strathspey@strathspey.org:44120

Richard Goss

Re: Eccles Rant - No Answers?

Feb. 3, 2006, 9:49 p.m. (Message 44120, in reply to message 44106)

Not necessarily, from Gaelic "eccles" is a common locative which also
shows up in the place, "Glen Eagles" (valley of the churches). This
word is related to the Greek "eccleiastes", and the words eglesia,
ysglecia, and esglesia in Spain. A part of the problem is the
indifferent use of apostrophies in some place names. Not saying that
it could not be a surname, but it is a common place name, or part of
one, in the UK.