So, COULD Wages/Wagers be (grammatically) Gaelic rooted?
(Even if not Wallace based)
I know Southern does "odd" things with "r"s. I noticed the SAME thing in reading John Knox (in original spellings).
BOTH drop them at the end of a word and add them to words that end with vowels.
(My grandmother called Atlanta, Georgia-> "Alaner, Gorger" and our mass transit system Marta-> "Marter," BUT would DROP r from ANY word ending with them (or any word with one near the end.)

Is this a reflection if the Gaelic behind Scots?

Is Wages/Wagers even reflective of verbal plausibility in Gaelic (would all the parts be pronouncable to a Gaelic speaker, a key to it even possibly being Gaelic in root)?

PS I am NOT trying to make it Scot or not, but it SHOULD be either Scot or German. If German it is either a butchered "Wagner" or not possible (the "s" ending CANNOT be German, but my German professor, after consulting friends, thought it would best fit either Scot or Irish Gaelic linguistically. What about Welsh for you Welsh speakers? Family tradition is "Scottish or Scotch-Irish," according to what either I or my cousin (who did alot of research) can find among relations along our branch. The "other" side says German, and the limited DNA seems to be either Scot (my side) or German (other side). The "belief" is an adoption of the root of one side or the other, as we both come from somewhere in South Carolina orginally and left around 1800, though both sides hit a dead lock around that year where a man comes from "no where." There is NO evidence that anyone has found for Joel Wages (my ancestor) in South Carolina, despite dozens spending hundred of hours each looking. Meanwhile, Joel and all his children married people of Scot names.
Hence, the lack of being able to trace directly.

A side note, the names Robert, James, and William appear in EVERY generation (often more than once in different branches) and the first known Wages seems to be a Wiliam Wages in 1691 Jamestown, Virginia (parallel to the first Jacobite Rebellion), which can be argued to support a conscious change from Wallace to Wages (with the "Southernese"/"Scots" r deal making Wagers too). The evidence is more circumstantial than positive.