Walkinshaw Family History
Walkinshaw Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Walkinshaw in Renfrewshire. The second element of the placename is Scots shaw ‘small wood’; the first element is probably the present participle of wa(u)lk ‘to full (cloth)’ as in the ubiquitous wa(u)lkmill ‘fulling mill’; perhaps therefore ‘wood by a fulling mill’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022