Thank you Myles for your insight.
Back around 2007 I had discussions with Dr. Alan James of the Bliton project.? I don't want to imply the following is what he concluded, but at the time of our discussions he thought that 'Galbraith was *gall-Bhreath[nach], a nickname?developing to a surname, analogous to the Gall-Gaidheil.'? So like the later was 'foreign Gael' and Gall-Gaeil means 'foreign Irish', Galbraith was basically 'foreign British' - basically all representing local populations mixed with incoming Norse.? Galbraiths were quite dominant on the north side of the Kelvin river from Garscadden to Milton of Campie (formerly Kincaid) in the 13th and 14th century.? The only other major landowners along this part of the Kelvin then were Lennox, Graham, Colquhoun/Kirkpatrick and Stirling.? There was a Auchinross family who were at one time reasonably large landowners.? From around the middle part of the 1300s the Keiths, Hamiltons, Campbells, and Rosses came along strong as heirs to one of the Galbraiths.?
