What does my last mean?

Question

My last name is Alway.

So, it might be a bit difficult to find.

I'm pretty much a European mutt.

Very English, Very Irish and Very German.

Answer 1

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Its all English to me *

  WOW THAT ONE WAS HARD *

  Ge ran-ammo *  TOM & JERRY *

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Answer 2

Reduced form of Alloway.

English: from the Middle English personal name Ailwi, which represents a falling together of several Old English names: Æ{dh}elwig ‘noble battle’, Ealdwig ‘ancient battle’, and Ælfwiig ‘elf battle’. Compare Alvey. Alloway is a Scottish place name, but the surname is of English rather than Scottish origin.

Americanized form of any of several French surnames, including Allouis (from a place in Meung-sur-Yèvre), Halloy (from any of various places in Oise, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme), or Allouet (a diminutive of Allou or Alleu, which was a status name for a free tenant, one not bound by feudal dues).

Answer 3

It sounds English to me, but may also be a derivitive of another name or also possibly has been altered over the years.

The best way is to work backwards, using your own birth certificate as the starting point.  Once you have the date of your father's birth, you then search for his birth certificate, and keep going backwards from there.

There are also census records you can check.

A good starting point is your local library (a main branch/county library).  The mormons have entered many records of the English, Irish and German.  This information greatly helped my husband, who is of English, Irish and Scottish ancestry.  Don't let "mormons" throw you - his family was Catholic and Protestant.  The mormons just entered all the data into one huge database.

Good luck!!

Answer 4

I found this for you.

Surname: Alway

This interesting surname has two possible origins. Firstly, it may derive from the Old English pre 7th Century personal name Aedelwig, a compound of the elements "oedel" meaning noble plus "wig" a battle. The given names Ailwi and Aluui appear in the Domesday Book of 1086. One Willelmus Filius Ailwi, is recorded in the Pipe Rolls of Northamptonshire (1206). The surname may also be of Scottish locational origin from any one of the following places; Alloway in Ayshire, Alloa in Clackmannanshire and Alva in Stirlingshire. They are all named from the Gaelic "allmhagh" meaning a rocky plain. The surname is first recorded in the latter half of the 12th Century (see below). One Roger Alewy, appears in the Pipe Rolls of Middlesex (1200). In the modern idiom the surname has numerous spelling variations including Allaway, Alleway, Alaway, Alway, Elloway, Halloway etc.. On June 10th 1588, Jhon Alway married Jone King, at St. Bride's, Fleet Street, and Alice Alway married Richard Blackwell, on October 16th 1603, at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, London. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Godfrey Ailwi, Suffolk, which was dated 1188, in the "Kalendar of Abbot Samson of Bury St. Edmunds", during the reign of King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Hope this helps.