Falgate Family History
Falgate Name Meaning
from Middle English fald-gate ‘gate to a farmyard’ (fald(e) fold ‘livestock pen sheepfold farmyard’ (compare Fold ) + gate yate ‘gate’) or from one of a number of minor places in Norfolk so named such as Falgate in Cawston and Rayner's Falgate in Caston. This name may have become confused with Felgate .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016