When William Smith Walker was born on 17 October 1781, in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jesse Alexander Walker Sr, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Granderson, was 35. He married Nancy Driskill on 12 December 1804, in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in McLean, Illinois, United States in 1840 and Bloomington Township, McLean, Illinois, United States in 1860. He died on 16 January 1861, in Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, 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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