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6/10/2016, 3:44 AM LMS
6/10/2016, 3:44 AM LMS
5/4/2015, 3:21 PM Beautiful Victory merge 2 names
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7/12/2009, 11:58 AM welovejamesarness
7/11/2009, 9:06 AM welovejamesarness

Name Galloway
Type Surname (from location)
Usage Scottish
Other Forms FormsGallway, Galway
Edit Status Statusnot set

Meaning & History

Scottish: regional name from Galloway in southwestern Scotland, named as ‘place of the foreign Gaels’, from Gaelic gall ‘foreigner’ + Gaidheal ‘Gael’. From the 8th century or before it was a province of Anglian Northumbria. In the 9th century it was settled by mixed Gaelic-Norse inhabitants from the Hebrides and Isle of Man.
Added 7/11/2009 by welovejamesarness