Haladey meaning | Last name Haladey origin

The lastname Haladey is the form of the Halliday. Descendant of Halliday, a name sometimes given to a child born on a Sunday or other holy day.

The variant of Holliday. Descendant of Halliday or Haliday, name given to one born on Sunday or other holy day.

The variant of Halliday. Holy day. A name derived from their slogan, "A holy day, a holy day;" thos border family probably viewing the contest with their old enemies of England in the light of a Holy war.

Haladey is the variant of Halliday. A well-known Scottish border clan, who from their great animosity against the Southron are said to have adopted the war-cry or slogan of A HOLY Day, (Scottice, "a Haly Day"), because the chiefs andpeople of Annandale, when ever they made a raid or foray upon the Saxon border, accounted the day spent in rapine and slaughter a holy one. In the XIII. century the name began to be common on the south of the Tweed. There were English Hallidays in our Scottish and French wars under Edward III. and Hen. V. The Hallidays of the western counties descend from Walter Halliday, called the Minstrel, who was master of the revels to KingEdward IV., and acquired lands at Rodborough, county of Gloucester. B.L.G.

The surname is form of Holliday. See Halliday - A well-known Scottish border clan, who from their great animosity against the Southron are said to have adopted the war-cry or slogan of A HOLY Day, (Scottice, "a Haly Day"), because the chiefs andpeople of Annandale, when ever they made a raid or foray upon the Saxon border, accounted the day spent in rapine and slaughter a holy one. In the XIII. century the name began to be common on the south of the Tweed. There were English Hallidays in our Scottish and French wars under Edward III. and Hen. V. The Hallidays of the western counties descend from Walter Halliday, called the Minstrel, who was master of the revels to KingEdward IV., and acquired lands at Rodborough, county of Gloucester. B.L.G.