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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,895,380 Historical Documents with Galloway on Ancestry
- 346,510 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 230,846 Census and Voter Lists
- 42,593 Military Records
- 26,912 Immigration Records
- 1,248,519 Member Trees
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Number of Galloway families
 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
Galloway census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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