When William Walker was born on 11 February 1886, in Old Hutton, Westmorland, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Walker, was 38 and his mother, Louisa Jane Ridge-Reeves, was 34. He married Mary Hannah Haygarth on 23 April 1913, in Staveley, Westmorland, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Holmescales, Westmorland, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Westmorland, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died on 4 March 1958, in Staveley, Westmorland, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 72.
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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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