Galloway Family History
Galloway Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Galloway
Name Distribution of Galloway Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Galloway families
 106 - 210  36 - 105 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Galloway families
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347 - 692 116 - 346 |
1 - 115 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Galloway families
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361 - 720 121 - 360 |
1 - 120 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Galloway Family Origin
Galloway Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Galloway
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Galloway Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Galloway Civil War Service Records
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