Arthur Walker Gravestone Auld Aisle Cemetery Kirkintilloch East Dunbartonshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of the Arthur Walker gravestone in the Auld Aisle cemetery on ancestry visit to town of Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire. The origins of the Walker surname lie with the Anglo Saxon tribes of Britain. The name Walker began when someone in that family worked as a fuller, whose job it was to scour and thicken raw cloth by beating it and trampling it in water. The surname Walker is derived from the Old English word wealcere, which means fuller. In the North of England, fullers' earth is called walker's clay, and a fulling mill a walk mill. In Scotland, to walk, still means to full cloth. The surname Walker was first found in Yorkshire, where they were believed to be descended from a very ancient tribe called the Wealceringas, and the name is considered to be one of the oldest in England. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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