Feallan.....

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Beverley
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Feallan.....

Post by Beverley » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:04 am

:?
Can anyone shed any light on this name (?word)
It appears to me to be a place name in Coll and it was used in an IGI entry when I was looking up an ancestor. I think I may have found him but have never seen this word before. Is it a place or a word with a meaning? Maybe some of your learned scholars can help me out please?
Many thanks
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McInnes and McLean of Coll and Bute
Grant of Rathven
Baird of Montrose
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DavidWW
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Post by DavidWW » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:26 am

All I can see is http://dontgohere.nu/oe/as-bt/read.htm? ... 1&hl=fealo which is just a dictionary definition.

David

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eilthireach
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Post by eilthireach » Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:55 pm

I know of no place of that name on Coll, and a quick look at an old (1899) Ordnance Survey map of Coll throws up nothing that looks like that name. It may be a very local place name (a topographical feature, perhaps, or an area - are there no natives of Coll on this forum? :) ), but without seeing the original entry from which you are quoting it is difficult to help. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) verb spelled thus (feallan, the infinitive form of the verb meaning "fall")), and the meaning of the word in Gaelic - there is such a word in Gaelic - gives no immediate clues without further context. Are you sure that you have transcribed the word/name correctly? Can we even be certain that the original record has the word/name in the correct form or spelling? Clearly here we are at several removes from the original entry, so a reference to that would be helpful, but a scan would be even better ... :)
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JimM
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Post by JimM » Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:20 pm

There is a Feall bay on Coll.
Could the record be Feall "in" Coll instead of Feallan Coll?

Jim
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LesleyB
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Post by LesleyB » Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:23 pm

Hi Beverley
It may be entirley random if its on the IGI! I've found a place in Fife they know of called Funfermline.

I think I know where they meant... :D

best wishes
Lesley
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Midlothian & Fife - Goalen, Lawrie, Ewart, Nimmo, Jamieson, Dick, Ballingall.
Dunbartonshire- Mcnicol, Davy, Guy, McCunn, McKenzie.
Ayrshire- Lyon, Parker, Mitchell, Fraser.
Easter Ross- McCulloch, Smith, Ross, Duff, Rose.
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Beverley
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Post by Beverley » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:14 am

JimM wrote:There is a Feall bay on Coll.
Could the record be Feall "in" Coll instead of Feallan Coll?

Jim
Thanks so much Jim :D I think this is the most likely answer. The word in the IGI listing (on the FamilySearch website) was definitely "Feallan" but we all know I guess that any misspell is possible in these entries.
Strange that I've never seen it before though.
Blessings!
Bev
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McInnes and McLean of Coll and Bute
Grant of Rathven
Baird of Montrose
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Beverley
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Thanks to all of you!

Post by Beverley » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:15 am

:D
Many thanks to all of you for your replies. I appreciate all of them.
Blessings!
Bev
Sydney, Australia
researching
McInnes and McLean of Coll and Bute
Grant of Rathven
Baird of Montrose
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johnniegarve
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Re: Feallan.....

Post by johnniegarve » Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:16 pm

Long time ago but there's a place of that name on the River Dulnain, Inverness-shire.
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