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Highlanders: Origin, Geographical Distribution
In the chronicle of the kings of Scotland Galgachus is called Galdus, of which name and its etymology Gardon gives the following account: Galgachus was Latinized by the Romans, from the Highland appellations Gold and cachach; the first, Gold, being the proper name, and the second, cachach, being an adjection to it from the battles he had fought; it signifies the same as prceUosus; Gold the fighter of battles, which kind of nicknames are still in use among the Highlanders. Colgach, Gaelic, fierce, furious, and ach, battle, skirmish.
Highlanders Surname Origin
Highlanders: Place of Origin :  Grampian (United Kingdom) |  Lothian (United Kingdom) |  Tayside (United Kingdom) |  Oxfordshire (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Cambridgeshire (United Kingdom)
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Highlanders: Books that contain this surname
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HIGHLANDERSThe Colonials in South Africa, 1899-1902, Their Record, Based on the Despatches
Author: John Featherstone Stirling - Published in 1907
... attached to the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders in India, and with that battalion had served in the Tirah campaign, was, ...		 HIGHLANDERSThe county families of the United Kingdom, or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland .. (Volume ed.49, yr.1909)
Author: Walford, Edward, 1823-1897. cn - Published in 1860
... the late Col. Forbes Macbean, Gordon Highlanders, formerly Sergeant-at-Arms to H.M. Queen Victoria, and has, with other issue, a son, ...
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