Walker, John

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Dates 1753
Location Yorkshire
Vocation Vagrant; mariner
Place of Birth Dunbar
Marriage Mary
Issue Jane; Margaret; Godfrey
Place of birth Source North Yorkshire County Record Office, Register of Vagrants, QDV

Mentioned in examination and removal order of his wife, Mary, who was apprehended as a vagrant in Whitby, 26 May 1753, along with their children, Jane (9), Margaret (7) and Godfrey (1). Had been left by his family between Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay when he fell sick. Ex-mariner, travelling from Colchester (where he was presumably discharged) to Dunbar, via Hull and Scarborough