for 1s. 8d. a pound; a quarter of a dog fattened by the dead bodies of the slain Irish, 5s. 6d; a dog's head, 2s. 6d.; a cat, 4s. 6d.; a rat, 1s.; a mouse, 6d.; greaves by the pound, 1s.; tallow, 4s.; salted hides, 1s.; and other things in proportion. Their drink was water mixed with ginger and anise-seeds; and their necessity of eating a composition of tallow and starch not only nourished and supported them, but proved an infallible cure for the flux.” The women shared in the labours of the men, carrying ammunition to the soldiers, attending to the sick and wounded, and at times giving assistance in repelling the assaults of the besiegers. Eighteen Church clergymen and eight dissenting ministers took part in the toils of the siege, and their turn in leading daily services in the cathedral and other places of worship. In June an English fleet arrived in Lough Foyle; but the banks of the lough being in the occupation of the enemy, it was unable to throw any relief into the town, and could not even have communicated with the inhabitants, but for the bravery of Colonel Roche. [See page 456.] At length, on the 30th of July, the Mountjoy broke the boom that the besiegers had placed across the river, and running the gauntlet of a furious cannonade, sailed up to the quay, followed by two other vessels carrying supplies and provisions. All the eatables in the place at the time are said to have been nine lean horses, and a pint of meal to each man. A few days afterwards De Rosen broke up camp and raised the siege, having lost, it is stated, 8,000 to 9,000 men. Walker presented the keys of the city to Major-General Kirk, who had come with the fleet. Kirk declined to receive them, but next day permitted Walker, who was anxious that “he might return to his own profession,” to resign the governorship to Captain White, “a gentleman of experienced valour and known merit.” Walker, when praised for the part he had taken with great humility declared that the “whole conduct of this matter must be ascribed to Providence alone. . . . God was pleased to make us the happy instruments of preserving this place, and to Him we give the glory. . . With his own right hand and his holy arm getting Himself the victory.” At a meeting of the heroic inhabitants of Londonderry, Walker was deputed to go to England to present an address to King William and Queen Mary, expressive of their gratitude for the relief they had received, and to assure their Majesties of their devoted allegiance. He went by way of Scotland, and was received with great distinction in Glasgow, where the freedom of the city was conferred upon him. A similar honour was accorded him at Edinburgh. On the journey he was met by a letter from King William: he was escorted into London with great respect, and was graciously received at court. With much good taste, Walker refused to accede to the desire of many that he should appear before his Majesty in the semi-military apparel he had worn during the siege. Sir Godfrey Kneller painted his portrait for the King; a grant of £5,000 (never paid, apparently) was made by Parliament, in consideration of his heavy expenses and losses; he was designated to the bishopric of Derry, was entertained by the Irish Society, and received the thanks of the House of Commons. In September he published his famous True Account of the Siege of Londonderry, the statements in which were afterwards re-asserted in the publication of his Vindication of the True Account. There appears to have been considerable bitterness amongst the defenders regarding the statements given to the world of the events of the siege. Quite a number of True Accounts and Answers appeared, and in the end both inhabitants and leaders in the defence considered themselves very negligently treated by Government. [See CAIRNES, DAVID, p. 67.] Walker returned to Ireland in the beginning of 1690, receiving at Oxford, on his way, the degree of Doctor in Divinity. When William III. landed at Belfast in June, Walker presented him with a congratulatory address in the name of the Ulster clergy. He accompanied William in his march southward, on the way being confirmed in the bishopric of Derry. On 12th July, in the early part of the battle of the Boyne, he crossed the river with one of the Enniskillen regiments, fell mortally wounded, and was interred on the battle-field. After several years, and at his widow's desire, his body was exhumed by a faithful servant who had accompanied him into the fight, and deposited within the church at Castlecaulfield, where a tasteful monument marks his resting-place. In 1838 his remains and those of his wife were placed in new coffins. It was not until 1703 that his son received a pension of £200 per annum from the Irish Parliament, terminated in 1717 by the grant of 2,000. In 1828 the monument to his memory on the walls of Londonderry was completed. Macaulay says: “On the summit is the statue of Walker, such as when, in the last and most terrible emergency, his eloquence raised the fainting courage of his brethren. In one hand he grasps a Bible; the other pointing down the river seems to direct the eyes of his famished audience to the English topmasts in the distant bay.” The likeness appended to a memoir in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. ii., represents Walker as a noble looking man.

Battle of the Boyne painting by Benjamin West
In this iconic painting of the Battle of the Boyne by Benjamin West, the dying figure fallen from his horse in the middle foreground has been identified as Rev. George Walker.
from wikipedia
Death: 1 July 1690, at the Battle of the Boyne, Londonderry, Ireland
A History of Ireland, from the relief of Londonderry in 1689, to the surrender of Limerick in 1691 p164 (John Graham, 1839)
  Not long after the death of Schomberg, the renowned George Walker, who has so highly distinguished himself in the defence of Londonderry, received a wound in the belly, which he survived but a few minutes, dying in the seventy-first or seventy-second year of his age, and leaving the bishopric of Derry, to which he had been appointed by King William, vacant.

Walker's Monument
Walker's Monument on the walls of Derry, commemorating Rev. George Walker, was erected in 1828 and destroyed in 1973.
photo from wikipedia
Buried: George was initially buried at the battlefield on the banks of the Boyne, but thirteen years later, in 1703, his bones were dug up at the direction of his widow and re-interred at the Church of Castlecaulfield, Donaghmore in county Tyrone, Ireland. Then in 1838, during renovation of the church, these remains were found in a small oak box next to the remains of his widow. A cast was taken of George's skull, and the remains were then re-interred in the church in a new coffin.

Walker's Monument was erected in Londonderry in 1828. The Doric column was 96 feet in height and six feet nine inches in circumference. Inside was a spiral staircase with 110 steps. The column was surmounted by a square platform with a railing, and a statue of George Walker with a bible in his right hand and his left hand pointing down river towards the Boom, the breaking of which heralded the end of the Siege. Originally, the left hand held a sword, but during a night of storm in the early part of the 20th century this was blown down. The pillar was destroyed by a bomb on 27 August 1973. Claiming responsibility for the blast, the Provisional IRA said: "The monument was built in defiance of the nationally-minded people of Derry and served as a symbol of unionist domination."
Walker's Monument plinth
The Walker Plinth, on the walls of Derry, is all that remains today of Walker's Monument
photo from wikipedia
The plinth on which the tower stood, along with its antagonistic inscription on each side, remains. This inscription reads:
This monument was erected to perpetuate the memory of Rev. George Walker who, aided by the garrison and brave inhabitants of this city, most gallantly defended through a protracted siege, from the 7th December 1688 to the 1st August following, against an arbitrary and bigoted monarch, heading an army of upwards of 20,000 men, many of whom were foreign mercenaries, and by such valiant conduct in numerous sorties and by patiently enduring extreme privations and sufferings, successfully resisted the besiegers and preserved for their posterity the blessings of civil and religious liberty.

The Derry Journal of 23 July 2010 in "Siege hero Walker felled in midnight blast" tells an interesting history of the use of the monument over the years by both sides of the sectarian conflict.

George Walker Monument in Castlecaulfield
The George Walker Monument in Castlecaulfield church, Donaghmore, county Tyrone
photo from Irish Heraldry
A History of Ireland, from the relief of Londonderry in 1689, to the surrender of Limerick in 1691 p165 (John Graham, 1839)
  In the Church of Castlecaulfield, in the county of Tyrone, of which Walker had been Rector at the time he went to the siege of Derry, is a monument of him in excellent preservation, on which, under his arms is the following inscription:—

P.M.S.
Hic juxta lector
Reverendi Georgii Walker, S.T.D.
Hujus Parochiæ olim Rectoris,
Ossa Reconduntur,
Ille cujus vigilantia et virtute,
Londiniderriensis civitas,
Anno MDCLXXXIX;
Fidei hostibus
Liberata stetit.
Ad Boandi fluminis ripam,
Pro eadem causa adversus easdem hostes,
Anno MDCXC,
Occisus cecidit;
Cujus reliquiis et memoriæ,
Mœstissima adhuc vidua,
Isabella Walker,
Hoc monumentum posuit
Anno MDCCCIII.
Saxo autem Tama erit perennoir.
Nec futura minus quam præsentia sæcula
Tam purum militem, tam fortem sacerdotem
Mirabuntur.

The Siege of London-Derry, in 1689: As Set Forth in the Literary Remains of Colonel the Rev. George Walker, D.D. p237 (Philip Dwyer, 1893)
  The following is the literal translation by Rev. Paul Walker, Vicar of Stopsley, a descendant of Rev. G. Walker, of the Latin inscription carved on the monument in Donoughmore Church, Castle Caulfield.
            P.M.S.
  “Near this, oh reader, are deposited the remains of the Rev. George Walker, Doctor of Sacred Theology, formerly Rector of this Parish. He, by whose vigilance and valour Londonderry, in the year 1689 was rescued from the enemies of William and the faith, fell mortally wounded on the banks of the Boyne, for the same cause against the same enemies in the year 1690, to whose remains and memory his still inconsolable widow, Isabella Walker, has erected this monument, in the year 1703.
  “But his fame shall be more durable than Rock,
nor will future ages less than the present admire a Soldier so pious and a Minister so intrepid.”

A History of Ireland, from the relief of Londonderry in 1689, to the surrender of Limerick in 1691 pp361-5 (John Graham, 1839)
DISCOVERY AND RE-INTERMENT OF THE REMAINS OF THE REV. GEORGE WALKER, RECTOR OF DONOUGHMORE, AND GOVERNOR OF LONDONDERRY.
                               ———
       “Thrice honored shade of Walker wise,
         To Derry's cause so true,
       Oh! could you from the starry skies
         Our sad condition view:—
       How would your wounded spirit feel,
         The dark day to behold,
       When all our fathers won by steel,
         Their sons betrayed for gold.”—GRAHAM.
                                 ———
  On Tuesday, the 16th of October, 1838, the Church of Donaghmore, at Castle Caulfield, being in the process of repair by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, it was found necessary to lower and level the floor of it.
   In that part of the chancel, immediately under the Monument of Governor Walker, the workmen discovered a full-sized oak coffin, containing the remains of his widow, who, in 1703, caused his bones to be brought there from the banks of the Boyne, where his body had been interred and had lain for thirteen years. They were this day found in a small oak box, in which this “widow, indeed,” full of endearing recollections of happier days, had deposited them.
   This worthy lady was the mother of four sons of the renowned Walker, who, at his death, were serving in King William's army, and each of whom, in justice to their immortal father's services and their own, ought to have inherited one of the forfeited estates. John Walker, the eldest son, on a petition to the House of Commons, obtained a pension of two hundred pounds a year, which he enjoyed until the beginning of the reign of George the First, when he was deprived of it by the parsimony of the triumphant Whigs. Of the other sons there is no record, save that the daughter of one of them was the mother of the late Mrs. Caldbeck, of Lisburn.
   The Walkers were a Yorkshire family. The father of the Governor of Derry was the Rev. George Walker, sen., Rector of Cappagh, County Tyrone, the friend and confidential adviser of Dr. Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, when this Prelate was nobly using his private means and public influence in regaining the alienated property of the Church of Ireland, and purchasing the advowsons of the impropriated rectories, which he added to the vicarages throughout the Diocese. He sent his son and namesake to Glasgow College for education; and on the young man's return, soon after the restoration of King Charles the Second, he was presented to the rectories of Donoughmore and Errigal Keerogue, in the county of Tyrone. Walker was in the sear and yellow leaf of life when he went to Derry, in 1689, being then, according to credible tradition, 71 years of age. His sister Anne married William Maxwell, Esq., of Falkland, High Sheriff of the county of Monaghan, in the year 1691, and who was great grandfather of the present representative of his renowned ancestor—the Rev. Thomas Carpendale, rector of Donoughmore.
   Mr. Carpendale, with Edward Evans, Esq., son of the Rev. George Evans, who had been upwards of thirty years rector of Donoughmore, Alexander Mackenzie, Esq., and a few others, naturally regardful of the remains of this great and good man, caused them to be taken carefully from the decayed box in which they were found, and putting them and those of his widow, into smaller boxes, enclosed both with suitable inscriptions into a leaden coffin, which, being laid in one of deal plank, was solemnly deposited in the hero's grave, by his reverend descendant and successor, assisted by the Rev. John Graham, Author of the History of the Siege of Derry, and also by one of the oldest Apprentice Boys of the maiden city.
   In the case with Governer Walker's remains was placed a flint glass bottle, hermetically sealed, containing the following writing on parchment:
   “Be it recorded, that whilst this church was undergoing repair, in the year 1838, search was made beneath the monument of the Rev. George Walker, immediately opposite to the communion-table, at the eastern end of the church, and south side of the aisle, to ascertain whether his bones were deposited there, agreeable to the inscription on the monument, erected by his widow in the year 1703.
   “We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, having assembled in said church, on Tuesday the 16th of October 1838, and having made search immediately beneath said monument, fixed in the wall, have found, in a full-sized oak coffin, the remains of his widow, and in a small oaken case adjoining were deposited bones which had not the appearance of regular interment in a coffin, but corresponding with the words on the monument, ‘Ossa reconduntur,’ &c. &c.
   “Now, to testify our veneration and respect for the memory of the illustrious Walker, we herein carefully replace the bones, and restore them to their former position, together with this record.
      “THOMAS CARPENDALE, Rector of the Parish of Donoughmore.
       “ROBERT FRASER, Curate of said Parish.
       “EDWARD EVANS, Esq., of Dungannon, son of the Rev. GEORGE EVANS, formerly Rector of said Parish.
       “EDWARD EVANS, jun., Esq., of Armagh, son of the said Edward.
       “HENRY POLE, Esq., J.P., Dungannon.”
   Previous to the re-interment of the bones, a cast was taken of the skull, which was perfectly sound, and in which the organs of intelligence and firmness were remarkably developed.
   Walker afforded an instance of the value of a classical education and habits of literary composition to a military man; proving that the hero, capable of recording actions in which he has been concerned, with modesty and without exaggeration, is more likely to get full credit for his own merits, than the illiterate warrior, who requires another man's pen to do justice to him.
   The following extract from the Preface to the “History of the Siege of Londonderry” may not be unsuitable in this place:
   “The applause which immediately followed the publication of Walker's Diary in London, was unbounded. The heroic author basked in the sunshine of royal and popular favour, seldom beaming on the head of any one man at the same time, however great his worth or important his services. King William's munificent bounty to him, was a matter of policy as well as gratitude, scarce less beneficial to the giver than to the receiver of it. The Whigs, who were even then ready enough to be troublesome to their deliverer, and soon afterwards made him weary of his crown and his life together, hailed it as an act which reflected equal honour upon both; and the celebrated Tillotson, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, thus re-echoed the voice of the public upon Walker's promotion to the See of Derry, in his letter to Lady Russell, of the 19th of September, 1689:
“ ‘The King, besides his first bounty to Mr. Walker (£5,000), whose modesty is equal to his merit, hath made him Bishop of Londonderry, one of the best Bishoprics in Ireland. It is incredible how much every body is pleased with what his Majesty hath done in this matter, and it is no small joy to me to see that GOD directs him so wisely.’
   “On the 19th of November, in the same year, he received the thanks of the House of Commons; and on the 26th of February following, the University of Oxford, with that regard to the Protestant interest which still characterizes it, conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. Sir Godfrey Kneller, at the King's command, drew his picture; and copper-plates struck off from it were dispersed through the three kingdoms. In some of the prints he is drawn with a Bible open, at the 20th chapter of Exodus, in one hand, and a drawn sword in the other. His garment of a purple colour, and a large old-fashioned band, form a strong contrast to the military sash, appearing in crimson folds about his waist. A copy of this curious print hung for half a century over the parlor fire-place of a tavern in Londonderry.”
   Another copy, said to be a more correct likeness, is in possession of his descendent, William Caldbeck, Esq., of Lisburn, Sub-Sheriff of the county of Down.

Administration: George died intestate.
The Siege of London-Derry, in 1689: As Set Forth in the Literary Remains of Colonel the Rev. George Walker, D.D. p237 (Philip Dwyer, 1893)
  Walker died intestate. There were grants of administration taken out, one to the Archbishop of Tuam, and two to his wife Isabella. “There is no will or inventories preserved of Dr. Walker.”

Sources:

George Walker

Father: George Walker

Mother: Isabella (Maxwell) Walker

Married: Elizabeth Moland
A Great Archbishop of Dublin, William King, D.D., 1650-1729 p31 (William King, 1908)
King William had made choice of the heroic governor of Derry, Rev. George Walker, D.D., rector of Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone, to be the new bishop, but the brave old man, notwithstanding his age and profession, accompanied the colonists of Ulster to animate their zeal by exhortation and example, and was shot dead at the Boyne; he left, by Margaret, his wife, a son, George, of Donaghmore, who married Elizabeth Moland, and died 1699;

After George's death, Elizabeth married Thomas Richardson on 7 December 1705 in Dublin St Michan, county Dublin, Ireland. As Elizabeth Richardson, she is mentioned in a deed concerning the will of George's brother, John, on 26 July 1728:
Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills Memorial No: 38369 film 007905895 image 163
Eliz Richardson, otw Walker Relict of George Walker Esqr Deced who was eldest son of the Reverend Doctr George Walker late Governr of Londonderry Deced  

Notes: George was the eldest son of George Walker, Governor of Londonderry.
In his Vindication of the True Account of the Siege of Derry, written in 1689, Governor George Walker mentions that he has four sons in the service of King William, likely including this George, his eldest son. This George is also likely the George Walker who co-signed the address to King William and Queen Mary written by his father on 29 July 1689 (The Siege of London-Derry, in 1689: As Set Forth in the Literary Remains of Colonel the Rev. George Walker, D.D. p41 (Philip Dwyer, 1893))

Death: c1699, at which time he was of Donaghmore, county Tyrone, Ireland

Administration: granted 1699

Sources:

George Walker

Birth: 1695 in Ireland

Father: John Walker

Sources:

Gervase Walker

Birth: 1566, in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England

Father: Thomas Walker

Education: Mr. Smith at Nottingham School; Caius College, Cambridge which he entered 3 January 1584/5, and obtained his B.A. in 1588/9.

Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College vol  p123 (John Venn, 1897)
Walker, Gervase (matriculated as James), of Ruddington, Notts.: son of Thomas Walker, mediocris fortunæ. School, Nottingham, under Mr Smith. Age 18. Admitted Jan. 3, 1584-5, sizar of his surety, Mr George Estey, M.A., fellow.
  B.A. 1588-9. Ordained deacon (Lond.), March 29, 1591; as curate of All SS., Steyning, London. Vicar of Gt Staughton, Hunts., 1593.

Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 4 p316 (John Venn, 1927)
WALKER, GERVASE. Adm. sizar (age 18) at CAIUS, Jan. 3, 1584-5. S. of Thomas, of Ruddington, Notts. School, Nottingham (Mr Smith). B.A. 1588-9. Ord. deacon (London) Mar. 29, 1591; priest, 1592. C. of All Saints', Steyning, London. V. of Gt Staughton, Hunts., 1594-1615. One of these names R. of Cappagh and Badony, Derry, in 1622. (Venn, 1. 123.)

Children: Occupation: Clergyman.
Gervase was ordained deacon in London Mar. 29, 1591 and priest in 1592. He was curate of All Saints Steyning, London and vicar of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire from 1594 until 1615.  He was also vicar of Cappagh from 1622-36 and rector of  Badoney, county Derry also from 1622-36.

Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 1 p245 (1894)
The Estate of the Diocess of Derry
COMPILED BY DR. GEORGE DOWNHAM BISHOP OF THAT SEE—1616-34.
From the Original MS.—intitled “The Ulster Visitation Book, 1622,”
...
   11. The Church of Cappy is uncovered.
  The Incumbent is GERVASE WALKER, Mr of Arts, a grave man and an ancient preacher.
  The valuation in the King's Books is xiiili, vis, viii., the third part of the cleare value. The vicesima is xiii. ivd.
  It hath three townelands of glebe, upon one of them, called Rehen, the Incumbent hath built one (? a) mansion house of timber after the English fashion.
  The Incumbent is resident, and serveth the Cure himself in a house given by Sr John Dromond (?), Kt, to that use.
  12 The Church of Bodony is ruinous.
  The Incumbent is the sd GERVASE WALKER, who by dispensation holdeth this with the former, the parish being contiguous.
  The valuation in the King's Books is xli, wch is somewhat more than the fourth part of the cleare value. The vicesima xs.
  It hath but one towneland of glebe, sett forth in the wild mountaynes, two miles distant from the church.
  The Incumbent hath bound his Tenant to build ane house after the English manner, wch is in building.
  The Cure is served partly by the Incumbent himself and partly by an Irish Clerk, the parish consisting wholy of Irish recusants.

Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 1 p252 (1895)
Cappy [NOW CAPPAGH].  Sti Eugenii.
  In 1622, GERVASE WALKER, M.A. He was also R. of Badoney

Derry Clergy and Parishes p100 (James B Leslie, 1937)
Parish of Badoney: Rectors
1622.- Gervase Walker appears R,. (R.V.). Probably Gervase W., son of Thomas W. of Ruddington, Notts., ed. by Mr. Smith at Nottingham Sch., adm. Siz. aged 18 at Caius Coll. Cambr. Jan. 3, 1584/5, B.A. 1588/9 ; ord. D. London Mar. 29, 1591, P. 1592, C. All SS. Steyning, London, V. Great Staughton, Hunts. 1594-1615 (Venn's Al. Cant.). He was also V. Cappagh 1622-36. He got a grant of a glebe here on May 24, 1626 (Morrin III 177). He is described in the R.V. 1622 as "a Master of Arts, a grave man and a preacher." He seems to have res. in 1636 in favour of his son.
In the Derry Cath. Reg. is the entry "Mr. Garvis Walker was buried on 1st July 1642."
Rev. Geo. Walker below, was his son: a grand dau. m. Abp. John Vesy of Tuam.

Buried: 1 July 1642, in St. Columb's Cathedral, Londonderry, Ireland

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Gervase Walker

Birth: in Ireland

Father: George Walker

Mother: Isabella (Maxwell) Walker

Notes:
Notes and Queries vol 8 p151 (23 August 1913)
  Governor Walker had a son Gervase

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Isabella (Walker) Woolsey

Birth: 1702 in Ireland

Father: John Walker

Married: William Woolsey

Rev William Woolsey was rector of Dundalk from 1709 until 1728

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Jane (Walker) Read

Birth: 1699 in Ireland

Father: John Walker

Married: James Read, of Dundalk, county Louth, Ireland.

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John Walker

Birth: 1669/70, in Minimore [Moneymore], county Derry, Ireland

Father: George Walker

Mother: Isabella (Maxwell) Walker

Education: Trinity College Dublin
Alumni Dublinenses p847 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935):
 WALKER, JOHN, Pen. (Mr Collier, Armagh), Oct. 8, 1685, aged 15; s. of George, Theologus de Donoghmore in Com. Tyronensi; b. Minimore, Co. Derry.

Children: Occupation: Collector of Customs, in Cavan, then Armagh, then Dundalk.
The Antiquities and History of Ireland p187 (James Ware, 1705)
The Collectors of the several Districts in Ireland.
...
Cavan,     John Walker

Notes:
A History of Ireland, from the relief of Londonderry in 1689, to the surrender of Limerick in 1691 p362 (John Graham, 1839)
John Walker, the eldest son, on a petition to the House of Commons, obtained a pension of two hundred pounds a year, which he enjoyed until the beginning of the reign of George the First, when he was deprived of it by the parsimony of the triumphant Whigs.

St Michael's Castlecaulfield & St Patrick's Donaghmore
The Glebe House at Mullygruen was rebuilt by George Walker in 1683-4. The old house which he replaced must itself have been a considerable mansion, for in Archbishop Ussher's manuscript on the state of the diocese in 1622 it was valued at £70. This house was destroyed in the Jacobite wars and rebuilt around 1707 by George Walker's son John, who lived there for some years.

Extracts from an Account of the Lands of the Archbishop of Armagh for County Tyrone, By Thomas Ashe 1703
Parishes of Donaghmore & Killeshil
Extracted from the enormous Archbishopric of Armagh Estate, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Belfast
Ref PRONI Ref: T848/1
The Archbishop of Armagh owned large tracts of land in Counties Tyrone, Londonderry, Armagh, Monaghan and Louth. With the exception of place names and personal names, spelling in this document has been modernised and punctuation has been inserted where it has been judged useful and relevant. Acreages are in Irish Plantation Measure [IPM]. One Irish acre equals 1.62 statute acres.
...
Mullagrewan
Mr. Robert Walker and under him Mr. Thomas Carr are tenants. This is very good land well enclosed with quicksetts. Note: - in Survey this is called Cleggan and in the country called Donoghmore - Here it was that the famous Dr. Walker dwelt, I say famous because of his great services at Derry in the last Rebellion. The rebels burnt his house here and his son Mr. John Walker is now rebuilding of it. And the present Lord Primate for his Encouragement gave him what timber he desired for that use. This contains 116 acres 1 rood 24 perches IPM. There is a great deal of good meadow belonging to this and on this farm is a very good corn-mill built with lime and stone.

This memorial, dated 1 February 1722, concerns a judgement of £2000 awarded to John from Audley Mervyn, related to lands in the Omagh, county Tyrone.

Death: 10 October 1726

Will:
Ireland National Archives Diocesan and Prerogative Wills 1726
In the Name of God Amen, I John Walker of the County of Louth Esqr. being in perfect Sence and memory but weak in body thanks be to God do make this my last Will and Testament in maner following First I bequeath my Soul to the great god heaven trusting that he will graciously be pleased through the meritts and intercession of my blessed redeemer receive me into Glory my will is that I be interd in the nigh time in the Church yeard of Newry by my Son John Walker in the most private manner possible my will also is that my debts be discharged out of my reall and personall estate and that the remainder be equally divided between my daughter Jane Walker and my Son George Walker I likewise bequeath to my son Robert Walker one shilling and to my daughter Isabella Woolsey alias Walker one shilling in full of any claim or right they may have to my fortune or any part thereof I also knowing my concerns to be very unsettled and confused make it my last and earnest request to my dearly beloved Cousin Robert Maxwell of Faulkland in the County of Monaghan Esqr that he will become Executor of this my last Will Joynt with my dearly beloved Sister Charity Dyneley als Walker Lastly I do declare all former Wills made by me to be utterly void and of none effect in law or equity and do publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament this twenty Seventh of August One thousand Seven hundred twenty and Six 1726 — J:Walker Signed Seaed and published in presence of us — George Taafte, Tho Skelton John Page
Whereas I John Walker of Dundalk in the County of Louth Esqr did on the 26th or 27th of Augt last publish and declare my last Will and Testament in presence of Doctr George Taafte the Reverend Mr Thomas Skelton and John Page who were sunbscribing Witnesses thereto I declare the said Will to continue as my last Will and Testament in which Robt Maxwell my dearly beloved Cousin of Faulkand in the County of Monaghan Esq and my dearly beloved Sister Charity Dyneley Widow are appointed Executors but not being named admrs I do now declare the said Robert Maxwell and Charity Dyneley to be Exrs and admrs of my said last Will and Testament and whatever money they or each of them shall or do from time to time expend in Execution of my said last Will and Testament that they deduct the same out of what receipts shall come into their  hands this I declare (George Taafte and Thos Skelton aforesd not being present) in presence of John Page aforesaid the Revd Mr James Cuningham Curit of Dundalk and Mary Houston Relict of Mr Willm Houston late of Morn in the County of Down Signed Sealed and Published in presence of the aforesd. Witnesses this twelveth day of Sepbr one thousand and seven hundred twenty & six 1726 - J. Walker Signd Seald and published in presence of us      Ja: Cuningham  Mary Houston  John Page

Probate was granted to Charity Dyneley on 15 December 1726.

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John Walker

Title: Colonel

Birth: 1697 in Derry, Ireland

Father: John Walker

Children: Death: 1742

Buried: in Back Creek Church on the Bohemia River in Delaware, United States

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Margarett Walker

Baptism: 26 September 1650 in All Saints, Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire, England

Father: George Walker

Mother: Ursula (Stanhope) Walker

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Maria Walker

Baptised: 17 October 1713, in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

Father: Gervase Walker

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Mary (Walker) Wilkinson

Father: George Walker

Mother: Isabella (Maxwell) Walker

Married: Joseph Wilkinson

From her mother's will, we know that Mary married a Wilkinson, and that Mary's Wilkinson husband was Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, Predendary of Castleknock in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin is shown by this official notice of a license to engrave George Walker's picture:
Calendar of State Papers: Of the Reign of William and Mary. Domestic series vol 1 p157 (1895)
1689 June 18. Hampton Court.   Licence to the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, prebendary of St Patrick's, Dublin, son-in-law to George Walker, commander of Londonderry, to engrave on copper the picture of Mr. Walker, and to restrain all others from publishing it.

Rev. Joseph Wilkinson was born in 1650/1 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Thomas Wilkinson, a priest. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, graduating M.A. in 1672. Joseph was Prebendary of Castleknock in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1679 until 1691, then rector of Wigginton, Yorkshire and vicar of Halifax, Yorkshire, from 1691 until his death on 28 December 1711. John Crabtree notes that "he is said to have been necessitous, and to have lived, for a considerable time, in the library of the church [at Halifax], in order to secure himself from arrests", which dovetails with the £100 debt he had to his mother-in-law at her death in 1705. Joseph was buried in the chancel of Halifax chuch on 31 December 1711. His will, dated 20 December 1711 and proved at York on 26 July 1712 names his executors as his wife Mary and his brother-in-law, John Dyneley.

Alumni Dublinenses p880 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
 WILKINSON, JOSEPH, Pen. (Mr Scott, Dublin), Apr. 6, 1665, aged about 14; s. of Thomas, Presbiter; b. Dublin. Sch. 1665. B.A. unrecorded. M.A. Æst. 1672.

 Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The Province of Leinster p86 (Henry Cotton, 1848)
      VICARS CHORAL OF CHRIST CHURCH DUBLIN
  N.B.— (*) prefixed to their names were Vicars Choral of St. Patrick's also.
1700. *REV. JOSEPH WILKINSON, M.A. (v. Le Jan resigned); admitted September 24th  
p157
      PREBENDARIES OF ST. PATRICK'S DUBLIN
  10. CASTLEKNOCK.
1679. JOSEPH WILKINSON, M.A. presented by the Crown, by patent dated April 12th; admitted May 9th (or 16th); installed May 20th. He resigned in 1691.

The Diary of Ralph Thoresby... (1677-1724) vol 1 p361 (Ralph Thoresby, Joseph Hunter, 1830)
1702 April 29. Rode to Halifax, ... went to the Vicarage to visit Mr. Wilkinson; took some extracts from the registers, &c. Was to see the church and new library, which he has exceedingly beautified.
  30. Taking extracts of the chantries at Leeds, &c. from Mr. Nalson's MS. collections, lent me by Mr. Wilkinson.

A Concise History of the Parish and Vicarage of Halifax, in the County of York p130 (John Crabtree, 1836)
24 JOSEPH WILKINSON, A.M. instituted Sept. 7th, or 17th, and inducted Oct. 26, 1691, having been presented by King William III. He was first vicar of Chapel-Izod, near Dublin, and Prebendary of Casternock, in the Cathedral of St Patrick's, Dublin, afterwards rector of Widdington, Yorkshire. Notwithstanding these preferments, he is said to have been necessitous, and to have lived, for a considerable time, in the library of the church, in order to secure himself from arrests. He died Dec. 28, 1711, and was buried in the Chancel at Halifax.

Biographia Halifaxiensis vol 1 p176 (John Watson, 1883)
          WILKINSON.
  On a grave-stone in the Chancel: “JOSEPH WILKINSON, A.M. quondam Vicarius de Chapel-Izod, juxta Dublin, in Hibernia, et Prebendarius de Castroknock, Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Sancti Patricii Dublin, postea Rector de Wigginton comitatu Ebor. et tandem huic Ecclesiæ par viginti annos præfuit Vicarius. Obiit 28 die Decembris, Anno Dom. 1711. Ætatis suæ 60.”
  JOSEPH WILKINSON, M.A., formerly Vicar of Chapel-Izod, near Dublin, Prebend of Castroknock, the Cathedral Church of St Patrick, Dublin; afterwards Rector of Wigginton, in the County of York, and lastly, Vicar of this Church for near 20 years.

The monumental and other inscriptions in Halifax parish church p127 (E. W. Crossley, 1909)
Vicar 1691-1711. Will dated 20 December, 1711, proved at York 26 July, 1712. Bequeaths to each of his children, Joseph, Mary, Isabella, Elizabeth, Lydia, George, and Sarah, three pounds to buy a mourning suit. Exors., his wife Mary and his brother-in-law John Dyneley (Reg. Sharp, fo. 232).

Children: Notes: Mary and her husband Mr. Wilkinson are mentioned in the will of Mary's mother, Isabella, in 1705, at which time they appear to be living in London.
The Siege of London-Derry, in 1689: As Set Forth in the Literary Remains of Colonel the Rev. George Walker, D.D. pp238 (Philip Dwyer, 1893)
  “Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Wilkinson the yearly sum of eight pounds stg., to be paid to her, or her order, in London by equal parts half-yearly during the whole time she shall live after the death of her husband, Mr. Joseph Wilkinson.
  “Item, I give to my grand-daughter Isabella Wilkinson £10 stg., the money to be paid out at interest, and so to continue till she be disposed of in marriage, or disposed of in any other way out of her father's house, and then the £10, with the interest of it, to be paid to her on her order in London.
  “Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Wilkinson the sum of £100 stg., to be paid by my exoor two years after my decease, and not before, the said £100 to be equally divided among my sd grand-daughters, Isabella Wilkinson included. And it is my will that this sd money be put out to interest, and so to continue till they, or any of them, be married, or otherwise disposed of out of their father's house, on which occasion they shall be paid in London the proportion of the sd £100, and the interest of the same. And if any of the sd child or children dy (sic) before they are so disposed of, then the part of the sd money wh belonged to him or her shall be equally divided among the children that survive.
  “Item, Whereas my son-in-law, per Joseph Wilkinson, perfected a bond to me for the payment of £100, my will is that my sd exors shall demand and receive from him the sd £100, but no interest for the same to the time of my decease.

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Richard Walker

Baptised: 30 May 1596 in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

Father: Gervase Walker

Notes: Richard is likely the Richard Walker who graduated from Trinity College Dublin B.A. in 1617 and M.A. in 1620. He was appointed rector of Drumrugh (Derry) on 14 May 1619, rector and vicar of Templebogan (Derry) on 2 November 1625, rector and vicar of Clonleigh in 1626 and Prebendary of Killimard (Raphoe) on 20 March 1629/30. This Richard died at Lifford in 1641 of "pestilential fever".

Alumni Dublinenses p848 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
*WALKER, RICHARD. Sch. B.A. Æst. 1617. M.A. Æst. 1620. [Rector of Drumragh (Derry) May 14, 1619. Rector and Vicar of Templebogan (Derry) Nov. 2, 1625. Rector and Vicar of Clonleigh 1626. Prebendary of Killimard (Raphoe) Mar. 20, 1629-30.]

Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 1 p245 (1894)
The Estate of the Diocess of Derry
COMPILED BY DR. GEORGE DOWNHAM BISHOP OF THAT SEE—1616-34.
From the Original MS.—intitled “The Ulster Visitation Book, 1622,”
...
10. The Church of Drumrah is ruined, but there is good hope and meanes made, that a new church may be built in the towne of Omagh, and new land exchanged for the old, fitt for the Minister to build upon.
  The Incumbent is RICHARD WALKER, Mr of Arts, a toward young man and a preacher.
  The valuacon in the King's Books is xli, the thirde part of the cleare value. The vicesima is x.
  There be two townes of new glebe, and a gort, or old glebe, of 9 acres.
  The Incumbent is resident, and serveth the Cure himself.
p248
  Clonley [NOW CLONLEIGH]. Sti Doughi.
  1625, 2 November, RICHARD WALKER, B.A. (Dub.) Æst. 1617, M.A. Æst. 1620. Formerly R Drumragh. He was also Prebendary of Killymard (Raphoe). He died at Lifford during the Rebellion of 1641. He may have been for a very short time, Archdeacon of Derry.
p251
  Drumrab [NOW DRUMRAGH OR OMAGH]. Sti Colombœ.
  1619, 14 May, RICHARD WALKER, M.A.

The history of the Presbyterian church in Ireland vol 1 pp328-331 (James Seaton Reid, 1834)
An authentic statement of the sufferings of the protestant clergy at this dreadful crisis, taken by authority, has been preserved. The writer, one of the commissioners appointed for the examination of protestant grievances, relates that about thirty ministers were massacred in a small part of Ulster alone, while a still larger number died in circumstances of extreme wretchedness.
...
  “Besides these thus massacred, there died of the pestilential fever, ... Mr Richard Walker, minister of Lifford, at Lifford.

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Robert Walker

Birth: 1674, in Donaghmore, county Tyrone, Ireland

Father: George Walker

Mother: Isabella (Maxwell) Walker

Notes: Robert is likely the Robert Walker who co-signed the address to King William and Queen Mary written by his father on 29 July 1689 (The Siege of London-Derry, in 1689: As Set Forth in the Literary Remains of Colonel the Rev. George Walker, D.D. p41 (Philip Dwyer, 1893))

Robert is not mentioned in the will of his mother, Isabella, dated 18 February 1705 which does mention his brother John and three sisters, so perhaps he was deceased before then.

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Robert Walker

Birth: 1692/3 in Lisson, county Tyrone, Ireland

Father: John Walker

Education: Trinity College Dublin, graduating B.A. in 1714.
Alumni Dublinenses p848 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935):
 WALKER, ROBERT, Pen. (Mr Carver, Carrickmacross), Sept. 2, 1709, aged 16; s. of John, Generosus; b. Lisson, Co. Tyrone. B.A. Vern. 1714.

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Thomas Walker

Children: Notes:
Thomas was of Ruddington, Nottinghamshire (entry in Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 4 p316 for his son Gervase). Thomas is described in another record from Cambridge as "mediocris fortunæ" or having an average fortune.
Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College vol  p123 (John Venn, 1897)
Walker, Gervase (matriculated as James), of Ruddington, Notts.: son of Thomas Walker, mediocris fortunæ. School, Nottingham, under Mr Smith. Age 18. Admitted Jan. 3, 1584-5, sizar of his surety, Mr George Estey, M.A., fellow.
  B.A. 1588-9. Ordained deacon (Lond.), March 29, 1591; as curate of All SS., Steyning, London. Vicar of Gt Staughton, Hunts., 1593.

Alumni Cantabrigienses part 1 vol 4 p316 (John Venn, 1927)
WALKER, GERVASE. Adm. sizar (age 18) at CAIUS, Jan. 3, 1584-5. S. of Thomas, of Ruddington, Notts. School, Nottingham (Mr Smith). B.A. 1588-9. Ord. deacon (London) Mar. 29, 1591; priest, 1592. C. of All Saints', Steyning, London. V. of Gt Staughton, Hunts., 1594-1615. One of these names R. of Cappagh and Badony, Derry, in 1622. (Venn, 1. 123.)

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Thomas Walker

Baptism: 25 June 1677 in Drumglass, county Tyrone, Ireland
Godfathers were John Chichester and Henry Ball, Godmothers were Elizabeth Walker and Frances Nelson.
Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 2 p133 (1854)
  The earliest date in the Drumglass register is 1663. ... at page 19, the baptism of one of Walker's children is thus stated: “Thomas, ye son of George Walker, Clerk, was baptized on Monday, at even, ye 25 of June, (1677): Godfathers, John Chichester, Henry Ball; Godmothers, Elizabeth Walker, Frances Nelson.”

Father: George Walker

Mother: Isabella (Maxwell) Walker

Notes: Thomas is not mentioned in the will of his mother, Isabella, dated 18 February 1705 which does mention his brother John and three sisters, so perhaps he was deceased before then.

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William Walker

Baptised: 7 January 1604 or 2 April 1604,  in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

Father: Gervase Walker

Notes: Two baptism transcriptions exist for William (recorded under his Latin name Gulielmius), one on 7 January 1604 and another on 2 April 1604. I note that 2 April would have been the 7th day of 1604 which under the calendar of the time, started on 25 March, and I wonder if the 7 January record involves some sort of date conversion. If 2 April 1604 is correct, then this is the same baptism date as William's brother, George, so they may have been twins, or possibly a mis-transcription of Gulielmius rendered as Georgius.

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