George Gilfillan Gravestone Balgay Cemetery Dundee Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of the George Gilfillan gravestone in Balgay Cemetery Western Necropolis on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Dundee. George Gilfillan born on 30th of January 1813, died 13th August 1878, was a Scottish author and poet. He was born at Comrie, Perthshire, where his father, the Reverend Samuel Gilfillan, the author of some theological works, was for many years minister of a Secession congregation. After an education at the University of Glasgow, in March 1836 he was ordained pastor of a Secession congregation in Dundee. 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.

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