When Zillah Walker was born on 29 June 1732, in Tredyffrin Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Daniel Walker, was 38 and her mother, Lydia Barnard, was 36. She married Rev Joshua Royal Brown Sr on 11 January 1752, in Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 6 July 1811, in West Bradford Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Advent Lutheran Church Memorial Gardens, Westtown, Chester, Pennsylvania, 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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