WALL

John at the Wall John Wall.

MAUER

(German) A wall.

McMURROUGH

The son of Murrough or Murrach; Mor, great, strong, and ach, battle. Mur, a wall, bulwark, and ach.

SEWELL

Probably from sea and wall, a structure of stone or other materials intended for a defense or security against the sea. This name, though seemingly local, may have various significations; suil, in the Gaelic, is a willow; suail, small, inconsiderable. Su, south, and wold, wald, wild, well, an uncultivated place, a wood, a plain, a lawn, hills without wood: Suwold, Suwall, Suwell.

MURRELL

(Fr.) A sea wall or bank, to keep oflf the water; a name of place.

PARIS

Local. The metropolis of France, on the Seine, anciently called Lutetia Parisiorum, Lutum, mud, from its situation in a marshy place. A place where the Pars or Peers met in Congress. Paro, to make civil or military arrangements; Paries, a wall, a walled town; Pert, as island.

SEWALL

Probably from sea and wall, a structure of stone or other materials intended for a defense or security against the sea. This name, though seemingly local, may have various significations; suil, in the Gaelic, is a willow; suail, small, inconsiderable. Su, south, and wold, wald, wild, well, an uncultivated place, a wood, a plain, a lawn, hills without wood: Suwold, Suwall, Suwell.

SCUDMORE

(Cor. Rr.) From scoudh, or scuth, the shoulders, and mor, big, large. Broad shoulders. Scheidmuur, Dutch, a partition or division wall.

SKIDMORE

(Cor. Rr.) From scoudh, or scuth, the shoulders, and mor, big, large. Broad shoulders. Scheidmuur, Dutch, a partition or division wall.

BURR

(Saxon) Burh, a wall, a fortress, a castle; a hill, a heap, the same as burgh.

CADWALLADER

(Welsh.) Derived from cad, battle, and gwaladr, a leader, a lord the leader or lord of the battle. Gwaladr would seem to come from gwal, a wall or defense, and adre, signifying at home or abroad, everywhere.

BALFOUR

Local. From the barony and castle of Balfour, near the confluence of the rivers Or and Leven. (Scot.) Ball and Balla, in Gaelic, signifies a casting up, raising, and denotes a wall, fortress, house, a village. Balfour, i. e., the Keep, or castle on the river Or. Balfoir the castle of deliverance or security.

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