The gillenwater Surname
gillenwater Name Meaning and History
Altered spelling of the English surname Gillingwater, which
Reaney suggests is probably a topographic name from Old English
gylden ‘yellow’ + wæter ‘water’, ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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