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Gillour Surname Definition:
GILLOUR: Gaelic Gill'odhar, 'dun or grey lad.' Gillouir Mack Crain "liv'd to have kept one hundred and eighty Christmasses in his own house' (Martin, p. 234), and died in the reign of Charles I. See under Maccrain and Macliver.
Gillour Surname Meaning
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GILLOUR: Gaelic Gill'odhar, 'dun or grey lad.' Gillouir Mack Crain "liv'd to have kept one hundred and eighty Christmasses in his own house' (Martin, p. 234), and died in the reign of Charles I. See under Maccrain and Macliver.
— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)
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