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"No apology is necessary in the case of anyone who wishes to write a family history."
From an essay on how to write a family history, by James Balfour Paul (1846-1931), the officer responsble for heraldry in Scotland from 1890 until the end of 1926.
"When you see a tombstone you see a birth date, a hyphen and a death date. We have no control over the birth or death dates. But we do have control over the hyphen. That is where we live our lives." Anon.
"A man's life does not begin, nor does it end, with himself. His life is but a link, unless he wills it to be otherwise, between all the generations that went before and those that come after." A. L. Rowse, from Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge.
This web site was created and is maintained by David
Arthur Walker, 3rd
great-grandson of David Walker & Margaret Hetherington, of
Dumfriesshire,
Scotland, and 3rd great-grandson of Marcus Palmer Sr. and Nancy Ann
Slocum, of
Hampstead, Queens Co., New Brunswick, his two direct paternal and
maternal lines.
The main focus of study is within the three maritime provinces of
Canada
(namely Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), New
England and the British Isles. Major
surnames in
this research include Blanchard, Braddock, Brown,
Cairns, Cannon,
Clark, Coffin, Coffyn, Converse, Cory,
Corey, Coy, Courtenay, Crawford, Doty, Drake,
Durgan, Dyer, Fortescue, Gibson, Glover, Grenville, Hooper,
Hull, Marchbank, Palmer, Read, Robins, Robbins, Seaman,
Slocum,
Titus, Townsend,
Townshend, Wallace, Walker, White, Wright.
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Loyalist family names include Palmer
(Marcus Sr.), Clark (John Sr.), Seaman (Jacomiah), Crawford (John Jr.),
Slocum (Ebenezer), Cory/Corey (Ebenezer), Coffin (Elisha), Converse
(Jesse), Cottle (Nathaniel Bradford Sr.), Hooper (Thomas Sr.), Robins
(Richard), Braddock (Samuel) and Wiggins (Jacob F.).
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Refer to the Surnames
page for
more geographical detail.
