Glasby Family History
Glasby Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: shortened form of Gillespie . English (Lincolnshire): perhaps a variant of Clasby . English (Hampshire): habitational name a shortened form of Glastonbury from the place in Somerset named in Anglo-Saxon times as ‘the fortified place (Old English burg) of the Glæstingas’ (the people of Glastonia a Celtic name probably meaning ‘woad place’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022