Holleway Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Search old registers for Holleway and you will soon meet Holloway too.

In origin, the name means “Dweller by a sunken road”. The two spellings differ in a small detail: Holleway has “e” where Holloway has “o”. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Hollway and Halloway.

Heraldry and the Holleway name

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