Släkthistoria för Fallow
Fallow Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English falwe falow falg(he) ‘fallow untilled arable land land recently brought into cultivation’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived on or by fallow land or toponymic for someone from a place so named such as Faugh in Hayton (Cumb) which is recorded as Faughe in 1589.perhaps also from Middle English falwe falow ‘pale; reddish or brownish yellow tawny’ perhaps describing the hair or complexion. Compare Favell. sometimes a variant of Farlow. Note the variation in the surname of Thomas Falowes 1524 Thomas Farelowe 1525 in Subsidy Rolls (Albrighton by Shrewsbury Shrops).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
