Släkthistoria för Walcott
Walcott Vad efternamn betyder
English: habitational name from any of several places called Walcott Walcot or Walcote for example in Lincolnshire Leicestershire Norfolk Oxfordshire and Wiltshire all named in Old English walh ‘foreigner Briton serf’ (genitive plural wala) + cot ‘cottage hut shelter’ (plural cotu) i.e. ‘the cottage where the (Welsh-speaking) Britons lived’. This name is also frequent in Barbados and Jamaica when emancipated slaves adopted it from the name of one or other of the sugar plantations owned there by English families called Walcott.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
