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How
do you spell KELLAWAY?
Caillouet
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Callaway
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Calloway
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Callway
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Calewe |
Callwaye
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Callwayey
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Calway
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Caylewe
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Calloway |
Cayleway
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Caylleway
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Chailewai
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Kaillewey
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Calwe |
Kellaway
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Keilway
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Kalewaye
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Keilwaye
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Cailleway |
Kellawaye
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Kelleway
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Kellowait
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Kelloway
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Kallaway |
Keloway
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Kelway
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Kiloway
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Kilway
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Kalwe |
Kaylewaie
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Kellway
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Calaway |
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Where
may a
family
and its name be said to originate? Assuming there was just one origin
for
KELLAWAY and its variants, what was it?
There is general agreement with Reaney (A Dictionary of English
Surnames,
p.58) that the name derives from the village of Caillouet
in Normandy. The name probably refers to a pebbly place (Fr: caillou, a
pebble). A knight from Caillouet may have settled in Wiltshire,
probably
at Kelways, near Chippenham. The oldest record is of Philip de
Chailewai
in 1165. The name seems to have spread from there into Dorset, Devon,
Somerset,
Cornwall, and to a lesser extent into Wiltshire.
The spelling has varied widely. With most people illiterate it must
have
depended upon scribes to decide on spellings for individual
pronunciations.
Of the list above of mediaeval variants, just a few survive in more
literate
times. Still there are at least three spellings for Stephen the
leather-parer
of Yeovil (1732): Kellaway, Callaway and Calway. Perhaps it also
depends
on the whims of whoever transcribes the records.
The three most common spellings today are Kelway, Callaway and
Kellaway, with the
medial "a" varying with "o" and "e".
Kellaway
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