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The Walker Family of Worthley Pond, Peru, Oxford county, Maine

NEW - links from Walker ancestors to US Presidents who are "cousins."    Presidents and their ancestors are tagged with (~) in their prefix.

The ancestry for Emelda Walker (wife of Charles E Filteau) is very interesting and complex. She was born in Connecticut, the daughter of Ellis Wilson Walker and Anna Belle Malley who came from Maine. And, of course, Maine is very close to the eastern provinces of Canada; where, in the early days, people freely moved back and forth across the borders!.

Malley marries Maillet in Rogersville, Northumberland, New Brunswick

The father of Anna Belle, William Stephen Malley , descended from Irish Catholics who had immigrated into New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island in the 1800's. Someday, we hope to discover the connection of these immigrant families into Ireland.
    Anna Belle's mother, Marie Louise Maillet, descended from French-speaking Catholics who had immigrated into Acadia (now know as Nova Scotia) in the mid-1600's.
    Because of that Acadian connection, it turns out that Emelda and her husband Chuck are actually seventh cousins. They are also ninth cousins and tenth cousins from other ancestors further back in time. And because of those relationships, the majority of Anna Belle Malley's maternal ancestors are documented in the Filteau tree instead of the Walker Tree.

For now, let's just trace the ancestry to the immigrant, Captain Richard Walker, who established himself in Salem in 1629.

Speaking of Salem, the Walker family has two Salem Witches as ancestors:

• Mary Towne, wife of Isaac Easty, was convicted and hanged on 22 Sep 1692. Her sister Rebecca was convicted and hanged on 19 Jul 1692. Another sister, Sarah, was accused but not indicted by the grand jury.
• Ann Alcock , wife of Andrew Foster, was accused and convicted of being a witch; but she died in jail before the sentence could be carried out.

American colonists, European royalty, medieval families,
William the Conqueror and Charlemagne, etc.

Ellis Wilson Walker , was raised on the homestead and family farm on Worthley Pond, Oxford county, Maine. He was descended from early English colonists who immigrated and settled in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Maine (when it was originally part of Massachusetts).
   Ellis Walker has several ancestors, following maternal links, who came on the MAYFLOWER as well as a few hundred more who immigrated to New England at a later time.
    Several well-known names in American history are revealed by taking a closer look at some of those Mayflower passengers:

• Governor William Bradford
• Miles Standish
• John Alden and Priscilla Mullens

Ellis also has links to English royalty through both parents: his mother and his paternal grandmother.

• His mother, Clementine Louise Crocket , has two different ancestral paths to Edward III , King of England
  • The first path is through Gideon Ellis whose ancestors immigrated from England in the 1640's to live in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts; moved to Nova Scotia in 1761 as one of the three founding families of Yarmouth; and settled in Canton, Oxford county, Maine in the late 1790's or early 1800's.
  • The second path is through Captain James Leonard, who immigrated from England in 1652. His family established the first iron works in the new world.
• His paternal grandmother, Lydia Tolman Hathaway , the mother of Alphonso Goding Walker, has a third path, to Edward I , the grandfather of Edward III.

European Royalty

Once you have one (or more) members of the European Royalty as an ancestor, there are always links to still more -- because of the multiple intermarriages of the members of one ruling family with other ruling families.
    The Walker family from Worthley Pond is no different. Here are some examples from the various countries of Europe: England - William the Conqueror and Henry II ; France - Hugh Capet ; Spain - Theodorick I ; Portugal - Alfonso I Henriques ; Italy - Berengarius II ; Sicily - Roger II ; Hungary - Andrew I ; Norway - Olav II ; Sweden - Eric VIII ; Kiev - Sviatoslav .

• Anglo Saxon: Alfred the Great, Old King Cole
• Scotland: David I and his wife Margaret ; Duncan
  but Macbeth, who killed Duncan, was not an ancestor.
• Wales: Llewelyn the Great
• France: Saint Louis IX and the Holy Roman Empire: Charlemagne, Henry IV
• The Crusades into Jerusalem: Baldwin II
• The Roman Empire: Marc Anthony
• The possible connection to Mohammed the Prophet
• Saints: Adelaide (of Burgundy, wife of Otto I, HRE), Beggue (gr-gr-grandmother to Charlemagne), Vladimir (Grand Prince of Kiev), Clothilda (wife of Clovis I, King of the Franks), Ferdinand III (King of Castile and Leon); and here's a list of all saints.
• Some interesting ones: Lady Godiva, El Cid, Ralph Cromwell (only the first 7 are ancestors; but there were 17 of them, all with the same name, in succession)

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This page was last updated on 26 Jul 2015