When Jess Richards Walker was born on 30 October 1910, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Robert Walker, was 23 and his mother, Mae Aretta Richards, was 19. He married Elaine De Graff on 23 December 1937, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in United States in 1949 and Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 13 July 1997, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, 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.
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