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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from an Old French term denoting earthenware and, by extension, a particular type of earthenware vessel from which new wine was drunk, hence probably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such crocks.
  • French : from caielier, an occupational name for a chair maker, from an agent derivative of caiel ‘chair’.

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