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![Show Contents]() Gelly History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 Scotland England
Gelly is an ancient Viking-Scottish name derived from Giles. "In the Scottish dialect jelly means worthy, upright." 1 The surname Gelly is derived from a corruption of this personal name. Giles is derived from the Old Scandinavian personal name Gilli, which came to the British Isles with the Vikings who settled in the north of England and in Scotland in the 9th century AD. They came to the British Isles under the leadership of Sigurd the Stout after they were dispossessed of their lands by the King of Norway. Early Origins of the Gelly familyThe surname Gelly was first found in Ayrshire where early record show Thomas Jelle held a tenement in 1518. Later, William Jellie is recorded in Cruikens, parish of Carnwath, 1673 and Andrew Jellie and his wife were residents in the parish of Borgue, 1684. 2 Further to the south in England, we found Thomas Jely listed in Essex in 1472; Robert Jely in the Subsidy Rolls for Suffolk in 1524 and John Jelleye and Richard Gellye in Surrey in 1583. 3 Early History of the Gelly familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Gelly research. Another 153 words (11 lines of text) covering the years 1500, 1592, 1593, 1621, 1663, 1665 and 1673 are included under the topic Early Gelly History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Gelly Spelling VariationsScottish names from the Middle Ages vary enormously in their spellings. This is a result of the fact that there were no universal standards like dictionaries for scribes to judge by. The recorded spelling variations of the name Gelly include Jelly, Jellie, Jelley and others. Early Notables of the Gelly familyMore information is included under the topic Early Gelly Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Gelly RankingIn France, the name Gelly is the 3,230th most popular surname with an estimated 2,000 - 2,500 people with that name. 4 Migration of the Gelly familySettlers found farms all along the eastern part of what would become the United States and Canada. They provided a base and a backbone that would strengthen two great nations in the making. In the 20th century, the ancestors of those brave Scots have rediscovered their heritage through highland games and Scottish historical societies. Early North American immigration records have revealed a number of people bearing the Scottish name Gelly or a variant listed above, including: Hugh Jelly settled in Philadelphia in 1804; James Jelly settled in New York in 1823; Thomas Jelly, his wife Mary, and son Richard and his servants, settled in Barbados in 1678.
| Contemporary Notables of the name Gelly (post 1700) | + |
- Louis Gelly, French Brigadier General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 5
- Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
- Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
- Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
- http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
- Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, March 6) Louis Gelly. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html
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