Walker Family History
Walker Name Meaning
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. PWH As a
Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic
Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Walker
Name Distribution of Walker Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Walker families
 10,335 - 20,667  3,446 - 10,334 |
 1 - 3,445  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Walker families
|
2,322 - 4,642 775 - 2,321 |
1 - 774 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Walker census records
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Walker Family Origin
Walker Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Walker Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Walker Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Walker census records
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