ARNEILL

ARNEIL: This surname found in Glasgow and its neighbourhood was common there in the sixteenth century as ARNEILE and appears in the Edinburgh marriage records in 1660 as ARNEILL.  John Arneille is recorded in Coldingham in 1669.  The name is of local origin from Ardneill in the parish of Kilbride, described by Timothy Pont as 'ArdNeill or Neils's Knope' recorded in Dumfermline in 1942.  "Records I have sited would confirm this belief that the surname is of local origin and there appears to be very little movement of peoples outside the Lanark-Renfrew area."(The Surnames of Scotland by George Black)