WALLS

WALLS. 1. From residence hard by, or upon, a town wall. The forms in the XIII. and XIV. centuries were Atte-Wall, Super le Val, De la Walle, &c. 2. It was also an old personal name, spelt in Domesday Walle. See also under Wallis.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.