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From: "Annie Sloan" <>
Subject: Sloan
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 08:00:26 +0100

My father told me that the Sloan name was Lowland Scottish and that any
Sloans in Ireland were there because they had gone there encouraged by, I
think James 11, to boost the Protestant population.

Now I find that my ggrandfather was born in Ireland. Looking into Irish
families it seems that there are a huge number of Sloans in Ireland. It also
has a Gaelic meaning coming from I believe O'Slaughahan meaning something
like brave warrior. If the name has a Gaelic derivation it surely can not
be Lowland Scottish or can it ? Can anyone help? Is Sloan a Scots or Irish
name? Are there other examples of 'Scots' names with Gaelic derivations?
Annie Sloan in Oxon, England

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