Carleton Walker

     Carleton Walker was born on 4 January 1777 in Wooller, Northumberland, England, a small town near Berwick on Tweed.^2,3 He married Caroline Mary Mallett.¹ He died on 12 October 1840 at age 63.³ He was buried in St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina.³
     
     Carleton Walker had eleven children by three wives. The following information quoted from Colonial Families of the United States of America gives his birth year as 1771; his gravestone gives a 1777 date.³

     The immigrant ancestor of this branch of the Walker family was James Walker who came to America about 1780 “to spy out the land,” also to visit his brother Major John WALKER, the pioneer of the family in the New World; his other brothers were Dr. Edward, Thomas, George and William Walker. Major John had settled in Wilmington, North Carolina, and started the first bank there; during the American Revolution he raised a company it is said at his own expense for the Continental Army. James Walker d. on the return voyage to England to bring his family to his new home; later in 1791 his widow Jane (Wodehouse) Walker, of Broadstrother, Cheviott Hills, England, came to America with her young son, Carleton Walker, b. at Wooller, a small town near Berwick on Tweed, Northum-berland, England. Carleton Walker, of “Walkers Hill,” Chatham County, North Carolina, b. 1771, at Wooller, England, was Collector of the Port of Wilmington, 1812; was Paymaster during the War of 1812; m. (firstly) Maria Moseley, of “Moseley Hall,” Virginia, dau. of Colonel Moseley and niece of Sir Walter Blake, of Gran Castle, County Mayo, Ireland; m. (second) Sabina Legare; m. (third) Caroline Mary Mallet, who d. January, 1862, dau. of Peter and Sarah (Mumford) Mallet, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, descended from the Huguenot family, of Malet or Mallett, of New Rochelle, France, the founder of the American family being David Malet, Governor-General of Rochelle, France.¹