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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for someone with a pock-marked face (see Greeley).
  • Richard Gridley arrived in Boston about 1630. His fourth-generation descendant Richard (1710/11–96) was born in Boston and became a military engineer and iron smelter.

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