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GILLEY Family History

This interesting surname is a varinat of Giles, which has two possible sources; the first is of early medieval English origin, and is from a medieval given name of which the original form was the Latin "Egotist, Egidus", derived from the Greek "aigidion", kid, young goat. The second source is from the Anglicized form of the Gaelic "O' Glasain", descendant of Glasan, a personal name derived from a diminutive of the Gaelic "glas", grey, green, blue. The name development since 1176 (see below) includes the following: Godfrey Gile (1191, Northamptonshire), William Gyles (1296, Sussex), William Giles (1317, Kent) and Nicholas Gisel (1346, Suffolk).