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DALLAS,
probably originally Delossie, a surname adopted from the barony of
Dallos or Dollas, in the county of Elgin, and most likely derived from the
Lossie, which takes its rise in this barony. The name corresponds with
another Losse in Haute-Pyrenees, being the region which history,
tradition, and its topographical nomenclature point out as that whence the
present population of Morayshire were introduced, on the expulsion of the
original inhabitants by Malcolm the Fourth. Another, a Celtic derivation,
has been attributed to the word, but it is unlikely that a barony under
that settlement would bear a name given by an expelled people. |
