Thomas Walker (slave trader)

Thomas Walker
Born	1758 Henbury, Bristol, England
Died	1797 at sea
Cause of death	Murder
Occupation	Slave trader
Spouse(s)	Catherine McLelland
Children	2 sons, 1 daughter, including George E. Walker
Relatives	David Davis Walker (grandson) George Herbert Walker (great-grandson) George Herbert Walker, Jr. (great-great-grandson)

Thomas Walker (1758–1797) (a.k.a. Beau Walker) was a British slave trader.

Early life

Thomas Walker was born 1758 in Henbury, now a suburb of Bristol, England.^[1]^[2]

Career

Walker worked as a slave trader, when Bristol was one of the three major slave trading ports in Britain.^[2] He served as a slave ship Captain and was resident slave trader who operated in the Sierra Leone region of West Africa.^[2]

He did much of his slave trading at Bunce Island, a British slave castle in the Sierra Leone River, owned at that time by the Company of John & Alexander Anderson, based in London.^[2] He was involved in at least eleven slave trading voyages between 1784 and 1792, taking African captives from Sierra Leone to the British West Indies and the United States.^[2]

Personal life

On February 22, 1785, Walker married Catherine McLelland (1770–1806) at St. Andrew's Church in Clifton.^[2] She died on October 18, 1806, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a decade after her husband, leaving their older son as the guardian for his sister and a younger son, George E. Walker (1797–1864).^[2]

Death and legacy

Walker was murdered in 1797 at sea in a mutiny.^[2] He is an ancestor of two U.S. presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker Bush.^[2]

References

↑ Baptismal record
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "George W. Bush's Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Was a Slave Trader". Slate. 2013-06-19.

"Americans of Gentle Birth and Their Ancestors" v1 ed. Pittman, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970, pp. 312–318]

Bush family

Bush–Davis–Walker family political line Bush family Bush (surname)

Prescott Bush ancestors Dorothy Walker Bush ancestors	Samuel Prescott Bush (1863–1948) James Smith Bush (1825–1889) Obadiah Newcomb Bush (1797–1851) George Herbert Walker (1875–1953) David Davis Walker (1840–1918) George E. Walker (1797–1864) Thomas Walker (1758–1799)

Samuel P. Bush & Flora Sheldon	Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895–1972) (m.) Dorothy Wear Walker (1901–1992) Robert Bush Mary House Bush Margaret Clement Bush James Bush

Prescott Bush (1895–1972)	Prescott Bush Jr. (1922–2010) George Herbert Walker Bush (m.) Barbara Pierce Nancy Walker Bush Ellis (m.) Alexander B. Ellis II (1922–1989) Jonathan James Bush (m.) Josephine Bradley William Henry Trotter Bush

George H. W. Bush (1924–) Nancy Walker Bush Ellis (1926–) Jonathan Bush (1931–)	George Walker Bush (m.) Laura Lane Welch Pauline Robinson Bush (1949–1953) Jeb Bush (m.) Columba Bush Neil Mallon Bush (m./div. 1st) Sharon Smith; (m. 2nd) Maria Andrews Marvin Pierce Bush (m.) Margaret Molster Dorothy Walker Bush (m./div. 1st) William LeBlond; (m. 2nd) Robert P. Koch John Prescott Ellis Alexander Ellis III Josiah Wear Ellis Nancy Walker Ellis Billy Bush (m.) Sydney Davis Jonathan S. Bush

George W. Bush (1946–) Jeb Bush (1953–) Neil Bush (1955–) Marvin Bush (1956–) Dorothy Koch (1959–)	Barbara Pierce Bush Jenna Welch Bush (m.) Henry Hager George Prescott Bush (m.) Amanda Williams Noelle Bush John Ellis Bush, Jr. Lauren Bush (m.) David Lauren Ashley Bush Pierce Bush Marshall Bush (adopted) Walker Bush (adopted) Sam LeBlond Ellie LeBlond (m.) Nick Sosa Robert Koch Gigi Koch

See also	David Davis

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