The surname Wakenshaw was first found in Renfrewshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Rinn Friù), a historic county of Scotland, today encompassing the Council Areas of Renfrew, East Renfrewshire, and Iverclyde, in the Strathclyde region of southwestern Scotland, at Walkinshaw the Walkinshaws of the Ilk were listed as early as 1235 and held estates at Burrowfield.
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Early History of the Wakenshaw family
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Wakenshaw Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Walkinshaw, Walkingshaw and others.
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Early Notables of the Wakenshaw family
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Migration of the Wakenshaw family
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Alexander Walkinshaw arrived in Philadelphia in 1825; Hugh Walkinshaw settled in Pennsylvania in 1819.
Contemporary Notables of the name Wakenshaw (post 1700)
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Adam Herbert Wakenshaw (1914-1942), British soldier awarded the Victoria Cross during WWII 1
Scotland
