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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from a place in the parish of Westerkirk, Dumfries, recorded in 1384 as Glendonwyne. It is probably named from Welsh glyn ‘valley’ + din ‘fort’ + gwyn ‘fair’, ‘white’.

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