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ArchivesRe: Celts, Gaels and Pay de Galles
in reply to a message by Alistair
Wallace may mean a man from Wales (or Cumbria) but it's the English or Scots name for a man from Wales. Lewis, Robert, Hugh, William etc. are Norman English; Edward and Smith are Saxon. Even the Welsh names listed (Rees, Owen, Morgan, Evans) are the English versions, not the Welsh.
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