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Priscilla Walker Streets Genealogical Research Papers,

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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Call Number:
RG5.143
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.25 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG 5/143, Priscilla Walker Streets Genealogical Research Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1779-ca. 1923 (bulk 1880-1923) (inclusive)
Creator:
Priscilla Walker Streets (1848-1927)
Form:
genealogies (histories)
Abstract:
Priscilla Walker Streets (1848-1927) was a birthright member of Radnor Monthly Meeting (Quaker) and a genealogist of the Walker family of Chester Valley, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Thomas R. and Mary Baynes Walker and in 1875 was married to Dr. Thomas Hale Streets. These papers are largely genealogical data compiled on the Walker family for her book, Lewis Walker of Chester Valley and His Descendents, 1686-1896, and correspondence after its publication.

Priscilla Walker Streets (1848-1927) was a birthright member of Radnor Monthly Meeting (Quaker) and a genealogist of the Walker family of Chester Valley, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Thomas R. and Mary Baynes Walker and in 1875 was married to Dr. Thomas Hale Streets.

These papers are largely genealogical data compiled on the Walker, Baynes, and collateral lines for her book, Lewis Walker of Chester Valley and His Descendents, 1686-1896, and correspondence after its publication. It includes one folder containing genealogical data collected by Priscilla Walker Streets, with related correspondence. Includes some earlier miscellaneous material, including an account of a cholera epidemic in Philadelphia in 1832 by Lewis Walker. Also, a bound volume primarily on the Baynes family.

Donor: Esther Heacoc, 1964

The collection was given by the niece of Priscilla Walker Streets.

See also:

  1. Lewis Walker of Chester Valley and His Descendents, 1686-1896, by Priscilla Walker Streets, FHL call number BX 7791. W16 S9

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1964
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Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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Collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Genealogical data collected by Priscilla Walker Streets, with related correspondence. by Lewis Walker., 1832.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes some earlier miscellaneous material, including an account of a cholera epidemic in Philadelphia in 1832.

Physical Description

1 folder

Primarily research on the Baynes family.
Box 1
Physical Description

1 bound vol.

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