Galloway Name Study
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Surnames/tags: Galloway Callaway Calloway
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About the Project
The Galloway Name Study project is a collaborative platform to collect information on the Galloway name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists interested in the Galloway name.
As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to biologically related persons. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Galloway's), by time period (18th Century Galloway's), or by topic (Galloway DNA, Galloway Occupations, Galloway Statistics). These studies may also include several family branches that have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile entirely sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.
Also see the related surnames and surname variants.
How to Join
To join the Galloway Name Study, start by browsing our current research pages to see if a specific study is ongoing that fits your interests. If so, please add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and dive right in!
If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please get in touch with the Name Study Coordinator: April Holdridge for assistance.
Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:
Research Pages
Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them and could use your help!
- Listing all townships, cities, and counties named Galloway in the United States.
- Listing all waterways named Galloway in the United States.
Membership
Surname History
It was dated 1230, when Thomas Galwethia, also known as the Earl of Atholl, made a gift of lands to Neubotle Abbey during the reign of King Alexander II of Scotland, and this was the first recorded spelling of the family name. 1214 - 1249
Origins
A province of mixed Gaelic and Anglo-Scandinavian settlement in southwestern Scotland, once part of the kingdom of *Strathclyde.
English and Scottish: habitational name from Galloway in southwest Scotland named ‘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 2nd edition, 2022[1]
Read more: https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Gallaway#ixzz8Ggsi6Dnj
Related Surnames and Surname Variants
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| Ancestry | 38,428 |
| FindAGrave | 32,286 |
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