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The Name From the website, genealogy.about.com: 1) Dweller at or near a wall, from the Old English "weall,"
meaning wall. 2) The name given to a special kind of mason; a wall
was one who specialized in building wall structures. The family's roots The earliest Wall ancestor that I have found so far is William Wall, who was born in Knighton, Worcestershire in 1805. In the 1851 census of England he is listed as a rat catcher, but had progressed to being a rabbit catcher by 1881 (according to the 1881 census), probably until his death at the age of 83 in 1888. |
My grandmother, Nina Wall, was fond of telling the story of how her family ended up migrating to Australia. Her father, James Walter Wall was an English merchant seaman and had sailed the world, seeing many cities. Apparently, he sailed to Australia on one trip and on returning to England, packed up his family and moved them out there, saying he had found the best place in the world for them to grow up in. |
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