Origin
ALVERSTON : (Cor. Br.) Local. A high green hill; from al, high, ver, green, and don or ton, a hill.
ALVERTON : (Cor. Br.) Local. A high green hill; from al, high, ver, green, and don or ton, a hill.
BANCROFT : Local. From the Cor. Br. ban, a mount, hill, or high ground; and croft, a small field near a dwelling a green pasture.
BURLASE : (Cor. Br.) Local. The green summit or top.
DOUGLASS : (Gaelic.) Local. The dark green river, from Dhu, black, dark, and glass, green. A river of Scotland which flows into the Clyde. A town of Lanarkshire. The tradition of the origin of the name is this: in the year 770, a man of rank and figure came seasonably to the assistance of Solvatius, King of Scotland, whose territory was then invaded by Donald Bain, of the Western Isles. The victory being obtained, the King was desirous to see the man who had done him so signal a service, and he was pointed out to him in these words, in the Gaelic, Sholto Dhuglass, behold that dark, or swarthy, man.
DUNLEVY : (Cor. Br. and Gaelic.) Local. From Dun, a hill, ley, green, and vy, a river or stream the green hills by the river. Dunlamh or Dunlavy, in Gaelic, signifies the strong-handed. Dunalamhas, mh having the sound of v, is the hill or castle of warriors.
DUPPA : Local. A corruption of If Uphaugh, from the high or upper haw;” haugh, Scottish and North English, a low-lying meadow, a green plot in a valley. Du Pau, local, from Pau, a town of France.
GIRDWOOD : Local. The green wood, from the Welsh gwyrdd; or the inclosed wood, from the Danish gierde, a hedge; girds, shoots of trees.
GIRVAN : Local. From the river and town of Girvan in Ayrshire, Scotland. In the Welsh, Gearafon or Chwyrddafon, implies the river flowing through the green flourishing place, from afon or avon, a river, and Gwyrdd, green, flourishing.
GLASGOW : (Gaelic and Cor. Br.) Local. From the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The green, fruitful place, from glas, green, and geu or gew, a choice field, the stay or support of the estate.
GLASS : (Gaelic.) Gray, pale, wan; glas, Welsh, green.
GLISTON : Local. Glaston, the green hill; Gliston, the shining hill, the mineral or mica hill.
GREENOUGH : Local. The green hill.
GREENO : Local. The green hill.
GURDIN : (Welsh.) A strong man, from gwrdd, strong, and dyn, a man; also, gwyrdd-din, the green hill or inclosure.
LEARNED : Local. (Gaelic.) The green, sheltered place near the sea, from Lear, the sea, and need, a sheltered place. Or it may be a name given for scholarship, John the Learned.
OLMSTEAD : Local. A place or town by the green oaks, from Holm, an oak, and stead, a place. Holme, low lands on a river, an island.
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