From: makowiec@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 06 May 2015 in soc.culture.scottish,  wrote:   
      
   > My surname is Leslie and it is translated as Mac an Fhleisdeir here,   
   > which means son of the fletcher or arrow maker. However no one of   
   > note was a fletcher or arrow maker. More importantly, the first   
   > recorded version of the name is Lesselyn or Leschelyn. This would   
   > cast a lot of doubt on the Mac an Fhleisdeir translation. I have   
   > read in many different place name books that Lesselyn comes from a   
   > few possible meanings. Lìos celyn, lìos cuilinn, or lìos linne to   
   > name a few. If anyone has an idea on what the original Gaelic   
   > version of this name may have been, please help me out. I've been   
   > trying to figure this out for some time now.   
      
   Do you know for certain that your ancestors came from Gaelic-speaking   
   stock?  Most Scots don't, and your name could well come from some other   
   language background.   
      
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