Last names linked to GRESLE

Origin

Grail : 1: perhaps from Old French graisle Anglo-Norman French gresle gredle graile greile greele ‘thin slim lean’. Compare the synonymous Greasley (2) some forms of which may have been interchangeable with this name. 2: reduced from Mag Réill see McGrail.

Greasley : 1: usually from Church and Castle Gresley (Derbys) from which an influential Norman family took its name. Greasley (Notts) may have given rise to another family name of lower social status but this is hard to verify. Both place-names derive from Old English lēah ‘open woodland’ with an uncertain first element possibly Old English grēosn ‘gravel’. Some of the following early bearers may alternatively belong under (2) particularly the Lancs examples. 2: either from Old French greslet ‘marked as by hail’ i.e. pitted or pock-marked or more likely perhaps from Old French greslet gresli grailet ‘thin slim’. In early forms the nickname has sometimes been confused with the place-name in (1). Compare Le Gresley in Jersey and Greslé Grêlé in France. See also Grail to which the 1272-86 and 1295 bearers may alternatively belong.

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