Reverend Anthony III Walke^[1]

1750 - 1815  (65 years)

• Name	Reverend Anthony III Walke
  Birth	1750	Kempsville, Virginia Beach, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Aug 1815	Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I51836	Master
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Anthony Walke,   b. 3 Jan 1726, Fairfield Plantation, Kempsville, Princess Anne, Virginia, USA d. 14 Mar 1782, Greenwich Plantation, Kempsville, Princess Anne, Virginia, USA (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Jane Bolling Randolph,   b. 1729, Kemperville, Princess Anne, Virginia, USA d. 1756, , Albemarle, Virginia, USA (Age 27 years)
  Marriage	1741	, , Virginia, USA
  Married	1750	Monticello, Albemarle, Virginia, USA
  Family ID	F11673	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1750 - Kempsville, Virginia Beach, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Death - 15 Aug 1815 - Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Reverend Anthony Walke (1755 - 1814) was the son of Colonel Anthony Walke II. He married Anne McColley McClenahan on January 15, 1776 and had six children: Anne M., Edwin, Jane Eliza, David Meade, Susan, and Anthony IV (1778 - 1820). On July 13, 1805, five months after Anne died, he married Anne Newton Fisher (1774 - 1840). They had three children: John Newton, Thomas, and Lemuel. They are all buried in the old burial ground in what is now Fairfield's subdivision, in unmarked graves. Reverend Walke was 20 years old in the early winter of 1775 when he most likely witnessed troop movements and battles between Continental Army troops and Virginia Governor Lord Dunmore’s Loyalist troops (people who supported King George III) in battles at Kemp's Landing, 2.5 miles north and then at Great Bridge, 9 miles south of his Fairfield Manor House. The Revolutionary War (1775–1783) caught Reverend Walke at a time when he was coming of age into a Virginia gentry threatened by the loss of political power, wealth, and social prestige made possible by English control over the Virginia Colony. In his writings he blamed the north and their foolish Boston Tea Party actions. Reverend Walke was a representative to the Virginia Constitutional Convention, and after the Revolutionary War, in early 1788 he was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, and then served the following year as an elector from the State of Virginia to the first presidential election held in Philadelphia. Returning to Princess Anne County, Reverend Walke, with a large inheritance from his father, presided as rector over Lynnhaven Parish Church for many years without a salary (from 1788 to 1800 and again from 1812 to 1813). Reverend Walke divided his time between preaching and the hunt. Not only was he noted for delivering sermons with a captivating mild mannered voice, but a more picturesque side of him was his love of fox and deer hunting. He conducted sermons with his horse Silverheels tethered near the door of the church. When he heard those hunting horns, he would immediately turn the service over to his clerk, Dick Edwards, and hurry off on Silverheels, not seen again until late in the day.

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.