Keith Edward Walker

Male17 July 1935–2003

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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Kenneth Edward Walker
1908–1980
Mary Rebecca Edwards
1912–1985
Keith Edward Walker
1935–2003

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    World Events (8)

    1939 · Britain Enters World War II

    Age 4

    Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.

    1940

    Age 5

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.

    1953

    Age 18

    Queen Elizabeth II crowned at a coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London.

    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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