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From Moore's "Manx Names" - courtesy of Frances Coakley's "Manx Notebook" website.
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/manxnb/v07p114.htm
CALLOW, contracted from Mac Calbach, 'Calbach's son.
CALBACH Is pronounced CALWAGH, which is easily softened into CALLOW. It seems to mean 'bald,' cognate with the Latin
calvus, a word which was adopted into the Teutonic languages at an early date, so that we have old English Calugh, Calewe,
Anglo-Saxon Calu, bald.' Milton speaks of callow young.' Callow here referring to the condition of the young unfledged bird.
'Richard le CALEWE' is in the Parliamentary Writs for A.D. 1313. ALLOW and ALOE are met with as Christian names in the Isle
of Mann till the middle of the 17th century, which points to the possibility of another derivation.
Names first noted in IOM:
CALOWE, CALO [1511], CALLOW, MIALOE [1586], CALOW [1611].
Manx Parishes:
Maughold, Bride (very common), Jurby, Braddan, Lezayre, Malew, Arbory, Lonan (common), elsewhere (uncommon).
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