At 10:10 AM 2/5/99 -0800, you wrote: >Could SKS (some kind soul) who has the book of Orkney Surnames, please >tell me what it says for WALLS and WALLACE? My cousin and I are >having a "discussion" about it! Thanks. > >-- >Pam Thomson >British Columbia, Canada >Proud to be a Rootsweb Sponsor >http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/TownSquareNetwork > > Pam, >From Gregor Lamb: (Wallace - see Walls) "Walls: David Walls, Manclet, Walls, 1492: from the placename Walls on the island of Hoy but also more importantly from Wass (now Northwall) on Sanday: from Old Norse 'valskr' meaning 'Celtic people': Walls has, therefore exactly the same meaning as the Scottish surname Wallace and it is interesting to nore that, on the island of Sanday, where most Walls surnames were found at one time, the name has been corrupted to Wallace: a common surname, scattered throughout Orkney: more than half of the Walls surnames are found in and around Kirwall today: the surname Walls originated in England too." Gregor Lamb, Orkney Surnames, copyright Gregor Lamb 1980 Hope this is useful to you. Regards, Anne M. Rendall volunteer host Orkney GenWeb and Orkney-L http://rendall.net/orkney/