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What you can
find in our
location?
3 to
15 minute Walk
Royal Commonwealth Pool, University of Edinburgh's Pollock Halls of Residence,
Scottish Widows Dalkeith Road Office, Prestonfield Golf Course, Salisbury
Centre, Royal College of Surgeons, Festival Theatre, Arthur's Seat, Holyrood
Park, Queens Hall, Kings Hall, McEwan Hall, Meadows, National e-Science Centre,
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Royal Sick Children Hospital (Sick
Kids Hospital), Historic Scotland Headquarters, National Library of Scotland
(Maps), Greyfriars Church, University of Edinburgh Kings Building, University of
Edinburgh Old College, Royal Museum, Dynamic Earth, Italian Cultural Institute
15
to 35 minute Walk
Edinburgh Castle, Royal Mile, St. Giles Cathedral, Palace of Holyrood, Princess
Street, Waverley Station, The Scottish Parliament,The Real Mary King's Close,
New Town, Old Town, Scott Monument, Camera Obscura And World of Illusions,
National Library of Scotland, National Gallery of Scotland, Royal Scottish
Academy, John Knox House, Scottish Whisky Heritage Centre, Scottish National
Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), Edinburgh
Playhouse, Parliament House, Gladstone's Land, Writers' Museum, Usher Hall
Short Drive 15 min to 1 hour
Edinburgh Zoo, Edinburgh Airport, Falkirk Wheel, Rosslyn Chapel, Craigmillar
Castle, Rosslyn Chapel, Deep Sea world, Portobello Beach, Gorgie City Farm,
Ocean Terminal, Stirling Castle, Superfast Ferry Terminal, Dunfermline Abbey,
Linlithgow Palace, Melrose Abbey, Maid of the Forth, Inchcolm Abbey, Blair
Drummond Safari and Adventure Park, Glasgow City Centre, Hampden, Scotland's
National Stadium, Glasgow Airport, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish Borders,
St Andrews
History Of Clan
Walker
WALKER: The Gaelic form
MACNUCATOR derives from "Mac an fhucadair" ('son
of the fuller(of the cloth)'), of which the old
Scots equivalent is 'Waulker', derived from
'Walker', a Middle English form which comes from
the Old English 'wealcere'. The form 'Walker' is
also found in England, Ireland and elsewhere,
and although amongst the 30 most common names in
Scotland, such ancestry should not be assumed
without genealogical or geographical evidence.
Many of todays Walkers were originally
MacNucators, but as the name prospered in many
parts of Scotland devoid of Highland
association, and given the widespread
distribution of the occupation, it seems most
unlikely that many were related, other than by
continuation of the tradition of that trade
within their own family. Such trade names were
not patronymics, but were used for the sake of
distinction within the particular clan or
community in which they dwelt. In 1613-14,
persons of this name in Balquidder, Perthshire
were fined for reset (sheltering) of members of
the proscribed Clan Gregor, and in 1655 Patrick
McNowcatter was acting as procurator-fiscal for
Argyll. Duncan McNowcater (alias Mcmillan) in
Ballyaurgan is recorded as a witness to a
Dunmore (Knapdale) sasine in 1666, and it is
probable that those MacNucators (Walkers)
belonging to Argyll, especailly Knapdale,
descend directly from the Clan Macmillan.
Several of this race are buried near Dunmore on
West Loch Tarbert. Whilst the bulk of
MacNucators changed their name to Walker, there
was a Dundee family who retained the name
Nucator. Some MacNucators followed the Stewarts
of Appin in the Rising of 1745, and there is a
colony of Walkers around Boisdale amd Daliburgh
on South Uist. Helen Walker (d.1791) walked from
Scotland to London to petition for the life of a
sister who had been condemned to death for
infanticide, and her story provided the model
for Sir Walter Scott's tale of "Jeanie Deans".
Currently there is no clan chief, nor is there
an official clan tartan, but those who have
Argyll ancestry and consider themselves to be
members of the Clan Macmillan, use the emblems
of kinship of that race as a mark of respect to
the chief. Undoubtedly, many Walkers and
MacNucators will be able to trace an ancestry to
areas dominated by other clans, and if such
association be established it is quite
appropriate to adopt their tartans etc.
96 Dalkeith Road, Newington, Edinburgh, EH16 5AF,
Scotland, United Kingdom (UK)
+44 (0) 131 667 1244
clanwalker@ymail.com
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