This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Kellaways,' a parish in Wiltshire, near Chippenham. It seems to have been known in earlier times as Kellaway, not Kellaways. With Kelloway, compare Solloway in the same district.

Elvas de Kaylewey, Wiltshire, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.

1593. Richard Keyllwaye, Somerset: Register of the University of Oxford.

1598. Francis Kellway, Devon: ibid.

1599. Baptised — Henrie, s. Henrie Kellway: St. James, Clerkenwell.

1604. Ralph Kellway, Somerset: Register of the University of Oxford.

1613. Thomas Kelloway, of Bettefield, parish of Hanmer: Wills at Chester.

1639. John Starkey and Susan Kellaway: Marriage Lic. (London).

— Thomas Pate and Winifred Kellaway: ibid.

1754. Married — William Kelloway and Ann Arnold: Reg. Stourton, Wilts.

A parish in Wiltshire.

Kellaway: The Kellawats probably take their name from a parish in Wilts. The Kelways or Kellaways were an ancient family of Chilfrome, where they lived during the first half of the 16th century, and at the same time one of the name owned land in Long Bridy and Allington (H.). In the latter part of the 15th century, William Kelway, gent., held land in Sherborne parish, and "seems to have been ancestor to a family after seated at Lillington" (H.). Through last century there was a well - to - do family at Piddle Hinton bearing this name (H.). Joseph Kelloway, one of the martyrs of the Monmouth rebellion in 1685, met his death on the scaffold at Somerton in Somersetshire ("Western Martyrology").