1. WALKER FAMILY HISTORY
Geography 10

2. Waves of Immigration
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Sigrist (Secrist) – 1720
Willey – 1640
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Walker – Unknown, In America in 1845
Groover – 1762
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All First Wave of Immigration
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3. Push/Pull Factors
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Sigrist from France left to escape resurgence
of bubonic plague. (Push)
Peter Groover came as a German mercenary
for the British to fight American Colonials in the
Revolutionary War. (Pull)
My parents left Orange County for cheaper
housing in Ontario (Pull)

4. Economic Sectors
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Almost all of family in tertiary sector.
Both grandfathers were mechanics – one for
planes the other for cars.

5. Mormonism
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Sigrist (Secrist) family converted around
1850’s, around the time Mormonism was
created.
Moved west into the empty interior to help
settle there.

6. Other Tidbits
My father’s side is related to an infamous
politician Oliver Cromwell – saw as a dictator
and controversial figure in Britain in the 1650’s
 My grandmother went to grade
school in 1931 in CA and they had
whites segregated from Hispanics.
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