Old Travel Blog Photograph Of Gilfillan Family From Govan Glasgow Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Gilfillan family from Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish surname is recorded in a range of spellings including: Gilfillan, Gilffillan, Gillffilland, Gillilan, Gilliland, and others, this is a Scottish surname. It is also widely recorded in its different spellings in the province of Ulster, Northern Ireland. It derives from the pre 10th century Gaelic name " Mac gille Fhaolain ", meaning " The son of the servant of St. Faolan ", an early saint whose personal name represents a diminutive form of " faol ", meaning wolf. This personal name appears frequently in the early charters and registers of Scotland from the 12th Century, and examples taken from surviving charters include: Gillefalyn who held land in Lauderdale in the year 1214, another Gillifelan is recorded as being the dean of Kintyre in 1250. The surname has early examples of recordings which include: Ewan Gillfillance, in the register of the Privvy Seal of Scotland in 1516, James Guilliland, who was christened on July 8th 1743 at Hand Alley Presbyterian church, in the city of London, England, and Ann Gilfillan, who emigrated from Glasgow in the ship " Hynderford ", bound for the city of New York, America, on June 8th 1847.



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