Brief Life History of Sewall A
When Sewall A Walker was born on 30 December 1870, in Farley, Dubuque, Iowa, United States, his father, Alexander Campbell Walker, was 41 and his mother, Rebecca Briggs, was 42. He died on 22 June 1872, in his hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Farley, Dubuque, Iowa, United States.
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- Sewall A Walker, "Find A Grave Index"
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Name Meaning
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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