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 Holy Trinity, Seathwaite |
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| Holy Trinity, Seathwaite: memorial - Wonderful Walker | ||
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 BLK44.jpg Monumental brass:- "IN Memory OF The Revd. ROBERT WALKER who Died the 25th. June 1802 In the 93d. Year of his Age AND 67th Year of his Curacy at SEATHWAITE. ..." (taken 17.11.2005)  BXD93.jpg Gravestone:- "IN Memory OF / The Revd. ROBERT WALKER / Who died the 25th. June 1802 in the 95th. Year of / HIS AGE. / and the 67th. Year of his Curacy at Seathwaite / ..." (taken 24.8.2012)  BLK43.jpg "THIS STONE WAS USED AT GATESKELL FARM ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE 18TH CENTURY, AS A STOOL FOR CLIPPING SHEEP BY THE REV. ROBERT WALKER VICAR OF THE PARISH OF SEATHWAITE, REVERED BY THE TITLE OF THE 'WONDERFUL WALKER'." (taken 17.11.2005) |
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| hearsay:- |
Robert Walker, born here about 1709, took the living of Seathwaite in 1735. He was
described by Thomas Ellwood in Seathwaite and the Wonderful Walker:- |
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| "In the mornings before school time, and in the evenings he laboured in manual occupations;
during the day he taught school. He publicly catechised the children, and performed
the whole duty, morning and afternoon on Sunday. In summer he rose between three and
four o'clock and went to the field with his scythe and his rake, and in harvest time
with his sickle. He ploughed; he planted; he went on the mountains after the sheep;
he sheered and salved them; he dug peat - all for hire. -- He was an excellent spinner
of linen and cotton thread. All his own clothes and afterwards those of his family
were of his own spinning. He knit and mended his own stockings, and made his own shoes.
In his walks he never neglected to gather the wood from the hedges and bring it home.
He was also the physician and lawyer of the place; he drew up all wills, conveyances,
bonds, &c., wrote all letters and settled all accounts. These labours (at all times
considerable) at one period of the year, viz., between Christmas and Candlemas, when
many transactions are settled in this country, were so intense that he passed a great
part of the night, and sometimes whole nights, at his desk." |
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| He died June 1802 in his 93rd year. |
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