The kilday Surname
kilday Name Meaning and History
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Dhé ‘son of
the servant of God’, from Dia ‘God’. The name originated with a
monastic family in Donegal in the 11th century and has always been
more or less confined to northwestern Ireland, where it is usually
written Kildea.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Tom Kilday of San Antonio, TX 1929 |
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| Kilday Civil War letters-e-bay | Sandra | 0 |
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