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Gavillok Surname Definition:

GAVILLOK: Perhaps a curtailed form of Gowanlock, which see. Andrew Gavillok was one of an assize in Edinburgh, 1567 (MCM., II, p. 303), and the name appears again in Edinburgh as Gavelock in 1664 (Edinb. Marr.).

Gavillok Surname Meaning

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GAVILLOK: Perhaps a curtailed form of Gowanlock, which see. Andrew Gavillok was one of an assize in Edinburgh, 1567 (MCM., II, p. 303), and the name appears again in Edinburgh as Gavelock in 1664 (Edinb. Marr.).

The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

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