The galloway Surname
galloway Name Meaning and 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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