Old Photograph Wellbank Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Wellbank village, North of Dundee, Scotland.

Recorded as Welbank, Wellbank, and the dialectals Wellband, Wellbond, Willbond, and possibly others, this is a locational surname. It may be from the village of Wellbank, or more likely, as the surname does not seem to be recorded in Scotland itself, from a now " lost " English medieval village. In either case the origination is almost certainly from the pre 7th century Olde English " waella banke " meaning the stream by the ridge or shore.



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