222 Global GOLLING Family Members

GOLLING Family History

This unusual name is of Cornish or Breton origin, and is one of the diminutive forms of the personal name "Joel; which itself is a later development of a Celtic personal name, in Old Breton "Indhael". The name is composed of the elements "Iud", meaning lord, chief, and "(c)hael", generous, bountiful, and was borne by a 7th Century saint, a King of Brittany who abdicated and spent his last years in a monastery. The original name has generated a wide variety of modern surnames, some of them apparently far removed from their source: the variants range from Jekll, Jiggle, Giggle, Joel and Joule to the diminutives Jickling, Gollin, Golling and Gollard and the patronymics Jiggins, Jukes and Gollin(g)s.