Does anyone know the origin or the name Galloway and what nationality?

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,


Galloway Name Meaning and History


Scottish: regional name from Galloway in southwestern Scotland, named as 鈥榩lace of the foreign Gaels鈥? from Gaelic gall 鈥榝oreigner鈥?+ Gaidheal 鈥楪ael鈥? 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.


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Does anyone know the origin or the name Galloway and what nationality?
Gallway = ireland. its a place in Ireland.
Reply:Be wary of surname product peddlers like House of Names. There is no such thing as a family crest. A crest is part of a coat of arms. Coats of arms do not belong to surnames.





There might have been 15 different individual Scotsmen and 15 different individual Irishmen, named Galloway each granted their own coats of arms, all completely different.





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See the links below, one from the British College of Arms(they issue coats of arms), one from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U. S., The National Genealogical Society, one regarding Scottish coats of arms and one regarding Irish coats of arms.





http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...





http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...





http://www.bothwell.cx/arms.shtml





http://www.heraldry.ws/info/article10.ht...
Reply:Ancestry:


Scottish: regional name from Galloway in southwestern Scotland, named as 鈥榩lace of the foreign Gaels鈥? from Gaelic gall 鈥榝oreigner鈥?+ Gaidheal 鈥楪ael鈥? 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.


http://www.ancestry.com/facts/galloway-f...
Reply:houseofnames.com lists at least one individual as having a coat of arms assigned to them as Galloway, being Scottish