Brief Life History of Keith Edward
When Keith Edward Walker was born on 17 July 1935, in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Kenneth Edward Walker, was 27 and his mother, Mary Rebecca Edwards, was 22. He died in 2003, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 68.
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Parents and Siblings
1908–1980 Male
1912–1985 Female
Siblings (1)
1935–2003 Male
World Events (8)
1939 · Britain Enters World War II
Age 4
1940
Age 5
1953
Age 18
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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