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Re: The German surname "Gallwas"
I never heard "Gallwas" as a German family name, and it does not sound German to my (Swiss) German ears.I would guess that the spelling was indeed changed when the family emigrated to the US.Maybe the German original was something like "Kaltwasser"?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaltwasser
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