William Gridley was born in 1787, in Long Melford, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom as the son of Alben Gridley and Mary Cornell. He married Martha Sparrow on 17 January 1809, in Long Melford, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 30 April 1875, in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 88.
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variant of Greasley, either a habitational name from Greasley in Nottinghamshire (but possibly also from Gresley in Derbyshire), or a nickname either from Old French greslet ‘marked as by hail’, i.e. pitted or pock-marked, or Old French greslet, gresli, grailet ‘thin, slim’.
perhaps from Middle English greithli, gritheli ‘good, pleasant, noble’ (Old Norse greithligr), the source of modern northern dialect gradely ‘decent, honest, good-looking, kind’. In the absence of medieval surname forms this is conjectural.
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