Volume 10 , Issue 40

Concerning Alva Name

RE: Emmett "Alva" Walker -- "If Mr. Walker is of Scottish descent, there is a town near Edinburgh named Alva. Perhaps that's where his name came from." -- Barbara

[Editor's Note: Check out this URL: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/alva/alva/ Alva lies at the foot of the Ochil Hills where the Alva Burn emerges from Alva Glen. In an age when rapidly flowing water was a valuable resource, it was inevitable that ways would be found of harnessing the power of the burn. In Alva''s case it happened early, and a settlement with a church was already established here by 1260 when control of the local estates was granted to Cambus kenneth Abbey near Stirling.]
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