Posted on 05/07/2010 8:34:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Properly folded, I could fit him in a trash can.
Top places of origin for Galli
If asked, those boys themselves probably would tell us they're 100% American. As would my sons. Kudos to all the youth who are proud of their American heritage.
Walking out is a familiar tactic in the area. Note the date on this walkout.
Students Who Walked Out Face Penalties
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Mar. 28 - BCN — At least 650 students from three Santa Cruz County high schools walked out of class Monday to take part in protests over proposed restrictions on illegal immigration, according to Pajaro Valley Unified School District Superintendent Mary Anne Mays.
The students walked out of all three of the district’s comprehensive high schools. Approximately 50 students walked out of Aptos High School and approximately 300 students walked out of both Watsonville High School and Pajaro Valley High School, Mays said.
The students will be disciplined by the schools, according to Mays.
“They’re considered cutting and unless they have any discipline related to it the consequence is typically Saturday school,” Mays said.
Mays and other district officials were surprised that the students walked out of class given the large protests that took place throughout the state over the weekend.
“High school students need to be expressive,” Mays said as a possible explanation for Monday’s walkouts.
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Philippines 1879 ~ at least one
Guadeloupe 1868 ~ at least one
Mexico 1758 ~ earliest date given
South America has a large number of folks with this name ~ without any one area being dominant.
The name, however, has a VERY CLEAR MEANING ~ it is the name which classed the Celtic tribes of Europe ~ we all recall “omnia gallia est divisa in tres partes” ~ which is pretty much how Julius Caesar began his autobiography, and justification for becoming a dictator.
Gallia refers to places where the “gallic” tribes lived ~ Galicia in Spain, Galicia in Turkey, Bologna in Italy, ……
I really do think there’s quite a bit of justification for considering “Galli” an Hispanic name in a predominantly Hispanic area of settlement.
I just checked the same site — www.familysearch.org
I think I won. :-)
PORTUGAL: None with the surname Galli.
One with the spelling Gali (one letter-l).
MEXICO/MEXICAN: None with Galli as surname.
Three with Galli as one of their family names (not as last name).
Three with Gallo (but I knew of Italian families named Gallo)
SPAIN: only 1 spelled Galli. All of the others used one letter-l (Gali).
FRANCE: Approx. 20 or more Galli from France. Most others had different spellings.
ITALY: 207, most spelled Galli. Some are spelled Gallo.
I rest my case. :-) But, you still might be correct. Galli could be Mexican. As I said before, it could be French, too.
Here’s the rule I always heard: If it ends in a vowel, especially with a double-l such as “lli”, it’s Italian. Many of my relatives’ surnames end that way. One family of relatives whose name ends that way lives in California.
The Spanish use one-l, like Dali (as in the artist).
I don't think you can get a source earlier than Caesar.
Now, regarding "Gallo" and "Gullo" ~ most pre-French latin based languages/dialects in what is now French were called "Gallo". "Gullo" is sometimes found in Sicily and is a different word.
Now, about Celtic clan names in what is now France back in Caesar's day ~ they reached off South across the Mountains into Northern Spain. The dominant Celtic group in what is today's Galicia (including Northern Portugal) had come from the Danube around 1000 BC. They had taken over a large chunk of the North Coast held by the Basque. In 700 BC whereupon they invaded Ireland (and Britain). This is the reason the Irish spoke a Celtic language until recent times but are otherwise clearly genetically identical to the Basque.
It would be highly unlikely for "Galli" to have failed to appear in Spain some time in that history. In fact, Hannibal's ally in Spain during the Punic wars was a fellow named Magolis, or, as we'd put that today Mac Wallace, or McGallis.
Do not let modern spelling conventions blind you to the reality of the past.
Now, give me an Italian reference older than Hannibal, the Greek historians, and the Milesians!
Now I’m completely lost. Are you saying everyone is Irish? ;-)
Just kidding. On the question of ancestry, the furthest I take it back is to the country from where the person’s ancesters emigrated to the U.S. That’s why I consider Galli an Italian name.
You’ve definitely traced it back much further than I did. :-)
The Galician version is written in ancient Greek. The Oxford version is written in English ~ rather modern too.
Most everything you heard about the "illiterate Celts" back in pre-Roman times appears to have been BS. They spoke Celtic languages, but their Greek slaves wrote in Greek.
“Cinco De Mayo is an American creation, California to be exact.”
It pisses me off that Americans are forced to be terrorized by pretend holidays like Cinco de Mayo and Kwanzaaaaaaaaa.
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