Galloway Family History
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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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Gallaway, Alloway, Galway, Callow, Gallo, Galley, Callaway, Gallia