{"id":9,"date":"2018-09-22T22:48:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T21:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glasbyresearch.co.uk\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2022-03-11T18:43:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T18:43:03","slug":"meaning-of-the-name-glasby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/glasbyresearch.co.uk\/index.php\/meaning-of-the-name-glasby\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning of the name GLASBY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some suggest it has Scandinavian origins, a distant relative got a Family Name History A4 size document for the name Glasby from a company dealing in these items and it suggests the name comes from the old Scandinavian name\u00a0<em>Glathr<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; and the &#8211;<em>by\u00a0<\/em>ending means farmstead. Meaning &#8220;dweller at farmstead or village of man named Glathr&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I am not an expert in the surname meaning field but I have doubts about using these documents and their information as serious tools of research as they do not quote the sources used.<\/p>\n<p>I have searched many a book on meanings of surnames and not found Glasby in it, though once whilst at the Nottingham Archives Office I saw a reference to a similar name &#8211;\u00a0<em>Gilasbey<\/em>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em>see Gillespey<\/em>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em>o &#8220;bishops servant&#8221; scots gaelic<\/em>. Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. I find this rather interesting as I have not found any Scottish references to the name in the IGI, etc under the spelling Glasby. I have in the past been contacted by people researching Gillespie and a possible suggestion Glasby is a variation of this name.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few variations Glasbey and Glassby the obvious ones but others I have been asked about are Glosby, Glaspie, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some suggest it has Scandinavian origins, a distant relative got a Family Name History A4 size document for the name Glasby from a company dealing in these items and it suggests the name comes from the old Scandinavian name\u00a0Glathr\u00a0&#8211; and the &#8211;by\u00a0ending means farmstead. Meaning &#8220;dweller at farmstead or village of man named Glathr&#8221;. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glasbyresearch.co.uk\/index.php\/meaning-of-the-name-glasby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meaning of the name GLASBY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasbyresearch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasbyresearch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasbyresearch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasbyresearch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasbyresearch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glasbyresearch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/glasbyresearch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasbyresearch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}