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Elligott, Ellacott, Ellicott, McElligott are all variants of Elliot (all spellings) a French corruption of an old Breton tribal name Halegoet or Halgoet, also spelt as Allegoet and Elegoet. Alliot, Allott, which predominate in Loire Atlantique were alternative medieval scribal preferences for Elliot. All their ancestors were in the Breton contingent of William the Conqueror's invasion army of 1066. The name is notorious among Breton historians for its many variants. Y-chromosome research now confirms this. See also the French websitewww.geopatronyme. It is almost certain that the first places of settlement were in the Devon and Cornish lands in which several Breton magnates were awarded lands for military service, principally the south-west, when Cornwall was given to the Conqueror's Breton cousin Brien, count of Brittany, and in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, where the scribal preferences Allott and Alliott are found, part of the extensive honour of Richmond with its lands in eleven counties. The English corruption Elligott and its Breton parent Elegoet, sound very much the same when they are pronounced.Recent research, and the discovery of 16th-early 18th century maps held in the National Library of Scotland, have confirmed the suspicion that the anglicised name Elwald, later Elwood and the misspelling Elwand, was accepted by or forced on the Elliots when they were transplanted from the Eliot barony of The Brae in Perthshire, to Liddesdale, Scotland by Robert the Bruce, to effect his seizure of the lordship following treason committed by its lord, William de Soules in 1320. A careful reexamination of surviving documents shows that both names existed side by side for many years, with Elwald treated only as a charter name. Documents show that just as soon as Elliot chieftains became literate and were able to sign documents unaided, they signed their names as Ellott. The 'i' was reinserted during the early 17th century. Y-Chromosome research has confirmed the Breton origin of the Elliots, and the Breton source of a number of its variant names like Elligott, Ellacott and Ellicott, d erived from the Breton variant Elegoet. Like many knights of Norman, Flemish and Breton extraction, Elias d'Alliot (var.d'Elliot or d'Eliot) was awarded the barony of The Brae near to the foot of Glen Shee by William I (the Lion, 1165-1214) probably during the 1170s, before Elias's name appeared as a witness in a charter of 1189.Ulliott has long been recognized as a variant of Elliot - a name with some seventy variants, vide G MacDonald-Fraser, 'The Steel Bonnets'. Most have not survived.

This surname refers to the Son of Elijah or Elias, meaning 'gracious of God'. The name can also derive from either village and or the river of Elliot in Angus. The surname Elliott was first founded in Roxburghshire but has extended south of the border into Northumberland.

(Anglo-Norman + Scottish + Greek + Hebrew) The son of Elias, coming from Elijah, ultimately deriving from Eliyahu meaning Yahweh is my god. This name was brought over to England and Scotland at the time of the Norman conquest. Eliot being a French form of Elias and Elijah.