Archibald Walker

He was a McGregor (although surname Walker) and came from the trossachs. There were six brothers and one sister in the family. Archie was the financial genius, but James was a man of ideas.

On his son James' birth certificate he is described as a commercial traveler, but went into business with his brother James and they built up a flourishing iron-working business in Anniesland, where Archie built a series of "closes" for his workforce, each bearing the name of one of his own daughters.

The two brothers married two sisters and had parallel families to whom they gave the same names.

After they quarreled the two families never spoke again. (source Eileen Isobel Hawking)

Jim Scobbie adds: The comment above about two brothers and two sisters with parallel families makes me worry that I have mis-connected my Stevenson Tree to the Walker tree - but this is a point for further research just to confirm the link is one via siblings rather than cousins, but I believe currently that Mary Morris Walker (married 1911 to WDH Stevenson) is indeed added in the right way.