The last day John and I spent at PRONI was basically to tidy up a bit and copy some of the Cowan documents that we failed to get during the preceeding days. I left this task to John and spent the best part of a day trying my best to dig up something on the Walkers. I searched geographically (Kernan, Kirnan, Newry, Down, Derry) by name (John Walker, Richard Walker, Rutherford, Campbell) and looked at church records. Not a trace, zip, nada but it is very frustrating looking in the National archives of Northern Ireland for a guy named John Walker because there are LOTS of them. However, the thing I remember most vividly was that in almost every instance the John Walker reference would lead to a Quaker rent roll, deed or church record. Almost every time! Your Walkers might not be Quakers but most were. What does this mean? Not much, but if you can tie any Walkers with connections to Thompsons you are on the right track, Quaker or not. I am convinced the answers to the Wigton-Walker questions will not be found by researching Walkers, but rather one of the allied families who followed them around. After John and I found that 1733 letter from Robert Cowan discussing the origins of the Cowan family in Stirling and their removal to Londonderry in the 1620's along with detailed land records including hand-drawn maps showing Alderman Cowan's holdings and the names of the tenants living on his land we had to chuckle. How many times does a researcher find not one, but two relatives discussing the family history with a distant relative and have the luck and good fortune to have both letters preserved. Dr. Cowan's letter in 1895 was almost word for word a restatemnt of Robert Cowan's 1733 letter. That just does not happen in genealogy. I have always said that skill in genealogical research is nice but luck is much better. We were LUCKY and that is whats missing in the Walker research, a little luck. Perhaps it will come in an unexpected relationship with another family, or from a Pennsylvania connection previously thought to be unimportant. Regards, Lucky, Lucky Bob Stirling, Derry, Pa, Va, Tn, Al Aways on the Move