When Josephine Victoria Walker was born on 1 December 1841, in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, her father, Col William Clay Walker Sr, was 21 and her mother, Elmira Mary Taylor, was 22. She married Abram E Evans on 10 November 1866, in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Notla Township, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years. She died on 8 March 1927, in Murphy, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States.
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English (mainly North and Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English walker, Old English wealcere (an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’), ‘one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it, in order to strengthen it’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker . As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, c. 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen County, VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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