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walker Name Meaning and History

English (especially Yorkshire) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, Middle English walkere, Old English wealcere, an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’. 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’.

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walker Family Facts

Distribution of walker Families in the US in 1920
Number of walker families
 2173-4343
 725-2172		 1-724
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Buckley Walker > George Wash. Walker from Overton Co., TN Lary Walker 10
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Soloman Walker b. 1669 Scawby, Lincolnshire, England bobgeo 2
Walkers from Arkansas genny_rose 7
George Walker 1730 Susan Schweim 16
Walkers from Maine Jimmy Walker of North Carolina 7
Fred M. Walker NY Wanda Walker 1
Kansas Orphan Train iformation margelsews 2
African-American Walkers from Charlotte, NC calvinewr 0
WALKER Thomas James 1936-1971 t42justin 0
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